Hey Utter, if you need accomadations such as a place to sleep, work, where to get good inexpensive things like food, toiletries, etc. In LA, NY, San Diego and San Franscico the IWW branches could definatly help you with that. Who have you emailed in the IWW? I would email these folks:
http://www.iww.org/en/branches/US/CA
http://www.iww.org/en/branches/US/NY
http://www.iww.org/en/branches/US/NJ
I live in San Francisco, I (or someone else in my branch) can show you the ropes, tell you where all the tourist type stuff is, show you the pollitical scene, hook you up with a place to stay( i cant personaly do that), etc. We have 2 (maby one or two more) comrades from the WSA in San Francisco one is in my IWW branch.
If you send me a private message saying when you will be in San Francisco, what you want to see, what you are interested in, what you need, etc. I can probably set you up. Its a shame you are coming in april because the anarchist book fair is this weekend and we have two IWW rallies on friday and a big anti-war demo on sunday.
This is part a contact ad and part a guide request...
Me and to other anarchist-communist are visiting the US for a month from the beginning av april. We´ll going to LA, NY, San Diego and San Franscico (maybe some other places aswell). It´s always intresting to meet comrades in other countries and places to chat and exchange experience. It is verry boring to surf through organizational homepages (we´ve ended up emailing WSA and IWW) looking for contacts tough.
I´m not a very active libcom forummemeber. Probably because I´m busy with the situations and going ons in Sweden and that it´s a bit hard for me to write in english. But to earn some credability I´m writing something about what we´re doing in Sweden.
Polkagrisar (www.polkagris.nu) is a resource for autonomus workplace struggle. It describes the basics of capitalism and our struggle in and against work from a very local and familiar perspective (from the perspective of making a special kind of candy - polkagrisar). An important part of the projekt is circulating workers direct experience from work and the classstruggle in form of their and our own workplacestories.
Motarbetaren (www.motarbetaren) also focuses on circulating and communicating workers (ours and others) direct experience from work and the classstruggle. The hope is that we find ways of struggle and learn from eachother, as well as spreading our "point of view". As struggling self active workers.
Arbetsfornedringen (www.arbetsfornedringen.se) takes on the unemployment and the classstruggle of the unemployed on the same principle as Polkagrisar. But more general, diverse and on a larger scale. Around Arbetsfornedringen (witch by the way in swedish has the doubble meaning of degradation through work and the degradation that the unemployed meets in his or her unemployment) there is also direct organizational trials around Sweden. - http://www.riff-raff.se/en/furtherreading/unemployment_struggle.php
We have experience in and around the swedish anarchosyndicalist union (www.SAC.se) that you might have heard about.
As I´m involved in a militant postalworkers collective it would be intresting to meet some american militant postalworkers. Anybody know anyone? Or where to get in contact to them/him/her. As I said I´ve e-mailed IWW.