10/15Stanford Meeting On Dem Rights On Job & Internet

Stepping Up the Fight To Defend Internet Rights
Hamidi To Speak in New York and Stanford

The battle to defend democratic rights on the internet will take front page from New York to Stanford University the next two months. Ken Hamidi the founder of http://www.faceintel.com and a fired engineer from the Intel Corporation is in a critical struggle to defend the right of internet users to send email to workers others who are employed by major corporations.
Using the pretext that this is an invasion of private property Intel backed by the US Chamber Of Commerce is seeking to get a permanent bar of internet users from using email to their employees. This attack on democratic rights on the internet not only threatens Ken's rights but the rights of all people to communicate.
Ken Hamidi will be participating in the New York conference "Labor's Voices/LaborTECH http://www.laborsvoiceslabortech.org on September 28-29 and there will be proposals for the labor community to take this struggle national.
Also, Hamidi will be following the conference up by participating in a Silicon Valley meeting on Tuesday October 15, 2002 at Stanford University. This meeting will tie together the struggle to defend democracy on the internet to the fight of the Yahoo janitors to have a unions. It is sponsored by LaborNet http://www.labornet.org/Labor Tech http://www.laborTECH.org, SEIU 1877 and others in the Silicon Valley concerned about these critical issues.
These meetings will provide an important opportunity to raise the Hamidi fight to a new level.


Democracy On The Internet & Democracy In The Workplace




On Tuesday October 15, 2002 at 7:30 PM there will be a free public meeting/speakout on the campaign to defend Democracy on The Internet and Democracy in the Work Place. The meeting which is co-sponsored by a number of organizations including SEIU 1877, LaborNet, LaborTech 2003 Planning Committee and the Labor Video Project.
Speaking will be Ken Himidi, a engineer who was fired at Intel and began a struggle for justice. He has been sued by Intel for sending email to his former fellow workers. His web site is at http://www.faceintel.com. Also joining the meeting will be janitors from Yahoo. The janitors have been fighting for a union and recently the contractor has fired union organizers. You can find out more about this campaign by going to http://www.boohooyahoo.org


The auditorium for the meeting is in Jordan Hall, also known as Building 420, room
040, which is in the basement. Here's a map:
http://campus-map.stanford.edu/campus_map/results.jsp?bldg=Jordan&dept=&addr


You can find out about LaborTech by going to http://www.labortech.org, LaborTECH will also be organizing an international conference on April 2, 3 &4 at Stanford University. You can find out about the upcoming New York conference by going to
http://www.laborsvoiceslabortech.org