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Resist! Breaking News: PCASC Brunch, Fanning the Flames, $15 minimum wage, Music, Theatre, and more! PostOffice National day of action April 24.

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How to Fan the Flames
March 31, 2014 / Alexandra Bradbury and Jane Slaughter –

We troublemakers keep hoping for the spark that will set a wildfire of workers in motion. The worse our situation gets—economically, politically, ecologically—the more we yearn for a vast movement to erupt and transform the landscape.
,,, It will take large-scale bravery to reverse the giant mess capitalism has made of everything—massive inequality, our unions sliding to near-extinction, our planet on the verge of eco-catastrophe.

That’s why, in the long term, a movement with a troublemaking spirit—the kind that inspires people to bravery—is the only kind with a chance to win.

These ideas, struggles, and more will all be up for discussion at the Labor Notes Conference next weekend in Chicago. A full version of this article appeared in Labor Notes #421, April 2014. – See more at:

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How to Fan the Flames

It will take large-scale bravery to reverse the giant mess capitalism has made of everything—massive inequality, our unions sliding to near-extinction, our planet on the verge of eco-catastrophe.

That’s why, in the long term, a movement with a troublemaking spirit—the kind that inspires people to bravery—is the only kind with a chance to win.

These ideas, struggles, and more will all be up for discussion at the Labor Notes Conference next weekend in Chicago.

A version of this article appeared in Labor Notes #421, April 2014. Don’t miss an issue, subscribe today.

– See more at: http://labornotes.org/2014/03/how-fan-flames#sthash.6bNk8FAw.dpuf

Every Wednesday at PDX City Hall
demand a $15/hr minimum wage!

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Portland City Hall

1221 SW 4th Ave, Portland, Oregon 97204

Every Wednesday at Portland City Hall we will gather to fight for and demand a $15 per hour minimum wage!SeaTac passed a $15 per hour living minimum wage last year. Yesterday 87% of voters in Chicago approved an advisory referendum to raise the minimum wage to $15. A mayor and councilwoman are moving Seattle toward a $15 per hour living minimum wage. And with the recent $15 Now March and the recent press conference announcing the candidacy of Nicholas Caleb for Portland City Council the push for a $15 per hour living minimum wage began here in Portland, OR, as supporters held signs in front of City Hall that read “15 Now.”

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Oodles of Wage Theft:
Confrontation Leads to Victory
in Oodles of Noodles Campaign

Posted on March 31, 2014 by PDXSol

Wage-theft seems, because of the virtue of its status as “illegal,” that it would be one of the less common types
of labor grievances. A whole range of monstrous behaviors taken up by
management against its employee subjects are labeled “legal,” yet wage-theft
continues to persist. It should be targeted by various state agencies
to combat different types of business criminality. Anyone who has worked in
consumer, food service, retail, construction, the arts, and other industry,
can tell you that wage-theft is so common that there is hardly a career
history that is without it at some point.
check here for the rest of the story: http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/voz