Posted on May 7, 2009 by adamfreedom
Once again San Jose led the Bay Area with the largest protest in Northern California for May 1, 2009. While poor weather and swine flu scares turned many would-be marches away, many saw this years May Day immigrant rights march as the most spirited and significant since the massive march of 2006 when nearly [...]
Filed under: Humor, Labor, Reflection, The Movement, organizing | Tagged: Central Valley, comics, foreclosure, immigrant rights, Immigration movement, international workers day, La Cancion del Gripe Marrano, Labor, May Day, Obama, Repo Home Tour, San Jose, Silicon Valley De-Bug, Stockton, swine flu, Swine wow, workers | 1 Comment »
Posted on April 15, 2008 by adamfreedom
I’m flattered. A colomnist from the Stockton Record posted a brief and slightly satirical blurb in his blog about my below post discussing Stockton and the Central Valley. Get a chuckle out of it here. I have to tip my hat to the title choice as well… Another random tid bit is if you scroll down [...]
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Posted on April 14, 2008 by adamfreedom
This is a excerpt from my manuscript on 2004/2005 Intermodal trucker organizing in the Stockton area. It is still rough. Below are the sections on the Central Valley. I’m really interested in the question of how might we charactorize a place like the Central Valley. The stats on poverty in the area- making it one of the [...]
Filed under: Labor, Theory | Tagged: Central Valley, intermodal, San Joaquin Valley, Stockton, truckers | Leave a Comment »
