-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart From: "J.M. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Seattle City-Wide Walkout In Mass Media Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 14:58:43 -0800 (PST) PGA Action at WTO Seattle - http://members.aol.com/mwmorrill/pga.htm *please forward widely* Fellow Anti-WTOers, The walkout for November 30 is picking up steam. There are decent, non-oppositional articles in Saturday's Seattle Post-Intelligencer, as pasted below, and in the Sunday Seattle Times. When this happens, it will happen spontaneously. It will be self-organization of people who hear about through mass media, through flyers, posters, stickers, banners etc. This is an invaluable action for our movement that people can, and are, organizing themselves. -Jason Adams Seattle IWW / Direct Action Network *** Walk out on summit, Seattleites urged Saturday, November 6, 1999 By JUDD SLIVKA SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Imagine a day when the assembly lines at Boeing plants are silent. When the Seattle Police Department is missing a third of its officers. When local high schools have more students absent then present. This is Jason Adams' dream. If it happens on Nov. 30,then Adams, who works with the Puget Sound chapter of the Industrial Workers of the World, has played his role in organizing against the World Trade Organization to perfection. A citywide walkout is part of the WTO protesters'strategy to put as many people downtown on Nov. 30 as possible, the better to clog up the area around the Convention Center, where the conference on international trade will be held Nov. 30-Dec. 3. Labor is the key to a successful walkout. If the work force departs en masse, then it strikes a double blow for the protesters: Vital parts of the area's economy are shut down, and downtown is covered in people. Students from at least four local colleges and eight area high schools will be walking out, organizers say, in addition to all the other protesters. "Even if only the people who are organizing this in the schools walk out, with labor, we should have at least 25,000 people not being where they should be on the 30th," Adams says. The city is already thinking of giving its employees a "snow day" on Nov. 30, in anticipation of the downtown gridlock. Another, less vocalized, fear of the city's governors, however, is a possible employee sickout. Posters have appeared in city offices -- including locker rooms of the Seattle police precincts -- urging city employees not to report to work. But it is in the schools where Adams hopes to make a big difference. "When I was a freshman in high school, the U.S. started bombing Iraq," Adams says. "And some guy tapped me on the shoulder and asked me if I was going to go to the walkout to protest it. It was a totally spontaneous thing. When I looked out the window of my social studies class, it was really amazing to see people streaming out of classes to protest the war. Teal Emery is a sophomore at Mercer Island High School. He's been involved in planning a walkout from the high school. He's been doing legwork since the summer, but after this weekend's scheduled WTO teach-in at Seattle Central Community College from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., he plans to step up his efforts. "I don't know how successful it will be at my school," Emery comments dryly about his affluent suburban high school. "But I've convinced all my freinds to come to a teach-in this weekend. After that I'll really start recruiting." The idea for a citywide walkout came from King County Labor Council Executive Director Ron Judd's summer suggestion that organized labor hold a citywide strike to protest the WTO. But the national AFL-CIO organization prevailed upon Judd to call for a walkout instead, so that members' no-strike clauses in contracts were not violated. Local activists, such as Adams, have taken over the Labor Council's role of inciting local workers to walk out Nov. 30. To that end, Adams and his cohorts have been covering the city -- especially the University District -- with pamphlets and have even adopted telemarketing practices aimed at getting workers off the job. The IWW has also been calling for other unions to hold walkouts, with the support of the Labor Council. The Newspaper Guild Local No. 37082, which represents some members of both the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and The Seattle Times newsrooms as well as the papers' circulation and advertising departments, asked its members last month to take Nov. 30 off and march in a planned labor march against the WTO. Guild officers have since backed off that request. While some people are talking about actually striking for the day, others are soft-pedaling and are planning on calling in sick, Adams says. 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