Thank you for those who came through last night to hear the word outta the New Orleans Worker Center and some of the story of how the Indian Welders rose up and escaped the 'man camp' in Mississippi. Keep up at LaborBeat.org for the video recorded account of what really happened.
Some thoughts that I heard expressed last night were
More literacy of US Guestworker programs and policies, starting with a closer reading of "close to slavery" and H2B visas.
A critique of guestworker debate, reform versus revolt. better oversight and regulation of guestworker programs as the end goal or eliminating the barriers to free migration.
More discussion and understanding of how the Post-Katrina solidarity energy and organizing shaped the organizing in the Gulf Coast, particularly in New Orleans. And how Bay Area influences impact the struggle there today.
A tangent of that was how was 'volunteer' labor factored in to the labor economy? Specifically by grassroots organizations or by Union organized efforts. How was volunteer work classed?
Those involved with Union Labor organizing expressed an interest in meeting again to figure out how to push labor.
Ideas for the pushing the Labor Movement revolved around how to recognize guestworker issues, unseen labor, or work that the Labor movement leaves behind and out of the picture
how can we debunk the false dichotomy between immigration/migration and labor?
would a strategy incorporate resolutions on a local and labor council level?
How can education and action on guestworker programs and immigration policy draw attention to free-trade/migrant stream patterns, neoliberalism/privatization, and a global unionism movement that does not reproduce US and western hegemony.
I will post updates from the network that came out of Detroit, beginning with something that just came down the wire.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
DIA27: Migrant Gulf Streaming 2008
When: Sunday, Apr 27
Time & Place: 6:00 PM @ bakers dozen 733 Baker St. San Francisco, CA 94115
Family, friends and allies,
This is Inez Sunwoo, kindly writing you to present a Days in April 2008 gathering called Migrant Gulf Streaming. I would like to create this gathering with you for many important
reason that relate to the orientation of our 'radical communities of color'. These reasons are informed more specifically by our shared views, our complex differences, the situations of our histories, how we are situated at present in history, unknown but imagined radicalizing experiences, loving stories, and or any other indescribable interpretations of a commitment to forge strength through struggle. This is a solidarity gathering.
Recently, at the Labor Notes conference in Detroit, stories, updates, and calls for solidarity in clear terms were shared by workers in many regions, including the midwestern and southern U.S. occupied colonies. I had the opportunity to go, and would like to bring some of the news back to you. Personally, I hope that this gathering inpires, supports, correlates, bridges,
mends, realizes, coalesces what we face here in the bay, as p.o.c., but also, I would like us to share our stories, news, updates, and calls for solidarity here in clear terms with each other.
The details of the format for Migrant Gulf Streaming are still in the works, but i plan on sharing information on the work of The Indian Workers Congress, The New Orleans Worker Center, The Mississipi Worker Center, The Alliance for Guestworker Dignity and Post Katrina Solidarity at Labor Notes.
If you cannot come, please let me know if you'd like to participate in other ways. Also, even if you can't make it, a feature of this evite is the 'TALK ABOUT IT!' field, where you can share whatever you want with others who will be on this evite.
This e-invitation has been extended to you for this POC event, but others who you feel like inviting into the space are welcome. if you do bring others, please let me know for logistical reasons, as i plan on cooking dinner. and finally, you can change the details of this event slightly to voice any needs about changes in time, date or location. because there is not much time, and may day is approaching, perhaps any changes could be limited to suggestions of having a separate event in Oakland for the sake of accessibility.
keep in mind, this is a non sectarian, non hierarchical, liberatory, politically autonomous (meaning no electoral or reform agenda or electoral party politics) space. Please respect.
Sincerely,
Inez
of
*Days in April Collective*
creating encounters between people impacted by im/migration
*Builders Solidarity Network*
radical trades folk, union and non, concerned with Just & self-determined reconstruction in the post katrina era
*Estacion Libre Oakland*
poc in the north creating visibility and exchanging strategies with Zapatistas in the state of Chiapas to strengthen Autonomy everywhere NeoLiberalism destroys
More info at:
http://planyp.us/plans/321705030582-migrant-gulf-streaming?key=bb62e06f56e&elnk=1
-- Thanks, inez
Time & Place: 6:00 PM @ bakers dozen 733 Baker St. San Francisco, CA 94115
Family, friends and allies,
This is Inez Sunwoo, kindly writing you to present a Days in April 2008 gathering called Migrant Gulf Streaming. I would like to create this gathering with you for many important
reason that relate to the orientation of our 'radical communities of color'. These reasons are informed more specifically by our shared views, our complex differences, the situations of our histories, how we are situated at present in history, unknown but imagined radicalizing experiences, loving stories, and or any other indescribable interpretations of a commitment to forge strength through struggle. This is a solidarity gathering.
Recently, at the Labor Notes conference in Detroit, stories, updates, and calls for solidarity in clear terms were shared by workers in many regions, including the midwestern and southern U.S. occupied colonies. I had the opportunity to go, and would like to bring some of the news back to you. Personally, I hope that this gathering inpires, supports, correlates, bridges,
mends, realizes, coalesces what we face here in the bay, as p.o.c., but also, I would like us to share our stories, news, updates, and calls for solidarity here in clear terms with each other.
The details of the format for Migrant Gulf Streaming are still in the works, but i plan on sharing information on the work of The Indian Workers Congress, The New Orleans Worker Center, The Mississipi Worker Center, The Alliance for Guestworker Dignity and Post Katrina Solidarity at Labor Notes.
If you cannot come, please let me know if you'd like to participate in other ways. Also, even if you can't make it, a feature of this evite is the 'TALK ABOUT IT!' field, where you can share whatever you want with others who will be on this evite.
This e-invitation has been extended to you for this POC event, but others who you feel like inviting into the space are welcome. if you do bring others, please let me know for logistical reasons, as i plan on cooking dinner. and finally, you can change the details of this event slightly to voice any needs about changes in time, date or location. because there is not much time, and may day is approaching, perhaps any changes could be limited to suggestions of having a separate event in Oakland for the sake of accessibility.
keep in mind, this is a non sectarian, non hierarchical, liberatory, politically autonomous (meaning no electoral or reform agenda or electoral party politics) space. Please respect.
Sincerely,
Inez
of
*Days in April Collective*
creating encounters between people impacted by im/migration
*Builders Solidarity Network*
radical trades folk, union and non, concerned with Just & self-determined reconstruction in the post katrina era
*Estacion Libre Oakland*
poc in the north creating visibility and exchanging strategies with Zapatistas in the state of Chiapas to strengthen Autonomy everywhere NeoLiberalism destroys
More info at:
http://planyp.us/plans/321705030582-migrant-gulf-streaming?key=bb62e06f56e&elnk=1
-- Thanks, inez
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