Lallan Schoenstein

Plan to build ballpark at the Port of Oakland threatens thousands of union jobs

February 23, 2022 Lallan Schoenstein

On Feb. 17, Struggle-La Lucha interviewed Clarence Thomas, a third-generation longshore worker, retired past secretary-treasurer of International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 and author of “Mobilizing in Our Own Name: Million Worker March.” […]

Labor leader calls for action to free Mumia Abu-Jamal

December 12, 2021 Lallan Schoenstein

On Dec. 9, the Free Mumia webinar began with a message from political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has been unjustly imprisoned in the U.S. for 40 years. Mumia, a journalist who was Minister of Information […]

What right does the Supreme Court have to rule?

December 7, 2021 Lallan Schoenstein

On Dec. 1, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the arguments from U.S. state attorneys supporting Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban. A state law was passed in Mississippi in 2018 that would make most abortions illegal after […]

Mobilizing in our own name

October 18, 2021 Lallan Schoenstein

An interview with author and labor activist Clarence Thomas This season is being called #Striketober. Workers are showing their power by striking, and demanding better conditions. The release of the anthology, “Mobilizing in Our Own […]

Angela Davis’ Juneteenth speech becomes a reality

June 26, 2021 Lallan Schoenstein

On June 19, at a Juneteenth membership meeting, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 in the San Francisco Bay Area inducted Angela Davis as an honorary member. Local 10 President Trent Willis […]

Wealth taxes? We could do better than taxing the rich

June 22, 2021 Lallan Schoenstein

A message to those who leaked the tax records of the extremely wealthy who do not pay taxes: Whoever leaked this report deserves a reward for revealing the information. Access to these tax reports is […]

Global worker solidarity: Unions mobilize to fight Israeli apartheid

June 11, 2021 Lallan Schoenstein

On May 18, in response to Israel’s attempted expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem, the continued attacks on the Aqsa Mosque as well as Israel’s bombing of […]

Port of Oakland shutdown commemorates Juneteenth

June 21, 2020 Lallan Schoenstein

All 29 ports on the West Coast were shut down on June 19 as dockworkers stopped processing cargo and rallied to mark Juneteenth by calling for an end to police terror and to honor the […]

ILWU urges labor action to fight police terror

June 21, 2020 Lallan Schoenstein

On Juneteenth, an estimated 10,000 people flocked to the Port of Oakland in California’s Bay Area to participate in the “West Coast Port Shutdown.” The Juneteenth rally started with longshore workers at the Port of […]

New York cops practice viral profiling

May 20, 2020 Lallan Schoenstein

It is widely reported that New York City police are exploiting social distancing rules, meant to protect people from the coronavirus, to practice brutal “racial profiling.” The Brooklyn Paper reported on May 12 that “New […]