Statement of the Starbucks Workers Union on its Fifth Anniversary

May 17, 2009 marks five years since baristas at a Starbucks in New York City announced their membership in the Industrial Workers of the World and launched a campaign open to employees throughout the company. A worker-led organizing effort with the legendary IWW at the world’s largest coffee chain could have been a flash in [...]

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Put People First Pics – Militant Workers Bloc

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The Wobblies

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Founded in 1905, The IWW, whose supporters were called “the Wobblies,” was a remarkable organization and this documentary captures the struggles, the spirit, the songs and satires of the movement. The production features the most astonishing interviews with elderly workers who participated in various IWW campaigns from the timber fields of [...]

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Interview with 80 Year Old IWW Member and Jesuit Fr. Bill Bischel

Fr. Bill Bischel SJ has dropped by Ireland to accompany both the Pitstop Ploughshares to court in Dublin and the Raytheon 9 to court in Derry. Bill was ordained in Berlin before the wall went up, carries some of Joe Hill’s ashes and has spent a number of years in jail for nonviolent resistance. One [...]

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Together We Win: The Fight to Organize Starbucks

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Sindicalismo Sin Fronteras

Sindicalismo Sin Fronteras
by Mike Alewitz
Assistance by Daniel Manrique and numerous volunteers
Approx. 8′ x 30′
Frente Autentico Trabajadores Auditorium
Mexico City 1997
On April 5, 1997, a public inauguration of two new murals was held at the auditorium of the Frente Autentico Trabajadoras (FAT) in Mexico City. The event was part of a cross-border organizing project of the FAT [...]

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Judi Bari’s Spirit Lives On

Judi Bari a was a feminist Earth First! activist and dues paying member of the IWW from 1988-94 who even served on it’s General Executive Board in 1991.

“On May 24, 1990, a car bomb exploded beneath environmental and labor activist Judi Bari’s car seat as she drove through Oakland, California with fellow activist Darryl Cherney. Judi [...]

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NIGHT HIGHWAY 99

Another poem from an ex IWW member. Lew Welch was a Beat poet who you might have come across as Dave Wain in Jack Kerouac’s novel Big Sur.  This is the longest poem from Mountains and Rivers Without End.  This is a road song and a portrait of the West Coast in the late 50s [...]

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POEMS, POLITICS, NATURE

The Politics of Ethnopoetics – Gary Snyder, poet and winner of the Pullitzer Prize and Lannan Award, ecologist and one-time Wobbly.
Sunday, 2. March 2008

Ethnopoetics is a poetic movement and subfield in linguistics, and anthropology. Coined as a term by Rothenberg in 1968. The idea of ethnopoetics is based on two interrelated concepts.
This “politics” is [...]

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REBEL GIRL

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