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TIDBITS – JAN.30- READER COMMENTS: READER COMMENTS: STOP THE
DEPORTATIONS, STOP THE LAYOFFS, STOP THE ADMINISTRATIVE COUP!; 10
THINGS YOU CAN DO TO RESIST; LONGTIME DEM VOTERS FED UP WITH PARTY’S
INACTION; 16 MILLION WORKERS WERE UNIONIZED IN 2024  
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January 30, 2025
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_ Reader Comments: Stop the Deportations, Stop the Layoffs, Stop the
Administrative Coup!; Here Are 10 Things You Can Do To Resist;
Longtime ‘Loyal’ Dem Voters Fed Up With Party’s Inaction;
"Innocent Gesture"; 16 Million Workers Were Unionized in 2024; _

Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Jan.30, 2025, xxxxxx

 

* HOW TO STOP TRUMP'S ADMINISTRATIVE COUP
* MASS DEPORTATIONS  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY NICK ANDERSON
* RE: TRUMP-THREE DAYS OF WANNABE PRESIDENCY OR DICTATORSHIP  (JAY
SCHAFFNER; JUDYTH HOLLUB)
* RE: TRUMP’S NEOFASCISM IS HERE NOW. HERE ARE 10 THINGS YOU CAN
DO TO RESIST  (JERRY FISHBEIN)
* RE: ORGANIZERS REPORT LONGTIME ‘LOYAL’ DEM VOTERS FED UP WITH
PARTY’S INACTION AS TRUMP 2.0 TAKES HOLD  (MICHAEL HENRY STARKS)
* TRUMP SALUTE  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY ROB ROGERS
* RE: THE DUBIOUS HISTORY OF AMERICA’S MOST FAMOUS MONARCHIST
 (ELEANOR ROOSEVELT)
* RE: TRUMP’S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ORDER WILL TEST THE SUPREME
COURT  (SANCOCHO NUYORQUINO; SPICER BLOUNT)
* THE CONSTITUTION AND TRUMP  --  CARTOON BY BILL BRAMHALL
* RE: DEFENDING SOCIETY AGAINST MAGA TYRANNY  (PATRICIA ADAMS)
* ELON MUSK'S X  --  CARTON BY ADAM ZYGLIS
* INNOCENT GESTURE  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH
* RE: FAR-RIGHT LEADERS ARE FORGING A GLOBAL ALLIANCE  (SILVIA
BRANDON)
* RE:  DEMOCRATS ABANDONED THE WORKING CLASS: ROBIN D.G. KELLEY ON
TRUMP’S WIN & NEED FOR CLASS SOLIDARITY  (MAURICE MEREDITH)
* CHECKMATE  --  CARTOON BY DAVID COHEN
* RE: IN 1930S NYC, PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION BOOSTED THE LEFT
 (FRED NILES; SONIA COBBINS)
* ICE BOOT OVER SCHOOLS CHURCHES & HOSPITALS  --  CARTOON BY MONTE
WOLVERTON
* LAW AND EXECUTIVE ORDER  --  CARTOON BY WALT HANDELSMAN

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RESOURCES:

* 16 MILLION WORKERS WERE UNIONIZED IN 2024  -  MILLIONS MORE WANT
TO JOIN UNIONS BUT COULDN’T  (ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE)

 

* STATEMENT FROM DEPARTING NLRB GENERAL COUNSEL JENNIFER ABRUZZO

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

* ENERO ZAPATISTA BAY AREA CLOSING CEREMONY  --  BAY AREA  --
 FEBRUARY 1  (EASTSIDE ARTS ALLIANCE & CULTURAL CENTER)

* HOW THE LEFT CAN WIN - VIEWS FROM ACROSS EUROPE  --  LIVESTREAM
 --  FEBRUARY 7  (ROSA-LUXEMBURG-STIFTUNG)

* SNCC AND GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING: BUILDING A MORE PERFECT UNION  --
 NEH DISCUSSION SERIES, TOUGALOO COLLEGE  --  FEBRUARY 7 AND 8
 (SNCC LEGACY PROJECT)

 

* LESSONS FROM THE US LABOR PARTY FOR WORKING-CLASS POLITICS TODAY
  -  VIRTUAL PRESENTATION  --  FEBRUARY 20  (DSA NATIONAL LABOR
COMMISSION, SOCIALIST REGISTER, RANK & FILE PROJECT, UAW REGION 9A,
UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO AND MACHINE WORKERS OF AMERICA)

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HOW TO STOP TRUMP'S ADMINISTRATIVE COUP

 

 

There's an app, 5 Calls
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makes it really easy to contact your elected representatives. It
provides a script and phone numbers
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MASS DEPORTATIONS  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY NICK ANDERSON

 

I can't wait for the moment when those who voted for Trump expecting
lower grocery prices realize the consequences of mass deportations.
Removing workers from the country means the work either won’t get
done or employers will have to pay significantly more to fill those
roles—leading to higher prices. In some cases, the products might
disappear from shelves entirely.

Nick Anderson
January 27, 2025
Pen Strokes [[link removed]]

 

RE: TRUMP-THREE DAYS OF WANNABE PRESIDENCY OR DICTATORSHIP
 

A prominent federal judge on Wednesday ripped President Donald
Trump’s mass clemency for Jan. 6 rioters, saying the justification
he offered in his proclamation was “flatly wrong” and a
“revisionist myth.”

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said Trump’s action could
never change the “immutable” record of violence and heroism of law
enforcement, which will remain enshrined in court records.

“Dismissal of charges, pardons after convictions, and commutations
of sentences will not change the truth of what happened on January 6,
2021,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote in a six-page order dismissing charges
against Dominic Box, whom she had previously convicted of two felony
counts for his role in the riot.

“What occurred that day is preserved for the future through
thousands of contemporaneous videos, transcripts of trials, jury
verdicts, and judicial opinions analyzing and recounting the evidence
through a neutral lens,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote. “Those records are
immutable and represent the truth, no matter how the events of January
6 are described by those charged or their allies.”

Jay Schaffner
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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      =====

From this article
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:

On social media, Heather Thomas wrote: “So when all was said and
done, the only country that opened [its] prisons and sent crazy
murderous criminals to prey upon innocent American citizens, was
us.”

There's much more. This article
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goes through many other Trump orders and dictates. Read the entire
thing. It's excellent!

Judyth Hollub
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: TRUMP’S NEOFASCISM IS HERE NOW. HERE ARE 10 THINGS YOU CAN DO TO
RESIST
 

The forces of Trumpian repression and neofascism would like nothing
better than for us to give up. Then they’d win it all. But we cannot
allow them to. Protect the vulnerable, organize boycotts and keep
fighting. 

Jerry Fishbein
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: ORGANIZERS REPORT LONGTIME ‘LOYAL’ DEM VOTERS FED UP WITH
PARTY’S INACTION AS TRUMP 2.0 TAKES HOLD
 

Leaders of the grassroots group Indivisible said voters are eager to
beat the Trump agenda, and called on Democratic leaders to act as a
true opposition party.

Michael Henry Starks
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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TRUMP SALUTE  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY ROB ROGERS

 

Last week Elon Musk surprised everyone by giving a Nazi salute at
Trump's inauguration rally. Then, on Saturday, he spoke to a far-right
German political party urging them not to be ashamed of their
country's history. The other tech billionaires have all bent the knee
as well. This cartoon is also my belated tribute to Ann Telnaes.

Rob Rogers
January 28, 2025
TinyView [[link removed]]

 

RE: THE DUBIOUS HISTORY OF AMERICA’S MOST FAMOUS MONARCHIST
 

This is the guy. This is the guy to watch. Trump is the stooge, Musk
is the enforcer, but this guy is where it's coming from. And 99
percent of the people you'll meet today have no idea who he is. Why is
that?

Eleanor Roosevelt
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: TRUMP’S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ORDER WILL TEST THE SUPREME COURT
 

The president’s latest salvo against the Constitution shouldn’t
survive the judiciary’s scrutiny. But these days, you never know.

Sancocho Nuyorquino
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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And about the DOJ analyzing Native Americans so they will not be
citizens.

Spicer Blount
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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THE CONSTITUTION AND TRUMP  --  CARTOON BY BILL BRAMHALL

 

Bill Bramhall
January 23, 2025
New York Daily News
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RE: DEFENDING SOCIETY AGAINST MAGA TYRANNY
 

Social Self-Defense Has Begun 
    
The resistance to the MAGA juggernaut has already begun at community,
city, and state levels.

Patricia Adams
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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ELON MUSK'S X  --  CARTON BY ADAM ZYGLIS
 

Adam Zyglis
January 23, 2025
The Buffalo News
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INNOCENT GESTURE  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

 

Mike Luckovich
January 23, 2025
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: FAR-RIGHT LEADERS ARE FORGING A GLOBAL ALLIANCE
 

This is why we protest.  And here I am again after midnight, awake to
a new day after falling from bed… I slept at least five hours before
a nightmare.  In the nightmare I was babbling incoherently and
unceasingly.

Yesterday at Mission High School in San Francisco where I spoke loudly
and frequently, microphone in hand, about abortion rights as health
care and the need to tax the wealthy as a first step to solving EVERY
problem in the world, including healthcare and education and housing
and crippling hunger, I woke up to a Trumpian nightmare… on the
floor of my bedroom and totally silenced.

How it is that we have allowed a convicted felon to take power and
close down this experiment in participatory government?  In my dream
I was mumbling, silenced to the point where I babbled rather than
spoke. 

When did this man EVER keep a promise?  I watched the first
bankruptcy proceeding when his New Jersey casino filed for bankruptcy
protection.  I was filing Chapter 13 bankruptcy proceedings for
clients who were going to lose their homes… Most if not all of the
people who built the Taj Mahal or whatever in New Jersey did NOT get
paid for their work.

So after all the words I said yesterday at Mission High School, in my
nightmare I was babbling.  The nightmare that is this President and
the fact that he joins multiple evildoers throughout the world have
left me literally speechless in dreams…

But here I am awake and aware and ready to roar.  Back in my bed…
Grateful that I have a comfortable bed and blankets to cover my body.
 Fresh red grapes in the refrigerator and lemons and limes still
growing in the back yard.  Olives from the front garden in a bucket
so I can do whatever needs to be done to make them edible… 

And once again dreaming of the people who can put together a global
alliance to fight the monsters in our midst…

May we find the strength TOGETHER.  May we all be blessed with the
strength and courage to fight back.

Amen.  Going back to sleep and to meditate and to enter into holy
alliances to end child imprisonment.  We spoke yesterday about the
fact that a very large number of children are now dying by suicide…

Silvia Brandon
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE:  DEMOCRATS ABANDONED THE WORKING CLASS: ROBIN D.G. KELLEY ON
TRUMP’S WIN & NEED FOR CLASS SOLIDARITY
 

We speak with historian Robin D. G. Kelley about the roots of Donald
Trump’s election victory and the decline of Democratic support among
many of the party’s traditional constituencies.

Maurice Meredith
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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CHECKMATE  --  CARTOON BY DAVID COHEN

 

David Cohen
January 23, 2025
David Cohen [[link removed]]

 

RE: IN 1930S NYC, PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION BOOSTED THE LEFT
 

In New York City, a disgraced mayor and a discredited Democratic Party
are creating potential openings for socialists. NYC history suggests
that the Left might profitably revive proportional representation as a
tool to build its electoral strength.

Fred Niles
Post on Facebook

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Proportional representation, ranked choice voting, and cooperative
strategies.

Sonia Cobbins
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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ICE BOOT OVER SCHOOLS CHURCHES & HOSPITALS  --  CARTOON BY MONTE
WOLVERTON

 

Monte Wolverton
January 24, 2025
Monte Wolverton Facebook page
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LAW AND EXECUTIVE ORDER  --  CARTOON BY WALT HANDELSMAN

 

Walt Handelsman
January 22, 2025
Baton Rouge The Advocate
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16 MILLION WORKERS WERE UNIONIZED IN 2024  -  MILLIONS MORE WANT TO
JOIN UNIONS BUT COULDN’T  (ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE)
 

Report
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• By Margaret Poydock, Celine McNicholas, Jennifer Sherer, and Heidi
Shierholz • January 28, 2025

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Interest in union organizing is surging in the United States. Since
2021, petitions for union elections at the National Labor Relations
Board (NLRB) have more than doubled. And public support for unions is
near 60-year highs—at 70%. This growing momentum around union
organizing—aided by the Biden administration’s support for worker
organizing and appointment of strong worker advocates in critical
agencies like NLRB—signals a powerful push by workers to improve
wages, working conditions, and workplace rights. But despite this
groundswell of support, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
(BLS) reveal a puzzling trend: Unionization rates continue to decline.

Research shows that 60 million workers would join a union if they
could. The disconnect between the growing interest in unionization and
declining unionization rates can be explained by the fact that there
are powerful forces blocking the will of workers: aggressive
opposition from employers combined with labor law that is so weak that
it doesn’t truly protect workers’ right to organize. Decades of
attacks on unions both on the federal and state levels have made it
hard for workers to form and maintain unions. Further, weaknesses in
federal labor law have made it possible for employers to oppose
unions, contributing to this decline.

In this report, we examine the 2024 Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
data on unionization and highlight recent organizing campaigns. We
analyze the obstacles workers face when forming unions and reaching a
first contract. Finally, we offer policy recommendations to promote
unionization and generate an economy that works for all.

Interest in union organizing is surging in the United States. Since
2021, petitions for union elections at the National Labor Relations
Board (NLRB) have more than doubled. And public support for unions is
near 60-year highs—at 70%. This growing momentum around union
organizing—aided by the Biden administration’s support for worker
organizing and appointment of strong worker advocates in critical
agencies like NLRB—signals a powerful push by workers to improve
wages, working conditions, and workplace rights. But despite this
groundswell of support, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
(BLS) reveal a puzzling trend: Unionization rates continue to decline.

Research shows that 60 million workers would join a union if they
could. The disconnect between the growing interest in unionization and
declining unionization rates can be explained by the fact that there
are powerful forces blocking the will of workers: aggressive
opposition from employers combined with labor law that is so weak that
it doesn’t truly protect workers’ right to organize. Decades of
attacks on unions both on the federal and state levels have made it
hard for workers to form and maintain unions. Further, weaknesses in
federal labor law have made it possible for employers to oppose
unions, contributing to this decline.

In this report, we examine the 2024 Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
data on unionization and highlight recent organizing campaigns. We
analyze the obstacles workers face when forming unions and reaching a
first contract. Finally, we offer policy recommendations to promote
unionization and generate an economy that works for all.

Defining terms: Union membership versus union representation

If a workplace is unionized, all workers in the bargaining unit get
the benefits of being represented by the union, even if they are not
union members. Thus, the share of workers represented by a union is
somewhat higher than the share of workers who are members of a union.

In 2024, the share of workers represented by a union was 11.1%, while
the share of workers who were union members was 9.9%. Both measures
are useful, but because all workers in a bargaining unit get the
benefit of being represented by the union, _union representation_ is
the more relevant statistic when considering the impact of
unionization on labor market outcomes. Therefore, we focus on union
representation, rather than union membership, in our analyses.

In this report, the term “unionization rate” is shorthand for the
union representation rate.

Sections

* Analysis of 2024 Bureau of Labor Statistics data
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* More than 60 million workers wanted a union but couldn’t get one
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* Worker and public support for unions are on the rise
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* Attacks on unions have created a long-term decline
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* Policy solutions at the federal and state levels
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Read full report here
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STATEMENT FROM DEPARTING NLRB GENERAL COUNSEL JENNIFER ABRUZZO

 

January 28, 2025
NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued the following statement
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on her last day at the National Labor Relations Board:

“It’s been the greatest honor and privilege to be General Counsel
of the National Labor Relations Board and to work alongside such
talented and dedicated federal employees. We have accomplished so much
through our robust education, protection, and enforcement efforts,
including empowering workers to collectively seek improved wages,
benefits and working conditions from their employers. There’s no
putting that genie back in the bottle. So, if the Agency does not
fully effectuate its Congressional mandate in the future as we did
during my tenure, I expect that workers with assistance from their
advocates will take matters into their own hands in order to get
well-deserved dignity and respect in the workplace, as well as a fair
share of the significant value they add to their employer’s
operations.”   

On July 22, 2021, Jennifer A. Abruzzo began serving a four-year term
as General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board.  Starting
in 1995, Ms. Abruzzo had spent her career at the NLRB in various
positions including as Field Attorney, Supervisory Field Attorney,
Deputy Regional Attorney, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, Deputy
General Counsel, and Acting General Counsel. Immediately prior to her
appointment as General Counsel, Ms. Abruzzo served as Special Counsel
for Strategic Initiatives for the Communications Workers of America.

Deputy General Counsel Jessica Rutter is now Acting General Counsel.

_Established in 1935, the National Labor Relations Board is an
independent federal agency that protects employees from unfair labor
practices and protects the right of private sector employees to join
together, with or without a union, to improve wages, benefits and
working conditions. The NLRB conducts hundreds of workplace elections
and investigates thousands of unfair labor practice charges each
year._

 

ENERO ZAPATISTA BAY AREA CLOSING CEREMONY  --  BAY AREA  --
 FEBRUARY 1  (EASTSIDE ARTS ALLIANCE & CULTURAL CENTER)

 

Join Enero Zapatista in the closing gathering and ceremony SATURDAY,
FEBRUARY 1, 2025, 5:00PM TO 10:00 PM AT THE EASTSIDE CULTURAL CENTER
IN OAKLAND (2277 INTERNATIONAL BLVD)

• Zapatista children’s circle 5:00-6:00 pm in the Bandung
Bookstore
• Art & Autonomy Caracol in Circle 6:30-7:30 pm in the Eastside
auditorium
• Program 7:30-10pm in the cultural center auditorium

Vendors, Music, Art , Tamales + chingos de community

PERFORMERS:
OSSAMA KAMEL
PYM BAND
CAMELLIA BOUTROS
PAISA BAE

$5 -$10 SUGGESTED DONATION

 

HOW THE LEFT CAN WIN - VIEWS FROM ACROSS EUROPE  --  LIVESTREAAM
 --  FEBRUARY 7  (ROSA-LUXEMBURG-STIFTUNG)

 
Li Andersson (Katarina Koch, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) and
Jeremy Corbyn (Garry Knight, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons) -
Collage: RLS
The Finnish Left Party achieved 17.3 percent in the European
elections, while left-wing parties also obtained good results in
Sweden and France, with over 10.9 percent.

We will speak with LI ANDERSSON, who led her party for eight years
and was its leading candidate for the European elections and JEREMY
CORBYN, independent British Member of Parliament and former leader of
the Labour Party about their experiences, strategies, and the
conditions that make left-wing victories possible.

Moderator: JOHANNA BUSSEMER

The event will be held in English and broadcast in a LIVESTREAM
[[link removed]].

Event location

Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Saal / Livestream
Straße der Pariser Kommune 8A
10243 Berlin

FEBRUARY 7, 19:30 - 21:30 HR (BERLIN TIME)

Themes: Analysis of Capitalism, Political Parties / Election Analyses,
Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe

How_the_Left_can_win-02-07-25.pdf
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SNCC AND GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING: BUILDING A MORE PERFECT UNION  --
 NEH DISCUSSION SERIES, TOUGALOO COLLEGE  --  FEBRUARY 7 AND 8
 (SNCC LEGACY PROJECT)

 

Be sure to register for the next SNCC Legacy Project grassroots
organizing event, this one both in-person and virtual, hosted by
Tougaloo College. Featuring SNCC veterans, Jennifer Lawson and Charles
McLaurin, and humanities scholars, Emilye Crosby and Robert Greene.
There will be one hybrid event and two in-person events at Tougaloo on
February 7 and 8. Register now!
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Please join us at Tougaloo College (Jackson, MS) on FEBRUARY 7 & 8,
2025 (or via livestream on February 7) for the _SNCC AND GRASSROOTS
ORGANIZING: BUILDING A MORE PERFECT UNION _events. This will be an
exciting conversation between those who actually made Movement
history, together with those who are grounded in that history. This
event is part of a series generously supported by a grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities.

FRIDAY MORNING'S EVENT WILL BE LIVESTREAMED.

SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) veterans Jennifer
Lawson and Charles McLaurin will join Movement scholars Robert Greene
and Emilye Crosby for a two-day community gathering focused on
SNCC’s grassroots community organizing and its relevance to ongoing
efforts to build a more just society. Founded by students at HBCUs,
SNCC was the only national youth-led organization in the southern
movement of the 1960’s.

Join us Friday (in person and livestream) and Saturday (in person
only) to learn about SNCC and the Organizing Tradition work and Black
Power in the Movement.

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Friday, February 7 (IN PERSON AND LIVESTREAM)

THE ORGANIZING TRADITION IN THE MOVEMENT ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

10:00 A.M. (CT), BENNIE G. THOMPSON ACADEMIC AND CIVIL RIGHTS RESEARCH
CENTER, TOUGALOO COLLEGE

The ORGANIZING TRADITION is a long-term approach to social change
that emphasizes the development of skills and leadership ability in
so-called ordinary people. Ella Baker, more than any other person,
introduced SNCC to the organizing tradition and influenced the group
to embrace that approach. Unlike the master narrative which encourages
people to wait for and defer to a big leader like Dr. King or the
president, the organizing tradition highlights the importance of
everyone acting—individually and collectively. It encourages broad
leadership and skill development, expanding engagement, and is central
to the work of creating a more perfect union. Over the years, former
SNCC organizers continued to fight for political and economic justice,
most recently through the ongoing, intergenerational work of the SNCC
Legacy Project [[link removed]]. Can’t make it in
person? Join the livestream!
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Saturday, February 8 (IN PERSON ONLY)

BLACK POWER ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

10:00 A.M. (CT), HOLMES HALL, TOUGALOO COLLEGE

Join SNCC veterans Charles McLaurin and Jennifer Lawson, and Movement
historians Robert Greene and Emilye Crosby to learn more about
SNCC’s work on Black Power. Can’t make it in person? Join the
livestream!
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Saturday, February 8 (IN PERSON ONLY)

ORGANIZING TRADITION WORKSHOP

1:00 P.M. (CT), BENNIE G. THOMPSON ACADEMIC AND CIVIL RIGHTS RESEARCH
CENTER, TOUGALOO COLLEGE

Join SNCC veterans Charles McLaurin and Jennifer Lawson, and Movement
historians Robert Greene and Emilye Crosby to learn more about
SNCC’s work on the organizing tradition then and now for this
interactive Learning Toolkit workshop. Participants will dig into
exciting SNCC documents and audiovisual materials, learn about the
organizing tradition in SNCC’s movement building, and collectively
explore how those lessons are relevant today. This workshop is geared
toward educators, civic organizations, community or activist groups,
librarians, youth – or anyone who wants to learn more about this
exciting Movement history.

VISIT THE SNCC LEGACY PROJECT WEBSITE FOR DETAILS AND TO LEARN
MORE: [link removed]
[[link removed]]

Supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities,
the _SNCC and Grassroots Organizing_ discussion series is a
collaborative project of the Movement History Initiative (a
collaboration among the SNCC Legacy Project, Duke University
Libraries, the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke, and Civil Rights
Movement scholars), six Historically Black Colleges and Universities
(HBCUs), and six civil rights and African American history museums.

CONTACT EMAIL

[email protected]

[link removed]
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Can’t make it in person? Join the livestream
[[link removed]] on
Friday evening!

Also, save the date for OUR VIRTUAL COMMUNITY CONVERSATION on Voting
Rights on MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24 AT 7PM (ET)!
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LESSONS FROM THE US LABOR PARTY FOR WORKING-CLASS POLITICS TODAY   -
 VIRTUAL PRESENTATION  --  FEBRUARY 20  (DSA NATIONAL LABOR
COMMISSION, SOCIALIST REGISTER, RANK & FILE PROJECT, UAW REGION 9A,
UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO AND MACHINE WORKERS OF AMERICA)

 

Looking forward to this event on the US Labor Party, co-sponsored by
the Socialist Register, DSA Labor, The Rank and File Project, UAW
Region 9A, and the United Electrical Workers.

RSVP at the link in the comments to hear a great line-up of veteran
Labor Party organizers discuss their experiences and potential lessons
for working-class politics today.

While the limits of the Labor Party experience may be evident, it is
equally obvious that failing to develop a working-class alternative to
the Democratic Party will only result in workers continuing to drift
into the arms of an ascendant right-wing MAGA politics.

What lessons can be learned from this earlier effort to organize an
independent working-class party? How can this project inform
contemporary efforts to move forward with building towards a serious
alternative to the two corporate parties, grounded in the working
class?

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20 · 8 - 10PM EST

Following the Democratic Party's 2024 loss — made possible by the
Democrats' longer-term abandonment of their working-class base in
favor of “moderate” wealthy suburbanites and Wall Street
financiers — IT’S WORTH RETURNING TO THE EXPERIENCE OF THE US
LABOR PARTY IN THE 1990S.

The limits of that effort are well know; most obviously, there's no
Labor Party today. But it is equally clear that failing to develop a
working-class alternative to the Democratic Party will only result in
workers continuing to drift into the arms of an ascendent right-wing
MAGA politics. A new approach to labor left politics is desperately
needed.

That's what this event tries to begin to think through by asking: What
lessons can be learned from an earlier effort to organize an
independent labor party? What did it take to launch the US Labor Party
in 1996? How can that effort inform current work to build a serious,
working-class alternative to the two corporate parties?

PANELISTS

* _CARL ROSEN_, General President, United Electrical, Radio and
Machine Workers of America. Former participant in the Labor Party
organizing efforts.
* _KATHERINE ISAAC_, coordinator Campaign for Postal Banking at the
American Postal Workers Union. Former Secretary-Treasurer of the Labor
Party.
* _HOWARD BOTWINICK_, Associate Professor of Economics at SUNY
Cortland, former Vice Chair of the New York Labor Party.
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