Martin Blank
18th September 2005, 17:10
Lisa Weltman, a member of the Detroit Working People's Association, an affiliate of the International Working People's Association, is running for Board of Education in the local elections. She has already made it past the primaries last August, which is the first time a self-described communist has done so since the late-1960s. Her opponent is a creature of the bourgeois establishment and has strong ties to individuals and groups that want to privatize the public schools and/or turn them over to charter school pirates.
She needs any and all help you can give. I have been here in Detroit, working on her campaign, for the last few weeks and I can tell you that she has built a real base of support here among poor and working people in the city. When she speaks, it is both to small groups and to hundreds, and it is always about the need for workers to stand up and take power into their own hands -- not through elections, but through their own self-action.
Her campaign has just begun to publish a community newsletter, Chain Reaction, which goes through political issues that relate to the struggle to defend public education. This newsletter, and the articles from it, are available on her website.
She has a real chance to win this. But she needs volunteers who would be willing to help with canvassing, and she needs donations to cover the cost of printing thousands of leaflets, newsletters and other pieces of campaign literature. For more information on her campaign, check out her website: http://www.weltman4schoolboard.org/
Miles
She needs any and all help you can give. I have been here in Detroit, working on her campaign, for the last few weeks and I can tell you that she has built a real base of support here among poor and working people in the city. When she speaks, it is both to small groups and to hundreds, and it is always about the need for workers to stand up and take power into their own hands -- not through elections, but through their own self-action.
Her campaign has just begun to publish a community newsletter, Chain Reaction, which goes through political issues that relate to the struggle to defend public education. This newsletter, and the articles from it, are available on her website.
She has a real chance to win this. But she needs volunteers who would be willing to help with canvassing, and she needs donations to cover the cost of printing thousands of leaflets, newsletters and other pieces of campaign literature. For more information on her campaign, check out her website: http://www.weltman4schoolboard.org/
Miles