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Beyond the Split: Re-Energizing the Labor Movement Audio |
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by recordist Paul Mueth
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01 Nov 2005
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Beyond the Split: Re-Energizing the Labor Movement
Bread and Roses Events” sponsored by the Socialist Forum either alone or in conjunction with other organizations. This one was dedicated to the memory of Stan Weir, a longshoreman, long-time labor activist, writer, and labor activist. Weir, who died about two years ago, was a professor at ILIR in the late 1960s and early 1970s. A few of the 60 to 70 participants in the forum had been students of Weir, either through his formal instructional role at the ILIR or in his less formal influence in the labor community in this area |
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Toby Higbie, a former leader of the GEO and now a newly hired assistant professor at ILIR gave a formal welcome and overview of the situation of labor today,
Gene Vanderport of the IEA gave a tribute to Stan Weir.
The keynote address was given by Adolph Reed, Jr. who writes for the Progressive and The Nation magazines. Reed is also on the Interim National Council of the Labor Party, a member of the National Writers Union whish is a UAW local, and a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Look for files of the other speeches by the following at a later time.
Jenny Barrett, chair of the Association of Academic Professionals (AAP) at the U of I
Terry Davis, a former United Electrical Workers’ union militant, a founder of U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW) in Iraq, and presently with Jobs for Justice in Chicago
Sean O’Torain, a member of the Irish Labor Party and Labor's Militant Voice in Chicago
Brian Mitchell, a Stan Weir trainee and UAW activist and leader
Dave Rathke, an Ilinois Education Association activist who is also on the editorial board of the Chicago-based newspaper, In These Times. |
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