Two months after Safeway CEO Steve Burd forced 70,000 families to strike against healthcare and pay cuts, the Bush administration appointed him as a presidential advisor on domestic terrorism. On February 11, about 150 people gathered at the Mission St. Safeway in Santa Cruz to send George Bush a message that, "Healthcare IS Homeland Security... and Steve Burd is a Domestic Terrorist.

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Earlier in the day, approximately 500 people gathered outside the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco demanding shareholders drop their Safeway stock in solidarity with the striking Southern Californian grocery workers.

Boycott Safeway Rally at UCSC on Friday, February 20

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