Labor activist Ken Hamidi mobbed by union thugs

Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:50 AM

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Labor activist Ken Hamidi was brutally mobbed by union goons from the Service
Employees International Union (SEIU). See story below.

Apparently Hamidi was attacked while filming a TV show at a meeting of the
SEIU. To see some of his videos go to the "Shout TV" website at:
http://www.shouttv4u.com/videos.htm

Over the years Ken Hamidi has been a tireless workers' rights advocate. I
first found out about him when I was searching for information on age
discrimination in big corporations. His pioneering website at Faceintel
exposed how Intel combined H-1B with a "Ranking and Rating" system to harass
and discriminate against their older employees. For me, finding FaceIntel
helped me to put all the pieces of the puzzle together.

Hamidi s Pony E-mail express to Intel was pure theater and is an example of
the "no guts no glory" attitude he has. See pictures here:

http://www.faceintel.com/firstdelivery.htm

Here are a few pictures of Hamidi at the Bank of America protest over Kevin
Flanagan's death by suicide.
http://www.programmersguild.org/bofa_protest/

Hamidi is an Iranian immigrant who has fearlessly fought for many aspects of
labor advocacy and he even ran for Governor of California! I haven't had much
contact with Hamidi after he ran for Governor, and assumed that he was going
to lay low. This video report at KCRA probes otherwise, but a warning
-- it's kind of bloody!
http://www.kcra.com/news/21545402/detail.html

This isn't the first time that the SEIU has resorted to violence. Be sure to
read this commentary by David Horowitz:
http://newsrealblog.com/2009/11/07/ca-state-worker-says-seiu-thugs-beat-him-up/
CA State Worker Says SEIU Thugs Beat Him Up

So, it seems that the brown shirters at SEIU are the ones to worry about --
not the Tea Party Express patriots or War Veterans that Obama and Napolitano
seem to fear so much. Considering that the SEIU had a prominent role in the
election of President Obama, and he has made no bones about his support for
that union, we can only hope that Obama is equally enthusiastic about
condemning the violence of the SEIU. Don't hold your breath though, because
Obama seems to give a wink and a nod to left wing extremists.

FaceIntel means a lot to me. In 1998 I wrote my first public article "We have
to Support Senator Harkin he is under enormous pressure" was published on that
website. Writing that op-ed was definitely a turning point for me in terms of
increasing my activism.

http://www.faceintel.com/announcementarchives.htm
We have to Support Senator Harkin he is under enormous pressure

ARTICLES INCLUDED:

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http://cbs13.com/local/hamidi.seiu.beating.2.1297874.html
State Worker Beat Up At SEIU Meeting

http://www.kcra.com/news/21545402/detail.html
Man: I Was Assaulted At SEIU Meeting
State Worker, Union At Odds Over Incident

http://newsrealblog.com/2009/11/07/ca-state-worker-says-seiu-thugs-beat-him-up/
CA State Worker Says SEIU Thugs Beat Him Up

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http://cbs13.com/local/hamidi.seiu.beating.2.1297874.html

Nov 6, 2009 9:59 pm US/Pacific

State Worker Beat Up At SEIU Meeting
More Local News
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) --

A state worker is recovering after a bloody brawl at a union hall. He says
members of the local SEIU 1000 beat him up and sent him to the hospital all
because he wanted to expose alleged corruption within the union.

Ken Hamidi is a state worker at the California Franchise Tax Board. Last night
he walked into a union hall in Sacramento for an SEIU local 1000 meeting.

"We had every right to be here, very simple; it wasn't anything private or
anything exclusive," said Hamidi.

But Hamidi says the union members did not want him there.

"Three, four people jumped at me, wrestled with me, then did all that,"
said Hamidi. "I was covered in blood and then over to the emergency room."

Photos of Hamidi in the hospital show him bloodied from the brawl. So why did
this happen? Besides being a state worker, Hamidi says he's an unpaid reporter
for a cable access show and a vocal critic of the SEIU. He calls the state
workers' union corrupt.

"This is a union hall that is leased and is being furnished and equipped and
everything with our money," said Hamidi.

Hamidi says he came to the hall to expose how he says SEIU union leaders are
spending tens of thousands of dollars on a political race, he claims, they
have no right to do. After he and a photographer walked in to the meeting, it
didn't take long for Hamidi to be right out the door and on his way to the
hospital.

We called SEIU union leaders to get their side of the story, but they refused
to comment.

No criminal charges have been filed in this case.

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http://www.kcra.com/news/21545402/detail.html

Man: I Was Assaulted At SEIU Meeting
State Worker, Union At Odds Over Incident

POSTED: 3:27 pm PST November 6, 2009
UPDATED: 7:47 pm PST November 6, 2009
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A state employee claims he was assaulted Thursday by
four or five union members at a Service Employees International Union Local
1000 meeting.

The man also claims that union leaders ordered him to be assaulted.

"They were ordering them to get me thrown out, saying, 'Throw him out of here,
throw him out of here. Beat the hell out of him.'" Ken Hamidi said.

However, union leaders told a different version of what happened.

"He came to a union meeting with another woman who had film equipment. He was
asked to leave," Yvonne Walker, President of SEIU Local 1000, said.
"When he refused, he became abusive to members of our staff. He actually
physically assaulted a couple of our staff people."

Shortly after the incident, Hamidi was taken to a local hospital for treatment
of cuts to his head and face.

Hamidi is an outspoken critic of the union. He hosts a cable access show that
regularly criticizes leaders of SEIU.

Hamidi admits that police have escorted him out of previous union meetings.

It's unclear if any criminal charges will be filed.

"The statements we received kind of conflict about who started it and who
provoked it," Sacramento police Sgt. Norm Leong said.

Both sides said they want to press charges and are hopeful that the district
attorney will determine who started the fight.

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http://newsrealblog.com/2009/11/07/ca-state-worker-says-seiu-thugs-beat-him-up/

CA State Worker Says SEIU Thugs Beat Him Up
2009 November 7
tags: Ken Hamidi, Labor Unions, News, Politics, SEIU, SEIU Local 1000, Service
Employees International Union, union violence by Ben Johnson

Ken Hamidi, after a bloody SEIU brawl

As the nation waits to see when or if SEIU members involved in a physical
confrontation with Kenneth Gladney outside a health care town hall meeting in
August will ever be prosecuted, another allegation of union violence has
cropped up. A California state worker went to the hospital bloodied and
bruised Thursday night as a result of a beating administered in an SEIU union
hall. Kourosh Kenneth "Ken" Hamidi says four or five members of the Service
Employees International Union local 1000 assaulted him as he entered their
Sacramento meeting with a video crew for his public access TV show.

Hamidi says union leaders ordered him to be attacked, while local 1000 leaders
claim Hamidi assaulted the union members first. Police Sgt. Norm Leong told
the media, "The statements we received kind of conflict about who started it
and who provoked it." What is beyond dispute is the video that shows multiple
rank-and-file attacking Hamidi on the floor.

Ken is a reporter for SHOUT TV (Strength Holds Our Unions Together) and an
indefatigable critic of what he considers local union corruption. A native
Iranian who came to America in 1978, Hamidi ran for president of local 1000
last May. He has since shot a number of episodes informing state employees of
their rights to object to non-germane uses of their forced union dues (e.g.,
political lobbying for the Left) and criticizing everyone from local leaders
to SEIU President Andrew Stern. He says the beating was to silence his
activism.

Hamidi has a history of activism in his new country

He is best known for winning a 2003 California State Supreme Court case
against his former employer, Intel, that supporters claimed safeguarded
freedom of speech on the internet. In 2003, he ran as a Libertarian Party
candidate for governor of California.

San Francisco media report Hamidi has had problems with the truth in the past.
But so have surly union members unhappy with media coverage. However, Hamidi
says eyewitnesses will verify his side of the story.

We will be watching to see when, if ever, these two SEIU assault cases are
resolved and how the defendants, if guilty, are brought to justice.

In the meantime, will leaders of the Democratic Party condemn this culture of
violence? Will the Obama administration -- which has made Andrew Stern its
most frequent visitor -- prosecute these attacks as hate crimes against
conservatives? For all the Left s handwringing about alleged conservative
injunctions to violence, the only real violence to surface thus far has
emanated from other sources.

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