After the Tuesday Night A.N.S.W.E.R. Meeting (10/14 at 7 p.m.):

Join us in a Community Support Action to Support Striking UFCW Workers!

Tuesday night at 8:15 p.m. at Ralph's in Koreatown, Western Avenue at 8th Street. Join neighbors, friends, and A.N.S.W.E.R. activists by bringing signs, hot coffee, food, encouragement, and solidarity to the striking workers!

The UFCW strikers are defending the benefitis and wages of all working people. Our support is crucial at this important moment in the struggle.

The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition has initiated the "Community Action to Support Strikers" campaign to reach out widely to build support for the UFCW workers.

For more information or to get involved call (213)

487-2368 or attend the A.N.S.W.E.R. meeting tomorrow evening at 7:00 pm at 422 S. Western Avenue #114 before marching to Ralph's in solidarity with the striking workers.

www.answerla.org

You can keep your help to yourself. We do NOT appreciate "help" from North Korea/Cuba apologists. You have nothing in common with American workers, since you advocate the kind of society that we spent 40 years defeating. Go away.

As a member of UFCW, I appreciate any help from progressive organizations that we can get. That ANSWER was the first of all organizations to support us is commendable. Please keep your insensitive and stupid comments to yourself. It seems you would be happier if no one came to our aid while we strike and fight for our livelihoods. I'll take ANSWER's help over yours any day.

Sure, ANSWER's a progressive organization.

They want to progress right back to the Soviet Union circa 1954.

Let's concentrate on winning this labor battle. Our futures are at stake. Any person or organization that selflessly swells the picket lines is welcome.

Let's remember who's at fault in this conflict: the rich corporations who are on the attack. Drop the red-baiting. It gets us nowhere. It's a CIA tactic anyway.

Let's stay unified and unafraid. An injury to one is an injury to all!

Curses! Foiled again!

Sure, go ahead, let people who want to overthrow the Constitution of the United States (which guarantees your right of free speach and assembly) join your picket line.

Just remember, if they get their way, you won't HAVE the rights of free speach and assembly.

Have a nice strike!

It is the bosses (Kroeger Corpse) who have nothing in common with the workers.

ANSWER and the rest of the Stalinist goons support regimes where workers have no right to organize. Their ideal union is a union controlled by the government with no freedom to fight for better wages let alone strike. How you can stand in "solidarity" with these fools is crazy.

As an anarchist, a person who is not fond of ANSWER, and a former grocery store worker helping to organize my old job with the UFCW...

On first impulse, I would say it is good to see ANSWER helping out the strikers. I understand that the underlying context of ANSWER isn't cool at all, but anyone is welcome really. Shit if I was on the line I would take help from where ever it is offered, as long as their are no strings attached, or any real physical violence connected.

People up here in the Bay are talking about all you trippers down their in LA posting shit about the strike. At some point you gotta just support stuff like this, whether red or black, or whatever color or politic you claim. These workers are fighting for a decent living, and if you think they deserve more or something else, go share that on the picket line with them and listen to what the workers are saying.

I don't know if my rant all makes sense..but hopefully ya get the drift...

Don't Mourn, Organize!! - upton

Speaking as someone who hasn't the slightest sympathy for answer, I have to say nonetheless that anyone who cares about workers rights but disdains support from ANSWER is exceedingly foolish. Who cares if they're Stalinists??! Fer chrissakes! Do you see a Stalinist coup on the horizon anytime soon? The closest thing to a Stalinist coup happening now in this country is the current US federal government, and they're the ones hellbent on stripping workers of the ability to organize and bargain collectively.

And to whoever thinks that the rulers of the US, in their infinite magnamity, granted workers the right to organize out of their love for humanity, I suggest you study up on your history a little. That's not exactly the way it happened. It happened because a whole lot of workers over the years from Haymarket Square in the 19th century to the sitdown strikes and factory occupations of the 1930s, were willing to stand in solidarity and put their lives on the line, literally. They had to face down Pinkerton thugs and death squads. A lot of them were in fact killed. And believe me, they didn't win those fights by first posing a political litmus test to each who was prepared to stand by them in solidarity. Try reading, for example, Howard Zinn's _People's History of the US_. Now, those hardfought gains are being reversed. Now is a time to fight like hell against the fascists in power, not a time to quibble about stupid ideological shit with other people who are equally powerless.

Above all, think reasonably and get your priorities straight. Right now, we're living in the midst of the closest thing to blatant rightwing totalitarianism that this country has ever seen. It is this extreme situation that has emboldened employers across the board to pull stunts like the supermarkets are doing, trying to strip workers of all kinds of longstanding benefits that they've fought hard for. If you really care about this critical situation, and given that the danger of ANSWER somehow seizing power and instituting a leftwing form of totalitarianism is approximately zero right now, you'll be willing to hold your nose and accept some help from these folks. You don't have to get married to them or anything .

Sheesh!

I want to thank the members of UFCW for the decision to strike the employers. I have not missed one opportunity to cross the picket lines to do my shopping.

No lines no waiting and if the strike goes on for another month, no store to shop at. As a major employer in the L.A. area I will be looking closely at applications that list any references of work experience from Vons, Albertsons or Ralphs. You have made my life much easier. Thanks again, Che.

Greedy Unskilled Workers of Los Angeles Unite!

Greedy unskilled anarchists will support you. We want a free lunch too.

' I have not missed one opportunity to cross the picket lines to do my shopping. '

Isn't that's kinda hard to do after being cut in half by machine gun fire?

Good one, Sheepdog.

"If you really care about this critical situation, and given that the danger of ANSWER somehow seizing power and instituting a leftwing form of totalitarianism is approximately zero right now, you'll be willing to hold your nose and accept some help from these folks. You don't have to get married to them or anything ."

Good grief, why would you WANT these political nitwits on your side? Don't you know Marxists have screwed up every single thing they've touched?

Strikers...you're better off without the yo-yos from ANSWER.

Most people don't know what ANSWER is, and those who do can read the situation for what it is.

Nonanarchist, why are you even giving this "advice?" Everyone knows you hate the strikers. You're like a Klansman telling black activists "you shouldn't be following that Malcolm X, because MLK appeals more to the average person."

To get involved with anything the ANSWER snakes have cooked up. Support the strikers by all means yes! But I would not get mixed up with these political nitwits.

Dude, you have a serious problem with confusing the voices in your head with what other people say.

I have NEVER said I hate the strikers. Nor have I implied it, even remotely.

I disagree with the unions, not the strikers. And I don't even hate the unions.

Tsk, tsk, m.r....faulty logic. Unsubstantiated allegation.

You lose a point.