Any fellow Wobblies here?

[KonaKane]

I'm just curious - are the any fellow IWW's here? My General Membership Branch was the Four Corners GMB (Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico) when I was in Utah, but sadly my new home in Hawaii has no IWW presence. So I'm a bit adrift at the moment.

Shout out if you sport the Black Cat - and where you are. Do we still a voice?

[KonaKane]

1. Come on....in a place like this there has to be a few...

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[DailyGrind51]

2. Only on New Year's Eve or a Super-Bowl Party!

[handmade34]

3. in spirit

[libodem]

4. In spirit as well

My grandfather on my dad's side was a railroad man and belonged to the wobblies. He was even shot while picketing.

[SteppingRazor]

5. Hell, I didn't even know they still had Wobblies.

I'm familiar with the group from its heyday (as anyone who's read his Howard Zinn would be), but I didn't realize the group was still around.

[madrchsod]

8. they are unionizing starbucks...is`t that ironic

[KonaKane]

9. The Wobs will always be needed.

And to their credit, they have changed with the times too. It used to be that you could only be a member if you were a tradesman (factory worker, welder, electrician etc) but they expanded it to include the new economic realities of computer techs, media artists etc. Also, accomodating freelancers. I was the only media artist in my GMB. The only thing you cannot still technically be to attain membership is being part of the "hiring class".

[slackmaster]

6. I'm not a Wobbly, but I used to party with Jon Bekken when I was an undergrad at UCSD

:hi:

[madrchsod]

7. in my heart i am....

i was in the IAM when wimpy was the president....that guy was way- way ahead of the curve.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_W._Winpisinger

[justinaforjustice]

10. Bravo, Wobblies Are Wonderful! n/t

[murdoch]

11. Never got my red card but...

I went to two Wobbly meetings but never joined. I used to volunteer at a Wob-influenced bookstore though. I picketed Borders with them, helped in a Starbucks Workers Union fundraiser and this type of thing.

I saw a Wob I know at a protest recently, who was with another Wob. If I have time I'll help them out some...

When we picketed Borders a few years ago, a real old-timer and his wife were walking by. He said to me, "Who are you people?" I said it was an Industrial Workers of the World picket. He said "The IWW, you mean like the Western Federation of Miners?" I said "Yes, that IWW". He said, "Oh, you guys are still around, huh?" The WFM was only in the IWW from 1905-1907, I wonder how he remembered that far back - he was old but didn't seem THAT old.

[me b zola]

12. In spirit n/t