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SHOOTINGS; ATTACK ON TEACHERS, EDUCATION, PUBLIC SCHOOLS; STARBUCKS
UNION; DSA AND ELECTORAL POLITICS OF THE LEFT; OZARK – THE SHOW;
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
May 26, 2022, xxxxxx

 

The Daily Sacrifices - In Guns We Trust  --  cartoon by Herb Block
The Horrifying Reality  --  cartoon by Dr. James MacLeod
Re: The Long Game of White-Power Activists Isn’t Just About Violence
(Van Caldwell)
The Super Patriot  --  Don Martin - MAD Magazine cartoon
Re: Biden’s Little-Publicized Medicare Privatization Scheme Is
Starting To Raise Alarm Bells (Joe Bryak)
Re: How the Attack on Teachers Threatens the Future of Public Schools
(Nancy Dulberg)
Re: No More “Normal” (Walli Ann Wisniewski)
Too Heavy a Burden  --  cartoon by Mike Luckovich
Re: The Rapidly Growing Starbucks Union in Numbers (A.J. Kempf; Matt
Greer; Joseph Barnett; Addison Mercer; Jef Rouner; Graduate Employees'
Organization 3550; Kitty Carlisle; Frank Gruba-Mccallister; Jess
Ashley; Kristan Overstreet; New York Progressive Action Network)
Re: Amazon Union Victory Shows That Jurisdiction Is Dead (Tevis Burke;
Arlene Halfon)
Re: Fox News Suddenly Goes Quiet on ‘Great Replacement’ Theory
After Buffalo Shooting (Jim Coughlin)
Re: What’s It Like To Strike? (Rand Wilson)
Call It What It Really Is  --  meme
Re: If Degrowth Is Coming, What Does It Propose for Workers? (Carl
Davidson)
Re: To Tax the Rich, We Need To Debunk the Myth of Fleeing
Millionaires (Carole Kronberg)
Re: Homeless People in the US Are Being Murdered at a Horrific Rate
(George Lessard)
Re: Democracy, Strategy, Modes of Struggle: The High-Stakes Strife in
DSA (Marilyn Albert; Eric Cadora)
Re: Ukraine, an Antiwar Dilemma (Robert Fuzesi)
Re: How Everyone Got So Lonely (Sean I Ahern; Jennifer Bowerman)
Re: Was Ozark Actually About the Clintons? (Steve McElroy; Laura
Cameron; Heather Smith; Robert Sobel; Beth Schuyler; Taylor Brown;
Heidi N Tony Setum; ; Nicholas Schultz; Fred Mason)

RESOURCES:

Thoughts and Prayers Are Not Enough — Poster of the Week (Center for
the Study of Political Graphics)
Honor the Sacrifice of Our Brave Children   -- sign at an anti gun
violence vigil
Recordings from the International Conference ¡No pasarán! Conference
2022  --  Our shared struggle against the far right (transform!
europe)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The Pandemic Worker Wave and a New Social Compact - June 2 & 3
(Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the
Working Poor)
Screening of “The Wobblies” – plus Q&A with director Stewart
Bird - June 7 (New York Labor History Association)

 

THE DAILY SACRIFICES - IN GUNS WE TRUST  --  CARTOON BY HERB BLOCK

 

 

Herb Block
October 1, 1993
originally published in The Washington Post
available at the Library of Congress
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THE HORRIFYING REALITY  --  CARTOON BY DR. JAMES MACLEOD

 

Dr. James MacLeod
May 25, 2022
DrMacLeodCartoons
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RE: THE LONG GAME OF WHITE-POWER ACTIVISTS ISN’T JUST ABOUT VIOLENCE
 

“But the explanation for both the choice of targets and the
brutality of an attack that killed 10 people can be found in the
history of the theory. In the American context, it has in its
cross-hairs a host of future targets, among them democracy itself.”

Van Caldwell
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THE SUPER PATRIOT  --  DON MARTIN - MAD MAGAZINE CARTOON

 

 

Don Martin
MAD Magazine Issue #129
September, 1969

 

RE: BIDEN’S LITTLE-PUBLICIZED MEDICARE PRIVATIZATION SCHEME IS
STARTING TO RAISE ALARM BELLS
 

gulp. I was advised to join up by a well-intentioned friend, and now I
regret that I did--I think. Is there any other place I can check this
matter out? I didn't know I'd inadvertently bypassed some of my
Medicare program. Pardon me for being a slow learner--can you tell me
more?

Uh, I realize you can't spend a lot of time with every single person
who asks dumb questions, so if you could point me to some other
articles, etc. I'd be obliged. 

Thanks, 

Joe Bryak

 

RE: HOW THE ATTACK ON TEACHERS THREATENS THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS
 

This has been going on for about 40 years ???? So sad

Nancy Dulberg
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RE: NO MORE “NORMAL”

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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Really, you should know that an educated populace is a danger to the
status quo. Keeping folks ignorant, having excellent teachers quit,
banning books— all part of the plan. Have you heard NPR’s “on
point” this morning n Replacement Theory?? Scary stuff.

Walli Ann Wisniewski
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TOO HEAVY A BURDEN  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

 

Mike Luckovich
May 22, 2022
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: THE RAPIDLY GROWING STARBUCKS UNION IN NUMBERS
 

Boy do people get upset when working people make good living wages and
benefits. And a lot of these same people (not all) complain nobody
wants to work. Instead of complain its not fair. They might wanna look
into how a good Union could improve their benefits (pension, wage,
better overtime rates, better health insurance). Are Unions needed for
small business? No. They are needed for big business/corporate world.
Cry me a river when someone else is improving their situation. Workers
stand together, workers win. Corporate world wants kiss asses, or who
you know, and stabbing others in the back mentality. 11yr factory
worker (chair upholstery) Get a lil ahead then corporate comes out and
cuts your rate. Now a 5yr Teamster member (delivery driver) No more
cutting this mans rate when they feel like it. So much better when you
are rewarded the longer you stay at a company rather than “next man
up” mentality.

A.J. Kempf
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Unions are popular among Americans and it’s only corporations or
brainwashed people that don’t like Unions.

Approval of Labor Unions at Highest Point Since 1965
September 2, 2021
Gallup
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Matt Greer
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Unions are the future of America's middle class. This is a good sign.
Joining a union isn't always about wages, sometimes it is about being
treated with dignity.

Joseph Barnett
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Joseph Barnett:  The “middle class” is an illusion meant to
divide workers. These unions are the future of the working class.
These are workers

Addison Mercer
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90 percent success rate is pretty damn good!

Jef Rouner
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Union power on the rise!

Graduate Employees' Organization 3550
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Hooray for Starbucks employees! Hate their coffee, but they do make
one of the only non-pork breakfast sandwiches around, so I'll be happy
to look for that union sticker when I need quick brekkies.

Kitty Carlisle
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Starbucks workers are showing us the way. Let others join them  and
make the labor movement strong once more.

Frank Gruba-Mccallister
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Do we know what percentage of their workforce is union?

Jess Ashley
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Jess Ashley:  hard to tell. They have about 350,000 employees
worldwide, but I can’t find a breakdown of just store employees in
America. Even so, I’m guessing it’s less than 5 percent so far
based on the 6,400 number. On the other hand, up from zero percent a
year ago.

Jef Rouner
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Jess Ashley:  Always remember that Starbucks, from its founding, has
been aggressively anti-union.

Kristan Overstreet
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#UnionStrong

New York Progressive Action Network
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RE: AMAZON UNION VICTORY SHOWS THAT JURISDICTION IS DEAD

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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This has been a problem for decades. I have been a member of both the
Food and Commercial Workers and the Teamsters. At one point - while a
Teamster working at a grocery distribution center - I applied to
transfer to one of the stores as that is where much of my experience
was at. The stores were under UFCW jurisdiction. I took s*** from both
unions in the process and was forced to pull out of the job. I
eventually left for non-union Home Depot. When I started looking into
getting a union going at HD both unions and the Retail Clerks again
argued about jurisdiction and all three said that it would be a waste
of their resources to try and organize (going in we had 80% of hourly
staffing ready to unionize at our store and similar numbers at several
other stores in the area) but the unions could not be bothered and
argued about jurisdiction. Of course it never happened.

Tevis Burke
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No, we don't need "multi-union coalitions"; we need one labor movement
with multiple jurisdictions of geography, industry, and workplace.
EVERYONE should be included; not just those who work for an industry
that has unionized in a location that is unionized. NO competition
between unions; one organization. EVERYONE should be covered and being
a "member" should be irrelevant. These should NOT be individual
fights; it should be one big fight for all workers.

Arlene Halfon

 

RE: FOX NEWS SUDDENLY GOES QUIET ON ‘GREAT REPLACEMENT’ THEORY
AFTER BUFFALO SHOOTING
 

Know the enemy! The evil Rupert Murdoch hates our country and seeks to
undermine the democratic process. He feeds lies to his parrots who
spew disinformation and nonsense to unsuspecting viewers.

Jim Coughlin
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RE: WHAT’S IT LIKE TO STRIKE?

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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The UPS strike was in 1997, not 1987.  Otherwise great article!

Rand Wilson

 

CALL IT WHAT IT REALLY IS  --  MEME

 

 

RE: IF DEGROWTH IS COMING, WHAT DOES IT PROPOSE FOR WORKERS?

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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'Degrowth' advocates make a basic error. All economies have three
sectors--hardware, software, and wetware, We know what hardware is,
factories, cars, clothes, food and such. Software includes everything
you can find in a library these days. But wetware? That's the software
growing between your ears, all the new know-how and high design.
Here's the point: we want the 'knowledge' section to grow toward
infinity. Why? Because its only in that way that we can create all the
rest with a lighter ecological footprint, with zero waste and other
sustainabilities. Full disclosure. This is not new from me. I learned
it from Paul Romer, a Nobel winner in Economics.

Carl Davidson
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RE: TO TAX THE RICH, WE NEED TO DEBUNK THE MYTH OF FLEEING
MILLIONAIRES
 

Family History:   William Tate Kronberg, when he was the City of
Dearborn Tax Assessor, wisely (ingeniously) assessed the taxes of the
Ford Motor Company (his friend and neighbor, Henry Ford) almost as
high as the cost of relocating would have been!  He claimed that was
a more efficient way to fairly tax the company than counting every nut
and bolt among its vast assets!

But his son, (my dad, SEIU Union Organizer,  Theodore "Ted" Kronberg)
told me that his father also wanted to shift the burden of taxation
from Ford's home-owning workers.   (William T. Kronberg's sympathy
for the exploited working class, expressed in the paper he founded,
"The Dearborn Press," was the reason, my dad said, for Henry Ford's
founding a competing paper, "The Dearborn Independent.)

With Ford and another wealthy corporation (U.S. Steel) paying roughly
A THIRD of its taxes,  Dearborn was able to offer its residents such
amenities as neighborhood parks, including swimming pools,
state-of-the-art public schools and well-maintained vehicles for
Police and Sanitation Departments as well as Camp Dearborn!

Carole Kronberg

 

RE: HOMELESS PEOPLE IN THE US ARE BEING MURDERED AT A HORRIFIC RATE
 

Homelessness is one of the most grotesque horrors of US capitalism.
And even worse, according to new reporting by Jacobin, the rate of
murders of homeless people has spiked to appalling new highs.

George Lessard
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: DEMOCRACY, STRATEGY, MODES OF STRUGGLE: THE HIGH-STAKES STRIFE IN
DSA
 

Very good analysis of DSA politics.

Marilyn Albert
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As a recently new member of the DSA, I read Max Elbaum's article on
the deeper issue at work involving the vote to expel Bowman with a
nodding head to the integrate and leverage strategy towards the
Democratic Party.

However, a couple points are lost on me. First, while the NPC vote
came out against expulsion, I know that my Nassau County DSA chapter
voted overwhelmingly in favor of expulsion. Where is mention of the
results of that more membership driven Opa vote? I would like to know.

Secondly, Elbaum's two-for-one argument that, instead of expelling
Bowman, we lost an opportunity to advance understanding of the
Palestine BDS movement by not launching a public education campaign
around the issue in Bowman's district, is a bit apologistic. After
all, expelling Bowman because of the issue is much more likely to
raise the profile of the issue and stimulate debate and education
among his constituency.

Finally, can we get real. On what planet is voting for military arming
of Israel in this day and age anything but a full fledged cow-towing
to the Israeli lobby? I mean really; it's not like that vote was some
kind of compromise that could raise the profile of the issue or bring
his constituents along. Moreover, it's Bowman's job to raise the issue
and educate his electorate; not the DSA itself to make up for that
inexcusable vote.

Anyway, despite my general agreement with Elbaum on the integrate with
and leverage Democratic Party success, Bowman should be held to
account and the political strategy behind that inexplicable vote
should be too.

Eric Cadora
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RE: UKRAINE, AN ANTIWAR DILEMMA
 

Finally!!!!   Instead of the onslaught of the US and Western Media's
relentless HATRED and hostility toward Russia -- which was always
there and the silence about  the Western aggression that continued
toward Russia , even after that naive Gorbachev swallowed the supposed
peaceful intentions of the predatory West, Russia woke up to what has
happened to it.  We are spoon fed the endless lies here in the West
and xxxxxx which I thought was a cut above it all, ---followed the
herd indoctrination  I have been astonished by the articles in
xxxxxx about this issue!  and very upset about it.

Robert Fuzesi

 

RE: HOW EVERYONE GOT SO LONELY

(posting on xxxxxx Culture
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The New Yorker has degenerated from a venerable journal highlighting
the art of the written word and some of the best investigative
journalism in the US to a bible of the trust fund artist and manhattan
literati.

No surprise that the recent article on loneliness would omit any
mention of the fact that the RENT IS TOO HIGH and that young people
forced to live with their parents or grandparents or with friends in
crowded apartments, working long hours at dead end jobs with little
hope for their futures might not be in a love making state of mind.

Sean I Ahern

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I think this article says something important about free market
liberalism. It has been a colossal failure in so many ways. People
living in care homes and hospitals with ptsd and other metal issues
turned onto the streets for the community to look after them. The
community couldn’t and didn’t. The needs were just too great. One
reason there are so many homeless and addicted individuals now on the
streets and in our ravines.

Jennifer Bowerman
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RE: WAS OZARK ACTUALLY ABOUT THE CLINTONS?

(posting on xxxxxx Culture
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People liked Ozark because Jason Bateman wasn’t particularly
stronger or more fierce than really just about anyone. He was just
smart. Smarter than everyone else, and the viewer wondered every week
how he was going to get out of whatever he had gotten himself into.

So this author thinks it’s about the Clintons???? Talk about a
political hack. Even the biggest Clinton Critics can never adequately
describe the plot of the so called Clinton scandals. Nobody even
understands what Whitewater was. The Ozarks on the other hand was
brilliantly written.

Steve McElroy
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Interesting correlations and read.

Laura Cameron
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I hope not…I loved the show and The Clinton’s are a sham

Heather Smith
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While watching, I actually almost immediately thought of the failed
trump foundation, which was fined $2 million dollars for their illegal
misuse of all those charitable contributions, and which is now
defunct, just like trump university, trump steaks, etc., etc.

Robert Sobel
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I think the Clinton's are corrupt buy no never reminded me of them.

Beth Schuyler
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To compare Marty Byrd to Bill Clinton is just plain insulting to
Marty's character.

Taylor Brown
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Great series, awful ending, it was almost like they -in the last
episode or two- just gave up, they could’ve done so much more. Very
disappointed

Heidi N Tony Setum
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Heidi N Tony Setum:  the ending was incredible it was laced in
symbolism that wrapped up the show beautifully

Nicholas Schultz
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How dare they!

Republicans hypocrites will try everything & anything to put the
spotlight off their underground corruption to deflect their crimes on
to someone else.
Etc.

The Iraq Iran Contraband wasn’t started by the Clintons but when
Bill Clinton got in the WH Republicans tried to lay the blame at his
feet knowing full well the Administration before the Clinton’s did.

Fred Mason
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THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE NOT ENOUGH — POSTER OF THE WEEK (CENTER FOR
THE STUDY OF POLITICAL GRAPHICS)
 

Where Today?
Griffin Landon, Jordan Kleinburg
Letterpress, 2018
Los Angeles, CA
 

Tuesday's mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvade, Texas
marks the 30th shooting at a K-12 school in 2022. There have been over
200 mass shootings in the United States so far this year.

Thoughts and prayers are not enough. Shame on the politicians who
kowtow to the NRA. We need action!

Sources

* FBI: US ‘ACTIVE SHOOTER’ INCIDENTS JUMPED BY 52 PERCENT IN 2021
(AL JAZEERA)
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* DEADLY SHOOTING AT TEXAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (CNN)
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* US GUN CONTROL: WHAT IS THE NRA AND WHY IS IT SO POWERFUL? (BBC)
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* GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE - NUMBER OF DEATHS IN 2022
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HONOR THE SACRIFICE OF OUR BRAVE CHILDREN   -- SIGN AT AN ANTI GUN
VIOLENCE VIGIL

 

 

RECORDINGS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ¡NO PASARÁN! CONFERENCE
2022  --  OUR SHARED STRUGGLE AGAINST THE FAR RIGHT (TRANSFORM!
EUROPE)

 

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THE ¡NO PASARÁN! CONFERENCE BROUGHT TOGETHER ACTIVISTS AND EXPERTS
FROM EUROPE AND BEYOND TO PLAN THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAYS OF CHALLENGING
THE FAR RIGHT. THEY SHARED EXPERIENCES, ANALYSES, AND STRATEGIES FOR
MOBILISATION AND ACTION. FIND HERE THE WORKSHOPS' RECORDINGS!

Over the last decade, the rise of the far right has accelerated
globally, in its biggest upsurge since the 1930s. It takes many
different forms, but it presents a real threat to our democracy and
diverse communities wherever it is found. From street attacks and
mobilisations to government office, they use Islamophobia,
anti-Semitism, xenophobia and racism to spread hate and fear. They
attack trade unionists and the left, and the rights and liberties of
us all; the onslaught on women’s rights, in particular, has been
severe. They used ‘lawfare’ and coups to overthrow legitimate
governments and exclude left candidates. Their increasing paramilitary
orientation, fake news and anti-fact approach presents an enormous
challenge, particularly during the pandemic. The far right has
weaponised the pandemic in its own political interests, and  the
economic crisis that is running alongside the virus is being exploited
by the far right to build its social and political base. But there are
victories too, where the people mobilise for a different vision of
society and defeat the hate and fear. We must build that alternative
together.

Organised by the Party of the European Left, Die LINKE, and transform!
europe

 

THE PANDEMIC WORKER WAVE AND A NEW SOCIAL COMPACT - JUNE 2 & 3
(GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY'S KALMANOVITZ INITIATIVE FOR LABOR AND THE
WORKING POOR)

 

The Pandemic Worker Wave and a New Social Compact

THURSDAY, JUNE 2 - FRIDAY JUNE 3, 2022 | VIRTUAL

You are invited to join Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiative
for Labor and the Working Poor for a virtual gathering:  “The
Pandemic Worker Wave and a New Social Compact: A Public Forum on
Working-Class Prosperity in a Transformed World
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2-3, 2022.

The convening will explore and amplify the intersection of a fresh
wave of global worker activism and new social compacts. It will bring
together disparate allies including workers, activists, academics,
faith leaders, policy experts, global labor activists, workers,
philanthropists, labor organizations, environmentalists,  and young
people.

Register
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to join us for:

* "RETHINKING COLLECTIVE BARGAINING," featuring ERICA SMILEY,
Director, Jobs with Justice, ANANNYA BHATTACHARJEE, Asia Floor Wage
Alliance, and representatives of the CA FAST Act and NYC nail salon
campaigns
* "VOTING AND DEMOCRACY IN A NEW SOCIAL COMPACT," with
journalist E.J. DIONNE, Washington Post
* "WHY ARE SO MANY YOUNG WORKERS ORGANIZING?," with KIM KELLY,
journalist and author of Fight Like Hell, with workers organizing at
REI, Google and Starbucks;
* "MIGRATION, CLIMATE AND LABOR," with representatives of the
AFL-CIO, ITUC, CUNY, Solidarity Center and MLK Labor;
* Sessions on labor and climate; global gig work; the future of
worker cooperatives; the next generation of social partnership;
post-pandemic worker safety and health and more. 

Explore the schedule
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SCREENING OF “THE WOBBLIES” – PLUS Q&A WITH DIRECTOR STEWART
BIRD - JUNE 7 (NEW YORK LABOR HISTORY ASSOCIATION)

 

TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2022, 5-7 PM ET

Register Here for the Online Event
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(Limited to 100 registrants)

The documentary “The Wobblies” tells the story of the radical
labor union the Industrial Workers of the World, the IWW, a.k.a.
“The Wobblies” – “one big union” for all unskilled laborers,
regardless of race or gender. The film combines rare archival footage,
illuminating interviews with union members, period artwork, & songs
written by martyred IWW songwriter/ organizer Joe Hill. ”The
Wobblies” returns 33 years after first premiering at the 1979 NY
Film Festival – in a digitally remastered 4K restoration. Last year
“The Wobblies” was inducted into the National Film Registry of the
Library of Congress.

Filmmakers Stewart Bird and Deborah Shaffer original goal was to
rescue & record an almost completely neglected chapter of American
history -- as told by its elderly survivors. “We never imagined then
that the themes of labor exploitation, anti-immigrant legislation, and
racial and gender discrimination would resonate as strongly 30 years
later.”

This ZOOM event is free. It will start promptly at 5 p.m. Please ask
your questions for director Stewart Bird in the ZOOM chat. He will
answer them immediately after the screening.

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