Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
Thanks to Jeff Zavala of ZGraphix for this visual report on part of the US Social Forum program held at the Texas State Employees Union on Thursday, August 19. You’ll see the slide show of the USSF shown by Anne Lewis of TSEU, and the video that Austin Tan Cerca de La Frontera took to Detroit for the workshop that they presented at the USSF in June. Jeff adds music from David Rovics. (You can also go to Anne Lewis’s website to see clips from her documentary on Anne Braden that she showed at the USSF.)
http://www.blip.tv/file/4031183
Domestic workers union at USSF (LaborNotes, Jim West)
Above: March against the world’s largest waste incinerator.
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
| August 19, 2010 |
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Texas State Employees Union sponsors a report back from the USSF with a labor perspective.
In June, thousands of social justice activists met in Detroit at the USSF to discuss, plan, and organize the struggle for a more just, equitable, and sustainable world. It was the second of these vibrant, cross-issue social change gatherings. Those of us from TSEU were inspired by seeing so many labor union groups all through the event–UAW, Teamsters, Steelworkers, AFSCME, United Electrical Workers, AFT, etc., etc.
In what we hope will be one of many USSF programs, members of the Texas State Employees Union, CWA Local 6186, will host a gathering to hear reports from Austinites who attended this important and inspiring event. Our presenters will focus on labor in various ways. There will also be a slide show and video clips.
Those making reports include:
Anne Lewis, a TSEU activist, who will show clips from a presentation she made to the US Social Forum about Anne Braden, a most dedicated fighter against racism and political repression.
Josefina Castillo and Judith Rosenberg of Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera, which organizes solidarity and support for workers in Mexico organizing inside and outside of unions
Leslie Cunningham, a TSEU activist, who will report on the role of labor unions in the social justice movement
Maribel Falcon of Workers Defense Project/Proyecto Defensa Laboral, which is having great
success on wage theft and construction safety issues in Austin as part of the labor movement which is larger than unions alone.
Carmen Llanes with PODER in East Austin, who will report on environmental justice organizing.
For more information, contact Will Rogers at 280-7549 or [email protected]
On Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/?sk=events#!/event.php?eid=104604479596477
Domestic workers union marches at USSF (photo by Jim West, Labor Notes)
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Monday, May 31st, 2010
| June 22, 2010 | to | June 26, 2010 |
Most of you know about the U.S. Social Forum this year. Many people from
San Antonio, Austin, Houston, and other Texas cities are going. Some are presenting workshops. USSF’s website is http://www.ussf2010.org/ or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1828946493&v=app_2344061033#!/event.php?eid=111695722194402&index=1
U.S. Labor Against the War is sponsoring 2 workshops: “Building solidarity with working people and unions in Iraq and other U.S. war zones” (Thurs., 6/24, 1 – 3 pm) and “Talking to workers and unions about war, military spending and U.S. foreign policy” (Friday, 6/25, 10 am – 12 noon).
Here’s a small excerpt from the USSF’s statement of beliefs:
- “Believe that there is a strategic need to unite the struggles of oppressed communities and peoples within the United States (particularly Black, Latino, Asian/ Pacific-Islander and Indigenous communities) to the struggles of oppressed nations in the Third World.
- Believe the USSF should place the highest priority on groups that are actually doing grassroots organizing with working class people of color, who are training organizers, building long-term structures of resistance, and who can work well with other groups, seeing their participation in USSF as building the whole, not just their part of it. . . .”
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