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Gainesville IWW

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About Me

The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth.We find that the centering of the management of industries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to cope with the ever growing power of the employing class. The trade unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars. Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing class to mislead the workers into the belief that the working class have interests in common with their employers.These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all.Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work," we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system."It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be organized, not only for everyday struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old.
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My Interests

Syndicalism, Syndicalist Unions, Boycotts, Class Struggle, Direct Action, General Strikes, Industrial Unions, Means of Production, Rank-and-File Organization, Sitdown Strikes, Strikes aiding other social justice organizations in thier struggle for justice, being as accessable to as many people in the Gainesville area as possible, winning conrete gains for poor and working people, helping to lighten the load of the collective yoke we're all under,helping build sustainable community gardens in the Gainesville area, helping build sustainable community bike collectives in the Gainesville area, Abolishing Wage Slavery,

I'd like to meet:

just about anyone

Music:

Little Red Songbook, Joe Hill, Utah Phillips, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Rebel Voices, Gainesville Liberation Orchestra, independent musicians, David Rovics

Movies:

THE CORPORATION, Matewan, THE TAKE, Bread and Roses, Harlan County, Salt of the Earth, AN INJURY TO ONE, Norma Rae

Television:

public access

Books:

Books about Labor History, Books about the IWW and Individual Wobblies, Books on Contemporary Labor Issues, Books Published by Charles H. Kerr, Little Red Songbook, Labor's Untold Story

Heroes:

Ralph Chaplin Eugene V. Debs Daniel De Leon Thomas J Hagerty Big Bill Haywood Hellen Keller Joe Hill Mother Jones Helen Keller Frank Little Edward R. Murrow Lucy Parsons Vincent Saint John William Trautmann Boxcar Betty All Workers of the World

My Blog

Starbucks workers continue to join the IWW despite intimidation, harassment, and constant viola

Starbucks workers continue to join the IWW despite intimidation, harassment, and constant violations of the law. Submitted by intexile on Sun, 06/18/2006 - 4:30am. At 2:45 on Friday, June 16th a de...
Posted by Gainesville IWW on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:23:00 PST

Union Wins Landslide Victory - Shattuck Cinema Workers Pull Through with Vote for The IWW

Union Wins Landslide Victory - Shattuck Cinema Workers Pull Through with Vote for The IWW Submitted by xseasickx on Sun, 06/18/2006 - 4:31am. BERKELEY 6:30 PM -- This afternoon workers at Landmark ...
Posted by Gainesville IWW on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:18:00 PST

Chicago's First Bike Messenger Collective

Chicago's First Bike Messenger Collective Submitted by slava on Sat, 06/24/2006 - 3:04pm. Fresh Air! Speed! Poverty! Servitude! The founders of Chicago's first bike messenger collective think ther...
Posted by Gainesville IWW on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:16:00 PST

Union Scores Big Victory Against Starbucks at Labor Board

Union Scores Big Victory Against Starbucks at Labor Board Coffee Giant Must Rehire Fired Baristas and Rescind National Anti-Union Policies - from www.starbucksunion.org, March 8, 2006.New York, NY- ...
Posted by Gainesville IWW on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 08:06:00 PST

Here Come the Wobblies!

Here Come the Wobblies! By Cosmo Garvin - Sacramento News & Review - January 13, 2005. In a labor battle with roots dating back 100 years, independent truckers and Starbucks employees are now ...
Posted by Gainesville IWW on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 01:43:00 PST

Teamsters Raid On IWW Drive Fails

Teamsters Raid On IWW Drive Fails Submitted by intexile on Fri, 12/16/2005 - 2:58am. By IWW - Industrial Worker, December 2005On Nov. 1, Local ...
Posted by Gainesville IWW on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 01:39:00 PST

Direct Action Gets the Goods! - IWW Chicago Victory for Unpaid Worker

Direct Action Gets the Goods! - IWW Chicago Victory for Unpaid Worker Submitted by intexile on Sun, 01/15/2006 - 6:42pm. By "Free Radical" - Or...
Posted by Gainesville IWW on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 01:32:00 PST

The Wobblies Resurface in New York, Targeting Starbucks and FreshDirect

The Wobblies Resurface in New York, Targeting Starbucks and FreshDirect Submitted by intexile on Thu, 01/05/2006 - 4:02am. By DANIELA GERSON - ...
Posted by Gainesville IWW on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 01:29:00 PST

EZ Supply workers go IWW

EZ Supply workers go IWW Submitted by intexile on Fri, 02/03/2006 - 3:55am. Industrial Worker - February 2006Deep in the gritty, industrial dis...
Posted by Gainesville IWW on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 01:26:00 PST