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1st SUNDAY 2pm Irvine Ranch Water District (15600 Sand Canyon Road, Irvine)


2nd SUNDAY 2pm Unitarian Church Anaheim (511 S. Harbor Blvd & Santa Ana St)

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RJ Schwichtenberg, Chair / Victor Tanious, Secretary
council members:
Al White / Mimi Sanchez-Quesada / Duane Roberts

candidates

Medea Benjamin

Anti-Sweatshop/Corporate Accountability Tour Spring 2000 dates

Victory in Anaheim 7/19/2000
Michael Everett IATSE 728

Tuesday morning we met again for a press conference. Only two reporters showed up and they left. The delegates tossed around ideas of how to challenge the Feinstein endorsement and what arguments to make on Medea's behalf. Tuesday afternoon, when the endorsements were read off from the podium, our tiny handful challenged the Feinstein endorsement from the floor and three of our number took to the floor mikes to denounce the free trade policies of Feinstein and praise the pro-labor platform of Medea. After the third delegate spoke, a motion was made and passed to cut off further debate. A voice vote was called, and to everyone's astonishment somewhere between 25 and 40 percent of the delegates voted 'no' on the endorsement.
Though technically a victory for Feinstein, clearly she was the loser and Medea was the winner. Not only was it a warning message to politicians who take labor for granted, but it was also a message from the ranks of labor that we're fed up with policies from the top that support fair trade and then turn around and support the candidates who oppose fair trade. It was also a clear illustration that the spirit of Seattle has taken hold in the labor movement and is growing.
Medea Benjamin campaign for US Senate labor platform. To invite Medea to visit your union meeting, send an e-mail to Michael Eisenscher, meisenscher@igc.apc.org

to host a speaking date
available book titles / Sweating for a T-Shirt video documentary
recently at Univ. of Indiana 11.99
on China What's Fair about Fair Labor Association (FLA )? 1998 SweatshopWatch.org
Clean Clothes campaign Brussels May 1998
Labor Pains on voluntary retailer code of conduct for contractors. PBS NewsHour April 1997
Don't Be Afraid, Gringo Elvia Alvarado bio ( Institute for Food & Policy Development )
Wisconsin Public Radio, transcript available
Nike excerpted quote SF Chronicle 4.17.99 pA15
campus wear campaign & Saipan federal suit Oct 1999. Duke action
Nike in Indonesia: Willamette Week ( Portland OR ) Jan 1997
Mexican election monitoring 1994
on Pacifica coup de etat KPFA April 1999

Ralph Nader's 1996 Presidential candidacy
Nader on SoCal issues

Green Party candidate Jello Biafra more
Presidential candidate Kovel author email
12/12/99 nomination platform speech
Economic Globalization panel
858-457-5616 / 626 355-7858
Ron Ouellette Campaign 2000 GP pres. also ran

"Randall Robinson is really a frontiersman for justice in the sense that he's willing to take risks and break through paradigms, as he did on the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. And what he has done since then, in breaking through again and again, illustrates that we cannot be satisfied with the least of the worst options, whether they are policies, whether they are politicians, or whether they are parties.
We cannot continue to wait decade after decade for injustices to be prevented and problems to be solved while our economy goes to new levels of growth, while corporate profits are at record levels, while budget surpluses are at the federal & state levels getting larger."

Ralph Nader 7.14.00 address to NAACP

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coalition takes Paris 2001

Socialist Wins Final Round in Race for Mayor of Paris
3.19.01   SUZANNE DALEY Agence France-Presse

Even a narrow victory will be seen as a help to Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, a Socialist who is expected to challenge Mr. Chirac in next year's presidential elections. The municipal elections also brought another important victory for the Socialists in the city of Lyon. As in Paris, the official right- wing candidate there was handicapped by a rival. But the Socialists lost many other important races, including in Toulouse, Strasbourg, Rouen, Blois and Aix-en-Provence. Yet the battle for Paris was by far the most closely watched of the municipal elections. It was in disarray almost from the beginning, when Mr. Chirac's party turned away from Mr. Tibéri, who had been hand-picked by Mr. Chirac in 1995. Formal investigations are under way into Mr. Tibéri's role in vote-rigging, the awarding of public housing contracts to party supporters and allegations that some of the mayor's political supporters hold city jobs but do not work.
Mr. Tibéri has always maintained that he has done nothing wrong and he has refused to step aside. After months of wrangling over the issue, Mr. Tibéri suggested that his own party poll delegates to see if he had support. However, the list of delegates he presented contained 1,000 fictitious names. Still, Mr. Tibéri could not be persuaded to step down. Eventually, he was ejected from the party, but to little effect. Mr. Tibéri ran on his own and managed to get 13.9 percent of the vote on the first round. Early in the week, he called on Mr. Séguin to merge his party lists with Mr. Tibéri's. Mr. Séguin, campaigning against corruption and promising a break with the past, refused to have anything to do with him. But by the end of the week he was forced into an indirect relationship. Each candidate agreed not to run against the other in certain neighborhoods. In defeat, each continued to blame the other, Mr. Séguin enumerating the seats he might have won if Mr. Tibéri had behaved properly.

Mr. Delanoë is one of France's few openly gay politicians. But until a few months ago, he was hardly a household name, though he had spent years as a member of the Paris city council. By 10 p.m., hundreds of people had gathered in front of Paris's ornate city hall to hear Mr. Delanoë speak. "Today Parisians have freely decided in favor of a change of power in the capital," he told cheering supporters. He called the vote a "victory for audacity and reason."

Socialists Claim Paris, Lag in Provinces
3.19.01   Keith B. Richburg WashPost Foreign Svc

The mayor of Paris is elected by the 163 municipal council members representing the city's 20 districts, so the real race tonight was for seats on the council. According to the projections of polling firms and television stations, Delanoe's supporters, a coalition of Socialists, Communists and environmentalist Greens, appeared set to capture well over the 82 seats needed for a council majority. Delanoe, one of France's few openly gay politicians, was virtually unknown when he became the left's official candidate last year. He now is set to take over the third most prominent job in the country, behind the president and prime minister. While the Paris campaign was being watched for signs of voter sentiment before the national elections, Delanoe stuck doggedly to local issues, which appears to have helped him among voters wary of national politicians being "parachuted" in to take over city halls. Delanoe has said he has no ambitions for higher office.
Elsewhere around the country, some of Jospin's most prominent cabinet ministers failed to win local mayoralties on the strength of their national reputations. Labor Minister Elisabeth Guigou was defeated in Avignon, Education Minister Jack Lang was beaten in Blois and European Affairs Minister Pierre Moscovici lost in Montbeliard. It is common practice for French politicians to hold several posts simultaneously. The Socialists also lost control of towns they had held -- Rouen, Orleans and Strasbourg and failed to take control of Toulouse, as many had expected. The Communists also fared poorly, with the results tonight leaving them without control of any major cities. "This is a bad night for the left," Communist Party leader Robert Hue said. This was the first election held under a new law that required parties to field an equal number of male and female candidates, in an effort to redress a lack of women in politics.

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