Wednesday, January 31, 2007
SEIU of 2007 = UAW of 1960s?
Is Andy Stern today's Walter Reuther? SEIU is working hard to pressure Democratic presidential candidates on working class issues, putting resources to Americans Against Escalation and They Work For Us and Divided We Fail.
-Harold Meyerson
-Harold Meyerson
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Bring The War Home
Death and Starvation
Will Not Be Solved By Occupation!
That's Bullshit!
Get Off It!
The Enemy Is Profit!
The radical youth contingent was without a doubt the most interesting part of the big antiwar march in DC on Saturday.
Dennis Rivera to Chair SEIU Healthcare
NY Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse writes about Dennis Rivera's leaving SEIU 1199 to head up the new national SEIU Healthcare.
-NY Times
(more from the Albany Times Union)
-NY Times
(more from the Albany Times Union)
Friday, January 26, 2007
Labor Against The War
This Saturday in DC is the big march against the war in Iraq.
and this leads us to the question of how do we grow the labor movement into a larger anti-imperialist movement to oppose war and corporate globalization.
of course, first and foremost, we should focus on union organizing: increasing union density and organizing whole industries. and many unions, including mine, are doing this in the most strategic, coordinated, and effective way that we know.
but as we do this, what do we do to make sure that the labor movement expands into a broader political movement for global social justice? and once we achieve higher union density, say in 20/30 years, how do we keep the labor movement from turning complacent and even complicit (with imperialism and other social problems) like it was the last time it had its peak in the middle of the 20th century.
i propose the idea that union leaders need to work on creating anti-imperialist committees at each union workplace, to work in conjunction with other community groups, to focus on raising consciousness of atrocities committed in the name of our government and to pressure the congressmen and senators whose districts include our workplaces.
these anti-imperialist committees can have screenings of movies like The Take and The Revolution Will Not Be Televised and speaking events and townhall discussions featuring people like Michael Parenti. this could be something to work on in between contract fights. other ideas?
Bring Our Troops Home.
and this leads us to the question of how do we grow the labor movement into a larger anti-imperialist movement to oppose war and corporate globalization.
of course, first and foremost, we should focus on union organizing: increasing union density and organizing whole industries. and many unions, including mine, are doing this in the most strategic, coordinated, and effective way that we know.
but as we do this, what do we do to make sure that the labor movement expands into a broader political movement for global social justice? and once we achieve higher union density, say in 20/30 years, how do we keep the labor movement from turning complacent and even complicit (with imperialism and other social problems) like it was the last time it had its peak in the middle of the 20th century.
i propose the idea that union leaders need to work on creating anti-imperialist committees at each union workplace, to work in conjunction with other community groups, to focus on raising consciousness of atrocities committed in the name of our government and to pressure the congressmen and senators whose districts include our workplaces.
these anti-imperialist committees can have screenings of movies like The Take and The Revolution Will Not Be Televised and speaking events and townhall discussions featuring people like Michael Parenti. this could be something to work on in between contract fights. other ideas?
Bring Our Troops Home.
Saturday, January 13, 2007
back in white
the blog is back!
potomac action is discontinued
(for local md/dc stuff i'll post to free state politics)
potomac action is discontinued
(for local md/dc stuff i'll post to free state politics)
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