From shostaka@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu Sat Feb 1 08:41:30 1997 Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 12:10:26 -0500 To: LABOR-RAP@csf.colorado.edu From: shostaka@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu (Art Shostak) Subject: Worth Considering Brothers and Sisters: This new list might prove an asset to our broad-based work - Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 04:23:03 -0800 From: esommer@direct.ca To: community-builders-outgoing@vision-nest.com Subject: Stewards Planetary House - New Poor People's Movement Sender: owner-community-builders@sportos.com Hi there, The Stewards Planetary House is a new just-being-born movement of working and non-working poor people who seek to become increasingly able to work together to care for one another togther with the planet. Our approach is highly inquiry-oriented and includes new methods of social organization, economics, information technology, childcare, personal development, care of the earth, and much else. The SPH combines the seven ways people have traditionally sought liberation: The human potential movment, progressive social change, religion or spirituality, ecology, feminism, progressive art, and science. The Stewards Planetary House is open to all poor people, wherever they may be on the planet. People are needed to help us to begin our program of `organizing the poor people of the world - beginning with ourselves - to work together as Stewards to care for one another together with the world. The URL for our homepage, where you can read about us, and connect with us, is: http://www.InstantWeb.com/P/Planet/sphhome.htm Or send e-mail to: esommer@direct.ca Arthur B. Shostak, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Department of Psych/Soc/Anthro, Drexel University, Phila., PA, 19104; 215-895-2466; fax 610-668-2727. email: SHOSTAKAt@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu http://duvm.ocs.drexel.edu/~shostak/ "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking [and feeling] we were at when we created them." Albert Einstein. From meisenscher@igc.apc.org Sat Feb 1 16:58:32 1997 Sat, 1 Feb 1997 15:57:28 -0800 (PST) Sat, 1 Feb 1997 15:55:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 15:55:48 -0800 (PST) To: united@cougar.com, labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu, h-uclea@h-net.msu.edu, OIFAC@CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU From: Michael Eisenscher Subject: On-line Labor Bookstore Sender: meisenscher@igc.org FYI: >Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 14:24:40 -0800 >From: Eric Lee >To: newman@garnet.berkeley.edu >Subject: Please repost to LABNEWS - thanks! > >Tomorrow, February 1st, is opening day at "Labour's Online Bookstore", >which is part of the Labour Movement & the Internet web site. The URL >is http://www.solinet.org/LEE/labour10.html . I invite you to drop by >for a visit. > >Labour's Online Bookstore, which currently lists over 1,000 titles, >intends to serve the labour movement around the world by offering a >secure way to order from a wide selection books about trade unions at >discounted prices. This is being done in partnership with Amazon.com >Books, the largest bookstore in the world. > >The site includes a welcoming home page, a listing of brand new titles >(January 1997 publication date), recommended titles (with some very >brief reviews), and hundreds of currently available books as well as >special orders. In addition, the site includes a link to allow readers >to recommend titles for inclusion. > >Several trade union Web sites have already included links to the store, >among these the international trade secretariat for the chemical workers >and miners (ICEM), and the Dutch national trade union center (FNV). I >hope that other labour sites will also include links to the store. > >The version of Labour's Online Bookstore currently on the Web is a >working prototype -- I know that much can be added and improved. > >I want to include in future versions: reviews of books, special sections >devoted to specific subjects (for example, books on the IWW), more >illustrations, and much better organization, particularly of the long >lists of current and special order titles. > >Let's work together and make Labour's Online Bookstore a success. I >look forward to reading your comments and suggestions. > >Eric Lee >-- >Eric Lee >Kibbutz Ein Dor, D.N. Yezreel 19335, Israel >URL: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2808/ > > ************************************************** Michael Eisenscher Workers Education Local 189, CWA Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy Program University of Massachusetts-Boston 391 Adams Street Oakland, CA 94610-3131 ------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: (510) 893-8382 (voice/fax) E-Mail: meisenscher@igc.apc.org ************************************************* "We are not merely an economy, but also a culture." "It has never been economics alone that defines America. If we choose, as a culture, to push back against the economic forces that would otherwise divide us, it is within our power to do so." -- Robert Reich -- Resignation address "[There is a] growing assertion that globalization and technological change make inevitable low wages and inequalities....The counter argument that has not gained much popular support is that inequalities result from human agency; they are not the inevitable consequence of 'progress.'" S.M. Miller and Charles Collins "Growing Economic Fairness" Social Policy, Summer 1996 From goodwork@igc.org Sat Feb 1 22:06:18 1997 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 21:06:02 -0800 (PST) for Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 21:04:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 21:04:03 -0800 (PST) From: Goodwork To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: Guess Jeans Sues Poets The poets and supporters will be having another reading, Sunday, Feb. 2, at the Midnight Special Bookstore, 1318 3rd St. Promenade, Santa Monica, CA at 2 PM. Joe Maizlish, Los Angeles From meisenscher@igc.apc.org Mon Feb 3 00:06:32 1997 Sun, 2 Feb 1997 23:03:23 -0800 (PST) Sun, 2 Feb 1997 23:03:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 23:03:06 -0800 (PST) To: labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu, H-UCLEA@h-net.msu.edu From: Michael Eisenscher Subject: Wheeling Pitt Contributions Sender: meisenscher@igc.org >Return-Path: >Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 19:03:17 -0500 >From: Don Whipkey >To: united@cougar.com >Subject: Wheeling Pitt Contributions >Sender: owner-united@cougar.com >Reply-To: UNITED > >I went down to Wheeling Pitt today. The spirits are good and they were >glad to see us come down from Cleveland. They had a lot of questions >about our pensions. Seems they were getting some bad information about >it. The company has been taking out full page ads in four newspapers >from the area blasting the International. The 5 Cleveland Steel Valley >Locals are getting 5 buses together and planning a trip to show support >for the Wheeling Pitt strikers. > >FOLKS THEY NEED OUR HELP! > >Donations Can Be Sent To: USWA/WP L.U. > Special Assistance Fund > c/o USWA District 1 > 2084 National Road > Wheeling, West Virginia 26003 > > ************************************************** Michael Eisenscher Workers Education Local 189, CWA Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy Program University of Massachusetts-Boston 391 Adams Street Oakland, CA 94610-3131 ------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: (510) 893-8382 (voice/fax) E-Mail: meisenscher@igc.apc.org ************************************************* "We are not merely an economy, but also a culture." "It has never been economics alone that defines America. If we choose, as a culture, to push back against the economic forces that would otherwise divide us, it is within our power to do so." -- Robert Reich -- Resignation address "[There is a] growing assertion that globalization and technological change make inevitable low wages and inequalities....The counter argument that has not gained much popular support is that inequalities result from human agency; they are not the inevitable consequence of 'progress.'" S.M. Miller and Charles Collins "Growing Economic Fairness" Social Policy, Summer 1996 "Whenever you are in doubt...apply the first test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be any use to him. Will he gain anything from it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? True development puts first those that society puts last". - Mahatma Gandhi From culturex@vcn.bc.ca Mon Feb 3 13:40:38 1997 Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 12:40:06 -0800 (PST) From: Franklin Wayne Poley Subject: Release: corporate welfare (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 11:37:06 -0700 From:liberty@hollyent.com To: fwpoley@vcn.bc.ca Subject: Release: corporate welfare (fwd) ================[ Distributed Message ]================ ListServer: liberty (BRASSROOTS Liberty Watch Listserver) Type: Not Moderated Distributed on: 03-FEB-97, 11:36:14 Original Written by: IN:slinnab@freenet.columbus.oh.us. ======================================================= ----------------------------------------- NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100 Washington DC 20037 ----------------------------------------- For release: January 31, 1997 ----------------------------------------- For additional information: Bill Winter, Director of Communications (202) 333-0008 Ext. 226 Internet: 73163.3063@CompuServe.com ----------------------------------------- Libertarians urge: End corporate welfare for Ronald McDonald and his rich friends WASHINGTON, DC -- Ronald McDonald is a welfare cheat. Despite billions in profits last year, the fast-food chain represented by the popular clown mascot pocketed $1.6 million in taxpayers' money in 1996, the Libertarian Party noted today. "There's been a lot of talk about welfare for individuals, but not much about the billions in taxpayers' money raked in by wealthy corporations," said the party's chairman, Steve Dasbach. "Thanks to Republican and Democratic politicians, corporate welfare is alive and well-financed in America." In Ronald McDonald's case, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Market Access Program funneled $1.6 million in tax money to help the multibillion-dollar corporation advertise its Big Macs and other fast-food products to Europeans. "Anyone with a McNugget of common sense should be outraged by programs like these," Dasbach said. But the tide may be turning. A number of groups say they are committed to ending the subsidies, which total at least $30 billion a year. At a news conference this week, at least a dozen such programs were targeted for termination. "It's about time," said Dasbach. "Libertarians have been urging Congress for 25 years to end these subsidies." A bill sponsored by Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Russell Feingold (D-WI) would set up a nine-member study commission to target corporate welfare programs, and Congress would have four months to approve or reject the recommendations. "But what's to study?" Dasbach asked. "Average Americans shouldn't be forced to fork over their hard-earned money to business executives. Let's topple these corporate fat cats from the welfare wagon right now." Dasbach suggested some targets for immediate action: * Mickey Mouse behavior: The Walt Disney Corporation received $300,000 in 1995 to "help perfect its fireworks displays," according to research by Common Cause. * Boondoggle for billionaires: The Archer-Daniels Midland food company -- which earned $13 billion last year -- has socked taxpayers with a bill for $6 billion in ethanol subsidies over the last decade. * The whine industry: After Gallo and other California wine makers poured $750,000 into Democratic and Republican congressional campaigns, politicians returned the favor: Gallo uncorked $7 million in federal subsidies in 1994. The funding went to boost Gallo wine sales in Asia and Latin America under an "export promotion program," which has paid California wineries over $50 million in the last 10 years. * Putting the squeeze on taxpayers: Sunkist Corporation has received $78 million from the Agriculture Department since 1976 to promote its oranges in Asia. * A little log rolling: The Forest Service has handed lumber companies $3 billion over five years in taxpayer-financed roads to pave the way for logging projects. * What's mined is yours: Exploiting the Department of Interior's Mining Law of 1872, gold and silver companies purchased public land last year containing $15.3 billion in resources for a paltry $9,400. "Every taxpayer who learns about these programs wants them eliminated immediately," Dasbach said. "But politicians and their rich, corporate friends have fought to protect them. It's time to protect taxpayers instead -- and shut the corporate welfare checkbook." -- The Libertarian Party http://www.lp.org/ 2600 Virginia Ave. NW, Suite 100 voice: 202-333-0008 Washington DC 20037 fax: 202-333-0072 For subscription changes, please mail to with the word "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" in the subject line -- or use the WWW form. STEVEN R. LINNABARY P.O.BOX # 115; BLACKLICK, OH 43004-0115;Ph.(614) 476-6773,Pager (614) 672-3023 " When you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable" - John F. Kennedy, Sr. ======================================================================== To subscribe: send a message to the Liberty@hollyent.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject/topic field. Use UNSUBSCRIBE to remove yourself from the list. Questions/comments/problems? email: Not Moderated@hollyent.com or listmgmt@hollyent.com For information about this system and its lists email: info@hollyent.com Help to save your liberties! mailto:info@hollyent.com SUBJECT: bernie ======================================================================== via: Sportsman's Paradise~~Online 602-922-1639 - www.hollyent.com From culturex@vcn.bc.ca Mon Feb 3 18:24:06 1997 Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 17:23:40 -0800 (PST) From: Franklin Wayne Poley Subject: RE: Release: corporate welfare (fwd) To: UNITED In-Reply-To: <01BC11FB.FDBFCC00@hotel.MCPP> On Mon, 3 Feb 1997, William J. Maze wrote: > > But the tide may be turning. A number of groups say they are > > committed to ending the subsidies, which total at least $30 billion a > > year. At a news conference this week, at least a dozen such programs > > were targeted for termination. > > Nice Post! Is this the OPIC story? I've reprinted a little of > Reason Magazine's coverage of this below. I think this > story is a little different than the one you posted about. > Maybe the libertarians were attacking all subsidies. OPIC > is one very specific fund. Check it out-- Thank you. I thought so too and that is why I have forwarded it to the Labour Lists. In Canada the N.D.P. which says it is the party of labour used to have a phrase in the 1960's/70's and it was very powerful: "Corporate Welfare Bums." Haven't heard it in many years. I have other reasons to think that the N.D.P. is an utter sell-out of Labour and that Labour needs its own party in Canada. FWP. From meisenscher@igc.apc.org Mon Feb 3 19:47:29 1997 Mon, 3 Feb 1997 18:44:46 -0800 (PST) Mon, 3 Feb 1997 18:43:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 18:43:02 -0800 (PST) To: labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu, united@cougar.com From: Michael Eisenscher Subject: Markets Sender: meisenscher@igc.org This from a functionary and beneficiary of "the market," who after getting his pile now has pangs of conscience that the god to which he slavishly devoted a career may indeed be not a god but a demon more powerful and malignant than its creators. Well, I suppose it's never to late to seek redemption. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- >THE OMNIPOTENT MARKET > > "Read the editorials of the Wall Street Journal, through >which the faithful care called to action. Scan the latest >business advice books. The market is eternal, the market >is unchanging, the market is all-solving, the market is >all-seeing, the market is everywhere. > "The market is the natural condition of mankind. The is >synonymous with democracy, since it gives the people what >the people want. Those who speak for the market speak for >the people. > "Most importantly, the market is a fantastically jealous >god, deeply offended by the puny efforts of mere mortals to >improve on its creations with government, unions or >culture. The heresy which must be rooted out is the basic >notion that people can control their world and improve >their situation, instead of accepting the market as >natural, normal, and irresistible. > "To appease the market, we must surrender every vestige >of self-government, abandon the ways and beliefs of >centuries, turn our cities into warehouses of the >'amenities' by which the mobile, transnational yuppies can >be served. And in the wake of the market's workings lies a >trail of economic, social and cultural devastation ... The >current populism that deifies the market declares the >people's will to be the destruction of the people's way of life." > > -- Tom Frank, in The Baffler > >============================== > >MANAGERS WILL REAP WHAT THEY SOW -- PETER DRUCKER > > "What is new and by no means desirable about the current >corporate downsizing frenzy is the way in which these >layoffs are being carried out. This is what bothers me. A >lot of top managers enjoy cruelty. There's no doubt that >we are in a period in which you are a hero if you are cruel. > "What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit >top managers get for laying off workers. There's no excuse >for it. No justification. This is morally and socially >unforgivable, and we'll pay a very nasty price. > "We are learning very fast that the belief that a free >market is all it takes to have a functioning society -- or >even a functioning economy -- is pure delusion. Unless >there's first a functioning civil society, the market can >produce economic results for a very short time -- maybe >three to five years. For anything beyond those five years, >a functioning civil society -- based on community >organizations, churches, universities, co-ops -- is needed >for the market to function in its economic role, let alone >its social role." > > -- Management guru Peter Drucker, in Wired Magazine > >=============================== > >Both quotes cited in the November 1996 issue of the CCPA Monitor. > > ************************************************** Michael Eisenscher Workers Education Local 189, CWA Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy Program University of Massachusetts-Boston 391 Adams Street Oakland, CA 94610-3131 ------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: (510) 893-8382 (voice/fax) E-Mail: meisenscher@igc.apc.org ************************************************* "We are not merely an economy, but also a culture." "It has never been economics alone that defines America. If we choose, as a culture, to push back against the economic forces that would otherwise divide us, it is within our power to do so." -- Robert Reich -- Resignation address "[There is a] growing assertion that globalization and technological change make inevitable low wages and inequalities....The counter argument that has not gained much popular support is that inequalities result from human agency; they are not the inevitable consequence of 'progress.'" S.M. Miller and Charles Collins "Growing Economic Fairness" Social Policy, Summer 1996 "Whenever you are in doubt...apply the first test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be any use to him. Will he gain anything from it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? True development puts first those that society puts last". - Mahatma Gandhi From shostaka@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu Mon Feb 3 20:39:31 1997 Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 00:08:31 -0500 To: LABOR-RAP@csf.colorado.edu From: shostaka@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu (Art Shostak) Subject: Worth Considering Hey, folks I am adding a page on the SPTI website for links to sociological practitioners -- if you have a website and would like me to add yours to the Sociological Pracitioners page at the SPTI website, just let me know -- should have the page up in a few days. Thanks John John E. Glass, Ph.D. Sociological Practice Training Institute john@spti.org http://www.spti.org Arthur B. Shostak, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Department of Psych/Soc/Anthro, Drexel University, Phila., PA, 19104; 215-895-2466; fax 610-668-2727. email: SHOSTAKAt@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu http://duvm.ocs.drexel.edu/~shostak/ "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking [and feeling] we were at when we created them." Albert Einstein. From meisenscher@igc.apc.org Mon Feb 3 22:45:58 1997 Mon, 3 Feb 1997 21:45:07 -0800 (PST) Mon, 3 Feb 1997 21:44:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 21:44:50 -0800 (PST) To: OIFAC@CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU, labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: Michael Eisenscher Subject: Full-time Organizer Wanted Sender: meisenscher@igc.org >Return-Path: >Date: Mon, 3 Feb 97 12:00:50 CST >Reply-To: can-labor@pencil.math.missouri.edu >Originator: can-labor@pencil.math.missouri.edu >Sender: can-labor@pencil.math.missouri.edu >From: Chris Vance >Subject: Full-time Organizer Wanted >X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas > >Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 22:51:53 -0500 (EST) >From: "Tamara E. Joseph" >Subject: Full-time Organizer Wanted >Message-Id: > > >Please forward this job posting to anyone who you think may wish to apply. > >The Graduate Employees Organization, a progressive 1600-member union of >graduate student instructors at the University of Michigan, is seeking to >hire a full-time union organizer. We are preparing to enter negotiations >for our eleventh contract in the Fall of 1998. > >Candidates must have union organizing experience, including some >experience of significant responsibility for planning and running >campaigns. They must have experience working with diverse populations. >They must have a demonstrated commitment to social change, a commitment to >progressive, participatory unionism, and a commitment to membership and >leadership development. Experience of negotiations, grievance handling, >and graduate employee unions (or familiarity with a university setting) >are preferred. > >This is a 2-year renewable position starting April 15th or as soon as >possible thereafter - this is somewhat flexible. The position has a >salary of $26,000 + health benefits. > >Please send a letter of application, a resume, and letters of reference >by March 10th to > > Graduate Employees Organization, AFT/MFT&SRP Local 3550, AFL-CIO > 527 E. Liberty Street, Suite 205, > Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2242. > >Inquiries may be directed to Tamara Joseph on e-mail at usergeo@umich.edu >or by phone at (313) 995-0221. > >GEO is an equal opportunities employer. Women and people of color are >encouraged to apply. > > > ************************************************** Michael Eisenscher Workers Education Local 189, CWA Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy Program University of Massachusetts-Boston 391 Adams Street Oakland, CA 94610-3131 ------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: (510) 893-8382 (voice/fax) E-Mail: meisenscher@igc.apc.org ************************************************* "We are not merely an economy, but also a culture." "It has never been economics alone that defines America. If we choose, as a culture, to push back against the economic forces that would otherwise divide us, it is within our power to do so." -- Robert Reich -- Resignation address "[There is a] growing assertion that globalization and technological change make inevitable low wages and inequalities....The counter argument that has not gained much popular support is that inequalities result from human agency; they are not the inevitable consequence of 'progress.'" S.M. Miller and Charles Collins "Growing Economic Fairness" Social Policy, Summer 1996 "Whenever you are in doubt...apply the first test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be any use to him. Will he gain anything from it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? True development puts first those that society puts last". - Mahatma Gandhi "Class analysis is knowing which side of the fence you're on; class consciousness is knowing who is there with. ----from a poster, source unknown From rsaute@email.gc.cuny.edu Tue Feb 4 08:05:54 1997 04 Feb 1997 10:05:44 -0400 (EDT) 04 Feb 1997 10:05:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 10:05:42 -0500 (EST) From: ROBERT SAUTE Subject: Panels, Socialist Scholars Conference To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu, psn@csf.colorado.edu, pen-l@anthrax.ecst.csuchico.edu X-attachments: F:\RBS\SOCSCHOL\PANLCALL.TXT; --=====================_855079541==_ --=====================_855079541==_ ***1997 SOCIALIST SCHOLARS CONFERENCE*** ***RADICAL ALTERNATIVES ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM*** ***CALL FOR PANELS*** Dear Friends, Scholars, Activists, The 1997 Socialist Scholars Conference will take place this year from 6:00 PM Friday March 28 to 6:00 PM Sunday March 30, at Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, New York City. This year's theme is "Radical Alternatives on the Eve of the Millennium," and we encourage panels to address issues covered by it. We are also eager to have panels on any and all subjects of interest to socialists, radical democrats, activists and intellectuals who want a better world. Each year the Socialist Scholars Conference, the largest gathering of the Left in the United States, attracts between 1500 and 2,000 intellectuals and activists from more than a dozen countries. At one hundred panels, plenaries, and workshops, scholars and militants debate and exchange ideas about struggles around the world and in our communities. Last year's Conference hosted spirited debates on the "end of work" vs. jobs for all; identity politics and the Left's universalism; Cuban economists on market reform; the Million Man March; and the war on drugs. This year, panels will discuss changes in the labor movement at the top and bottom; independent politics and NY's race for mayor; struggles for survival and justice in Asia, Africa and Latin America; bringing culture back in; and dozens of others on race, ecology, gender, class, and the building of a better world. In general, we have participants organize panels rather than submit papers. We ask you to organize panels because panels with coherent themes are more interesting; they allow for meaningful debate and encourage participation from the audience. Panels are an hour and fifty minutes long and typically have three to five speakers, sometimes including a moderator. Talks of less than twenty minutes per speaker work best. They allow for exchange among panelists, and between panelists and the audience. Videos, slide presentations, and/or overhead projections can be accomodated with advance notification. We encourage panels to include debate and dialogue. Debates are more interesting for speakers and audience. Diversity of opinion and experience, as well as in race, class, and gender, give your panel and the Conference strength. This year we want to stress the importance of dialogue between academia and activism. Include and integrate activists (academics) in your panel. At the least, remember to be political! **Deadline for panel submissions is February 24, 1997.** To submit a panel, please include a panel title, a list of panelists with one -and only one- affiliation per panelist, a sponsoring organization (if applicable) and a contact person with phone number and email. Panels take place on Saturday March 29 and Sunday March 30, from 10:00 AM to 11:50 AM, 1:00 PM to 2:50 PM, and 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM. Please let us know your preference, and, given early notification, we will do everything possible to meet your needs. The cost of a panel is $100. The fee includes admission for each of the panelist for the entire three day conference. There are no additional charges for panelists. Please make your checks payable to: Socialist Scholars Conference c/o Dept. of Sociology/ CUNY Grad Center 33 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036 If you have further questions, please contact us at the above address, phone us at (212) 642-2826, or email us at: risserle@email.gc.cuny.edu or look for our soon to be in place web page at: http://www.soc.qc.edu/ssc --=====================_855079541==_-- From irashor@mhv.net Tue Feb 4 10:44:36 1997 Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 12:44:48 -0500 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu From: irashor@mhv.net (Ira Shor) Subject: Panels--Socialist Scholars Conference I'm interested in doing a panel/workshop at the ssc: "Is There "Class" in This Class? A Critical Pedadgogy for Class-Awareness." I'd need this session scheduled late afternoon Saturday because I'll be driving in that day from out-of-town where I live upstate. I would like to do this session alone as a presentation/workshop format, with my talk followed by posing a pedagogical problem to the group related to working-class education. If this meets your needs, please let me know, and I'll be able to pay the $100 panel fee myself for this session. For your information: My new book just came out from the Univ of Chicago Press, WHEN STUDENTS HAVE POWER: NEGOTIATING AUTHORITY IN A CRITICAL PEDAGOGY; and my previous book was EMPOWERING EDUCATION: CRITICAL TEACHING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE(1992, U of chic Pr). I teach composition/rhetoric in the English Phd Program at the CUNY Grad School....Ira Shor POB 488, Bearsville, NY 12409 914-679-8975; fax 914-679-2184. From irashor@mhv.net Tue Feb 4 10:47:22 1997 Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 12:47:40 -0500 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu From: irashor@mhv.net (Ira Shor) Subject: Apologies for Techno-Goof My profound apologies for my techno-goof of sending a message to this list meant for the socialist scholars conference. Sorry to waste your time/attention...Ira Shor From global@uk.pi.net Wed Feb 5 14:57:25 1997 Date: Wed, 5 Feb 97 11:58:47 From: PO Subject: Gral. strike in Swatsiland To: cpgb@cix.compulink.co.uk >The Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions (SFTU) in southern Africa several >weeks ago called a two day general strike February 3 and 4 to protest lack >of political freedom in the country as well as an anti-worker industrial >relations law imposed by the undemocratic government last year. A >political crisis over the call has steadily mounted, and on Friday the >government arrested the President, Deputy President, General Secretary and >Deputy General of the SFTU. This heavy-handed repression seems to have >backfired, because a number of unions that had declined to back the >stayaway call seem to have swung over to backing it to protest the arrests. > > >The Kingdom of Swaziland is a country a little smaller than Connecticut >with a population of about 900,000 people, located between South Africa and >Mozambique. Since a royal decree made on April 12, 1973 abolished the >existing elected parliament and its legislative powers, Swazi kings have >ruled by decree over a no-party state, in which political parties and >political activities are banned. In the subsequent quarter-century, >cities and towns, wage-labor, and a managerial-professional middle-class >have all grown rapidly. Even most rural households are connected to the >urban wage economy (in >Swaziland and South Africa) to a substantial degree, as families pursue >strategies drawing on both urban and rural resources to survive. In these >circumstances, dissatisfaction with lack of a direct, representative voice >in government has grown. Since the end of apartheid in South Africa, >democratization pressure has intensified. > >It is opposed by conservative "traditional leaders," often called >"labadzala" or elders, who exercise patronage by controlling land access, >public jobs, and social services, but also by segments of the middle >classes who benefit from parastatal investment corporations controlled by >the royalty "in trust for the Nation" but with no means of accountability >over that trust. Because political parties are banned, advancing >democratic political claims has fallen to organizations in civil society, >including the pro-business press (although not business organizations >themselves) but most especially the trade unions. > >The SFTU is a federation of unions of over 80,000 workers; there is a >smaller, more conservative federation as well. Thus unions represent >something on the order of 20% of the working-age population, but since only >perhaps 50% of that population is in formal employment at any given time, >they represent a much higher proportion of the workforce in the formal >sector. On the other hand they are organizationally weak due to lack of >resources, and to being hampered by highly restrictive industrial relations >laws. > >Last year in late January the SFTU and its political allies (especially the >People's United Democratic Movement, [Pudemo] an illegal but quasi-open >political party) called a similar mass stayaway which had considerable >effectiveness, organized around a list of 27 demands, the most central of >which concerned repealing the April 1973 decree against political parties, >demands for a democratically representative parliament, repeal of >repressive security laws modelled on those of the old South African >government, and repeal of anti-labor laws. The stayaway forced the >government to form a Constitutional Review Commission, but it was stacked >with supporters of the current order, and the opposition pulled out from >participating in it. > >This year there has been less unity behind the stayaway call. The >country's main independent newspaper has opposed the stayaway, which in >general supports the demands for political reform, although not those for >labor law reform, and which is highly critical of the government, has >opposed the general strike as likely to drive away foreign investors. That >range of positions shared by a large part of the business community, many >middle-class Swazi citizens and a good number of workers; certain important >unions too came out against the stayaway. In addition to the investment >question, perceptions that stayaway supporters last year resorted at times >to violently disruptive and coercive tactics to enforce the strike have >created ambivalence and opposition this year. But many people are also >concerned about coercion from the government side, and the arrest of the >union leaders appears to have increased support for the stayaway. > >Reports over the internet on Feb 3 suggested that the stayaway had slowed >but not stopped business in the capital Mbabane, and that there had been >greater effect in the central commercial city of Manzini, including shots >fired by police or military forces. Sugar workers in the eastern lowlands >were apparently moving to honor the strike. The situation was reported as >tense, with many small military patrols visible in the streets of the main >cities. > >The arrested union leaders have been imprisoned solely for calling the >strike. Their arrests have been condemned by the Congress of South African >Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the International Confederation of Free Trade >Unions (ICTFU), which was already bringing complaints to the ILO in respect >of the industrial relations laws passed last year. Cosatu has promised >support to the SFTU, although inside Swaziland this is used by stayaway >opponents (including some who advocate democratic reforms) to portray the >SFTU as controlled by foreign interests, which the Federation denies. >Apart from general principles of supporting democracy and solidarity, >Cosatu unions have substantial numbers of Swazi members (citizens of both >Swaziland and South Africa; there are more Swazi people in South Africa >than Swaziland), and labor repression in neighboring countries weakens the >position of South African unions. > >Among the arrested unionists are SFTU President Richard Nxumalo and General >Secretary Jan Sithole. I do not have the names of the other two at hand >right now. This message is compiled from news reports forwarded via >e-mail; interpretation is my own. Please feel free to forward. Apologies >to those of you who receive multiple copies. > From Furuhashi.1@osu.edu Wed Feb 5 19:40:56 1997 Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 21:47:21 -0500 To: walk@igc.apc.org, wilkins.40@osu.edu, gesopost@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu, singleton.21@osu.edu, kurali.1@osu.edu, rallin.1@osu.edu, bahhur.1@osu.edu, mheffron@dsausa.org, labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu, abudak@alumni.ysu.edu, mmflint@aol.com, labor-l@yorku.ca, daniepay@freenet.columbus.oh.us, wlbeal@ksu.edu, ww@wwpublish.com, belanger@cupe.ca, awl@gn.apc.org, mfstepp@aol.com, e.swank@morehead-st.edu, kkovacik@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu, awald@umich.edu, bfoley@andromeda.rutgers.edu, pgattis@bruderhof.com, pmathis@bruderhof.com, rich@pencil.math.missouri.edu, jjones@bruderhof.com, freeper@aol.com, msprinker@ccmail.sunysb.edu From: Furuhashi.1@osu.edu (Yoshie Furuhashi) Subject: Black Liberation Radio > BLACK LIBERATION RADIO BUSTED! > > > This morning, the FCC raided Black Liberation Radio in Decatur, >Illinois and seized all the equipment. BLR, an unlicensed radio >station operated by Napolean and Mildred Williams, has been a growing >thorn in the side of the local power structure. BLR has brought >together the predominantly white workers who have undergone bitter >strikes in the 90s (Caterpillar, etc.) with unemployed blacks and >whites. It has given them all a voice, not just locally but to a >degree nationally (Napolean was the keynote speaker at the recent >Micro Broadcasters Convention in Oakland). > This pioneering station must go back on the air. Napoleon requests >donations to help them fight this. Please send what you can to: Napoleon >Williams, 637 E Center St., Decatur IL 63526. In the face of a growing >police state, Napoleon and Mildred are fighting back. They need your >help. > >*PLEASE* call to issue protests: > >State Attorney General >Jim Ryan >217-782-1090 > >Macon County States Attorney >Lawrence "Larry" Fichter >217-424-1400 >101 South Main, Decatur,Il 62523. > > > > >------------ >Makani Themba >mthemba@igc.apc.org >3780 Webster Street, Oakland, CA 94609 >(510) 655-3112 (voice) (510) 658-5122 (fax) > >"Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our >perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news >shapes our destiny." > > - George Clinton > >Stop the execution of Mumia Abu Jamal! From wkramer@ucla.edu Wed Feb 5 21:59:00 1997 Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 20:48:25 -0800 To: wkramer@ucla.edu From: William Kramer Subject: UCLA Labor Teach-In Feb 21-22 > A broad cross-section of labor, university and community leaders >will meet at UCLA on Feb. 20-21 to explore how the newly revived >partnership between labor and academia is being brought to bear in Los >Angeles, home to the country's largest concentration of manufacturing >workers. > The two-day conference, "Fighting for Social Justice -- A Teach-in >With the New Labor Movement," will mark the first time a sitting AFL-CIO >president has spoken at UCLA, and will follow on the heels of another >historic event -- the first leadership meeting of the American labor >movement ever held in California. > Featured speakers at the conference will include John Sweeney, >president of the 13-million member AFL-CIO; United Farm Workers >Secretary-Treasurer Dolores Huerta; Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union >Local 11 President Maria Elena Durazo; and scholars and writers such as >Harley Shaiken and Mike Davis. > "Last year's standing-room only teach-in at Columbia -- the first >of its kind in a generation -- focused on theory. At UCLA we will focus on >practice, as exemplified by a series of ongoing collaborations between >labor and scholars both locally and nationally," said Kent Wong, director >of the UCLA Labor Education and Research Center, and conference organizer. > Modeled after the Columbia teach-in, the conference will highlight >such key initiatives as the organizing of manufacturing workers in the >garment industry and Alameda Corridor in Los Angeles, the Justice for >Janitors campaign and the New Otani Hotel boycott, the national drive to >organize strawberry workers and the Living Wage campaign in Los Angeles. > The UCLA conference will follow the AFL-CIO's Executive Council >Meeting at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on Feb. 17-20-- the >first time the annual winter conclave has ever been held outside Florida. > Los Angeles and its 700,000 manufacturing jobs, many of which are >low-wage positions filled by immigrants, has emerged as a creative center >of the New Labor movement and one of the chief organizing targets of the >AFL-CIO, despite the city's long history of organized resistance to the >union movement. > "This conference will give seasoned organizers a forum to exchange >and debate new ideas, encourage the development of a new generation of >activists, and continue the public dialogue between labor and academia that >began last year in New York," said Wong. > A series of ten workshops on Feb. 21 will address such issues as >"Work, Welfare and the Labor Movement," immigration and immigrant workers, >environmental justice, cross-border solidarity, youth in the labor >movement, working women and political action. > Speeches by Sweeney and Huerta will kick off the conference at the >opening session on Thursday, Feb. 20 from 7 to 10 p.m. the auditorium of >UCLA's Moore Hall (Room 100). The conference will continue with a series of >panels and workshops in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom on Friday, Feb. 21 from >9 a.m. to 5 p.m. > Admission is free, although on-campus parking will cost $5. >Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education, the teach-in >has been endorsed by dozens of labor, civil rights and community >organizations. > > > XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX William Kramer UCLA LAMAP Coordinator 1001 Gayley--2nd Floor Los Angeles, CA 90024 310-794-0698 310-794-8017 fax wkramer@ucla.edu XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX From aanz@sirius.com Thu Feb 6 11:47:46 1997 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 10:51:58 +0000 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu From: aanz@sirius.com (anzalone/starbird) Subject: Re: UCLA Labor Teach-In Feb 21-22 >> Will there be anything on line for those of us who won't be schlepping to LA? A broad cross-section of labor, university and community leaders >>will meet at UCLA on Feb. 20-21 to explore how the newly revived >>partnership between labor and academia is being brought to bear in Los >>Angeles, home to the country's largest concentration of manufacturing >>workers. >> The two-day conference, "Fighting for Social Justice -- A Teach-in >>With the New Labor Movement," will mark the first time a sitting AFL-CIO >>president has spoken at UCLA, and will follow on the heels of another >>historic event -- the first leadership meeting of the American labor >>movement ever held in California. >> Featured speakers at the conference will include John Sweeney, >>president of the 13-million member AFL-CIO; United Farm Workers >>Secretary-Treasurer Dolores Huerta; Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union >>Local 11 President Maria Elena Durazo; and scholars and writers such as >>Harley Shaiken and Mike Davis. >> "Last year's standing-room only teach-in at Columbia -- the first >>of its kind in a generation -- focused on theory. At UCLA we will focus on >>practice, as exemplified by a series of ongoing collaborations between >>labor and scholars both locally and nationally," said Kent Wong, director >>of the UCLA Labor Education and Research Center, and conference organizer. >> Modeled after the Columbia teach-in, the conference will highlight >>such key initiatives as the organizing of manufacturing workers in the >>garment industry and Alameda Corridor in Los Angeles, the Justice for >>Janitors campaign and the New Otani Hotel boycott, the national drive to >>organize strawberry workers and the Living Wage campaign in Los Angeles. >> The UCLA conference will follow the AFL-CIO's Executive Council >>Meeting at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on Feb. 17-20-- the >>first time the annual winter conclave has ever been held outside Florida. >> Los Angeles and its 700,000 manufacturing jobs, many of which are >>low-wage positions filled by immigrants, has emerged as a creative center >>of the New Labor movement and one of the chief organizing targets of the >>AFL-CIO, despite the city's long history of organized resistance to the >>union movement. >> "This conference will give seasoned organizers a forum to exchange >>and debate new ideas, encourage the development of a new generation of >>activists, and continue the public dialogue between labor and academia that >>began last year in New York," said Wong. >> A series of ten workshops on Feb. 21 will address such issues as >>"Work, Welfare and the Labor Movement," immigration and immigrant workers, >>environmental justice, cross-border solidarity, youth in the labor >>movement, working women and political action. >> Speeches by Sweeney and Huerta will kick off the conference at the >>opening session on Thursday, Feb. 20 from 7 to 10 p.m. the auditorium of >>UCLA's Moore Hall (Room 100). The conference will continue with a series of >>panels and workshops in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom on Friday, Feb. 21 from >>9 a.m. to 5 p.m. >> Admission is free, although on-campus parking will cost $5. >>Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education, the teach-in >>has been endorsed by dozens of labor, civil rights and community >>organizations. >> >> >> >XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX > William Kramer > UCLA LAMAP Coordinator > 1001 Gayley--2nd Floor > Los Angeles, CA 90024 > 310-794-0698 > 310-794-8017 fax > wkramer@ucla.edu >XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX From shostaka@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu Thu Feb 6 19:07:39 1997 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 22:36:39 -0500 To: LABOR-RAP@csf.colorado.edu From: shostaka@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu (Art Shostak) Subject: Job Opportunities There are two new openings for which one of us might have a recommendation: The Jewish Labor Committee is seeeking an individual to fill the position of Executive Director of a national agency that acts as the liason between the labor movement and the Jewish community. (212-477-0707). And the Labor Resource Center of the Univ. of Mass - Boston is seeeking a Director (617-287-7354). Arthur B. Shostak, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Department of Psych/Soc/Anthro, Drexel University, Phila., PA, 19104; 215-895-2466; fax 610-668-2727. email: SHOSTAKAt@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu http://duvm.ocs.drexel.edu/~shostak/ "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking [and feeling] we were at when we created them." Albert Einstein. From aanz@sirius.com Thu Feb 6 19:38:16 1997 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 18:42:29 +0000 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu From: aanz@sirius.com (anzalone/starbird) Subject: Re: Full-time Organizer Wanted >> I think you have the quote from Woddie Guthrie backwards: Class >>consciousness is knowing which side of the fence you're on, analysis is >>who's there with you, no? Return-Path: >>Date: Mon, 3 Feb 97 12:00:50 CST >>Reply-To: can-labor@pencil.math.missouri.edu >>Originator: can-labor@pencil.math.missouri.edu >>Sender: can-labor@pencil.math.missouri.edu >>From: Chris Vance >>Subject: Full-time Organizer Wanted >>X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas >> >>Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 22:51:53 -0500 (EST) >>From: "Tamara E. Joseph" >>Subject: Full-time Organizer Wanted >>Message-Id: >> >> >>Please forward this job posting to anyone who you think may wish to apply. >> >>The Graduate Employees Organization, a progressive 1600-member union of >>graduate student instructors at the University of Michigan, is seeking to >>hire a full-time union organizer. We are preparing to enter negotiations >>for our eleventh contract in the Fall of 1998. >> >>Candidates must have union organizing experience, including some >>experience of significant responsibility for planning and running >>campaigns. They must have experience working with diverse populations. >>They must have a demonstrated commitment to social change, a commitment to >>progressive, participatory unionism, and a commitment to membership and >>leadership development. Experience of negotiations, grievance handling, >>and graduate employee unions (or familiarity with a university setting) >>are preferred. >> >>This is a 2-year renewable position starting April 15th or as soon as >>possible thereafter - this is somewhat flexible. The position has a >>salary of $26,000 + health benefits. >> >>Please send a letter of application, a resume, and letters of reference >>by March 10th to >> >> Graduate Employees Organization, AFT/MFT&SRP Local 3550, AFL-CIO >> 527 E. Liberty Street, Suite 205, >> Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2242. >> >>Inquiries may be directed to Tamara Joseph on e-mail at usergeo@umich.edu >>or by phone at (313) 995-0221. >> >>GEO is an equal opportunities employer. Women and people of color are >>encouraged to apply. >> >> >> >************************************************** >Michael Eisenscher >Workers Education Local 189, CWA >Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy Program >University of Massachusetts-Boston > >391 Adams Street >Oakland, CA 94610-3131 >------------------------------------------------------------- >Phone: (510) 893-8382 (voice/fax) >E-Mail: meisenscher@igc.apc.org >************************************************* > "We are not merely an economy, but also a culture." > "It has never been economics alone that defines America. If we > choose, as a culture, to push back against the economic forces > that would otherwise divide us, it is within our power to do so." > -- Robert Reich -- > Resignation address > >"[There is a] growing assertion that globalization and technological change >make >inevitable low wages and inequalities....The counter argument that has not >gained much popular support is that inequalities result from human agency; >they are not the inevitable consequence of 'progress.'" > S.M. Miller and Charles Collins > "Growing Economic Fairness" > Social Policy, Summer 1996 > >"Whenever you are in doubt...apply the first test. Recall the face of the >poorest and the weakest >man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is >going to be any use >to him. Will he gain anything from it? Will it restore him to a control over >his own life and destiny? >True development puts first those that society puts last". - Mahatma Gandhi > >"Class analysis is knowing which side of the fence you're on; class >consciousness is knowing who is there with. > ----from a poster, source unknown From aanz@sirius.com Thu Feb 6 20:01:20 1997 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 19:05:33 +0000 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu From: aanz@sirius.com (anzalone/starbird) Subject: Re: UCLA Labor Teach-In Feb 21-22 >>> Will there be anything on line for those of us who won't be schlepping >>>to LA? > >A broad cross-section of labor, university and community leaders >>>will meet at UCLA on Feb. 20-21 to explore how the newly revived >>>partnership between labor and academia is being brought to bear in Los >>>Angeles, home to the country's largest concentration of manufacturing >>>workers. >>> The two-day conference, "Fighting for Social Justice -- A Teach-in >>>With the New Labor Movement," will mark the first time a sitting AFL-CIO >>>president has spoken at UCLA, and will follow on the heels of another >>>historic event -- the first leadership meeting of the American labor >>>movement ever held in California. >>> Featured speakers at the conference will include John Sweeney, >>>president of the 13-million member AFL-CIO; United Farm Workers >>>Secretary-Treasurer Dolores Huerta; Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union >>>Local 11 President Maria Elena Durazo; and scholars and writers such as >>>Harley Shaiken and Mike Davis. >>> "Last year's standing-room only teach-in at Columbia -- the first >>>of its kind in a generation -- focused on theory. At UCLA we will focus on >>>practice, as exemplified by a series of ongoing collaborations between >>>labor and scholars both locally and nationally," said Kent Wong, director >>>of the UCLA Labor Education and Research Center, and conference organizer. >>> Modeled after the Columbia teach-in, the conference will highlight >>>such key initiatives as the organizing of manufacturing workers in the >>>garment industry and Alameda Corridor in Los Angeles, the Justice for >>>Janitors campaign and the New Otani Hotel boycott, the national drive to >>>organize strawberry workers and the Living Wage campaign in Los Angeles. >>> The UCLA conference will follow the AFL-CIO's Executive Council >>>Meeting at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on Feb. 17-20-- the >>>first time the annual winter conclave has ever been held outside Florida. >>> Los Angeles and its 700,000 manufacturing jobs, many of which are >>>low-wage positions filled by immigrants, has emerged as a creative center >>>of the New Labor movement and one of the chief organizing targets of the >>>AFL-CIO, despite the city's long history of organized resistance to the >>>union movement. >>> "This conference will give seasoned organizers a forum to exchange >>>and debate new ideas, encourage the development of a new generation of >>>activists, and continue the public dialogue between labor and academia that >>>began last year in New York," said Wong. >>> A series of ten workshops on Feb. 21 will address such issues as >>>"Work, Welfare and the Labor Movement," immigration and immigrant workers, >>>environmental justice, cross-border solidarity, youth in the labor >>>movement, working women and political action. >>> Speeches by Sweeney and Huerta will kick off the conference at the >>>opening session on Thursday, Feb. 20 from 7 to 10 p.m. the auditorium of >>>UCLA's Moore Hall (Room 100). The conference will continue with a series of >>>panels and workshops in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom on Friday, Feb. 21 from >>>9 a.m. to 5 p.m. >>> Admission is free, although on-campus parking will cost $5. >>>Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education, the teach-in >>>has been endorsed by dozens of labor, civil rights and community >>>organizations. >>> >>> >>> >>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX >> William Kramer >> UCLA LAMAP Coordinator >> 1001 Gayley--2nd Floor >> Los Angeles, CA 90024 >> 310-794-0698 >> 310-794-8017 fax >> wkramer@ucla.edu >>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX From Furuhashi.1@osu.edu Thu Feb 6 21:39:01 1997 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 23:31:59 -0500 To: chrisbailey@gn.apc.org, can-labor@pencil.math.missouri.edu, mlg-ics@andrew.cmu.edu, h-labor@h-net.msu.edu, labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu, labor-l@yorku.ca, abudak@alumni.ysu.edu, glafer@aol.com, lvpsf@labornet.org, labr.maritime@conf.igc.apc.org, labor-list@labor.org.au, cosatu@polity.org.za, psn@csf.colorado.edu, agse@netcom.com, mcblum@igc.org, ww@wwpublish.com, belanger@cupe.ca, awl@gn.apc.org, awald@umich.edu, cwajeff@concentric.net, pillai.2@osu.edu, kilty.1@osu.edu, bahhur.1@osu.edu, rallin.1@osu.edu, jgn+@osu.edu, nmoore@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu, kkovacik@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu, bfoley@andromeda.rutgers.edu, e.swank@morehead-st.edu, domchan@soho.ios.com, h9946454@mn.waseda.ac.jp, rjanzen@yorku.ca, petri.1@osu.edu, gesopost@lists.acs.ohio.state.edu From: Furuhashi.1@osu.edu (Yoshie Furuhashi) Subject: Request for Solidarity Message from KCTU >Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 02:29:16 +0900 >From: KCTU-International >Subject: Request for Solidarity Message > Korean Confederation of Trade Unions >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >4th Fl. Samsun Blg., 12-1 Samsun-dong 1 Ga, Sungbuk-ku Seoul, Korea >Tel: +82-2-3673-0685 Fax: +82-2-765-2011 E-mail: >kctuint@chollian.dacom.co.kr > > >February 7, 1997 > >Re: Call for Solidarity Message on the Occasion of National Convention > > >Brothers and Sisters, > >Warm greetings from the threshold of Spring which never fails to come. > >The 500,000 members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions extends >most sincere thanks for your ceaseless support and solidarity. > >KCTU, embodying the aspiration and struggle of Korean workers for genuine >democratic progress, take pride in announcing the holding of its second >annual National Convention and being able to request messages of solidarity >in >this most critical time. > >The international trade union community has been the source of steadfast >support and solidarity since our historical beginning in 1995. It has >given us the courage and strength to mount and sustain our general strike. > >Our struggle now enters into the most critical phase, as how it comes to a >close will determine the success and failure. > >To chart our future struggles and work, the KCTU will hold, on February 13, >1997, the second annual National Convention, the highest decision making >body. The National Convention, scheduled just before the February 18 >fourth phase general strike, will be an important moment for reaffirming >our >determination and outlining the basic framework of programme of activities >for the year 1997. > >Although we would like our brothers and sisters from the international >trade union community to be present at the Convention to witness and to >be part of the most important meeting, we know only too well that this >would >be difficult given the shortness of notice. We hope, however, you will be >able >to be with us in spirit and messages of solidarity. > >We would appreciate greatly if you could send us your message of solidarity >to be able to be presented to the National Convention. Your solidarity >will spur us on in renewing our commitment and determination to bring our >current struggle to victory. It will also enable us to deepen our >awareness >that our fight is not ours alone but a part of the common struggle waged by > >our brothers and sisters all over the world. > >Let me again express our genuine thanks for your support and solidarity. > >In reaffirming our commitment to march together with all our brothers and >sisters in the common struggle, > >In solidarity yours, > > > >Yoon Youngmo >International Secretary > From meisenscher@igc.apc.org Thu Feb 6 21:51:29 1997 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 20:50:11 -0800 (PST) Thu, 6 Feb 1997 20:49:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 20:49:17 -0800 (PST) To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu, Labor Research and Action Project From: Michael Eisenscher Subject: Re: Full-time Organizer Wanted Sender: meisenscher@igc.org At 06:42 PM 2/6/97 +0000, anzalone/starbird wrote: > I think you have the quote from Woddie Guthrie backwards: Class >consciousness is knowing which side of the fence you're on, analysis is >who's there with you, no? Thanks Ellen. I could plead intellectual dyslexia, but it is more likely dimentia setting in with age. I often put my cart before my automobile hoping for a go-cart, but I usually just end up with a smashed cart. M. Michael Eisenscher Workers Education Local 189, CWA E-Mail: meisenscher@igc.apc.org 391 Adams Street Oakland, CA 94610 (510) 893-8382 (voice/fax) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. ... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." -- U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864 (letter to Col. William F. Elkins) Ref: "The Lincoln Encyclopedia", Archer H. Shaw (Macmillan, 1950, NY) "The end of democracy, and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of the lending institutions and moneyed incorporations." Thomas Jefferson (source unavailable) From irashor@mhv.net Fri Feb 7 10:30:59 1997 Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 12:31:15 -0500 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu From: irashor@mhv.net (Ira Shor) Subject: woody guthrie quote Can someone please let me know the source of the woody gutrie quote on class consciousness and analysis? thanks, ira shor From meisenscher@igc.apc.org Fri Feb 7 13:26:47 1997 Fri, 7 Feb 1997 12:08:45 -0800 (PST) Fri, 7 Feb 1997 12:01:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 12:01:26 -0800 (PST) To: labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu, OIFAC@CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU From: Michael Eisenscher Subject: File: "GANZ SYLLABUS" Sender: meisenscher@igc.org What follows is the syllabus for a course in organizing offered by Marshall Ganz at Harvard University. It may offer some useful suggestions for those who are either teachers or practitioners of organizing. >URL: http://h-net2.msu.edu/~urban/comm-org/syllabi/ganz/ganz.html > >This syllabus is available from the archive of the H-Urban Seminar on >the History of Community Organizing and Community-Based Development, >COMM-ORG@uicvm.uic.edu. Additional information on COMM-ORG is >available on our WWW Home Page at >http://h-net2.msu.edu/~urban/comm-org or by writing to the COMM-ORG >organizer, Wendy Plotkin, at U13972@uicvm.uic.edu. >***************************************************************** > COURSE SYLLABUS > PAL-177: ORGANIZING > People, Power and Change > >Marshall Ganz Littauer 382 >Taubman -216 (496-5673, 495-3849) Tu-Th 10:00-11:30 >ganz@wjh.harvard.edu Spring 1996 > > >"In democratic countries, knowledge of how to combine is the mother of >all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the >others." De Tocqueville > >Table of Contents > > * I. INTRODUCTION > + A. OBJECTIVES > + B. OUTLINE > + C. PARTICIPANTS > + D. REQUIREMENTS > + E. MATERIALS > * II . PROGRAM > + A. INTRODUCTION TO ORGANIZING > o 1. Introduction: Overview of the Course (2/1) (126 pp.) > o 2. Introduction: The Organizing Tradition (2/6) (170 > pp.) > o 3. Introduction: Organizing Projects (2/8) (103 pp.) > + B. WHY PEOPLE ORGANIZE: INTEREST/POWER > o 1. Why People Organize: Interests/Problems (2/13) (86 > pp.) > o 2. Why People Organize: Power/Solutions (2/20) (107 pp.) > + C. HOW ORGANIZING WORKS: LEADERSHIP, STRATEGY, MOTIVATION > o 1. Developing Leadership (2/27) (126 pp.) > o 2. Devising Strategies and Tactics (3/05) (103 pp) > o 3. Motivating Participation (3/12) (96 pp.) > + D. HOW ORGANIZING WORKS: RELATIONSHIP, UNDERSTANDING, ACTION > o 1. Mobilizing Relationships: Building Community (3/19) > (140 pp) > o 2. Mobilizing Understanding: Deliberation and > Interpretation (4/2) (123 pp.) > o 3. Mobilizing Resources: Action Program (4/9) (102 pp.) > + E. COMMUNITIES IN ACTION: ORGANIZATIONS AND CAMPAIGNS > o 1. Communities in Action: Organizations (4/16) (116 pp.) > o 2. Communities In Action: Campaigns (4/23) > + F. BECOMING A GOOD ORGANIZER (4/30) (125 pp.) > + G. CONCLUSION (5/2) (106 pp.) > * III . RESOURCES > + A. Required Reading > + B. Supplemental Reading > + C. Manuals/Guides > + D. Films > >I. INTRODUCTION > > A. OBJECTIVES > > >To fulfill its promise, democracy must meet the challenges of equity, >accountability and responsiveness. This requires an "organized" >citizenry with the power to articulate and assert its interests >effectively. Unfortunately, in the United States, the concerns of many >citizens remain muted because of sharp declines in civic organization >and citizen participation. Elsewhere, new democracies struggle to >create the institutions to make effective citizen participation >possible. By confronting these challenges, organizers can revitalize >old democratic institutions and create new ones. In this course, >students learn to view social, economic and political problems from an >organizer's perspective, to act on these problems using a praxis of >organizing, and to use the basic tools required to design successful >organizing campaigns. Particular attention will be given to principles >common to community, electoral, union and issue organizing. > > B. OUTLINE > > >This course focuses on how to build organizations through which people >can exercise power on behalf of their common interests. It addresses >three questions: why people organize, how organizing works, and what >it takes to be a good organizer. As "participant observers" students >learn to use their experience as data. Students learn to "map" the >power and interests at work in their community, develop leadership, >motivate participation, and devise strategies to build the >relationships, share the understandings, and construct the programs >through which organizers conduct campaigns. > > C. PARTICIPANTS > > >Although developed from organizer training sessions, this course has >been redesigned for MPP, MPA and MC-MPA students with an interest in >'empowerment strategies' as applied to policy making, service >provision, community advocacy and electoral politics. Although "real >world" organizing experience is helpful, it is not required. Students >will be most successful who have a strong interest in the >organization, issue or community with which they will be working. > > D. REQUIREMENTS > > > 1. Students structure class work around volunteer service with an > "organizing project" of their own choosing. This may be a project > they are currently working on or a new one. Students may initiate > their own project or serve with one of a wide variety of community > or campus organizations. Projects require an average of 6 hours > per week. > 2. In classes which meet for 1.5 hours, twice a week for twelve > weeks, we will discuss students experience in light of organizing > principles drawn from the lectures and reading. Sessions alternate > between discussion of new material and of student projects. > Students are expected to attend all sessions, do the reading and > take an active part in discussions. > 3. Reading is assigned for only the first class meeting each week > (except for the first and last weeks of the course), combines > theory and practice and averages about 100 pages per week. > 4. Prior to the second class meeting each week, students will write > "reflection papers" of 1 to 2 pages interpreting their organizing > project experience using concepts discussed in class. These will > be submitted by email to "PAL177" the evening before they are due. > Two reflection papers may be missed - no excuse required - but the > rest must be turned in. Students will take turns initiating > discussion of this material. > 5. At the end of the term students submit a 20 page final report on > their organizing project. At midterm, instead of a reflection > paper, students submit a first draft of their final report. > Evaluation will be based on the student's demonstrated ability to > apply organizing concepts to understanding a practical setting. > Final grades are based on the following: class participation and > weekly reflection (50%), midterm progress report (20%), final > report (30%). > > > E. MATERIALS > > >Readings provide case studies and background to lecture/discussions. >Five books are required for this course and available for purchase at >the COOP and on reserve at the Kennedy School Library: (1) Sharan B. >Merriam, Case Study Research in Education. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, >1991; (2) Jack L Walker, Jr., Mobilizing Interest Groups in America. >University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1991; (3) Steven Lukes, >Power: A Radical View. Macmillan, 1990; (4) Saul Alinsky, Reveille for >Radicals, Vintage, 1960; and (5) Kim Bobo, J. Kendall and S. Max, >Organizing for Social Change: A Manual for Activists in the 1990s, >1991, Seven Locks. Other readings are available in a PAL-177 reading >packet which may be purchased at the CMDO. A supplemental list of >recommended reading for those with particular interests is also >provided, as is a list of available manuals and films. > >II. PROGRAM > > >The following is the schedule of class meetings and reading >assignments. The number of pages/week is indicated in italics beside >the date. Special due dates are noted in italics. > > A. INTRODUCTION TO ORGANIZING > > 1. Introduction: Overview of the Course (2/1) (126 pp.) > > >Welcome. Today we discuss the goals of the course, how they will be >accomplished, what the requirements are, etc. The readings offer an >historical and philosophical background to the approach we will be >taking to understanding organizing. > * a) Aristotle, Politica, Book 1, Chapter 1-2 (pp.1127-1130) > * b) Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Part > II, Chapters 2-6 (pp. 506-517). > * c) Robert Bellah, et al, The Good Society, "Introduction: We Live > Through Institutions," (pp 1-18) > * d) Sidney Tarrow, Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective > Action and Politics,, Part I, (pp.31-80). > * e) Jack L. Walker, Jr., Mobilizing Interest Groups in America, > Chapter 1, (pp.1-3, pp.9-14), Chapter 2, (pp.19-40). > * f) Saul Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals, Chapter 1, (pp.3-23). > * g) Marshall Ganz, "What is Organizing", 1996. (To obtain this, > follow the WWW link or send e-mail to listserv@uicvm.uic.edu with > the message GET WHAT ORGANIZE) > * h) Course Outline Chart > * i) Organizational Strategy Chart > > 2. Introduction: The Organizing Tradition (2/6) (170 pp.) > > >We begin by looking at what the organizing tradition brings to the >overall scheme of public life. The readings provide accounts of how >some people have organized to take action and what they accomplished. > * a) The Bible, "Exodus," Chapters 2-6, (pp.82-89) Numbers, Chapter > 11 (pp. 216-19). > * b) Robert Middlekauf, The Glorious Cause, Chapter 11, > "Resolution", (pp.221-239). > * c)Dennis Dalton, Gandhi, Chapter 4, "Civil Disobedience: The Salt > Satyagraha" (pp.91-138). > * d) Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters, Chapter 5, "The Montgomery > Bus Boycott", (p.143-205) > * e)Margarita Lopa, "Historical Context: The Evolution of NGOs as a > Social Movement" in Lopa, M.A. (ed) Singing the Same Song: > Reflections of Two Generations of NGO Workers in the Philippines,, > pp. 38-71. > > 3. Introduction: Organizing Projects (2/8) (103 pp.) > > >These readings discuss research methods which will help you get the >most out of your project experience. Focus on the major topics: what >you can learn with this kind of research, how to handle yourself, how >to document what you experience, how to analyze what you've >documented, how to draw conclusions. > * a) Sharan Merriam, Case Study Research in Education, Chapter 1, > "The Case Study Approach to Research Problems" (5-21), Chapter 6, > "Being a Careful Observer", (pp.87-103), Chapter 8, "The > Components of Data Analysis" (pp.123-146); Chapter 10, "Dealing > with Validity, Reliability, and Ethics in Case Study Research" > (pp. 163-184). > * b) Martin Hammersly & Paul Atkinson, Ethnography: Principles in > Practice, Chapter 4. "Field Relations", (pp. 77-104). > * c) RECOMMENDED: Lofland & Lofland, Analyzing Social Settings, > Chapter 3, "Getting In" (pp. 20-31) and Chapter 4, "Getting > Along", (31-45). > > B. WHY PEOPLE ORGANIZE: INTEREST/POWER > > 1. Why People Organize: Interests/Problems (2/13) (86 pp.) > > >We begin to focus on your organizing project by asking about the >"interests" which define the social world within which it operates. >What motivates the individuals and organizations who are involved. Who >are they? What needs are they trying to address? What problems are >they trying to solve? What interests are they trying to protect? >What's at stake? > * a) Rita K. Atkinson, et al, Introduction to Psychology, Chapter > 14, "Personality Theory and Assessment", (pp.503-529). > * b) Clayton Alderfer, Existence, Relatedness and Growth, Chapter 2, > "Theory" (pp. 6-29) > * c) Max Weber, Economy and Society, Volume I, "Types of Social > Action", (pp.24-26). > * d) Jack L. Walker, Jr., Mobilizing Interest Groups in America, > Chapter 3, "Explaining the Mobilization of Interests," (pp. > 41-55). > * e) Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, "A Word About Words", > (pp.48-62) > * f) Interest Chart > * g) ASSIGNMENT DUE: REPORT ON ORGANIZING PROJECT SELECTED > > >Project Discussion: Interests (2/15) > >First Reflection Paper Due: Interest Map > > 2. Why People Organize: Power/Solutions (2/20) (107 pp.) > > >We turn now to how people get resources to solve the problems which >affect their interests - their power. The distribution of resources >among the actors relative to their interests defines their power >relations with each other - autonomy, interdependency, >dependency/domination. What resources are most needed to soive the >problems your organizatbn is addressing? Who controls them? What are >their interests? > * a) Richard Emerson, "Power-Dependence Relations", ASR, 27:31-40. > * b) Steven Lukes, Power: A Radical View, Entire Book (pp.9-57). > * c) Phillip B. Heymann, The Politics of Public Management, "The > Meaning of 'Resources' in a Political Setting." (pp.145 -163) > * d)Clarence Stone, Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta, Chapter 11 > "Rethinking Community Power: Social Production vs. Social Control > (pp. 219-233). > * e)Thucydides, The Peloponessian Wars, Book V, Chapter 7, "The > Sixteenth Year - the Melian Dialogue", (pp.400-408). > * f) RECOMMENDED: John Gaventa, Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence > and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley, Introduction (pp.1-32). > * g) Power Charts > > >Project Discussion: Power 2/22 >Second Reflection Paper Due: Power Map > > C. HOW ORGANIZING WORKS: LEADERSHIP, STRATEGY, MOTIVATION > > 1. Developing Leadership (2/27) (126 pp.) > > >Organizations mobilize for action through the exercise of leadership. >How is leadership exercised in your project? Who are the leaders, >where do they come from, how were they identified, how were they >recruited, how were they trained, what kind of leadership do they >exercise, to whom are they accountable, etc. > * a) James McGregor Burns, Leadership, Chapter 1, (p.9-28). > * b) Ronaid Heifetz, Leadership Without Easy Answers, "Values in > Leadership", Chapter 1, (pp.13-27) . > * c)J. Richard Hackman and Richard E. Walton, Chapter 3, "Leading > Groups in Organizations", in Designing Effective Work Groups, Paul > Goodman (pp. 72-119). > * d)Saul Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals, Chapter 5, "Native > Leadership", (pp.64-75). > * e)Nicholas Von Hoffman, "Finding and Making Leaders". Industrial > Areas Foundation, 1963, (pp-1-16). > * f)Dr. M.L. King, A Testament of Hope, "The Drum Major Instinct", > (p.259-78) > * g)Leadership Charts > > >Project Discussion: Leadership (2/29) > > 2. Devising Strategies and Tactics (3/05) (103 pp) > > >Organizers use strategy to make the most of their resources. Strategy >involves three elements: > 1. targeting (concentrating resources at the point they will do the > most good) > 2. timing (acting at the moment one's chances of success are > greatest), and > 3. tactics (activities which are consistent with one's capacities). > This week we discuss strategies most commonly employed in civic > action: conflict, cooperation, service, advocacy. In subsequent > weeks we will explore the strategies and tactics used for building > relationships, developing understanding, and carrying out > programs. What is the strategy of your organizing project? > > * a) Kim Bobo, Organizing for Social Change, Chapter 4 "Strategy" > (pp.20-33); Chapter 5, "A Guide to Tactics" (pp.34-42). > * b) Si Kahn, Organizing, Chapter 8 "Strategy" (pp.155-174) > * c) Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, Tactics, (p.126-36, 148-55, > 158-61). > * d) Ann Costain and W. Douglas Costain, "Strategy and Tactics of > the Womens' Movement in the United States: the Role of Political > Parties", (pp.196-214) in The Women's Movements of the United > States and Western Europe, ed. Katzenstein and Mueller. > * e)Robert Mitchell, Angela Mertig, Riley Dunlap, "Twenty Years of > Environmental Mobilization: Trends Among National Environmental > Organizations" (pp.11-25); Michael McClosky, "Twenty Years of > Change in the Environmental Movement: An Insiders Vew (pp. 77-88) > in American Environmentalism: The US Environmental Movement, > 1970-1990, Riley E. Dunlap and Angela G. Mertig. > * f) Strategy Charts (3) > >Project Discussion: Strategies & Tactics (3/07) > > 3. Motivating Participation (3/12) (96 pp.) > > >Organizing requires participation to be effective. Participation >depends on motivating people to take responsibility, to act. >Motivation involves how we feel about things as much as what we think >about them. This week we examine the dynamics of motivation. How does >the organization you work with motivate those whose participation it >requires? > * a) Dennis Chong, Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement, > Chapter 5, "Creating the Motivation to Participate in > Collective.Action" (pp.90-102), Chapter 8, "Strategies of > Collective Action" (pp.173-85), Chapter 10, "Conclusion" > (pp.230-40). > * b) Susan Fiske and Shelly E. Taylor, Social Cognition, Chapter 6, > "Social Schemata~ (pp.139-42, 171-81), Chapter 12, "Attitudes: > Cognition and Persuasion~ (pp.340-2, 344-9, 352-55, 359-68). > * c) Ruth McKenney, Industrial Valley, "The Beginning" (pp.25-32), > "The First Sit Down" (pp.251 -270) . > * d) Dr. M.L. King,"I Have A Dream", A Testament of Hope, (pp. > 217-221). > * e) RECOMMENDED: Robert Coles, The Call to Service, Chapter 3, > "Satisfactions", (pp 68-64) > * f) Motivation Charts > > >Project Discussion: Motivation (3/14) >MIDTERM REPORT DUE FRIDAY, MARCH 15 > > D. HOW ORGANIZING WORKS: RELATIONSHIP, UNDERSTANDING, ACTION > > >Organizations are woven together from three threads: relationships, >understanding and action. Relationships are built into a community. >New understandings emerge from deliberation and interpretation. An >action program is the result of how resources are mobilized and >deployed. > > 1. Mobilizing Relationships: Building Community (3/19) (140 pp) > > >This week we focus on the most fundamental element in organizing - >relationship building. Through new relationships we come to understand >our interests differently and discover new resources for acting upon >them. This weeks readings point to different ways in which >relationship building contributes to organizing. > * a) Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work, Chapter 6, p.163-185. > * b) George C. Homans, "Social Behavior as Exchange", in > Interpersonal Dynamics; Bennis, et al. (pp.390-402) > * c) Erving Goffman, "On face-work: an analysis of ritual elements > in social interaction", in Interpersonal Dynamics, Bennis, et al. > (pp.175 -189). > * d) Mark Granovener, "The Strength of Weak Ties", ASR, 78:6 > (pp.1360-78) > * e) Kris Rondeau, "A Woman's Way of Organizing", Labor Research > Review #18, (pp.45-59). > * f) Jacques Levy, Cesar Chavez, Book IV, Chapters 1-5, > (pp.151-181), "The Birth of the Union". > * g) Aldon Morris, "The Black Southern Student Sit-In Movement: An > Analysis of Internal Organization," ASR, 46: 744-767 > * h) Kim Bobo, Organizing for Social Change, Chapter 10, > "Recruiting", (pp.78-85). > * i) Relationship Charts > > >Project Discussion: Relationships (3/21) > > 2. Mobilizing Understanding: Deliberation and Interpretation (4/2) (123 > pp.) > > >Community action organizations deliberate about who they are, what >they do, and why they do it - and interpret these understandings to >themselves, their constituency, and others who share their world. How >does your organization do this? Is it done well? > * a) William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act IV, Scene 3, "We Happy Few" > * b) Ronald Reagan, "First Inaugural Address," January 20, 1981. (7 > pp.) > * c) Mario Cuomo, "Two Cities," Keynote Address to Democratic > National Convention, July 17, 1984. (11 pp.) > * d) David Snow, "Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and > Movement Participation", ASR, 51 (August:464-81). > * e) Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, "In the Beginning", > (p.98-125) > * f) Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Chapter 2 (pp. 57-74). > * g) Saul Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals, Chapter 6, "Community > Traditions and Organizations", (p.76-88). > * h) Benjamin Barber, Strong Democracy, Chapter 8, "Citizenship and > Participation", (pp.173 - 198) . > * i) Kim Bobo, Organizing for Social Change, Chapter 14, "Using the > Media", (pp.116-123). > * j) RECOMMENDED: Mark Moore, The Power of Public Ideas, "What Makes > Public Ideas Powerful", Chapter 3 (pp. 55-85). > * k) Understanding Charts > > >Project Discussion: Understanding (4/4) > > 3. Mobilizing Resources: Action Program (4/9) (102 pp.) > > >Community action organizations mobilize and deploy resources to carry >out action programs. Some programs focus on providing services to a >constituency, while others focus on making claims on behalf of it. >This week we explore where programs come from, how they are put >together, and how they are carried out. > * a) Pamela Oliver and Gerald Marwell, "Mobilizing Technologies for > Collective Action", Chapter 11, (pp 251-270), in Frontiers in > Social Movement Theory, ed. Morris and Mueller. > * b) Saul Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals, Chapter 4, "The Program" > (pp.53-64.) > * c) Jacques Levy; Cesar Chavez; Prologue (pp. xxi-xxv) > * d) Kay Schlozman, Organized Interests and American Democracy, > Chapter 7, "What Organized Interests Do", (pp.148-169) > * e ) Gene Sharp, The Politics of Nonviolent Action, Part Two: The > Methods of Nonviolent Action, Political Jiu-Jitsu at Work; Table > of Contents,(pp. xii-xvi). > * f ) Kim Bobo, Organizing for Social Change, Chapter 7, "Designing > Actions", (pp.48-55); Chapter 20, "Grassroots Fundraising" > (pp.176-83). > * g) Kennedy School Case C16-91-1034, "Orange Hats of Fairlawn: A > Washington DC Neighborhood Battles Drugs." (pp.1-18) > * h ) Mary Beth Rogers, Cold Anger, Chapter 11, "Leave Them Alone. > They're Mexicans", (pp.105-126) > * i) Mobilization Chart > > >Project Discussion: Program (4/11) > > E. COMMUNITIES IN ACTION: ORGANIZATIONS AND CAMPAIGNS > > 1. Communities in Action: Organizations (4/16) (116 pp.) > > >Organizers structure the communities they mobilize as organizations. >How can we build organizations which are bounded, yet inclusive, >communal, yet diverse, solidaristic yet tolerant? How can relations >between leadership and community be based on mutual responsibility and >accountability? How does your organization address these issues? > * a) Si Kahn, Organizing, Chapter 3, "Organizations", (pp.55-77). > * b) Kim Bobo, Organizing for Social Change, Chapter 12, "Planning > and Facilitating Meetings", (pp.94-103). > * c) Richard L. Moreland, "The Formation of Small Groups", in > Kendrick, C. (ed.) (1987), Group Processes, (pp.80-105) > * d) Kenwyn Smith and David Berg, "A Paradoxical Conception of Group > Dynamics", Human Relations, V40:10, 1987, (pp.633-58) > * e)Irving Janis, "Groupthink", in Hackman, J.R. (1983), > Perspectives on Behavior in Organizations, (pp.378-384) > * f)J. Richard Hackman, "A General Model of Group Development" (1 > page chart) > * g) Organization Charts > > >Project Discussion: Communities In Action (4/18) > > 2. Communities In Action: Campaigns (4/23) (choose two of the four > readings) > > >Most programs implemented by community action organizations are >carried out as campaigns - a rhythm of activity which focuses on a >specific goal, begins slowly building a foundation, gradually gathers >momentum and resources, and culminates in a peak when the campaign is >won or lost. Does your organization conduct campaigns? How do you know >if you are winning or losing? Does it matter? Why? Why not? > * a) Jacques Levy, Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa, Book IV, > "The Birth of the Union", Chapters 6-11, (p.183-218), Book V, > "Victory in the Vineyards", Chapters 6-14, (pp.263-325), > * b)Peter Medoff and Holly Sklar, Streets of Hope, Chapter 3, "Don't > Dump On Us: Organizing the Neighborhood" (pp.67-89), Chapter 4, > "Planning an Urban Village", (pp.89-113). > * c) Richard Goodwin, Remembering America, Chapter 26, "The McCarthy > Campaign" (pp.483-515). > * d) International Campaign: to be assigned > * e) Campaign Planning Packet > * f) Campaign Charts > > >Project Discussion: Campaigns (4/25) > > F. BECOMING A GOOD ORGANIZER (4/30) (125 pp.) > > >This week we will reflect on organizing as a craft, art, profession, >and vocation: why do we do it, what makes us good at it, what about >the rest of our lives, how can we continue to grow as we do it? > * 1. Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, "The Education of the > Organizer", (p.63-80.) > * 2. Jacques Levy; Cesar Chavez, Book II, Chapter 11 (pp.89-93), > Book III, Prologue, Chapter 1-3 (pp.95-114). > * 3. Ronald Heifetz, Leadership Without Easy Answers, Chapter 11, > "The Personal Challenge", (pp.250-276) . > * 4. Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House, Chapters 4-5, > (pp.60-89). (Chapter 13, "Public Activities and Investigations," > is available on the COMM-ORG WWW site at > http://h-net2.msu.edu/~urban/comm-org/syllabi/ganz/addams.) > * 5. Robert Coles, The Call to Service, Chapter 8, "Consequences", > (pp.254-84). > > G. CONCLUSION (5/2) (106 pp.) > > >Today we'll hear from everyone about what they have learned from the >various projects in which they have been involved? What have we >learned about ourselves as observers? How do these lessons link up >with the broader question of the role of organizing in public life? > * 1. Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals, Chapter 11 (p.190-204). > * 2. Robert Putnam, "Bowling Alone:Democracy in America and the End > of the 20th Century", 1994. (Available on the WWW at > http://muse.jhu.edu:80/demo/journal_of_democracy/v006/putnam.html. > ) > * 3. William Grieder, "Who will tell the People?," Chapter 10, > "Democratic Promise" (p.222-241). > * 4. Ernesto Cortes, "Reweaving the Fabric: The Iron Rule and the > IAF Strategy for Dealing with Poverty Through Power and Politics", > IAF, (pp1-31). > * 5. Robert Wuthnow, Acts of Compassion, Chapter 9, "Envisioning a > Better Society", (pp.249-81). > >III. RESOURCES > > A. Required Reading > > * 1. Saul Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals, Vintage, 1960 > * 2. Steven Lukes, Power: A Radical View, Macmillan, 1990; > * 3. Sharan B. Merriam, Case Study Research in Education, > Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1991 > * 4. Jack L. Walker, Jr., Mobilizing Interest Groups in > America.University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1991 > * 5. Kim Bobo, J. Kendall and S. Max, Organizing for Social Change: > A Manual for Activists in the 1990s. 1991, Seven Locks. > * 6. CMDO PAL-177 Reader > > B. Supplemental Reading > > >The following are accounts of organizing campaigns in a variety of >settings recommended as background reading for those with particular >areas of interest. > * 1. Gandhi and Satyagraha > + a) Gandhi,Mahatma, Autobiography (Boston: Beacon Press, > 1957). > + b) Dalton, Dennis, Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in > Action, (New York: Columbia, 1993). > * 2. Labor Movement/Populism > + a) Steinbeck, John, In Dubious Battle, (Blue Ribbon Books, > New York, 1937). > + b) McKenny, Ruth, Industrial Valley, (New York: Greenwood > Press, 1939). > + c)Dubofsky, Melvyn and Warren Van Tine, John L. Lewis, A > Biography (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977). > + d) Goodwyn, Lawrence, The Populist Moment, (New York: Oxford > University Press, 1978). > + e) Cohen, Lizabeth, Making a New Deal, (London: Cambridge > University Press, 1990). > + f) Geoghegan, Thomas, Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be > For Labor When It's Flat on It's Back, (Plume, 1991) > * 3. Civil Rights Movements > + a) McAdam, Doug. Political Process and the Development of > Black Insurgency, 1930-1980 (Chicago:University of Chicago > Press, 1982) > + b) Morris, Aldon. Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black > Communities Organizing for Change, (New York: Free Press, > 1984). > + c) Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King > Years, 1954-63, (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988). > + d) Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Different Shore: A > History of Asian Americans, (New York: Penguin, 1989). > + e) Payne, Charles. I've Got the Light of Freedom: The > Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, > (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995) > * 4. Political Movements > + a) Crawford, Alan. Thunder on the Right, (Pantheon, 1980). > + b) Gitlin, Todd. The Sixties, (New York: Bantam Books, 1989) > + c) Klatch, Rebecca E. Women of the New Right, (Temple, 1987.) > + d) Goodwyn, Lawrence. Breaking the Barrier: The Rise of > Solidarity in Poland, (New York: Oxford University > Press,1991). > + e) Hertzke, Alan. Echoes of Discontent, (Washington: CQ > Press, 1993). > * 5. Women's Movements > + a) Katzenstein, Mary Fainsod and Carol McClurg Mueller, The > Women's Movements of the United States and Western Europe, > (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987). > + b) Mansbridge, Jane. Why We Lost the ERA, (Chicago: > University of Chicago Press, 1986). > + c) Feree, Myra Max. Controversy and Coalition: New Feminist > Movement (New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1994). > * 6. The Environmental Movement > + a) Dunlap, Riley and Angela G. Mertig. American > Environmentalism: the U.S. Environmental Movement, 1970-1990 > (Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis, 1992). > + b) Rosenbaum, Walter, Environmental Politics & Policy, > (Washington, D.C: CQ Press, 1994) > * 7. Community Organizing > + a) Horwitt, Sanford. Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky > (New York: Knopf, 1989). > + b) Rogers, Mary Beth. Cold Anger: A Story of Faith and Power > Politics, (University of North Texas Press). > + c) Medoff, Peter and Holly Sklar, Streets of Hope (Boston: > South End Press) > + d) Rooney, Jim. Organizing the South Bronx (New York: State > University of New York, 1995). > > C. Manuals/Guides > + 1. Bobo, Kim, J. Kendall and S. Max. Organizing for Social > Change: A Manual for Activists in the 1990s. 1991. Seven > Locks. > + 2. Kahn, Si. Organizing: A Guide for Grass Root Leaders. > McGraw-Hill, 1982. > + 3. Industrial Areas Foundation Materials > + 4. AFL-CIO Organizing Institute Materials > + 5. Campaign Materials > > D. Films > + 1. Grapes of Wrath, Henry Fonda, Ford, 1940. > + 2. The Organizer, Marcello Mastraionni, Fellini, 1963. > + 3. Alinsky Series, National Film Board of Canada, 1968 > + 4. Burn, Marlon Brando, Pontecorvo, 1969. > + 5. Norma Rae, Sally Fields, 1972. > + 6. FIST, Sylvester Stallone, 1977. > + 7. Gandhi, Ben Kingsly, 1983. > + 8. Eyes on the Prize, Blackside, 1986. > + 9. Matewan, Sayles, 1987. > + 10. Freedom on My Mind, Fields, 1994. > + 11. Il Postino, 1995. > Marshall Ganz, Kennedy School, 1996 > > From shostaka@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu Sat Feb 8 16:25:46 1997 Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 19:54:51 -0500 To: LABOR-RAP@csf.colorado.edu From: shostaka@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu (Art Shostak) Subject: Of Possible Interest > Nigerian-American Labour Education Council > Nigerian Labour Congress House > P.O. Box 620, Yaba, Lagos > NIGERIA > Dr. Akin OShuntogun, Chairman Comrade J. O. Fati, Secretary > > Dear Sir, > REQUEST FOR PERMANENT CO-OPERATION AND COLLABORATION FOR TECHNICAL > ASSISTANCE IN LABOUR AND PRODUCTIVITY EDUCATION > > In Africa, committed and dedicated labour activists often find themselves > elected to full-time responsible positions within the Unions, but without > the neccesary administrative and organisational skills required; moreover, > there is currently a noticeable decline in Workers' productivity with > widespread poverty and acute shortage of essential products ravaging the > depressed and distressed national economics of Africa. > > Our goal is to foster Technical Assistance and Exchanges in Labour and > Productivity Education between Labour Institutions in Nigeria, Canada and > the United States America in order to address and resolve the critical > issues raised above co-operatively through collaborative training > activities and programmes. > > we are greatly interested in your laudable institution and we are > requesting for permanent co-operation and assistance by: > > (a) Making regular provision of your past course or training programme > materials for their replication in Nigeria and other parts of Africa, and > co-sponsoring the course in the name of your Institution. > > (b) Passing information and granting if possible, tutuition-free > schlorships and such other incentives to labour leaders from Africa to > attend short-term courses of your Institution. > > (e) Co-sponsoring in Africa an annual workshop on issue related to > productivity or labour development, and > > (d) By advising regularly and serving as a member of the International > Advisory Council. > > We shall be pleased to work with you for the Labour Development of > Africa. Thanks for your co-operation in anticipation. > > Yours faithfully, > > Dr. Akin Oshuntogun > Chairman > > mattel h. mateo > mateo@magnet.fsu.edu > Arthur B. Shostak, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Department of Psych/Soc/Anthro, Drexel University, Phila., PA, 19104; 215-895-2466; fax 610-668-2727. email: SHOSTAKAt@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu http://duvm.ocs.drexel.edu/~shostak/ "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking [and feeling] we were at when we created them." Albert Einstein. From culturex@vcn.bc.ca Sat Feb 8 17:52:16 1997 Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 16:52:05 -0800 (PST) From: Franklin Wayne Poley Subject: Re: Corporate Ethics??? (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 12:41:50 -0800 (PST) From: Franklin Wayne Poley To: futurework@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: Corporate Ethics??? (fwd) On Sat, 8 Feb 1997, Michael Gurstein wrote: > Forwarded message: > Date: 2 Feb 1997 14:38:06 -0400 > From: "Bill Black" > Subject: Where the Jobs Are! > > Wage Slaves - Coming to a private prison near you! > > Private prison companies have been predictably enthusiastic about the > booming market for convict labor. Between 1980 and 1994 the value of goods > produced by prisoners rose from $392 million to $1.31 billion. Inmates now > make articles such as clothes car parts, computer components, shoes, golf > balls, soap, and furniture, in addition to staffing jailhouse telemarketing, > data entry and print shop operations. Some states are assigning inmates to > institutions after matching up their job skills with a prison s labor needs. clipped > > SOURCE: CounterPunch, Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1-15, 1997 I think this should go on the NYSE as "Gulags Inc." I have some historical maps of the development of gulags and it seems that many sprang up into fully developed cities with industrial complexes. Canadian Geographic (the Canadian counterpart to National Geographic) described how a New Yorker, Bronstein (nom de guerre, Trotsky) was briefly jailed in Canada in 1917 en route to Moscow where he led the Red Army. Some historians might argue that the Soviet Gulags were a "made in America" macro-engineering project anyway. Maybe they should have put USSR Inc. on the NYSE in the first place. State capitalism eh? FWP. *** To discuss any and all aspects of Canadian and U.S. Constitutions send one word, subscribe, in email body to CONSTITUTION-Request@websightz.com; http://www.websightz.com/constitution; www.websightz.com/ftr_cities *** -=- Posted through the Ftr_Cities Mailing List To Post a message, mail it to: Ftr_Cities@websightz.com For Help file send a blank email to: Ftr_Cities-request@websightz.com To obtain a digest of Ftr_Cities discussion send email with "subscribe" in the body to: Ftr_Cities-digest-request@websightz.com For mailing lists and web site design send requests to: webmadam@websightz.com From culturex@vcn.bc.ca Sat Feb 8 18:00:10 1997 Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 17:00:03 -0800 (PST) From: Franklin Wayne Poley Subject: Re: FW: Wage Slaves To: UNITED In-Reply-To: <01BC15D8.492F7F20@ala-ca9-26.ix.netcom.com> On Sat, 8 Feb 1997, Ms. Aikya Param wrote: > This is a twice forwarded message sent to > me via a list on Microenterprise. Presumably > this information is not news to all of you. > > Is anything being done by labor in response > to this practice? Should anything be happening? > Are these workers in competition with any > unionized workers? If they are performing > work in the same "field:, could they be > unionized? (Talk about an organizing > nightmare!) The whole field of forced labor/impressed labor really is a nightmare to the unions and could well be their death knell. Why? Well, imagine a Prison Labor and Workfare population in North America numbering in the millions or tens of millions. They can do everything unionized workers now do or they can be trained to do those jobs. The difference is that the forced labor population has no right to minimum wage or anything else. What happens to "organized labor"? End of the road! FWP. From dhorne@direct.ca Sun Feb 9 00:43:54 1997 Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 23:43:40 -0800 (PST) To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu From: david horne Subject: Re: FW: Wage Slaves At 05:00 PM 2/8/97 -0800, you wrote: >On Sat, 8 Feb 1997, Ms. Aikya Param wrote: > >> This is a twice forwarded message sent to >> me via a list on Microenterprise. Presumably >> this information is not news to all of you. >> >> Is anything being done by labor in response >> to this practice? Should anything be happening? >> Are these workers in competition with any >> unionized workers? If they are performing >> work in the same "field:, could they be >> unionized? (Talk about an organizing >> nightmare!) > >The whole field of forced labor/impressed labor really is a nightmare to >the unions and could well be their death knell. Why? Well, imagine a >Prison Labor and Workfare population in North America numbering in the >millions or tens of millions. They can do everything unionized workers >now do or they can be trained to do those jobs. The difference is that >the forced labor population has no right to minimum wage or anything else. >What happens to "organized labor"? End of the road! >FWP. > >End of the economy as we know it too. If nobody is working at something approaching fair wages, then there will be no money to buy anything and hence no need to produce anything. We are seeing the beginning of this trend now. Hopefully our corporate masters will figure out that their move the to use of what amounts to slave labour will in the long term, destroy them. David H. From dreier@oxy.edu Sun Feb 9 22:11:15 1997 Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 21:10:05 -0800 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu From: Peter Dreier Subject: Union Pension Funds and Corporate PACs CassBlum@aol.com, joelcheryl@aol.com, bluestone%umbsky.dnet@ns.umb.edu, TGTGTGTGTG@aol.com To Labor-Rappers: I have some questions -- political and legal -- about the role of union pension funds in influencing corporate PACs. The GOP in Congress is about to go on the warpath against unions for use of PAC funds in Congressional races. Their argument is that union members' dues are being used without their direct consent to support candidates who members may or may not individually support. The GOP legislation wants to require unions to put each political endorsement up to a full-scale membership vote -- an expensive and cumbersome process. (Currently, union PACs endorse candidates following a vote of elected representatives). But when corporate PACs (or industry trade association PACs, made up of corporations) financially support conservative (typically anti-union) candidates, they don't ask shareholders to OK it. This is hardly "democratic." So...Why can't unions use the leverage of their pension funds, which hold huge investments in corporations (including anti-union ones), to require corporate PACs to put all political endorsements to a vote of shareholders? Why can't union pension funds use this influence to neutralize corporate PAC donations to anti-union candidates? Even pension funds that are managed jointly by union and management representatives ought to be able to exercise some influence here, no? Does anyone know if there are any legal constraints on this idea -- for example, ERISA and "prudent man" rules? Some pensions already use their "socially responsible" criteria for their investments; why is this different? After all, corporate PAC money is "pre-tax" -- in other words, it could otherwise be distributed to shareholders in the form of higher dividends (or to workers in the form of higher wages) -- instead of to Jesse Helms or the Right-to-Work Committee or Newt Gingrich. Why can't union pension funds engage in stockholder proxy fights over corporate PAC behavior? Would this be an effective way for the union movement to fight back against GOP attempts to undermine labor PAC activities? Any thoughts on this topic would be appreciated. You can forward them through Labor-Rap or directly to me: dreier@oxy.edu. Thanks. Peter Dreier Occidental College From emf0551@is.nyu.edu Sun Feb 9 23:05:38 1997 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 01:05:36 -0500 (EST) From: "Eric M. Fink" To: Labor Research and Action Project Subject: Re: Union Pension Funds and Corporate PACs In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970210051005.00679ce4@bobcat.oxy.edu> Re: The suggestion that union pension funds use their status as shareholders to shallenge corporate PAC donations to anti-labor polticians and organizations. State corporation law governs what matters must be approved by shareholders. Usually, these are limited to things relating to the business of the corporation. It is on this basis that corporations have been able to defeat, or prevent entirely, votes on "social" questions like South African investment. Charitable giving and political contributions are similarly not generally subject to a shareholder vote. Conceivably, pension funds (and other pro-labor shareholders) might seek to challenge contributions in a derivative suit, as a waste of corporate assets. It is not likely that such a suit would be successful, though, since the legal test of "waste" is pretty tough to meet (which is why corporate charitable giving generally is permitted even though shareholders might argue that every dollar given to the United Way or whatever is taken from their pockets). But this doesn't necessarily mean that trying to force shareholder votes or bringing lawsuits on this question would not be a good political strategy. Raising the issue in these ways might help to highlight the hypocrisy -- which I've seen commented on in other pro-labor outlets but not the mainstream media -- of insisting on "accountability" for labor but not corporate contributions. In solidarity, Eric Fink (aspiring union lawyer) From kettler@bard.edu Mon Feb 10 04:51:58 1997 X-Ident: IDENT protocol sender: kettler@localhost Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 06:46:31 -0500 (EST) From: David Kettler To: Labor Research and Action Project Subject: Re: Union Pension Funds and Corporate PACs In-Reply-To: A quick but not brief early morning note to the interesting string on union responses to threatened legislation burdening union PACs. First, I share the more pessimistic assessment of interventions by pension funds at corporate shareholder meetings. The closest I come to being any kind of lawyer is having a daughter on the way to qualification, but I remember from the days of the anti-apartheid campaign that pension fund trustees are hampered in many ways by fiduciary laws. There was eventually legislation passed in many jurisdictions to allow funds to disinvest in SA; and social responsibility funds (and the like) can follow the policies they do in part because of permissive legislation and in part because of prior agreement by the individual pensioners choosing this option. What this comes down to, in my layman's (layperson's???) understanding, is that any bastard potential pension beneficiary can sue the ass off any pension trustees who can be said to be jeopardizing returns--and who are we to say that corporate expenditures on their political helpers do not increase profitability for the corporations, that they are not a good deal for the stockholders?? Do Clinton's or Gingrich's special corporate friends do bad business? Is that the fight we want to carry to court?? Second, then, and MUCH MORE TO THE POINT. I gave up on the Public Labor list in despair at the end of the year because my attempt then to raise a warning immediately after elections about the planned legislation throttling remaining possibilities for union collective political action was greeted by a chorus of catcalls left and right, especially left. The chorus was, "Unions SHOULD be made more "responsible" so that they can be made to engage in more leftist policies, and other pipe dreams." Instead of looking for magic counteractions to congressional action whose passage we concede, union activists and intellectuals (and even academic plodders like some of us) should be thinking about making collective political action more credible to union activists (of the sort that subscribe to PUBLABOR), starting WITH A CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE LEGISLATION. David Kettler Bard College kettler@bard.edu From dcroteau@saturn.vcu.edu Mon Feb 10 13:21:50 1997 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 15:19:16 -0500 To: labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: dcroteau@saturn.vcu.edu (david croteau) Subject: UVA teach-in FYI >Please circulate this widely. Ask those who wish to endorse the teach-in >to send an e-mail note to both labor@virginia.edu and to Jeremiah Jeffries >(jkj9m@virginia.edu), who is keeping the master list. [Ralph Nader, who >isn't listed below, will also be speaking at the teach-in.] > > Workers' Rights are Civil Rights: > A Teach-in with the Labor Movement > > The revitalization of American democracy requires that the rights to >free speech, to fair treatment, to assembly, and to self-organization must >be protected with as much vigor at the worksite as in the community at >large. Human dignity is indivisible. Indeed, the rebirth of a dynamic, >democratic, multicultural labor movement is essential to the social and >political health of our nation. > > "Workers' Rights are Civil Rights: A Teach-in with the Labor Movement," >scheduled for February 27-28 on the grounds of the University of Virginia, >will promote the engagement of a new generation of students, academics, >and organizers by exploring the links between economic injustice, on the >one hand, and racial, social, and gender inequalities, on the other. >Among the speakers and panelists are Richard Trumka, Secretary-Treasurer >of the AFL-CIO; Barbara Ehrenreich, author and feminist, Julian Bond, >civil rights leader and lecturer at the University of Virginia; Pamela >Karlan, professor of Law, Edward Ayers, Hugh Kelly professor of History; >Daniel LeBlanc, president, Virginia AFL-CIO; Barbara Pnear, chair of the >University of North Carolina Housekeepers Association; Deborah McDowell, >professor of English; Sharon Hays, professor of Sociology; Adolph Reed, >professor of Political Science at Northwestern University; Joyce Breeden, >UVa classified staff; Nelson Lichtenstein, professor of History; Jimmy >Brooks, president, American Postal Workers Union Local in Charlottesville; >George Rutherglen, O.M. Vickers professor of Law; John McCutcheon, >folksinger and labor activist; and Rebecca Hyman, teaching assistant in >English. > > We endorse this important and timely convocation. Please join us. >(Affiliations noted for identification purposes only.) > >Herbert (Chip) Tucker, professor of English >Ann Lane, Director of Women's Studies >Nelson Lichtenstein, professor of History >John McCutcheon, folksinger >Tico Braun, associate professor of English >Susan Fraiman, associate professor of English >Kendra Hamilton, graduate student in English >John Mason, assistant professor of History >Dan Geary, undergraduate in History >Clair Kaplan, Sexual Assault Education >Brian Owensby, assistant professor of History >Mike Swanson, undergraduate in History >Reginald Butler, Director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute >Eric Lott, professor of English >David Waldner, assistant professor of Government >Elizabeth Thompson, assistant professor of History >Jimmy Brooks, American Postal Workers, Charlottesville ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| David Croteau Sociology/ Virginia Commonwealth University E-mail: dcroteau@saturn.vcu.edu From kdelaney@astro.ocis.temple.edu Mon Feb 10 13:59:29 1997 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 15:59:27 -0500 (EST) From: Kevin Delaney To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: call for ideas regarding "corporate campaigns" I am interested in either references to written work, or those with personal experiences, running corporate campaigns -- in particular campaigns targetted at uncovering corporate connections/investments made by universities, including publicizing corporate connections of university boards of directors, understanding university investments, university purchasing contracts and the like. This is for a student I am supervising who is working on a project assessing the success/failure of campaigns that try to go beyond more typical job actions at the worksite. Any references/leads will be greatly appreciated. Kevin Delaney Associate Professor of Sociology Temple University Philadelphia, PA 19122 From culturex@vcn.bc.ca Mon Feb 10 16:18:06 1997 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 15:17:52 -0800 (PST) From: Franklin Wayne Poley Subject: Re: FW: Wage Slaves (and the Liberation of Labor). To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19970208232105.3d7fd098@direct.ca> On Sat, 8 Feb 1997, david horne wrote: > At 05:00 PM 2/8/97 -0800, you wrote: > >On Sat, 8 Feb 1997, Ms. Aikya Param wrote: > > > >> This is a twice forwarded message sent to > >> me via a list on Microenterprise. Presumably > >> this information is not news to all of you. > >> > >> Is anything being done by labor in response > >> to this practice? Should anything be happening? > >> Are these workers in competition with any > >> unionized workers? If they are performing > >> work in the same "field:, could they be > >> unionized? (Talk about an organizing > >> nightmare!) > > > >The whole field of forced labor/impressed labor really is a nightmare to > >the unions and could well be their death knell. Why? Well, imagine a > >Prison Labor and Workfare population in North America numbering in the > >millions or tens of millions. They can do everything unionized workers > >now do or they can be trained to do those jobs. The difference is that > >the forced labor population has no right to minimum wage or anything else. > >What happens to "organized labor"? End of the road! > >FWP. > > > End of the economy as we know it too. If nobody is working at something > approaching fair wages, then there will be no money to buy anything and > hence no need to produce anything. We are seeing the beginning of this trend > now. Hopefully our corporate masters will figure out that their move the to > use of what amounts to slave labour will in the long term, destroy them. > > David H. I hate to sound like a broken record and I know there are those who will reflexively say, "Mondragon is not a panacea" but I think the next generation from the Mondragon Model CAN be the final "liberation of labor". That next generation is a 100% worker-owned economy: a complete worker-owned conglomerate, a municipal corporation if you will. . FWP. From rross@clarku.edu Mon Feb 10 16:33:35 1997 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 18:33:08 -0500 (EST) From: "ROBERT J.S. (BOB) ROSS, CHAIR OF SOCIOLOGY" Subject: Re: Union Pension Funds and Corporate PACs In-reply-to: <1.5.4.32.19970210051005.00679ce4@bobcat.oxy.edu> To: Labor Research and Action Project I am responding to Brother Dreier's clever idea. I have a big caution. Lest one think that his idea might be a quid pro quo for requiring referendqa in unions, remember that union pension funds are not a large enough freaction of the mARKET to do anything like balance out the influence over PACs that their affluent constituency would have. Check out the on who owns stocks. Otherwise.....interesting. b ***************************************************************************** Robert J.S. Ross 508 793 7243 Department of Sociology fax: 508 793 8816 Clark University 950 Main Street Worcester, MA 01610 ******************************************************************************* From wkramer@ucla.edu Mon Feb 10 23:00:25 1997 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 21:51:12 -0800 To: wkramer@ucla.edu From: William Kramer Subject: Tentatile Agenda for UCLA Labor Teach-In Feb 21-22 > TENTATIVE AGENDA FOR UCLA LABOR TEACH-IN > February 20 - 21, 1997 > >Opening Session, Thursday, 7:00 - 10:00 pm > >"THE FIGHT FOR OUR FUTURE" > > President John Sweeney, AFL-CIO > Dolores Huerta, UFW > Harold Meyerson, LA Weekly > Congressman Xavier Becerra > State Senator Tom Hayden > > Chair: Kent Wong, UCLA Labor Center > >Morning Session, Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 > >"NEW ORGANIZING STRATEGIES" > > Richard Trumka, Secretary Treasurer, AFL-CIO > Harley Shaiken, UC Berkeley > Maria Elena Durazo, HERE #11 > Karen Nussbaum, Working Women's Department, AFL-CIO > > Chair: Miguel Contreras, L.A. County Federation of Labor > >Morning Workshops, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. > >1. Labor and Political Action > > Chair: Kathleen Yasuda, APALA > > Peter Dreier, Occidental College > Damon Moore, L.A. County Federation of Labor > Art Pulaski, California Federation of Labor > Marilyn Sneiderman, Mobilization Department, AFL-CIO > >2. Immigration and Immigrant Workers > > Chair: Joel Ochoa, LAMAP > > Katie Quan, UNITE > Edna Bonacich, UC Riverside > Eliseo Medina, SEIU > >3. Youth in the Labor Movement > > Chair: York Chang, Former UCLA Student Body President > > Karla Zombro, SEIU #399 > Jay Mendoza, HERE #11 > Anibel Comelo, UCLA Labor Center > >4. Working Women > > Chair: June McMahon, UCLA Labor Center > > Loretta Stevens, SEIU > Ruth Milkman, UCLA > Lynn Shaw, WINTER > >5. Workers and Environmental Justice > > Chair: Marianne Brown,UCLA Labor Occupational Safety & Health Program > > Angela Johnson Meszaros > Robin Cannon, Concerned Citizens of South Central > Carlos Porras, Communities for a Better Environment > >6. Labor, Media & the Entertainment Industry > > Chair: Sumi Haru, SAG/AFTRA > > Bruce Doehring, IASTSE > Leslie Bemon, AFTRA > The Working Group > >Afternoon Workshops, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. > >7. Organizing in California > > Chair: David Sickler, AFL-CIO Western Region > > Richard Bensinger, AFL-CIO Organizing Department > Maurice Zeitlin, UCLA > Bob Muehlenkamp, Teamsters > Amy Dean, South Bay Labor Council > > > > > >8. Cross Border Solidarity > > Chair: Carol Zabin, UCLA > > David Johnson, UE > Raul Hinojosa, UCLA > David Bacon, Journalist > Mary Tong, Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers > >9. Work, Welfare and the Labor Movement > > Chair: Mary Brent Wehrli, UCLA > > Paul Ong, UCLA > Robert Scheer, LA Times > Madeline Janis Aparicio, TIDC > >10. Organizing the University > > Chair: William Kramer, UCLA/LAMAP > > Mike Miller, SAGE/UAW > Sue Schurman, George Meany Center > Devra Weber, UC Riverside > >11. Civil, Human and Workers Rights > > Chair: Fernando Gapasin, UCLA Labor Center > > Jose Calderon, Pitzer College > Hector Delgado, UC Irvine > Pat Lee, AFL-CIO Western Region > >Afternoon Plenary, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. > >"RACE, GENDER & CLASS" > > Linda Chavez Thompson, Executive Vice-President, AFL-CIO > Mike Davis, Author/Activist > Joe Hicks, Multi-Cultural Collaborative > State Senator Hilda Solis > > Chair: Barbara Nelson, Dean, UCLA School of Public Policy & Social Research > XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX William Kramer UCLA LAMAP Coordinator 1001 Gayley--2nd Floor Los Angeles, CA 90024 310-794-0698 310-794-8017 fax wkramer@ucla.edu XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX From culturex@vcn.bc.ca Tue Feb 11 11:40:44 1997 Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 10:39:06 -0800 (PST) From: Franklin Wayne Poley Subject: Re: Corporate Ethics??? (And the Final Liberation of Labour). (fwd) *** To discuss any and all aspects of Canadian and U.S. Constitutions send one word, subscribe, in email body to CONSTITUTION-Request@websightz.com; http://www.websightz.com/constitution; www.websightz.com/ftr_cities *** ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 16:02:42 -0800 (PST) From: Franklin Wayne Poley To: Ftr_Cities@websightz.com Subject: Re: Corporate Ethics??? (And the Final Liberation of Labour). On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, FRIENDS OF WISDOM wrote: > >> Wage Slaves - Coming to a private prison near you! > >> > >> Private prison companies have been predictably enthusiastic about the > >> booming market for convict labor. Between 1980 and 1994 the value of goods > >> produced by prisoners rose from $392 million to $1.31 billion. Inmates now > >> make articles such as clothes car parts, computer components, shoes, golf > >> balls, soap, and furniture, in addition to staffing jailhouse telemarketing, > >> data entry and print shop operations. Some states are assigning inmates to > >> institutions after matching up their job skills with a prison s labor needs. > >clipped > >> > >> SOURCE: CounterPunch, Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1-15, 1997 > > > >I think this should go on the NYSE as "Gulags Inc." I have some > >historical maps of the development of gulags and it seems that many > >sprang up into fully developed cities with industrial complexes. Canadian > >Geographic (the Canadian counterpart to National Geographic) described > >how a New Yorker, Bronstein (nom de guerre, Trotsky) was briefly jailed in > >Canada in 1917 en route to Moscow where he led the Red Army. Some > >historians might argue that the Soviet Gulags were a "made in America" > >macro-engineering project anyway. Maybe they should have put USSR Inc. on > >the NYSE in the first place. State capitalism eh? > >FWP. > > > My question is has there ever been a society without slaves. ??? Would a > society, community , nation or any entity larger than just a few individuals > be able to function without slaves.??? Are slaves necessary to the live of a > community??? Can there be a society without slaves???? Thanks for responding to my little tongue-in-cheek posting Biophilos. The answer is below: Definitely. The idea that man has to be a wage slave or some other kind of slave for a society to work is false. It is maintained by the plutocrats so that they can keep a servant class doing the things which THEY want done. Picture 100,000 or one million or ? typical North Americans dropped into the woods of Northern Ontario to kick start the new Province of Northern Ontario led by Premier Ben Serre (formerly Ben Serre, M.P.). They have at least the basics of tools and equipment plus the expected cross-section of talents. What will happen? Well, the society will spontaneously organize like all social animals do. Work is natural as I posted earlier. If not the species is the only one which does not work at getting food, raising the young, finding/making shelters etc. and should be renamed homo laziness. As is the case with other social animals there is a natural organization to labour/roles as well. Will I end up working with the guilds/unions/associations of musicians or athletes or artists? Not a chance. I have no talents, aptitudes, interests along these lines. But thousands of others will do these things. With no coercion. No slavery or bondage. This will be "labour by the people for the people". It is part of that "final liberation of labour" to go back to answering Professor Shostak's question. FWP. PS-If my statement about work being natural is not accepted and one says mankind has to be enslaved to work, then is the Chief Plutocrat or CP and his Gang the only element in the society which will work WITHOUT being pushed by others? If so, we should thank our lucky stars for these task masters every day! Without these "benefactors" we would perish under our own laziness. -=- Posted through the Ftr_Cities Mailing List To Post a message, mail it to: Ftr_Cities@websightz.com For Help file send a blank email to: Ftr_Cities-request@websightz.com To obtain a digest of Ftr_Cities discussion send email with "subscribe" in the body to: Ftr_Cities-digest-request@websightz.com For mailing lists and web site design send requests to: webmadam@websightz.com From mcnichol@uclink4.berkeley.edu Tue Feb 11 20:58:26 1997 Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 12:56:10 -0800 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu From: mcnichol@uclink4.berkeley.edu (Jason McNichol) Subject: "Certification" for socially responsible production Greetings, Labor-Rappers-- I am beginning a disseration in Sociology here at Berkeley that will attempt to evaluate strategies and limitations of new "certification" programs whereby third parties evaluate production practices of firms interested in capitalizing on perceived growing "socially responsible" or "green" markets (i.e., so that consumer who are so inclined will have information to inform their purchases). From what I can tell, this has gotten off the ground most on the environmental side, where firms will attempt to get themselves certified for engaging in "sustainable practices," especially in exports from Latin America and Asia. But I am curious as to whether any international labor groups are trying to develop a similar "seal of approval" for consumers-- in other words, going beyond watchdog whistle-blowing (e.g., Nike and Kathy Lee Gifford), and trying to implement a permanent information monitoring and dissemination system. My area of interest is predominately Latin America, but I would certainly be eager to hear of efforts elsewhere, as well. Obviously the notion that "enlightened" consumers can slow down or reduce the nasty labor side effects of global sourcing and the increasing mobility of capital is a controversial one (even assuming that a resilient and fairly "standardized" source of information were available). But I am convinced the possibility is worth taking a serious look at, especially given the current ideological inclinations of international policy-makers. Any thoughts, references, or tips would be greatly appreciated! Sincerely, Jason McNichol From toddmatt@utkux.utcc.utk.edu Tue Feb 11 21:10:11 1997 id EAA04476; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 04:09:09 GMT Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 23:09:08 -0500 (EST) From: TODD MATTHEWS To: Labor Research and Action Project Subject: Re: "Certification" for socially responsible production In-Reply-To: I think that Leslie Sklair's SOCIOLOGY OF THE GLOBAL SYSTEM (2nd edition, Johns Hopkins U Press, 1995) discusses the notion of consumer movements (in opposition to the dominant culture-ideology of consumerism) challenging the hegemony of global capital. It is a very brief discussion, but he does introduce it in a way that might relate to your research. Good luck! ************************************************ ***** Todd L. Matthews ***** ***** Graduate Teaching Associate ***** ***** Dept. of Sociology ***** ***** University of Tennessee at Knoxville ***** ***** e-mail: toddmatt@utkux.utcc.utk.edu ***** ************************************************ On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Jason McNichol wrote: > Greetings, Labor-Rappers-- > > I am beginning a disseration in Sociology here at Berkeley that will > attempt to evaluate strategies and limitations of new "certification" > programs whereby third parties evaluate production practices of firms > interested in capitalizing on perceived growing "socially responsible" or > "green" markets (i.e., so that consumer who are so inclined will have > information to inform their purchases). From what I can tell, this has > gotten off the ground most on the environmental side, where firms will > attempt to get themselves certified for engaging in "sustainable > practices," especially in exports from Latin America and Asia. But I am > curious as to whether any international labor groups are trying to develop > a similar "seal of approval" for consumers-- in other words, going beyond > watchdog whistle-blowing (e.g., Nike and Kathy Lee Gifford), and trying to > implement a permanent information monitoring and dissemination system. My > area of interest is predominately Latin America, but I would certainly be > eager to hear of efforts elsewhere, as well. > > Obviously the notion that "enlightened" consumers can slow down or reduce > the nasty labor side effects of global sourcing and the increasing mobility > of capital is a controversial one (even assuming that a resilient and > fairly "standardized" source of information were available). But I am > convinced the possibility is worth taking a serious look at, especially > given the current ideological inclinations of international policy-makers. > > Any thoughts, references, or tips would be greatly appreciated! > > Sincerely, > > Jason McNichol > > > From shostaka@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu Wed Feb 12 09:08:55 1997 Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 12:37:22 -0500 To: LABOR-RAP@csf.colorado.edu From: shostaka@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu (Art Shostak) Brothers and Sisters: Another blip on the job-shortage Rifkin radar screen: Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 10:56:15 -0500 (EST) Reply-to: acordell@clark.dgim.doc.ca From: Arthur Cordell To: Designing for POST-INDUSTRIAL REALITIES Subject: jobs Some time ago McDonald's had as its slogan 'at McDonald's we do it all for you.' Of course this was exactly the opposite of what was going on. At McDonald's we do it all for