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IN THIS MESSAGE:
(1) Uniting the Battlefronts Against the War on Black America -- by Saladin Muhammad (presentation delivered at UNAC Conference on June 17, 2017)
(2) Information & Registration for Labor Fightback Conference (Cleveland, OH -- July 21-23); a representative of the Appeal for a National Assembly for Black Liberation will address the Labor Fightback Conference -- Please Register Today!
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Information & Registration for Labor Fightback Conference (Cleveland, OH -- July 21-23, 2017)
Dear Sisters and Brothers,
The Third National Conference of the Labor Fightback Network (Cleveland, Ohio -- July 21-23, 2017) is less than one month away. We are sending you this message with the urgent request that you register today for the conference.
We have received a very enthusiastic response to the Conference Call, and dozens of dynamic and seasoned organizers and activists from all across the country have agreed to speak at our plenary sessions and in our workshops -- all with the aim of kicking off a very needed discussion on the need for a new strategy for the labor movement and for the communities of the oppressed.
We need you to be there. Information on workshops, speakers, registration, housing, costs, and other logistics are included on the conference website [click here (http://laborfightback.org/conference2017/)]. Excerpts from the Conference Call -- as well as the Conference Agenda and the list of conference workshops -- are also included below. Please register today [click here (http://laborfightback.org/conference2017/registration.htm)]!
We look forward to seeing you in Cleveland.
In solidarity,
The Steering Committee of the
Labor Fightback Network
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Excerpts from the Call to the Third National Conference of the Labor Fightback Network (July 21-23, 2017 — Cleveland, Ohio)
The big question now is: What direction for the growing Resistance movement? Does it get channeled back into the Democratic Party, as so many politicians are already urging, or does it chart a new and independent course?
And what should labor’s role be in all this? If the strategies employed by the labor movement in recent years have not worked, what will?
Should the labor movement continue to rely on Democrats and heed the call to bring back the Democrats in 2018? Can the Democratic Party be “reformed,” as Bernie Sanders is proposing?
Or should labor embrace a new strategy, an independent mass-action strategy (including mass strike action, following the example of ILWU Local 10’s port shutdown in Oakland, Calif., on Inauguration Day) with hundreds of thousands of union members in the streets, in union contingents, joining with the millions who, since the epic January 21 Women’s March, have launched this ever-growing Resistance movement? Should labor not be making common cause with the activists and youth fighting against misogyny, racism and police violence, homophobia, immigrant-bashing, Islamophobia, environmental degradation, and other such scourges?
And should such a mass-action strategy not be coupled with the drive to promote labor’s own independent political voice in the electoral arena, including the possibility of running independent labor-community candidates for local office?
These discussions are already taking place on the campuses, in the union halls, and on the shop floors. New appeals are springing forth calling on Bernie Sanders to form his own party, or calling on labor to form its own party.
There is a growing sense that labor needs a new strategy, a new direction. But what direction is this exactly?
We need to share our ideas, our proposals, our energy, and our dedication to a better future — indeed, simply a future — for working people. For that reason the Labor Fightback Network calls on working people dedicated to peace and social justice, whether union members or not, to attend a national conference at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio, from the afternoon of Friday, July 21, through the morning of Sunday, July 23.
We need you to be there. Information on workshops, speakers, registration, housing, costs, and other logistics are included on the conference website [click here (http://laborfightback.org/conference2017/)]. The Conference Agenda and list of workshops is also included below.
Please register today [click here (http://laborfightback.org/conference2017/registration.htm)]!
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Labor Fightback Conference 2017
Conference Agenda
Friday, July 21, 2017
2:30 pm—Registration, continuing throughout conference
7:30 pm—Conference Opening and Welcome
7:40 pm—Panel Discussion and floor discussion on electoral strategy
10:00 pm—Recess for the night
Saturday, July 22, 2017
8:00 am—Continental Breakfast
8:45 am—General Welcome and Housekeeping, Guidelines and Layout for the Conference
9:00 am—Plenary Session: Report on Conference Goals and Objectives by LFN National Secretary Tom Bias
9:20 am—Report on Workshop Logistics (LFN)
9:30 am—Workshops (6) [See below or go to website]
11:00 am—Break
11:20 am—Workshops (6) [See below or go to website]
12:50 pm—Lunch
1:50 pm—Workshops (6) [See below or go to website]
3:45 pm—Plenary session: Workshop reports
5:15 pm—Break
6:00 pm—Buffet Dinner
7:00 pm—Evening Program
10:00 pm—Recess for the night
Sunday, July 23
8:00 am—Continental Breakfast
9:00 am—Plenary session: Report on “Where do we go next?” It will summarize ideas presented by workshops and speakers throughout the conference and how they complement or contradict the beginning presentation on Saturday.
9:30 am—Plenary discussion to include development of potential resolutions, sharing of group strategies.
12:30 pm — Closing, at which time we will sing “Solidarity Forever” and adjourn.
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Labor Fightback Network National Conference 2017
Cleveland State University, July 21-23
Workshop Descriptions
1. Single-Payer Health Care
This workshop will focus on the campaign to win Medicare for All, as proposed in Bill HR 676 in the House of Representatives. It will also discuss single-payer health plans on the state level.
2. Reaching Out to the Faith Communities
As clergy and lay people in many faith communities stand up for peace, justice, and the environment, we see a new opportunity for collaboration between religious groups and the labor movement. What does the labor movement need to do? What do the congregations need to do? What obstacles stand in the way of united action? This workshop will consider these and other questions.
3. Fighting for Black Lives and Against Police Brutality
How can the labor movement lend its strength to the campaign against police brutality—including police murder—of African-American youth? This workshop will examine the situation in the Communities of Color, including the murder of unarmed young men and women, mass incarceration, the so-called “war on drugs,” and other crises as well.
4. Standing Rock, Climate Change, and the Struggle for the Planet
Defending our air, water, and food supply and working to slow down and ultimately stop the climate change which threatens our continued existence could be the biggest challenge that human society faces. How can the labor movement join with environmentalists in our communities and put new winning strategies to work? Bring your ideas, and let’s talk about it!
5. Immigrant Rights and the Fight Against Islamophobia
Nothing has defined the Trump agenda quite so much its attacks on the Islamic community and all immigrant communities. Some of the largest and most effective Resistance actions have centered on standing up in defense of immigrants and refugees. How can working people help to move the struggle forward? That is what this workshop will discuss.
6. Defending the Union Shop and Fighting for a Living Wage
As Congress begins consideration of a national Right-to-Work (for Less) law, working people have been in the streets demanding the passage of a $15/hour minimum wage, a struggle which has been successful in a number of areas. What does the labor movement need to do to protect its right to organize and insure that all workers receive wages sufficient to support their families?
7. Defending Public Education and Organizing Teachers
Children’s right to an education is threatened on many levels, including underfunded and crumbling public schools and for-profit charter schools. Meanwhile, teachers from kindergarten to community college and university are finding it increasingly difficult to earn a living. Let’s discuss a winning fightback strategy for teachers and their students.
8. Organizing Students and Young People
The economic crisis has hit young people especially hard. The lack of employment opportunities, crushing student debt, and the seeming impossibility of living independently as young adults are challenges faced by young people of all communities. This workshop will discuss how young people can organize themselves and what the labor movement can do to address the challenges.
9. Defending a Woman’s Right to Choose and Equal Pay for Women
Women were the first to mobilize in the streets in resistance to the Trump administration’s agenda, and they did so in the millions. How can working women and men rise to challenges of defending Planned Parenthood, defending the Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision, and fighting against wage discrimination, harassment on the job and in the schools, and domestic violence? Those and other challenges will be discussed in this workshop.
10. Independent Electoral Activity and Winning Ballot Access
Dissatisfaction with the Democratic and Republican parties is at all-time high. This workshop will share the experiences of independent electoral campaigns and will discuss the opportunities for labor and its community allies to field candidates for public office. It will also discuss some of the nuts-and-bolts challenges of getting on the ballot, raising money, and getting out the vote.
11. Out Now! Stopping U.S. Intervention, Occupation, and War Throughout the World
The Trump administration is continuing the policy of the U.S. sticking its nose into places where it does not belong, in the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and even parts of Europe. Its budget increases the share of U.S. tax dollars going to military spending at the expense of the social safety net. Defeating militarism and the drive toward war is what this workshop will discuss.
12. Organizing in the Southern States
Organizing unions in the South, where so-called Right-To-Work laws prevail, has been a special challenge for the labor movement for nearly seventy years. This workshop will discuss the progress that trade unionists have made and the challenges that remain.
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IN THIS MESSAGE:
(1) Uniting the Battlefronts Against the War on Black America -- by Saladin Muhammad (presentation delivered at UNAC Conference on June 17, 2017)
(2) Information & Registration for Labor Fightback Conference (Cleveland, OH -- July 21-23); a representative of the Appeal for a National Assembly for Black Liberation will address the Labor Fightback Conference -- Please Register Today!
* * * * * * * * * *
[...]
Information & Registration for Labor Fightback Conference (Cleveland, OH -- July 21-23, 2017)
Dear Sisters and Brothers,
The Third National Conference of the Labor Fightback Network (Cleveland, Ohio -- July 21-23, 2017) is less than one month away. We are sending you this message with the urgent request that you register today for the conference.
We have received a very enthusiastic response to the Conference Call, and dozens of dynamic and seasoned organizers and activists from all across the country have agreed to speak at our plenary sessions and in our workshops -- all with the aim of kicking off a very needed discussion on the need for a new strategy for the labor movement and for the communities of the oppressed.
We need you to be there. Information on workshops, speakers, registration, housing, costs, and other logistics are included on the conference website [click here (http://laborfightback.org/conference2017/)]. Excerpts from the Conference Call -- as well as the Conference Agenda and the list of conference workshops -- are also included below. Please register today [click here (http://laborfightback.org/conference2017/registration.htm)]!
We look forward to seeing you in Cleveland.
In solidarity,
The Steering Committee of the
Labor Fightback Network
* * * * * * * * * *
Excerpts from the Call to the Third National Conference of the Labor Fightback Network (July 21-23, 2017 — Cleveland, Ohio)
The big question now is: What direction for the growing Resistance movement? Does it get channeled back into the Democratic Party, as so many politicians are already urging, or does it chart a new and independent course?
And what should labor’s role be in all this? If the strategies employed by the labor movement in recent years have not worked, what will?
Should the labor movement continue to rely on Democrats and heed the call to bring back the Democrats in 2018? Can the Democratic Party be “reformed,” as Bernie Sanders is proposing?
Or should labor embrace a new strategy, an independent mass-action strategy (including mass strike action, following the example of ILWU Local 10’s port shutdown in Oakland, Calif., on Inauguration Day) with hundreds of thousands of union members in the streets, in union contingents, joining with the millions who, since the epic January 21 Women’s March, have launched this ever-growing Resistance movement? Should labor not be making common cause with the activists and youth fighting against misogyny, racism and police violence, homophobia, immigrant-bashing, Islamophobia, environmental degradation, and other such scourges?
And should such a mass-action strategy not be coupled with the drive to promote labor’s own independent political voice in the electoral arena, including the possibility of running independent labor-community candidates for local office?
These discussions are already taking place on the campuses, in the union halls, and on the shop floors. New appeals are springing forth calling on Bernie Sanders to form his own party, or calling on labor to form its own party.
There is a growing sense that labor needs a new strategy, a new direction. But what direction is this exactly?
We need to share our ideas, our proposals, our energy, and our dedication to a better future — indeed, simply a future — for working people. For that reason the Labor Fightback Network calls on working people dedicated to peace and social justice, whether union members or not, to attend a national conference at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio, from the afternoon of Friday, July 21, through the morning of Sunday, July 23.
We need you to be there. Information on workshops, speakers, registration, housing, costs, and other logistics are included on the conference website [click here (http://laborfightback.org/conference2017/)]. The Conference Agenda and list of workshops is also included below.
Please register today [click here (http://laborfightback.org/conference2017/registration.htm)]!
* * * * * * * * * *
Labor Fightback Conference 2017
Conference Agenda
Friday, July 21, 2017
2:30 pm—Registration, continuing throughout conference
7:30 pm—Conference Opening and Welcome
7:40 pm—Panel Discussion and floor discussion on electoral strategy
10:00 pm—Recess for the night
Saturday, July 22, 2017
8:00 am—Continental Breakfast
8:45 am—General Welcome and Housekeeping, Guidelines and Layout for the Conference
9:00 am—Plenary Session: Report on Conference Goals and Objectives by LFN National Secretary Tom Bias
9:20 am—Report on Workshop Logistics (LFN)
9:30 am—Workshops (6) [See below or go to website]
11:00 am—Break
11:20 am—Workshops (6) [See below or go to website]
12:50 pm—Lunch
1:50 pm—Workshops (6) [See below or go to website]
3:45 pm—Plenary session: Workshop reports
5:15 pm—Break
6:00 pm—Buffet Dinner
7:00 pm—Evening Program
10:00 pm—Recess for the night
Sunday, July 23
8:00 am—Continental Breakfast
9:00 am—Plenary session: Report on “Where do we go next?” It will summarize ideas presented by workshops and speakers throughout the conference and how they complement or contradict the beginning presentation on Saturday.
9:30 am—Plenary discussion to include development of potential resolutions, sharing of group strategies.
12:30 pm — Closing, at which time we will sing “Solidarity Forever” and adjourn.
* * * * * * * * * *
Labor Fightback Network National Conference 2017
Cleveland State University, July 21-23
Workshop Descriptions
1. Single-Payer Health Care
This workshop will focus on the campaign to win Medicare for All, as proposed in Bill HR 676 in the House of Representatives. It will also discuss single-payer health plans on the state level.
2. Reaching Out to the Faith Communities
As clergy and lay people in many faith communities stand up for peace, justice, and the environment, we see a new opportunity for collaboration between religious groups and the labor movement. What does the labor movement need to do? What do the congregations need to do? What obstacles stand in the way of united action? This workshop will consider these and other questions.
3. Fighting for Black Lives and Against Police Brutality
How can the labor movement lend its strength to the campaign against police brutality—including police murder—of African-American youth? This workshop will examine the situation in the Communities of Color, including the murder of unarmed young men and women, mass incarceration, the so-called “war on drugs,” and other crises as well.
4. Standing Rock, Climate Change, and the Struggle for the Planet
Defending our air, water, and food supply and working to slow down and ultimately stop the climate change which threatens our continued existence could be the biggest challenge that human society faces. How can the labor movement join with environmentalists in our communities and put new winning strategies to work? Bring your ideas, and let’s talk about it!
5. Immigrant Rights and the Fight Against Islamophobia
Nothing has defined the Trump agenda quite so much its attacks on the Islamic community and all immigrant communities. Some of the largest and most effective Resistance actions have centered on standing up in defense of immigrants and refugees. How can working people help to move the struggle forward? That is what this workshop will discuss.
6. Defending the Union Shop and Fighting for a Living Wage
As Congress begins consideration of a national Right-to-Work (for Less) law, working people have been in the streets demanding the passage of a $15/hour minimum wage, a struggle which has been successful in a number of areas. What does the labor movement need to do to protect its right to organize and insure that all workers receive wages sufficient to support their families?
7. Defending Public Education and Organizing Teachers
Children’s right to an education is threatened on many levels, including underfunded and crumbling public schools and for-profit charter schools. Meanwhile, teachers from kindergarten to community college and university are finding it increasingly difficult to earn a living. Let’s discuss a winning fightback strategy for teachers and their students.
8. Organizing Students and Young People
The economic crisis has hit young people especially hard. The lack of employment opportunities, crushing student debt, and the seeming impossibility of living independently as young adults are challenges faced by young people of all communities. This workshop will discuss how young people can organize themselves and what the labor movement can do to address the challenges.
9. Defending a Woman’s Right to Choose and Equal Pay for Women
Women were the first to mobilize in the streets in resistance to the Trump administration’s agenda, and they did so in the millions. How can working women and men rise to challenges of defending Planned Parenthood, defending the Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision, and fighting against wage discrimination, harassment on the job and in the schools, and domestic violence? Those and other challenges will be discussed in this workshop.
10. Independent Electoral Activity and Winning Ballot Access
Dissatisfaction with the Democratic and Republican parties is at all-time high. This workshop will share the experiences of independent electoral campaigns and will discuss the opportunities for labor and its community allies to field candidates for public office. It will also discuss some of the nuts-and-bolts challenges of getting on the ballot, raising money, and getting out the vote.
11. Out Now! Stopping U.S. Intervention, Occupation, and War Throughout the World
The Trump administration is continuing the policy of the U.S. sticking its nose into places where it does not belong, in the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and even parts of Europe. Its budget increases the share of U.S. tax dollars going to military spending at the expense of the social safety net. Defeating militarism and the drive toward war is what this workshop will discuss.
12. Organizing in the Southern States
Organizing unions in the South, where so-called Right-To-Work laws prevail, has been a special challenge for the labor movement for nearly seventy years. This workshop will discuss the progress that trade unionists have made and the challenges that remain.
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