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		<title>IDF: Global Jihad on flotilla</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[50 of Mavi Marmara passengers tied to global jihad network, refusing to identify themselves. 
Dozens of passengers who were aboard the Mavi Marmara Turkish passenger ship are suspected of having connections with global jihad-affiliated terrorist organizations, defense officials said on Tuesday, amid growing concerns that Turkish warships would accompany a future flotilla to the Gaza Strip.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>50 of Mavi Marmara passengers tied to global jihad network, refusing to identify themselves. </p>
<div id="body_val">Dozens of passengers who were aboard the Mavi Marmara Turkish passenger ship are suspected of having connections with global jihad-affiliated terrorist organizations, defense officials said on Tuesday, amid growing concerns that Turkish warships would accompany a future flotilla to the Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>According to the defense officials, the IDF has identified about 50 passengers on the ship who could have terrorist connections with global jihad-affiliated groups.</p>
<p>During its searches of the Mavi Marmara on Tuesday, the military also discovered a cache of bulletproof vests and night-vision goggles, as well as gas masks. On Monday morning, at least nine foreign activists were killed during the navy’s takeover of the Mavi Marmara, which was trying to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>The group of over 50 passengers with possible terror connections have refused to identify themselves and were not carrying passports. Many of them were carrying envelopes packed with thousands of dollars in cash.</p>
<p>The military is working to identify the passengers and is looking into the possibility that some of them have been involved in terror attacks. Some of them are apparently known Islamic extremists.</p>
<p>“This is the group that was behind the violent lynch against the naval commandos,” a defense official said. “They came on board the ship prepared and after they had trained for the expected navy takeover.”</p>
<p>Late Tuesday, there were reports that Issam al-Budur, Jordan’s consul in Israel, reached an agreement with Israel according to which another group of 124 detained flotilla activists would be taken by bus to Jordan and sent from there to their home countries. The detainees are Jordanian, Mauritanian, Moroccan, Kuwaiti, Pakistani, Indonesian and Syrian.</p>
<p>Meanwhile Tuesday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Israel not to test Ankara’s patience.</p>
<p>“Turkey’s hostility is as strong as its friendship is valuable,” he said. “Israel in no way can legitimize this murder, it cannot wash its hand of this blood.”</p>
<p>This comment, officials said, could signify a change in Turkish military posture in the event that another flotilla is dispatched to the Gaza Strip. One official said that the chances that Turkey would send navy ships were slim – due to its membership in NATO – but that the issue was of great concern.</p>
<p>“This is a definite possibility that we need to prepare for,” a senior defense official said.</p>
<p>The flotilla that arrived late on Sunday night comprised six ships, and another two ships, including the Rachel Corrie, are expected to attempt to enter Israeli waters in the coming days.</p>
<p>Greta Berlin of the Free Gaza Movement, which organized the flotilla, said that two vessels, one a cargo ship and another carrying about three dozen passengers, would arrive in the region late this week or early next week.</p>
<p>“This initiative is not going to stop,” she said from the group’s base in Cyprus. “We think eventually Israel will get some kind of common sense. They’re going to have to stop the blockade of Gaza, and one of the ways to do this is for us to continue to send the boats.”</p>
<p>Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen described the Rachel Corrie as Irish-owned and said it should be allowed to finish its mission, according to Reuters. The ship was carrying 15 activists, including a northern Irish Nobel Peace laureate.</p>
<p>“The government has formally requested the Israeli government to allow the Irish-owned ship&#8230; to be allowed to complete its journey unimpeded and discharge its humanitarian cargo in Gaza,” Cowen told members of parliament in Dublin.</p>
<p>Navy sources said that the ships sailing toward Gaza would be intercepted the same way the flotilla was stopped on Monday morning, although it had yet to be decided if the operation would be carried out by Shayetet 13, the navy’s commando unit.</p>
<p>“We are tracking the ships and are under orders to stop them,” a top navy officer said.</p>
<p>According to the sources, in a future operation, the navy would use more force.</p>
<p>“We boarded the ship [the Mavi Marmara] and were attacked as if it were a war,” one officer said. “That will mean that we will have to come prepared in the future as if it were a war.”</p></div>
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		<title>Anwar al-Awlaki, to attack U.S. before Spring</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY James Gordon Meek
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Thursday, February 4th 2010, 12:08 AM
WASHINGTON &#8211; Counterterror chiefs fear Al Qaeda in Yemen may soon be sending American jihadis recruited by a radical cleric to attack the U.S., the Daily News has learned.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BY <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/authors/James%20Gordon%20Meek">James Gordon Meek</a><br />
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU</p>
<p>Thursday, February 4th 2010, 12:08 AM<br />
<a title="Washington, DC" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Washington%2c+DC">WASHINGTON</a> &#8211; Counterterror chiefs fear <a title="Al Qaeda" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Al+Qaeda">Al Qaeda</a> in <a title="Yemen" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Yemen">Yemen</a> may soon be sending American jihadis recruited by a radical cleric to attack the U.S., the Daily News has learned.</p>
<p>America&#8217;s most senior intelligence officials told senators on Tuesday an attempted strike by terrorists within six months is &#8220;certain.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;There was nothing specific any of them were alluding to,&#8221; a senior counterterror official told The News. &#8220;But we certainly have indications that <a title="Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Al+Qaeda+in+the+Arabian+Peninsula">Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula</a> has a variety of plans to strike the <a title="United States" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/United+States">United States</a>.&#8221;</p>
<p>Anyone who thinks underwear bomber <a title="Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Umar+Farouk+Abdulmutallab">Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab</a> was &#8220;the only one trained to execute a plan would be incredibly naive,&#8221; the official said.</p>
<p>Radical cleric <a title="Anwar al-Awlaki" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Anwar+al-Awlaki">Anwar al-Awlaki</a>, a Yemeni-American, is now on a targeting list signed off on by the <a title="Barack Obama" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Barack+Obama">Obama administration</a>, The News has confirmed.</p>
<p>Asked by <a title="Pete Hoekstra" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Pete+Hoekstra">Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.)</a> Wednesday about the &#8220;hypothetical&#8221; targeted killing of an American &#8220;cleric&#8221; overseas, Director of National Intelligence <a title="Dennis Blair" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Dennis+Blair">Dennis Blair</a> explained why they&#8217;d draw a bull&#8217;s-eye on someone like Awlaki.</p>
<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t target people for free speech. We target them for taking action that threatens Americans,&#8221; Blair told the <a title="U.S. House Select Committee on Intelligence" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/U.S.+House+Select+Committee+on+Intelligence">House Intelligence Committee</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;If we think direct action will involve killing an American, we get specific permission to do that,&#8221; Blair added.</p>
<p>Awlaki befriended several 9/11 hijackers while an imam at mosques in <a title="San Diego" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/San+Diego">San Diego</a> and Washington&#8217;s <a title="Virginia" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Virginia">Virginia</a> suburbs.</p>
<p>From Yemen, he traded e-mails with the <a title="Fort Hood" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Fort+Hood">Fort Hood</a> mass killer, <a title="U.S. Army" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/U.S.+Army">U.S. Army</a> <a title="Nidal Malik Hasan" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Nidal+Malik+Hasan">Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan</a>, and with <a title="Nigeria" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Nigeria">Nigerian</a> rich kid Abdulmutallab, whom he also likely met with, according to the sources.</p>
<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t know how many additional Americans he&#8217;s gotten to,&#8221; the senior official said of Awlaki, who escaped a Dec. 24 U.S. air strike aimed at Al Qaeda in Arabia leaders.</p>
<p>Awlaki told <a title="Al Jazeera Satellite Channel" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Al+Jazeera+Satellite+Channel">Al Jazeera</a> on Wednesday that Abdulmutallab was his &#8220;student&#8221; but he didn&#8217;t give him a fatwa &#8211; a religious order &#8211; to bomb a U.S.-bound jetliner. He did allow that he&#8217;s looking over his shoulder due to his unapologetic ties to the other killers.</p>
<p>Special operations units are actively targeting Al Qaeda leaders in Yemen with air strikes, but a source insisted they&#8217;re not conducting any ground raids yet.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, three U.S. troops were killed and two wounded by a bomb in the lower Dir Valley of <a title="Pakistan" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Pakistan">Pakistan</a>, officials said. They were the first known <a title="U.S. Armed Forces" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/U.S.+Armed+Forces">U.S. military</a> fatalities in the lawless region near the Afghan border.</p>
<p><a title="U.S. Central Command" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/U.S.+Central+Command">U.S. Central Command</a> said the troops were part of a training mission. Dir is due south of <a title="Chitral" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Chitral">Chitral</a>, where many sources have pinpointed the <a title="Central Intelligence Agency" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Central+Intelligence+Agency">CIA</a>&#8217;s hunt for <a title="Osama bin Laden" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Osama+bin+Laden">Osama Bin Laden</a>.</p>
<p>A military spokesman said U.S. special operations forces have been part of a program to train Pakistan&#8217;s tribal <a title="Frontier Corps" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Frontier+Corps">Frontier Corps</a>.</p>
<p><a href="mailto:jmeek@nydailynews.com">jmeek@nydailynews.com</a></p>
<p>Read more: <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/02/03/2010-02-03_american_jihadi_alert_terror_pros_say_yemen_qaeda_to_send_yank_recruits.html#ixzz0ee677mLg">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/02/03/2010-02-03_american_jihadi_alert_terror_pros_say_yemen_qaeda_to_send_yank_recruits.html#ixzz0ee677mLg</a></p>
<p>Read more: <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/02/03/2010-02-03_american_jihadi_alert_terror_pros_say_yemen_qaeda_to_send_yank_recruits.html#ixzz0ee67BYAc">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/02/03/2010-02-03_american_jihadi_alert_terror_pros_say_yemen_qaeda_to_send_yank_recruits.html#ixzz0ee67BYAc</a></p>
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		<title>FREE GEEK FOUND TO BE FRONT GROUP FOR RADICAL UNION</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The organization Free Geek has been found by myself to be a front group for the radical union IWW!  How can I make this claim?
Proof:
1. Radical IWW BOSS Richard Seymour &#8211; Former Delegate to the IWW &#8211; Leader of the IWW union in Portland and general IWW organizer is listed as the &#8220;REGISTERED AGENT OF [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The organization Free Geek has been found by myself to be a front group for the radical union IWW!  How can I make this claim?</p>
<p>Proof:</p>
<p>1. Radical IWW BOSS Richard Seymour &#8211; Former Delegate to the IWW &#8211; Leader of the IWW union in Portland and general IWW organizer is listed as the &#8220;REGISTERED AGENT OF FREE GEEK.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://egov.sos.state.or.us/br/pkg_web_name_srch_inq.do_name_srch?p_name=&amp;p_regist_nbr=747743-82&amp;p_srch=PHASE1&amp;p_print=FALSE&amp;p_entity_status=ACTINA">See State Doc: Here</a></p>
<p>A Union BOSS of the IWW is actually incorporator of a NON PROFIT.</p>
<p>We at Troy Melquist dot com has sent a letter to the IRS asking them to review the NON PROFIT status of Free Geek.  We believe that it is illegal to register a NON PROFIT and incorporate the same with the benefit of installing your UNION into the organization to profit from the Dues by means of donations!</p>
<p>This is another ACORN folks!</p>
<p>See Letter to IRS:</p>
<p>To Whom this May Concern:</p>
<p>I, Troy Melquist, hereby request that you review the following NON PROFIT business for breaking the rules and regulations of NON PROFIT status:</p>
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<dt>Official name and address </dt>
<dd>Free Geek, Inc. </dd>
<dd>1731 SE 10th Av </dd>
<dd>Portland, OR 97214 </dd>
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<dd>503.232.9350 </dd>
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<dt>TIN or EIN or Federal ID Number or Tax ID Number or Employers ID Number (or whatever you want to call it)</dt>
<dd></dd>
<dd>93-1292010 </dd>
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<dt>Oregon Business Registry Number </dt>
<dd>747743-82</dd>
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<p>My investigations have brought to my attention the following:</p>
<p>1. Illegally transfering NON POFIT assets and services to other entities to avoid taxation.</p>
<p>2. Providing communication, promotion, and general administrative activities to un registered business and UNION organizations in an attempt to hide income.</p>
<p>3. Illegally breaking election laws by acting as a PAC for various radical movements including the ANARCHO candidates running for election in the state of Oregon.</p>
<p>Please find the documents I provide at troymelquist.com as further investigative information.</p>
<p>Sincerely Troy Melquist</p>
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		<title>Al Qaeda to use Breast Implants for Suicide Bombers!</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: The following report is excerpted from <a href="http://g2.wnd.com/">Joseph Farah&#8217;s G2 Bulletin, </a>the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. <a href="http://g2.wnd.com/">Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. </a></em></p>
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<p>LONDON – Agents for Britain&#8217;s MI5 intelligence service have discovered that Muslim doctors trained at some of Britain&#8217;s leading teaching <a id="KonaLink0" onclick="adlinkMouseClick(event,this,0);" onmouseover="adlinkMouseOver(event,this,0);" onmouseout="adlinkMouseOut(event,this,0);" href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=123758#" target="_top"><span style="color: blue;">hospitals</span></a> have returned to their own countries to fit surgical implants filled with explosives, according to a report from <a href="http://g2.wnd.com/">Joseph Farah&#8217;s G2 Bulletin. </a></p>
<p>Women suicide bombers recruited by al-Qaida are known to have had the explosives inserted in their breasts under techniques similar to breast enhancing surgery. The lethal explosives – usually PETN (pentaerythritol Tetrabitrate) – are inserted during the operation inside the plastic shapes. The breast is then sewn up.</p>
<p>Similar surgery has been performed on male suicide bombers. In their cases, the explosives are inserted in the appendix area or in a buttock. Both are parts of the body that diabetics use to inject themselves with their prescribed drugs.</p>
<p>The discovery of these methods was made after the London-educated Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab came close to blowing up an airliner on Christmas Day with explosives he had stuffed inside his underpants.</p>
<p><em>Keep in touch with the most important breaking news stories about critical developments around the globe with <a href="http://g2.wnd.com/">Joseph Farah&#8217;s G2 Bulletin,</a> the premium, online intelligence news source edited and published by the founder of WND. </em></p>
<p>Hours after he had failed, GCHQ – Britain&#8217;s worldwide eavesdropping &#8220;spy in the sky&#8221; agency – began to pick up &#8220;chatter&#8221; emanating from Pakistan and Yemen that alerted MI5 to the creation of the lethal implants.</p>
<p>A hand-picked team was appointed by Jonathan Evans, the head of MI5, to investigate the threat. He described it as &#8220;one that can circumvent our defense.&#8221;</p>
<p>Top surgeons who work in the National <a id="KonaLink1" onclick="adlinkMouseClick(event,this,1);" onmouseover="adlinkMouseOver(event,this,1);" onmouseout="adlinkMouseOut(event,this,1);" href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=123758#" target="_top"><span style="color: blue;">Health Service</span></a> confirmed the feasibility of the explosive implants.</p>
<p>In a report to Evans, one said:</p>
<p>&#8220;Properly inserted the implant would be virtually impossible to detect by the usual airport <a id="KonaLink2" onclick="adlinkMouseClick(event,this,2);" onmouseover="adlinkMouseOver(event,this,2);" onmouseout="adlinkMouseOut(event,this,2);" href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=123758#" target="_top"><span style="color: blue;">scanning</span></a> machines. You would need to subject a suspect to a sophisticated X-ray. Given that the explosive would be inserted in a sealed plastic sachet, and would be a small amount, would make it all the more impossible to spot it with the usual body <a id="KonaLink3" onclick="adlinkMouseClick(event,this,3);" onmouseover="adlinkMouseOver(event,this,3);" onmouseout="adlinkMouseOut(event,this,3);" href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=123758#" target="_top"><span style="color: blue;">scanner</span></a>.&#8221;</p>
<p>Explosive experts at Britain&#8217;s Porton Down biological and chemical warfare research center told MI5 that a sachet containing as little as five ounces of PETN when activated would blow &#8220;a considerable hole&#8221; in an airline&#8217;s <a id="KonaLink4" onclick="adlinkMouseClick(event,this,4);" onmouseover="adlinkMouseOver(event,this,4);" onmouseout="adlinkMouseOut(event,this,4);" href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=123758#" target="_top"><span style="color: blue;">skin</span></a> which would guarantee it would crash.</p>
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		<title>Starbucks and Troy Melquist attacked by IWW</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IWW has attacked me and Starbucks for Years!  Even going to the point of dragging up information against me!  I personally have exposed over 30 IWW leaders! They support terrorist and terroristic groups such as AL Qeada, ELF, and other individuals in prison for committing terror acts!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The IWW has attacked me and Starbucks for Years!  Even going to the point of dragging up information against me!  I personally have exposed over 30 IWW leaders! They support terrorist and terroristic groups such as AL Qeada, ELF, and other individuals in prison for committing terror acts!</p>
<p>Now IWW has turned against Starbucks.  Why?  The money the IWW earns from Starbucks union shops goes directly into the hands of state terror actors!  The list of IWW supported union thugs in jail for Terror activities is well documented in this blog!   Every Starbucks not unionized is money lost to kill more Americans and destroy more personal property!</p>
<p>Please read the newest attacks against Starbucks in New York City!  I Troy Melquist will not rest until this group is rounded up by the government and shut down for the crap they pull on American Citizens.</p>
<p>Please read the following.  Linked at <a href="http://www.iww.org/en/node/4659">http://www.iww.org/en/node/4659</a></p>
<h2>Clowning the Boss</h2>
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<div>Clowning the Boss<br />
By FW double jeff</div>
<p>Monday, February 16th The New York branch of the IWW Starbucks Workers Union held an energetic eight-hour picket outside two separate Starbucks locations. Originally planned as a “loose informal picket” outside the Union Square East Starbucks location, managerial stupidity and increased union-busting activity on the part of Starbucks turned it into a media circus and all night protest. Between the time when the picket was planned and when it actually took place, Starbucks decided to fire yet another union barista, Sharon Bell, from the 17th and Broadway location, conveniently located across the park from Union Square East.</p>
<p>The picket was called to protest the recent wave of Starbucks layoffs and draw attention to the refusal of Starbucks to pay severance, in spite of claiming in several press releases to the media that they will be providing severance pay to all laid off workers. The message was expanded to include the demand for the reinstatement of Sharon Bell and an immediate end to the illegal, unethical, nationally coordinated union-busting operations of Starbucks Coffee.</p>
<p>An hour before the picket was to take place, union organizer and barista at Union Square East, Liberte Locke started receiving phone calls from members of the press inquiring as to whether or not the picket was still happening. Apparently when photographers and camera people showed up early to scout the location they were greeted by someone with a clipboard claiming to represent the union and they were told the picket was cancelled. Further example of the dirty tactics Starbucks uses to squash dissent and undermine the union. Thankfully that tactic backfired, because in spite of it being a rather small turn out of under 30 people, the media showed up full force turning the scene into a street level press conference. Whether it was because the press doesn’t like to have the wool pulled over its eyes, or because of the strength and conviction of the demand letter which was included with the press release, the media for once seemed to want to represent our side, rather than just be a mouthpiece for Starbuck’s anti-union, anti-worker propaganda department.</p>
<p>As we lined the whole front of the store with signs containing messages ranging from “Stop The Layoffs” to “Stop Union-Busting,” local and national television, radio and print ranging from CNN to NPR interviewed union organizers Sharon Bell, Daniel Gross, Liberte Locke and Henry Marin.</p>
<p>Other signs demanded that Starbucks “Stop Slashing Labor Hours” and “Restore Benefits.” As well as demand that Starbucks “Obey Judge Landow’s Ruling” and “Reinstate Fired Union Baristas: Joel Agins, Jr., Sharon Bell, Cole Dorsey, Daniel Gross, Neal Linder and Isis Saenz. “</p>
<p>Things got tense when police started ordering picketers to stop “blocking the door” even though no one was anywhere near the door. Cops threatened to arrest union barista Mischa Lefebvre who was standing nowhere near the door. They started to push him around and drag him off but Fellow Workers Liberte Locke and Daniel Gross intervened, helping him avoid arrest. Daniel Gross had made it clear to the police that “when our people are unlawfully arrested we sue the police for wrongful arrest.” The police were still making threats to arrest the whole crowd and were overheard calling for police vans. Locke and Gross tried to reason with the cops, which is like trying to reason with goldfish. Or pudding. The police finally backed off when Locke told the press to focus their cameras on the door which was not being blocked in any way so that when the cops arrested everyone there would be proof that it was under false pretenses. Later Locke remarked that “it was like they were pointing to a desk and telling me it was not a desk.”</p>
<p>Around 7pm we marched over to 17th and Broadway, where Sharon Bell was fired for being a union organizer. Only a few reporters actually followed us over there, but that’s where the real action took place. Several of us went inside to meet up with union barista and IWW organizer Henry Marin so he could deliver the SWU demand letter to the store manager “Little Mark” Vanneri. Little Mark, who is known to have an anger problem, threw the demand letter back in Marin’s face several times. In retaliation “Big Mark” Ormsbee, the District Manager in charge of both 17th and Broadway and Union Square East refused to let Marin go back to work for the rest of his shift for “walking off on the job.” Marin was later written up for the incident, even though he was engaging in a legally protected work stoppage.</p>
<p>Not letting Henry Marin finish his shift was a huge mistake on the part of Ormsbee. We told Big Mark that we would not leave until they let Marin go back to work, which they were too pig-headed to do, so a “loose informal” two hour demo ended up being a nearly 8 hour indignant protest.</p>
<p>According to Starbucks policy any time there is a union action against any Starbucks location, the Store Manager and District Manager are required to be there. They were not allowed to leave until we left. And we stayed until the end, all the way until closing time. Starbucks’ anti-union policy essentially kept them hostage in their own store for nearly eight hours. Normally Store Managers don’t work closing shifts, so it was nice to see both Little Mark and Big Mark have to. Even though nothing a Starbucks manager does could really be considered “work.” They mostly just played on their laptops, drank coffee and talked on their cell phones all night while we chanted “Let Henry Work!” until our voices almost gave out. We protested Big Mark Ormsbee with a Warriors reference, “Ormsbeeeeeee, come out and plaaaaaaaa-ay!” which a lot of New Yorkers seemed to really appreciate. Several New Yorkers joined in the protest for a few minutes, or a few hours because “New York is a Union Town!” We chanted “What’s Disgusting? Union Busting!” and “What’s Outrageous? Starbucks Wages!”</p>
<p>Around 11pm, District Manager Tracy Bryant and two other DMs were finally given permission to leave by corporate. Bryant used to be the DM for the region that 17th &amp; Broadway and Union Square East are located in, and is known for her union-busting skills. The three DMs were accompanied to the train station by six or seven enthusiastic protesters who called them “Union-Busters”. Because, as I mentioned earlier, New York is a union town several passers-by joined in the festivities.</p>
<p>Once the two Starbucks PR reps left, Little Mark and Big Mark were on their own. When the store closed at 1am, Mark Ormsbee went outside to plead with the cops to arrest the five of us who were left. We began chanting “SHAME SHAME SHAME ON YOU!” while the police told him they weren’t going to arrest us. Ormsbee stormed angrily back into the store. About 15 minutes later he and Little Mark finally made their exit. The two not-very-pleased managers came out of the store and hailed two separate cabs. We continued chanting “SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!” and telling everyone in earshot that they were union-busting scumbags! As Mark Ormsbee got into his car he called one of the founders of the Starbucks Workers Union, and fired union barista Daniel Gross a “pussy.”</p>
<p>How telling is it that Ormsbee chose the word “pussy” to describe someone who is fighting for dignity and respect in the workplace? That term is not only misogynistic and anti-woman, but in this context it’s meant to be queer-baiting and demasculizing as well. Mark Ormsbee is the man who is responsible for investigating sexual harassment and discrimination claims for an entire region. Are we to believe that the concerns of women and GLBT people are going to be treated seriously by Ormsbee?</p>
<p>In the past month Ormsbee has fired two Black female union baristas for organizing in the workplace, which is legally protected. Sheanel Simon from Union Square East has already won her job back through union pressure, we are still fighting for Sharon Bell.</p>
<p><em>Photo by Angela Cranford of NBC New York.</em></p>
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