http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2011/11/18/labor-ready-fight-occupy-eviction

Tim Paulson, director of the San Francisco Labor Council, just told me that he's got as many as 500 union members on alert to stand with the OccupySF encampment if the city attempts to evict the protesters. The Labor Council has put together a communications system to let members who have volunteered to help know when a showdown with the police is coming, and the volunteers are ready to spend as much as 24 hours at Justin Herman Plaza, and if necessary, in jail.

"We mobilized for last night, but nothing happened," he said. "We're in a state of constant vigilance."

Paulson noted that the San Francisco encampment "is the symbol of the Occupy Movement."

The solidarity of San Francisco labor will make it considerably more difficult for Mayor Ed Lee to send in the police and break up the camp. The idea that he would be ordering the arrests not only of several hundred Occupy protesters but a large contingent of local labor leaders and union members has to be giving him second (and third, and fourth) thoughts.

And whatever the outcome, the connections between labor and Occupy are critical to building and sustaining a national movement to demand economic justice. It's great to see the SF Labor Council in the heart of the fight.

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SF labor officials and supporters of Occupy San Francisco spoke out
at an occupation assembly meeting on 11/17/2011 in defense of the occupation.
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URGENT -- MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT -- URGENT

Who: Ad Hoc Labor Activist Assembly of veteran Oakland area labor
organizers
What: Urgent Call to Alameda Labor Council for Labor Defense of
Occupy Oakland
Why: Threat of Imminent Police Action to Attack and Evict Occupy
Oakland
When: November 12, 2011

The following urgent proposal was unanimously adopted today at an ad
hoc Labor Activist Assembly, and signed by more than 30 veteran labor
activists:

We, the Ad Hoc Labor Activist Assembly, in light of the imminent
threat of police action to evict Occupy Oakland, call on the Alameda
Labor Council Executive Board to adopt and implement the following:


The Alameda Labor Council declares the Occupy Oakland encampment to be
a sanctioned picket line. The Council's Executive Board calls on every
one of its affiliates to immediately mobilize members to defend the
encampment, dispatching pickets in shifts, beginning tonight (November
12) and continuing as long as the threat persists.

SIGNATURES (organizations listed for identification only)

Jack Gerson, OEA retired
Zev Kuithy, CFT
Susan Schacher, Peralta Federation of Teachers
Bob Mandel, OEA/AFT retired
Peter Brown, Peralta Federation of Teachers
Steve Miller, OEA
Loretta Franke, Operating Engineers retired
Jack Heyman, ILWU Local 10 retired
Stan Woods, Transport Workers Solidarity Committee
Richard Tan, Librarian
Pete Turner, IFTPE 21
Henry Johnson
Richard Mellor, AFSCME 444 retired
Robert Irminger, IBU/ILWU
Caray Dau,ILWU 6
Adam Balou, Occupy Oakland
Jenna Woloshyn, IBT 10
John Reimann, IWW
Matt Meyer, BFT
Marcus Holder, ILWU 10
Mary Beth Schuler
Mike Parker, UAW 1700
Bill Balderston, OEA
Bill Cherneau, SEIU 1021
Ruth Maguire, Grandmothers against the war
Ying Lee, BFT retired
Ann Weills, National Lawyers Guild
Michael Rubin, SEIU
Rosalind Makris OEA
Dave Welsh, Letter Carriers 214
Frank Martinez Campo, SEIU 1021

(per Mail)
Die "Occupy-Bewegung" in Oakland in der US-amerikanische Westkueste wurde am 25. Oktober durch die Polizei gewalttaetig ueberfallen.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/10/26/18695333.php
Daraurhin haben die Arbeiter in Oakland und San Francisco beschlossen, am 2. November diese 2 Haefen streikmaessig zu blockieren.
http://www.occupyoakland.org/frontpage/
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_19197518?source=most_viewed
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/10/26/18695266.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/10/26/18695142.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTu9G8Ak6CQ&feature=player_embedded