Tacoma SDS

Labor Day 2008
Monday, September 1

The Pierce County Central Labor Council will conduct a 10:30 a.m. memorial service at the gravesite of IWW labor activist and songwriter Ralph Chaplin to celebrate his life and accomplishments. Chaplin is most well known for writing the song "Solidarity Forever." Chaplin's grave is located at Calgary Cemetery, 5212 70th Ave. West.

Fore more info contact the Pierce County Central Labor Council
3049 S. 36th St. #201
Tacoma, WA 98409
253.473.3810
pcclc@pcclc.org

Tacoma-Olympia Mayday Calendar 2008: NOTE: UPDATED

OLYMPIA:
Noon Mayday Rally —Sylvester Park (Legion & Capitol Way, Oly)
2 PM Olympia March

TACOMA: (NOTE: UPDATED)
7 PM Working Families, Not War program—1911 Pacific Ave. Washington State History Museum, Tacoma
8:30 PM Candle-light Vigil at Federal Courthouse, 1717 Pacific Ave.

Background:

NO PEACE - NO WORK
End the war now - bring our troops home safely
Join workers from the Puget Sound in protesting the war on May 1, International Worker's Day

Thursday, May 1st
12:00 noon
Jack Perry Memorial Park
1729 Alaska Way South, Seattle
(between Pier 30 and Pacific Maritime Institute)

March along the waterfront to Pier 66

Dear Sisters and Brothers,

I want to invite you to join with labor and our allies in a march
and rally for peace. The International Longshore & Warehouse Union
(ILWU) has called for united labor action on International Workers Day,

A group of Latino workers, at the Twin Cities-based D’Amico’s & Sons restaurant chain have organized and taken direct action to resist being fired for receiving “No-Match” letters from the Social Security Administration. The workers ­ many who have well over a decade of service for the company ­ have been joined by family members, some co-workers, the Workers Interfaith Network (WIN), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Twin Cities General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) and others.

What started as a small, online grassroots effort now appears to have the potential for something bigger.
Dan Little, the owner/operator of a livestock hauling company in Carrollton, Mo., estimated Tuesday that at least 1,000 other truckers from across the United States have committed so far to joining him in a strike on April 1.

Although none of the truckers interviewed Tuesday at the Iowa 80 Truck Stop, Walcott, which is just off Interstate 80 west of Davenport, has heard of the intended strike, some said they would shut down, too.

In 1907, more than two hundred South Asian migrant workers in Bellingham were attacked by a mob of white workers. In the course of one night, an entire community was driven from the town - in the approving words of a local paper, "wiped off the map". One hundred years later in 2007, hostility toward immigrants of color in Bellingham continues. Raids and detentions by government immigration agents are ongoing: so are surveillance and harassment from both government agents and groups like the minutemen. How have the events of 1907 shaped Bellingham as we know it in 2007?

Tacoma Sixth Avenue Business District invites you to Labor Day Coffee & Conversation at Origin 23 (Firehouse Coffee), 3518 Sixth Avenue and Union Avenue, Tacoma.

Michael Honey, University of Washington, Tacoma, Haley Professor of Humanities, will speak on his acclaimed new book Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign (New York: WW Norton, 2007), and current race and labor relations.