They like it. Got this off an email list, where it’s sparked a bit of discussion. One question is whether they mean something like the old lefty ‘boring from within’ idea, or just ‘organize in/against your workplace’. In any case, I like the piece.
December 16, 2005
… does NEFAC think about workplace organizing?
November 28, 2005
… is Labor Martyrs Month?
This is. November. There’s a lot to be said back and forth about the concept of martyrdom, but it’s still important that our dead be remembered. (After all, as Benjamin noted social democrats point us toward the future in order to rob us of our past, of the hatred it provides and the strength that offers.) Utah Phillips says on one of his records somewhere that we need to also remember people who were just trying to get by, just do a job, and still ended up in unmarked graves. In november we remember not only folks who stood up and got shot down, but people who were cut short for all sorts of reasons. It’s tempting to quote Vaneigem - survival is dying slowly, suicide on the installment plan - and so to univeralize the condition, but that risks blunting the point.
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October 5, 2005
… is a union?
Last night at our branch meeting we got enough members in good standing to sign the charter to make the Twin Cities General Membership Branch (GMB) of the IWW official. It’s very exciting, and as a result I though I’d put down my thoughts on what a union is.
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