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An Action Concert with Anne Feeney, Jason Luckett, Ben Silver, Sharon Abreu & Michael Hurwicz, and Wickline & Family.

7pm at First United Methodist Church in Tacoma.

For more information contact:

marilyn@greatervoice.org

Common Action presents

Speaking tour: Andrej Grubacic, "Anarchism for the 21st Century: Building Movements for Lasting Change"

Anyone and everyone is welcome to the next meeting of the Industrial Workers of the World. We are a radical labor union that has been organizing workers since 1905. Our democratic principles and revolutionary vision of a world without bosses makes our union distinct. Anyone is welcome to attend our meeting this Saturday where we will be discussing current campaigns, actions, and planning as well as making decisions regarding our branch and the issues we are concerned with. Please come if you are interested, want to learn more, curious, or would like to join the Wobblies.

Saturday May 16

Anyone and everyone is welcome to the next meeting of the Industrial Workers of the World. We are a radical labor union that has been organizing workers since 1905. Our democratic principles and revolutionary vision of a world without bosses makes our union distinct. Anyone is welcome to attend our meeting this Saturday where we will be discussion the possibilities of opening a Tacoma IWW hall in the beautiful city of Tacoma, WA. Please come if you are interested, want to learn more, curious, or would like to join the Wobblies.

Saturday, April 18

At midnight April 5, 2009 contracts for most of the component groups represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) at the telecom giant AT&T have expired. After weeks of mobilizing, around 90,000 workers are poised to strike one of the largest and most profitable multinational corporations. A job action by CWA would be the largest and among the most significant labor action in the United States since the UPS strike in 1997. It would also be the first major strike under the Obama regime. The brewing confrontation could set the tone for class struggle in the U.S.

As many of you know the IWW has been organizing Truck Drivers in Eastern North Carolina and Virginia for much of the past year. In response to our growing power and planned founding convention this upcoming weekend, the bosses have begun firing the union's leadership. Two log drivers and five container haulers have lost their job over the past two days.

The union is already discussing legal and direct action means to fight these unjust firing, but right now we need funds to support our fired drivers.

On Saturday, February 7, 2009, union members, students, scholars, musicians, and community organizers will come together at Seattle’s Labor Temple to mark the 90th anniversary of the 1919 Seattle General Strike. Presentations and performances will revisit the event, followed by discussions of the strike’s legacy for today. All events are free and open to all. Refreshments will be provided.

* HISTORICAL LEGACIES OF THE I.W.W. AND WORKERS CONTROL
Howard Kimeldorf (Sociology, University of Michigan)

*THE LOST HISTORY OF THE SEATTLE COMMUNE

All are welcome to attend the Industrial Workers of the World Tacoma General Membership Branch regular business meeting on January 24, 2009 at Tully's in Downtown's Theater District. New and old faces welcome. 7pm.

Preamble to the IWW Constitution

The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.

Barack Obama and I share one thing in common: I am a community organizer and so was Obama. I imagine we’ve witnessed many of the same injustices, heard similar stories of people being beaten down and being taken advantage of, and have studied the same strategies and tactics for how to build power for the powerless.