MAY DAY SF 2012

NOON: The People’s Street Festival!

MAY DAY SOLIDARITY ACTIONS

Early AM: Golden Gate Bridge Labor Coalition Solidarity Action
Join May Day Picket Lines in solidarity with the Inland Boatman’s Union Strike at the Larkspur Ferry Terminal starting at 5am.  Buses depart at 6am from SF City Hall and 19th and Telegraph in Oakland.
For more info, click HERE.

10am: Immigrant Community Rally, March & Flash Mob
10:00 a.m.  Gather @24th & Mission Street, march to 16th & Mission

11am: Westfield Mall Picket and Solidarity Action with Janitors & Retail Workers
Fair union contracts for the 99%!
@Westfield Mall, 5th and Market Streets

3pm:  Regional March for Dignity and Resistance
@Fruitvale BART Station, Oakland
www.decolonizeoakland.org

7am-7pm: Sutter Health RN’s On Strike!
Northern California RNs will strike eight Sutter corporation hospitals Tuesday, May 1 to once again protest the wealthy corporation’s outrageous demands for more than 100 reductions in patient care protections and RN standards.
Pickets lines from 7am – 7pm at these Bay Area Sutter Hospitals:

• Alta Bates Main Campus, 2450 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley
• Alta Bates Herrick Campus, 2001 Dwight Way, Berkeley (psychiatric care facility)
• Alta Bates Summit Campus, 350 Hawthorne Avenue, Oakland
• Eden Medical Center, 20103 Lake Chabot Rd, Castro Valley
• San Leandro Hospital, 13855 E. 14th St., San Leandro
• Mills-Peninsula Medical Center, 1501 Trousdale Drive, Burlingame
• Mills Health Center, 100 S. San Mateo Drive, San Mateo

More info, HERE

6pm:  International Workers Day Fiesta & Fundraiser for Young Workers United
6:00 p.m.  @El Rio, 3158 Mission Street, San Francisco
www.youngworkersunited.org

Livestream May Day SF Coverage, Updates and More @:
www.OccupySF.org

Dear JwJ Friends and Allies,

We will celebrate our two years building Jobs with Justice San Francisco on April 26th from 6-8pm at the ILWU Local 34 Hall, 801 2nd Street at The Embarcadero next to AT&T Park in San Francisco. Please join us for a brief, fun inspiring program, delicious food and drinks from Macarthur Garage Brewery and Bar, Shoe Shine Wine, Arizmendi Bakery and more plus JwJ’s powerful mix of diverse fighters for justice and the 99%!  Tickets: $75 to $25 – sliding scale.

To purchase tickets: CLICK HERE
or send a check to:
Jobs with Justice Education Fund, 1050 South Van Ness #201, San Francisco, CA 94110.

For information about event sponsorship: CLICK HERE

Join the Facebook event, CLICK HERE

For more info contact event@jwjsf.org or (415) 967-3710

Thank you again for a successful two years bridging solidarity and power together. We look forward to more organizing and movement building in the months and years ahead!

California Federation of Teachers • Service Employees International Union Local 1021 • California Faculty Association – SF State Chapter • National Union of Healthcare Workers • Communications Workers of America District 9 • Office & Professional Employees International Union Local 3 • Unite Here Local 2 • San Francisco Labor Council • The Justice Fund • Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth • Mujeres Unidas y Activas • IFPTE Local 20 • Senior Action Network/Planning for Elders • Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance San Francisco • Coalition of Black Trade Unionists • Dolores Street Community Services • Filipino Community Center • People Organized to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights • Coalition on Homelessness • United Educators of San Francisco • Bayanihan Community Center • Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment • American Federation of Teachers Local 2121 • AFSCME Local 3299 • Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center • California Nurses Association • Causa Justa::Just Cause • Chinese Progressive Association • Community Housing Partnership • IFTPE Local 21 • International Longshore & Warehouse Union, Local 10 • Labor and Community Studies, City College of San Francisco • People Organized to Win Employment Rights • San Francisco Day Labor Program and Women’s Collective • San Francisco Pride at Work/HAVOQ • South of Market Community Action Network • United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 5 • United Food and Commercial Workers Local 648 • Young Workers United

LOCATION AND PUBLIC TRANSIT DIRECTIONS:  ILWU Local 34 is located at 801 2nd Street at The Embarcadero right next to AT&T Park.     There is metered street parking and pay lots nearby, but JwJ guests are encouraged to use public transportation.  The site is near MUNI streetcar T and N lines and bus lines 10, 30, 45, 47 and 76.

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Community, faith and labor groups and OccupySF support Walmart workers as retail giants prepare major expansion in San Francisco communities

Supervisor Mar to call for hearing on growth of corporate chain stores and impacts on San Francisco’s small businesses, neighborhoods, employment and economy

(SAN FRANCISCO)—On Tuesday, at 12:30 p.m. Supervisor Eric Mar along with a coalition of community, labor and faith groups including OccupySF will announce support for the Organization United for Respect at Walmart (OUR Walmart). OUR Walmart consists of current and former Walmart associates who are organizing for respect and better working conditions at the nation’s largest retailer as it prepares a major expansion in the San Francisco Bay Area and other urban communities around the country. Supervisor Mar and the coalition will announce a public hearing that will examine the growing presence of corporate chain stores in San Francisco and their impacts on small businesses, neighborhoods, employment and the economy.

Who:         Supervisor Eric Mar, OUR Walmart, OccupySF, Jobs with Justice, Filipino Community Center, Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice, and others

What:         Press conference and rally

When:         Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 12:30 p.m.

Where:         San Francisco City Hall

               City Hall West Steps, Polk Street between Grove & McAllister Continue reading →

from Chinese Progressive Association, 10/31/11

On Sunday, October 30th, over 150 people attended a community teach-in about the Occupy movement at Portsmouth Square, a park in San Francisco’s Chinatown which is referred to as “the living room of Chinatown.” It’s where seniors play cards, kids play on swing sets, and community residents just sit outside to chat with neighbors and enjoy the good weather. The teach-in, organized by the Chinese Progressive Association, was the first event in the Bay Area (that we’ve heard of) that was located in a community of color, was bilingual (English and Chinese), and specifically focused on what the Occupy movement means for the working class Chinese community. Continue reading →