About me: URWW is a social movement network on the front lines of left-labor activism. The URWW network strives to confront, impede, and revise neoliberal policies and practices in the everyday lives of workers of the word. Understanding the larger and ultimate political project of these neoliberal policies and practices to be the abolition of collective action "for humanity and against neoliberalism," we seek to establish public platforms and virtual networks for the democratic struggle to work in the first person plural.
Website:
www.urww.org
Who I'd like to meet: URWW first assembled to address the struggle of Borders Bookstore workers to organize their store in Minneapolis, Minnesota. URWW leafleted and picketed the store, convened public discussions, built a solidarity network with other left/labor groups, and hosted what is believed to be the first organizing conference of bookstore workers (Resist Retail Nihilism: A Bookstore Workers Organizing Forum, January 17, 2004, Communication Workers of America Local 7200). One outcome of this initial assembly has been the unionization of the Minneapolis Borders store through the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 789 and the ratification of the workers' first union contract with Borders on November, 14 2004.
The URWW network continues to reassemble in various articulations: co-organizing a street festival re-linking the 1934 Teamster Strike to public memory, building a virtual presence for a traveling exhibit of Industrial Workers of the World graphic design work, penning a manifesto for workers of the word, and critiquing (in print and public forums) the policies and practices of the neoliberal language industry.
Local councils are currently working to organize meet-ups, read-ins, slow-downs, and other occupations aimed at subverting the "public-corporate" spaces created by the neoliberal language industry. For more information on participating in the URWW's first person plural social movement network, please contact us at manowak@stkate.edu
Come support your local Native Delegation to Chiapas!
CasaZapa House Party
678 30th st, Oakland CA
(between MLK & West)
Date: Saturday, June 13
Time: 8:00pm - ?
$3 donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Free Food! Cheap drinks!
Spinin: DJ Mixteka, DJ Agana, & Lalo playing cumbias, salsa, hip-hop, reggae, rock en Español and pretty much anything else you can think of...
This delegation is a space of encounter for the Indigenous communities in Chiapas and the Indigenous communities in the California Bay Area to exchange knowledge, culture, histories, and experiences in order to find the connections in the work we are doing as a way to support each other and strengthen our struggles. TELL YOUR FRIENDS!!!!
THe " birthday alert " although it's not your birthday ... made me pass again on your page ... always a good thing to find links and jump onto great human-beings pages .. take care kisses from France F•
Just passing thru to show some love! I just uploaded a new tune called HEARTBREAKER to my page. Check it out when you have a chance! Peace & Blessings! :-)
DIASPORA: Dedicated for all that are forced or induced to leave their traditional homelands.
Radio Diáspora is a form of, educational, cultural and informative communication that aims to impulse a participatory and protagonical democracy, solidarity and the integration of Latin-American, the Caribbean and North America from the starting point that communication has to be in tune with new political, economical and social models grounded in equality. ...
Tune into Radio Diáspora every Saturday at 5pm-7pmEDT on the web at www. wrfg. org or in Atlanta at 89.3FM. The first hour is in English, the second in Spanish.
Radio Diaspora es la voz del centro communitario Latinoamericano y del caribe. Escuchen cada sabado 5-7pm EDT en 89.3FM en Atlanta o por la pagina de web www. wrfg. org. 6-7pm en espanol!
