[scab bus was stopped leaving the bus station…]
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scab bus was stopped leaving the bus station here. Around 100 supporters of the strikers surrounded the bus. In front of the bus was a union leader with a bull horn pleading with the workers who had stopped the bus to let the bus pass.
Another union leader said listen to your leaders—but the supporters would not listen and made the bus back up into the station where it remained for two hours until the crowd went home. Then, with a police escort, the bus went on its way.
Across the the street behind police fences the crowd of supporters was called away from the main bus gate for a labor solidarity rally to listen to leaders and sing songs of Solidarity Forever. When it was over, they went home.
No buses would have left the station if the workers and supporters had been given the proper leadership.
This is not just a strike. This is carefully prepared plans for wiping out the union. We want to support the union, but they need to give us leadership.
Joe Stack, San Francisco, Calif. Dear editor, San Francisco Bay Area reaction by activist and solidarity groups to the election setback in Nicaragua was swift and firm. On March 3, 1200 watched a live satellite transmission from Nicaragua. In this broadcast, heard in 125 cities, President Daniel Ortega declared that the election was held "under the gun" of American imperialism. If the mainstream media were chortling with glee and exultant in the victory by Chamorro, the alternative media was expressing a completely different view. The San Francisco Weekly headlined its story of the election: "The Big Stick Triumphs Again."
The editorial notes that instead of direct U.S. intervention as in Grenada or Panama, or widespread election fraud as in Mexico, the Bush plan represents a third course: "A calculated and unwavering campaign of military, economic, and political destabilization" which made Nicaragua cry "Uncle." The Nicaraguan Center for Community Action (NICCA) offered a program of priorities for the Nicaraguan people: disarm the contras, defend the campesino's right to land, stop the formation of any U.S. supported security force, and
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