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Maersk Picket in Tacoma [7 pictures]
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Calling on Danish Maersk executives to intervene and stop rampant worker rights violations, Jobs with Justice picketers again shut down the Maersk Terminal just as a big ship pulled in to unload |
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Seattle MLK Jr Day March [13 pictures]
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Thousands marched in the one of the largest and oldest MLK Jr. Day Memorial marches on January 21st under the banner of : "Let Freedom Ring" End Racism, Poverty & War |
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February Rally for Security Officers [16 pictures]
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Security officers, members of SEIU Local 6, members of the Student Labor Action Project at UW and JwJ activists rallied and shutdown an intersection in downtown Seattle to send a message to support affordable healthcare and respect on the job for area security officers |
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Burger King Picket [5 pictures]
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March Leaflet and Picket for Justice for Immokalee farmworkers. Whatcom County JwJ activists sent a message to Burger King - fair wages for farmworkers! |
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Rally to end the War and bring the troops home [6 pictures]
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Join Jobs with Justice joined other membership organizations to mourn and protest the 5th Anniversary of the Iraqi war. The U.S. Government has been at war in Iraq since 2003. In these five years our government has spent over $400 billion on the Iraq war. Tax dollars that normally would have gone to healthcare, education and affordable housing instead are being diverted to pay for this war. |
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May Day Coast-Wide Anti-War Port Shutdown [24 pictures]
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As Longshore Workers up and down the West Coast shutdown their ports, JwJ and others marched along the waterfront protesting a wor that is costing over 720 million dollars a day and if continued, could rise into trillions of dollars. This is all money which could be spent on pressing domestic needs, including universal health care, job retraining, adequate housing and education. |
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May Day Immigrant Rights March and Rally [9 pictures]
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JwJ activists joined El Comite for the 9th Annual May Day Immigrant Rights March and Rally. Both our nation and our labor movement have been built and enriched by immigrants. For most of the country's history, being a "legal" immigrant simply meant being processed upon arrival. As the nature of the nation's economy changed, so too did rules affecting immigration. We rallied under the banner: "We are not undocumented, we are not illegal, we are workers!" |
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Camp out for change [7 pictures]
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JwJ Activists joined Real Change as they held an all Night Camp Out for Change to "Stop the Sweeps" (Mayor's practice of demolishing homeless encampments and throwing out people's personal belongings without offering any alternative shelter). |
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Tacoma Condo Tour [4 pictures]
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JwJ Picketed and Leafleted tour participants asking why Should South Sound Residents Pay for Condo Deals for Seattle-area Buyers Rather than Living Wage Jobs and Affordable Housing for Local Residents |
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Justice for Janitors Day (June) [5 pictures]
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Janitors in Seattle are in the midst of contract negotiations that affect thousands of families in King County. JwJ joined them to celebrate the struggle of janitors for living wages, affordable family healthcare, and respect on the job. |
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Camp Out Civil Disobedience to Stop the Sweeps [27 pictures]
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Mayor Nickels’ and the city of Seattle continue to criminalize the working homeless for surviving outside. Nickels’ lack of adequate funding of shelters, affordable housing, and initiating homeless encampment sweeps that punishes people for being homeless is creating some sci-fi sanitized city that eliminates all the undesirables. JwJ joined Real Change and others in a camp out and civil disobedience to protest this. |
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