1) A Community Labor News E-Zine
*DONT MOURN - ORGANIZE!*
Today 19 Nov 1915
Joe Hill, IWW Organizer, Poet, Song Writer
Was murdered by the State of Utah

2) MOBILIZATION ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH
IN SUPPORT OF THE LOCAL 2
HOTEL WORKERS!
Saturday, Nov. 20, 11:00 a.m.
Union Square, San Francisco

3) Not in Our Name Bay Area
We need your hands, not your tongue!
Mass Mailing Party
Pizza and drinks to fuel processing of
national Not in Our Name fundraising letter
Monday, November 22
5:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Not in Our Name Office
3945 Opal Street, Oakland (map)
At 40th Street, near Broadway ­
a short walk from Macarthur BART.

4) ** Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches **
As U.S. Forces Raided a Mosque
Dahr Jamail
BAGHDAD, Nov 19 (IPS)

5) +++++++++We need your help!+++++++++++
There is a DIRECT ACTION being organized around the
hotel lockout in San Francisco -- a community response
to a lockout of 4000 workers at 14 city hotels.

6) Statement by the National Youth & Student Peace Coalition
(NYSPC)
On the morning of Thursday, October 28th, more than a dozen
armed federal agents(representing the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives)
raided the West Philadelphia home of three organizers
involved with the Student Environmental Action Coalition
(SEAC) and the National Youth & Student Peace Coalition (NYSPC).

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1) A Community Labor News E-Zine
*DONT MOURN - ORGANIZE!*
Today 19 Nov 1915
Joe Hill, IWW Organizer, Poet, Song Writer
Was murdered by the State of Utah

My will is easy to decide
for there is nothing to divide
My kin don't need to fuss and moan
Moss doesn't cling to a rolling stone
My body?
Ahh if I could choose
I would to ashes it reduce
and let the merry breezes blow
my dust to where some flowers grow
Perhaps some fading flower then will spring to life
and bloom again
This is my last and final will
Good luck to all of you
Joe Hill

Written in his prison cell the night before his
execution

Don't Mourn ORGANIZE

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2) MOBILIZATION ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH
IN SUPPORT OF THE LOCAL 2
HOTEL WORKERS!
Saturday, Nov. 20, 11:00 a.m.
Union Square, San Francisco

Dear Sisters and Brothers:

Please join the Million Worker March Committee, the San Francisco
Labor Council, HERE-UNITE Local 2, and the Executive Board of ILWU
Local 10 in a solidarity mobilization with the locked-out hotel
workers.

The short solidarity rally will start at 11 a.m. sharp at Union
Square in San Francisco (Powell @ Geary). It will feature
presentations by the locked-out workers and rally sponsors. Following
the speakers, there will be a march to some of the main hotels that
have locked out their workers, with mass picketing and chants at each
site.

The Local 2 workers need our visible solidarity -- urgently. They
need the largest possible show of support to send a clear signal to
the hotel owners' association that San Francisco is -- and will
remain -- a strong union town.

A PDF version of an attractive Nov. 20 mobilization leaflet is
available upon request at . Also, thanks to a
kind donation from Inkworks Press, we have one thousand two-sided
color postcards urging participation in the Nov. 20 rally and letting
people know how people can help the Local 2 workers.

We need volunteers to distribute the Nov. 20 leaflets and postcards
at the various rallies and events tomorrow (Friday the 19th) --
including the rallies throughout the Bay Area in support of the UFCW
grocery workers. If you want to help distribute the postcards, please
pick up a stack at Inkworks in Berkeley (510-845-7111, ask for
Charlie Hinton) or at ILWU Local 10 in San Francisco (415-776-8100).
Please call beforehand to make sure that postcards are still
Available.

Thanks, in advance, for your support in building this mobilization
for the locked-out hotel workers. Their fight is our fight. As the
motto of the International Longshore and Warehouse Workers proclaims:
"An Injury to One Is An Injury to All."

In solidarity,

Ed Rosario and Alan Benjamin
OWC Continuations Committee
San Francisco Labor Council
Open World Conference in
Defense of Trade Union Independence & Democratic Rights, c/o S.F. Labor
Council, 1188 Franklin St., #203, San Francisco, CA 94109


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3) Not in Our Name Bay Area
We need your hands, not your tongue!
Mass Mailing Party
Pizza and drinks to fuel processing of
national Not in Our Name fundraising letter
Monday, November 22
5:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Not in Our Name Office
3945 Opal Street, Oakland (map)
At 40th Street, near Broadway ­
a short walk from Macarthur BART.

This is a huge project. Thousands of envelopes to stuff, seal and
stamp! You need your hands, but not your tongue-there is absolutely
no licking involved. This is a great way for anybody (yes, you!) to step
right up and make a contribution to the anti-war movement.

About the EID stamp

For the fouth year, the postal office is issuing this stamp to mark
Ramadan, the month-long observance of fasting and prayer observed
by Muslims all over the world. This year Ramadan began October 26
and ends November 25 marked by the celebration of Eid-ul-Fitr, one
of the two major Muslim holidays. The second major holiday is Eid-ul-
Adha which is celebrated the day after Hajj (the big pilgrimage in Mecca).
Eid is an Arabic word and literally means a recurring event. In Islam it
denotes the festivals of ISLAM. Hence the message of "Eid Greetings"
on the stamp applies to both Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Adha.

Not in our Name has learned that there have been reactionary calls
to boycott the stamp. As a gesture of solidarity with our Muslim
sisters and brothers under attack, we are using thousands of these
stamps for our mailing and encourage you to buy and use the stamp
on all your mail.

The Not in Our Name Project
needs your support!

Donate online
donate.notinourname.net

Or send your tax-deductible contribution today to:

Not in Our Name
3945 Opal Street, Oakland CA 94609
www.notinourname.net

phone: 510-601-8000
email: bayarea@notinourname.net
local: bayarea.notinourname.net

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4) ** Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches **
As U.S. Forces Raided a Mosque
Dahr Jamail
BAGHDAD, Nov 19 (IPS)

BAGHDAD, Nov 19 (IPS) - An eyewitness commentary to IPS through a U.S.
raid on a Baghdad mosque Friday gives a vivid picture of what a
'successful raid' can be like.

U.S. soldiers raided the Abu Hanifa mosque in Baghdad during Friday
prayers, killing at least four and wounding up to 20 worshippers.

At 12:30 pm local time, just after Imam Shaikh Muayid al-Adhami
concluded his talk, about 50 U.S. soldiers with 20 Iraqi National
Guardsmen (ING) entered the mosque, a witness reported.

"Everyone was there for Friday prayers, when five Humvees and several
trucks carrying INGs entered," Abu Talat told IPS on phone from within
the mosque while the raid was in progress. "Everyone starting yelling
'Allahu Akbar' (God is the greatest) because they were frightened. Then
the soldiers started shooting the people praying!"

Talat said he was among a crowd of worshippers being held back at
gunpoint by U.S. soldiers. Loud chanting of 'Allahu Akbar' could be
heard in the background during his call. Women and children were
sobbing, he said.

"They have just shot and killed at least four of the people praying," he
said in a panicked voice. "At least 10 other people are wounded now. We
are on our bellies and in a very bad situation."

Talat gave his account over short phone calls. He said he was witnessing
a horrific scene.

"We were here praying and now there are 50 here with their guns on us,"
he said. "They are holding our heads to the ground, and everyone is in
chaos. This is the worst situation possible. They cannot see me talking
to you. They are roughing up a blind man now." He evidently could talk
no further then.

The soldiers later released women and children along with men who were
related to them. Abu Talat was released because a boy told him to
pretend to be his father.

Other witnesses gave similar accounts outside the mosque. "People were
praying and the Americans invaded the mosque," Abdulla Ra'ad Aziz from
the al-Adhamiya district of Baghdad told IPS. He had been released along
with his wife and children. "Why are they killing people for praying?"
He said that after the forces entered "they went to the back doors and
we heard so many bullets of the guns -- it was a gun bigger than a
Kalashnikov. There were wounded and dead, I saw them myself."

Some of the people who had been at prayer were ordered by soldiers to
carry the dead and wounded out of the mosque, he said.

"One Iraqi National Guardsmen held his gun on people and yelled, 'I will
kill you if you don't shut up'," said Rana Aziz, a mother who had been
trapped in the mosque.. "So they made everyone lie down, then people got
quiet, and they took the women and children out."

She said someone asked the soldiers if they would be made hostages. A
soldier used foul language and asked everyone to shut up, she said.
Suddenly, she laughed amid her tears. "The Americans have learnt how to
say shut up in Arabic, 'Inchev'."

Soldiers denied Iraqi Red Crescent ambulances and medical teams access
to the mosque. As doctors negotiated with U.S. soldiers outside, more
gunfire was heard from inside.

About 30 men were led out with hoods over their heads and their hands
tied behind them. Soldiers loaded them into a military vehicle and took
them away around 3.15 pm.

A doctor with the Iraqi Red Crescent confirmed four dead and nine
wounded worshippers. Pieces of brain were splattered on one of the walls
inside the mosque while large blood stains covered carpets at several
places.

A U.S. military spokesperson in Baghdad did not respond to requests for
information on the raid.

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5) +++++++++We need your help!+++++++++++
There is a DIRECT ACTION being organized around the
hotel lockout in San Francisco -- a community response
to a lockout of 4000 workers at 14 city hotels.

The management group that represents these
hotels is trying to starve San Francisco hotel workers
into a brutal contract. This contract will increase workers'
health care premiums from 10 to 273 dollars per month.
This will effectively strip many workers of their healthcare
by making it completely unaffordable. To add insult to injury
management is offering a pathetic 5-20 cent per hour raise.
Also at stake is the length of the contract. Management
wants to lock workers into a 5 year contract that leaves
them weak and isolated; the union wants to renegotiate
in two years when contracts expire in other cities around
the country. If you don't already know the
details about this battle, you can, and should read more
about it at: http://www.unitehere2.org/ and
http://www.indybay.org/labor/.

This action is being initiated by several affinity groups
associated with Direct Action to Stop the War. Although
we cannot divulge specifics about the action target, time, or
date via email, we can tell you the following:

* This will be a simple, non-violent direct action. It involves
no damage to property. NUMBERS will make this action
what it needs to be.

* It will happen SOON so if you want to get involved
you need to move quickly.

* Ours is a community response to the lockout. It is meant
to demonstrate to hotel management that an attack on
their workers is an attack on our entire community. We are
opening our own front in the battle for healthcare benefits, and
employers everywhere should take notice that San Francisco is
a union town, and healthcare is a human right that our community
will defend. We are serving notice that these hotels picked the
wrong city to attack workers in.

* Our demands for this action:
1) an immediate end to the lockout
2) no increase in worker contributions to the health care plan
3) contract length of two years.

* The hotel workers are pursuing their own strategies in this
battle. We are not here to critique the union's strategies, set an
example or lead them. Likewise, we are going to produce one
of what will hopefully be many supportive and diverse community
responses. We do not want to be divisive or argue about what
some monolithic community response should be.

* Our response doesn't begin or end with this battle, and
our messaging is our own. Our messaging will be powerful in its
simplicity, and will not be divisive. We view healthcare as a right
and our sights are set on future actions, and significant
escalation of actions in support of workers wherever they are being
attacked.

+++++++++++What we need from you++++++++++++++++

* Your participation: Hopefully, you, and many of your friends
will wish to be involved. And if so, WE NEED YOUR CONTACT
INFORMATION (cell phone, email, group affiliations) so we can
get in touch with you with info on where to meet. We need to know
if you will participate as an individual or group or groups. If
there are groups we need to know who the point or contact person is
for those groups. You should begin thinking about whether you
and your friends can risk arrest (red team), or whether you are
willing to be present and do support for the action (yellow team)
or even if you have some of both.

* Help organize: Do you know other people or groups who we can or
should contact directly or in person? If you have tactical experience
with direct action and would like to take a more involved role, let us know.

* Spread the word: Please pass this info on! [Please do NOT hit
your forward button -- copy the text into a new email window.]

* Come to an organizing meeting. There are meetings coming up
Wednesday and Thursday nights, and representation from
participating groups is important. Send us a phone number to call
you at if you want to come.

* RSVP!!! Direct your responses to cissl@hush.com and someone
will get in touch with you in short order. We really would like to
stress the need for phone numbers, as it is hard to organize a near
term action if we cannot get in touch with people in short order.

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6) Statement by the National Youth & Student Peace Coalition
(NYSPC)
On the morning of Thursday, October 28th, more than a dozen
armed federal agents(representing the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives)
raided the West Philadelphia home of three organizers
involved with the Student Environmental Action Coalition
(SEAC) and the National Youth & Student Peace Coalition (NYSPC).

While the search warrant employed by the agents was
specifically directed towards the activities of Philadelphia-based animal
rights group “Hugs for Puppies” and any communications it has had with the
Stop
Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) campaign, all residents of the house were
questioned by the agents and private property belonging to several residents
was seized.

Two of the seized items included the personal laptop and day-planner of
Jason
Fults, a SEAC/NYSPC organizer who is in no way involved with the groups
mentioned in the warrant. Fults’ computer contained copies of organizing
materials belonging to both NYSPC and SEAC.

We are deeply concerned about the ramifications of this unjust seizure, and
are
sending this communication out to our constituency for two reasons:

1) We believe that the individuals who have expressed an interest in working
with our coalition deserve to know that their right to privacy is being
endangered by the unjust (and potentially illegal) activities of the federal
government.

2) We are concerned that this raid is but one skirmish in an ongoing war on
civil liberties being waged by the U.S. government in the name of fighting
“terrorism.” While neither NYSPC nor SEAC is involved with the SHAC
campaign,
we join all activists in our strong opposition to the repression of dissent
and
the increasing efforts to coerce information and intimidate activists. In
May
of 2004, seven prominent SHAC activists were arrested and charged with
violations of the 1992 Title 18 “Animal Enterprise Protection Act,” which
contains subsection 43 on “animal enterprise terrorism.” The "SHAC 7" are
currently facing a combined 23 years in federal prison and over a million
dollars in fines for running a website which reports on direct action
against
the vivisection company Huntingdon Life Sciences and its business partners.
For more information about the SHAC 7 and this ongoing case, visit:
www.shac7.com. Regardless of where one stands on the issue of animal rights
and the employment of direct action as an activist tactic, this instance
demonstrates clearly that an attack on the civil liberties of anyone is an
injury to everyone.

The victims of the October 28th raid are currently being represented by the
law
firm of Kairys, Rudovsky, Epstein & Messing, who are making every effort to
expedite the return of the confiscated property and to assure that any
copies
of the contents of Fults’ computer are destroyed. Due to the lack of
responsiveness by the FBI thus far, our legal representation will begin
pursuing litigation early next week.

We deeply appreciate the support we have received from our allies thus far,
and
will keep you informed as the situation develops. For more information or
to
learn how you can support the victims of this raid, contact Jason Fults at
215-222-4711 or jason@seac.org.

--
National Youth & Student Peace Coalition (NYSPC)
PO Box 31909
Philadelphia, PA 19104
info@nyspc.net
www.nyspc.net
215-222-4711

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