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On December 18, 2009, a week before Christmas, forty Teamster bus drivers at the Georgia Institute of Technology were told they were being permanently replaced. It was just over a year since the drivers made history by becoming the first unionized workers ever to work on the campus of Georgia Tech.
On January 4, 2010, the first day of class, Ga Tech Teamster bus drivers, student supporters, and community allies will be rallying outside the Groome Transportation/GT bus lot on campus to demand that the company and Georgia Tech immediately reinstate the union drivers, honor the union contract, and recognize Teamsters Local 728.
Nearly two years ago, the drivers at Georgia Tech voted unanimously for union representation with Teamsters Local 728 in Atlanta. Despite months of tough and costly negotiations, the drivers were ultimately successful in negotiating a three-year collective bargaining agreement which won annual raises, six paid holidays, the right to refuse unsafe buses, and job security protections.
Georgia Tech transportation officials decided to end the bus service agreement with the drivers employer, First Transit Inc., and contract-out the services to Groome Transportation- a non-union employer. All forty of the Georgia Tech drivers applied for positions with Groome but were told that the company is not interested in giving them neither interviews nor job offers. Now, Teamster bus drivers at Georgia Tech are on the streets, watching as Groome tries to bust their union and replace them with non-union labor.
Groome Transportation has refused to meet with the drivers representatives and is planning to go into full operation of the bus service on campus on January 4, 2010 using replacement, non-union drivers.
Teamsters Local 728 is asking all who care about working people in our city to come out, show their solidarity and get behind the efforts of these 40 union bus drivers as they seek to be reinstated to their rightful positions. |
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| Food Not Bombs Global Day of Action |
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| 05:12pm 07/12/2009 |
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Public Service Announcement (PSA)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 4, 2009
CONTACT:
Food Not Bombs
menu@foodnotbombs.net
575-770-3377
THE FOOD NOT BOMBS GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION
To Support The Right To Free Speech
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Free speech and food outside federal courts and U.S. Embassies all over the
world. Local times and locations to be posted at www.foodnotbombs.net
Efforts to silence Food Not Bombs are underway in cities all across the
United States. This case could finally end these arrests, fines and
confiscations of banners and literature.
Attorney Jacqueline Dowd will represent Orlando Food Not Bombs in oral
arguments to defend the groups right to free speech on December 17th at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, 56 Forsyth Street
N.W., Atlanta, Georgia USA
For the first time, a judge has ruled that sharing food with hungry and
homeless people in a public park is expressive conduct protected by the
First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
That’s the most important part of the federal court ruling that
Orlando’s “large-group feeding” ordinance is unconstitutional. The
ripple effects of the ruling could reach cities across the country where
ordinances restricting efforts to feed hungry and homeless people are being
considered.
The court ruled that the Orlando ordinance violates the rights of Orlando
Food Not Bombs and the First Vagabonds Church of God to free speech and
free exercise of religion.
To establish that their conduct is expressive and protected by the First
Amendment, the members of Food Not Bombs had to prove that they are
conveying a message that is likely to be understood by the public. The city
tried to argue that their message – that society can and should provide
food for all of its members, regardless of wealth – wasn’t likely to be
understood. But Mayor Buddy Dyer testified that he believes that Food Not
Bombs provides food to the homeless only to convey its political message
– not necessarily to help the homeless.
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| 09:38am 06/12/2009 |
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HAH!
Racist woman further illustrates the stupidity that is running rampant on the right.
'We Did Not Have a Terrorist Attack on Our Country During President Bush's Term'
oh... really?!?!
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| Feminism, Anarchism, and intersectionality. |
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| 11:53am 12/11/2009 |
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I just read this and thought it was pretty fucking awesome.
Refusing to Wait: Anarchism and Intersectionality
by Deric Shannon (WSA/NEFAC) and J. Rogue (WSA/Common Action)
Anarchism can learn a lot from the feminist movement. In many respects it already has. Anarcha-feminists have developed analyses of patriarchy that link it to the state form. We have learned from the slogan that "the personal is political" (e.g. men who espouse equality between all genders should treat the women in their lives with dignity and respect). We have learned that no revolutionary project can be complete while men systematically dominate and exploit women; that socialism is a rather empty goal--even if it is "stateless"--if men's domination of women is left in tact.
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| Obama? Are you kidding? |
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| 10:59am 09/10/2009 |
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Nobel Peace Prize my ass!
21,000 additional troops in occupied Afghanistan
the use of unmanned drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan often injuring or killing civilians
bailing out a financial industry of mass murderers
supporting economic and military apartheid in Haiti and Palestine
support for a military coup in Haiti over the summer
bombed Columbia and Somalia
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| Atlanta's largest homeless shelter sues City Hall |
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| 11:00am 25/09/2009 |
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Atlanta’s largest homeless shelter sues City Hall
September 11, 2009 at 11:26 am by Thomas Wheatley in News
Anita Beatty of the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless alleges that the city conspired to shut down her Midtown facility.
A lawsuit filed by the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless that accuses the city of Atlanta of using “improper, illegal and unethical means” in an attempt to shut down the organization’s controversial Peachtree-Pine shelter will get its day in Fulton County Superior Court on Sept. 21.
The 23-page filing alleges that the city has used a multi-pronged approach since 2007 to try and shut down the shelter — the largest of its kind in Atlanta, and, according to neighbors and city officials, a magnet for crime in a gentrifying corridor.
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| Tea bag THIS motherfuckers! More halarity from the far right. |
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| 08:57am 17/09/2009 |
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Holy effing concervatives. I mean... how do THEY even take themselves serously?
Shit... It's not even a chalange anymore to discredit the right. they do a good job of that on their own.
I just read an essay by Tim Wise on the revival of Ayn Rand's ideas.
I think the fact that these ideas are finding favor in the minds of so many people in our population is fucking horifying!
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| The work that counts. |
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| 12:52pm 12/09/2009 |
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So the past few weeks have been fairly eventful.
The labor day picnic was a blast!
Huge props to the AWP!
I'm really into the work they've been doing and they seem to really have their shit together.
http://atlantaworkersproject.ning.com/
In this picture, you can see the Atlanta Sedition Orchestra playing which is always a great time!
http://www.myspace.com/atlantaseditionorchestra
http://www.atlantaseditionorchestra.org/
Also,
The labor trivia was impossibly hard! lol
and I Want Whiskey played a few old worker songs.
After the picnic a bunch of us went to see The Wild play.
And again... Another awesome group of folks!
Plus their music is fun and always makes me incredibly happy for some magical reason...
www.myspace.com/thewildatl
In other news
Atlanta FNB and the AWP have decided to stand in solidarity with Task Force in combating this citie's increasing attacks against the poor and homeless.
At the labor day picnic we drafted our statement of solidarity which two of our volunteers friends and comrades delivered at a press conference and directly to the city council.
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A grassroots direct action is in the works. Many activists, radicals, and their organizations have signed on and we would like to invite yall to come and take part in this.
On the same weekend that our comrades are fighting the G20 in Pittsburgh, we too will take to the streets here in Atlanta to fight our common enemy.
What we need is numbers!
So please, tell your friends!
The idea is to create a tent city on the steps of city hall.
Tent City Protest
Stop Foreclosures
End Homelessness
Sept. 20-21
3pm - Morning
City Hall
68 Mitchell St. SW
Poor people are under attack in Atlanta. With foreclosures out of control and homelessness on the rise, the city government has responded with a campaign of harassment towards the homeless and service providers.
The Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless is the most recent victim of a deliberate effort by the city to disrupt emergency services for the homeless. On June 22 the city turned off the water at the Task Force’s Peachtree Pine shelter for homeless men, leaving 575 people with no access to showers, sinks or toilets.
Don't let these injustices go unchallenged! Join us as we camp out in front of City Hall to demand justice for poor people and support the Task Force in their lawsuit against the city on Sept. 21st.
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| To the patriots: |
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| 12:51pm 31/08/2009 |
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The following article was written and directed towards members of the "Liberty Movement," participants in the Tea Parties and Town Hall meeting protests. It was originally intended to be handed out at Colorado gun shows, where anarchists have done counter-recruitment against the Minutemen:
Of Tea Parties and Patriots: Liberty for Who?
As town hall meetings on health care become the targets for disruptive protest and a growing “pro-liberty” movement gains traction and headlines, a full analysis of the situations we are facing as white working class people and an analysis of the strategies of the new “pro-liberty” movement is necessary.
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| 01:45pm 11/08/2009 |
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| The dance is tomorrow. She's a cheerleader. You've seen Star Wars 47 times. You do the math |
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| 11:00am 24/06/2009 |
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Note to self.
Never smoke a J before going in to work
It wares off and when it does:
It's almost like waking up half way through surgery.
I got a call at around 11am Yesterday. My friend was on the other line and she was at Task Force For The Homeless. Apparently the city shut off their water again. We spent the rest of the afternoon at Task Force planning direct actions if the city refused to turn the water back on, making signs, and standing out front with the residents holding up signs.
The Rev Al Sharpton was there for a few minutes. (It was kind of surreal in a way)
Long story short, the court turned the water back on however I can't help but think that it's just buying them more time and not much more time at that.
That's not what I walked away from the day with though.
I was seriously impressed and encouraged by how fast activist groups, organizations and etc, and the community in general sprung into action to support these people.
Throughout the day thousands of bottles (no exaggeration) of water were dropped off at the shelter by various groups and organizations and individual citizens.
lol, At one point, Erika's tiny car was filled with four hundred and forty pounds of ice.
One thing is for sure though...
This city (more specifically this mayor and her goons) and it's attacks on the poor and their allies are starting to get out of control.
Anyhow...
Erika and I are marathoning Freaks and Geeks again.
BEST SHOW EVER!
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| Poder a la gente indígena!!!! |
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| 10:13am 11/06/2009 |
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Here's a picture of me in front of the school of amareicas last year.
My friend Brad took this one and I don't think I've posted it on here yet...
Behind me are hundreds of crosses with names of people who have been killed by school of america's graduates.
I remember last year there was a lot of hope (a very naive and unrealistic state of mind we were all left with after Obama's victory) that with congress having a democratic majority and with Obama's power of executive order, the SOA/WHINSEC would close down shortly after but we should all know better than to trust fucking democrats.
Anyway... I make this post because just recently a friend of mine passed this on to me:
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and on another note there's this:
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/6/8/peruvian_police_accused_of_massacring_indigenous
which isn't directly related to what I posted above (I wouldn't be surprised if it were though) but it's still a load of bull shit. |
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| 12:00pm 04/06/2009 |
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there's something about that exilerating freedom you feel when you call out from work... |
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| 11:07am 23/05/2009 |
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Had to force my self to read Ayn Rand yesterday for our reading and discussion group.
I found it extremly hard not to scratch my eyes out. |
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