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• SP USA Endorses April 10, 2006 Immigrant Rights Actions-

  Comrades,
  The National Action Committee passed the following resolution unanimously.
  Motion: To endorse the April 10, 2006 mobilizations for immigrant rights and to encourage affiliates to take part in local April 10th actions.
  A full listing of actions can be found at www.APRIL10.org
  The Socialist Party's April 10th Mobilization webpage can be found at: sp-usa.org/campaigns/ If your affiliate is attending one of these events (or another one not listed) drop me a note at natsec(at)sp-usa.org so I can list it on the website.
  We also remind you that there will be a major, national anti-war action in New York City on April 29, 2006.The Socialist Party will have a contingent at this event and will be taking part in organizing a post march/rally party with various Katrina victim solidarity organizations. Info will be posted at: http://sp-usa.org/campaigns/a29.html.

• SP-NYC: We Support The TWU Local 100-

  The Socialist Party of New York City strongly supports the right of transit workers to free speech, free assembly and free labor.

  We denounce, in the strongest possible terms, the Metropolitan Transportation Agency's callous disregard of the safety and health of transit workers, as well as their unending demands for for wage and benefit cutbacks. We are sickened by the slave plantation politics of Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Pataki and Attorney General Spitzer, who would fine union members from two days' wages up to a quarter of a million dollars each for the nerve of refusing to work without a contract.

  As commuters, we recognize and appreciate the hard work and dedication of New York's transit workers. As citizens, we voted in large numbers in favor of the state's transportation bond act - expecting that some of the money we approved would go to fair and equitable pay increases for the workers who keep New York moving. As workers, we insist that if our brothers and sisters in TWU 100 go on strike, then we too will not go to work, or if we do WE WILL WALK.

• Stand with the TWU Workers!-

  TWU Local 100 Executive Board Votes to End Strike, Return to Work!.
  "Dec. 22-The first NYC system-wide transit strike in 25 years ended today. Local 100 had to walk out to stop the TA's 11th hour pension ambush. We walked out strong, and we walk back stronger."
  
  The SPNYC asks that all our members and friends CONTINUE to stand with the TWU workers in this time of uncertainty. See the TWU Local's website, TWU supporters blog, or subscribe to our mailing lists for information on rallies, pickets, and other ways you can support your fellow workers in the days to come. Don't trust the mainstream media on this one, folks. We all know who owns them and which side they're on!

• Lynne Stewart Sentenced to 28 Months-

  We don't yet know where and how they will come for her. But we in the Socialist Party will never accept that a woman who as worked for decades, usually for nothing, to defend anyone who other lawyers feared to defend, is the enemy of working people in this city. At 67, a grandmother of 14, and just having battled breast cancer, this lifelong fighter for the little justice the US constitution demands, gets her reward from our government.

  Lynne Stewart will be imprisoned for being a lawyer. Her case is simple. She allowed a supporter of her convicted client to write down a note and carry it out of prison. This was against prison regulations: not even a misdemeanor. By law, jaywalking is a more serious offense. The prison administration cautioned her about this. That was the last anyone heard until the government decided years later that this act made her a 'Terrorist.' The government did not have to show that the act was against the law then, that the information was in any was sensitive or that anyone was hurt. Since holders of foreign passports in this country have no rights, they may hold Lynne's client in solitary confinement forever. He is certainly paying for his crimes. Her crime was daring to offer a defense for those the government imprisons.
  
  

  It is not hyperbole that the prosecutors have called this "a major victory in the war on terrorism". A message has been sent. Defend enemies of the state and you go to jail, because what a lawyer does or says in defending a client can get them put in jail years later. God help you in finding a lawyer if the government comes for you tomorrow.
  
  

  This fight is not over!

  Free Lynne Stewart!

  Find out what you can do at: www.lynnestewart.org.
  The Lynne Stewart Defense Committee
  350 Broadway, Suite 700, New York, NY 10013
  212-625-9696
  

• Brooklyn: News of Worker Rights March.-
  
  Marching IWW workers and their Allies.
  

  A "briefing" From the Feb. 19th Brooklyn Foodstuffs Workers Rally, via the IWW local 460 union.

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  Yesterday, the IWW and Make the Road by Walking marched through the industrial areas of Brooklyn and Queens for hours in below-freezing conditions, demanding justice for fired workers. Major news organizations such as Telemundo (Channel 47), News12 (video link), WBAI - "Building Bridges", and El Diario covered the event. Additionally, the Socialist Party posted pictures And there are great photos at Next Left Notes.
  For background info, check out: Not Without a Fight: NYC's food warehouse workers unionize
  If you would like to support the campaign, please send financial contributions to New York Industrial Workers of the World, P.O. Box 8266, J.A.F. Station, New York, NY 10116. Or, you can contribute on-line through PayPal by making a payment to iww-nyc@iww.org, at www.paypal.com. You can also sign up on PayPal for a monthly, automatic payment in any amount that's manageable for you.
  For more information, please visit www.wobblycity.org, or email iww.nyc(at)gmail. com.

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