UNITE HERE Local 100 writes:
On February 1, 2005, Cablevision cut off union health insurance for over two hundred Madison Square Garden workers and their families. This is part of Cablevision's attempt to force these workers to agree to changes in their contract that would cut work opportunities, health insurance and pension benefits for many employees. Many workers at Madison Square Garden already earn less than $10 an hour.

Three days after Cablevision cut off union health insurance for its employees at Madison Square Garden, it made a $600 million bid to develop the West Side rail yard.

Anonymous Comrade writes:
The Legacy of Kent and Jackson State

MAY 4 marks the 35th anniversary of the shootings of four students at Kent State University by the Ohio National Guard.

The mass movements of the 1960s had exploded internationally two years before, in 1968—culminating in the student revolt and workers’ general strike in France in May-June 1968, and the antiwar demonstration and police riot at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August.

A Week Against the Intellectual Property industries


The international boycott of the media industry begins tomorrow April 24th and continues until the 30th. The event is being promoted by p2p software developers and their business interests (who have borne the brunt of the industry assault) but supported by many consumer and user groups.