Particular Events: Anarchist Forums
Anarchist Forums are held the second Tuesday of the Month at the Brecht Forum, 451 West Street, Manhattan (between Bank and Bethune streets) (212-242-4201). Take an A, C, E, or L train to the 14th Street and 8th Avenue subway stop or take a 1, 2, or 3 train to the 14th Street and 7th Avenue stop.
Everybody is welcome and invited to come and to have their say. Admission is free for the presentation, but a contribution to aid the LBC is suggested.Spring 2006 schedule:
Tuesday, March 14 at 7:30pm
THE CRISIS IN THE LABOR MOVEMENT and ALTERNATIVE WORKER ORGANIZING
panelists from Workers Solidarity Alliance; Industrial Workers of the World (IWW); Make the Road by Walking; Million Worker March
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In cooperation with the Anarchist Forum, Workers Solidrity Alliance will present a panel of rank and file labor group members who will describe their response to the current crisis in the U.S. labor movement. This crisis is one in which the establsihed unions continue to decline in membership and the recent contorversies in the official labor movement have done little to show a new way forward. At the same time the power of the workers on the job and in society in general continues to decrease.
The panel will also present alternative ways of worker organizing that can restore the power of the labor movement. Recent experiences with immigrant workers in Brooklyn, with the Starbucks organizing campaign and with rank-and-file struggles among auto workers and in other sectors around the country have shown that workers can organize wthout bureaucracy and as an integral part of a sturggle within the community for justice and equity. The panelists will draw on their recent experiences and place them in the larger context of the needed changes in the labor movmenet today.
After the presentation the panel will have an extensive open discussion among themselves and with the audience about the state of the labor movement and strategies for the future.Tuesday, April 11 at 7:30pm
Memorial for the beloved anarchist historian Paul Avrich.
Paul Avrich is considered the most important 20th century American historian of anarchism. But he is remembered not only for his scholarship but also for his wit and his human closeness. His research included not only the discovery of important material dealing with the anarchist actions in the Russian Revolution but also numerous interviews with American anarchists as real people not just public figures. His books on anarchist events in this country were important and numerous. One website with more details on his life and works is http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=06/02/20/0245243.
Anarchist Forums are aired Wednesdays at midnight on Manhatten cable TV channel 57.
See the Manhatten Anarchist Media Schedule.
Larger Questions:
We are looking for new projects to pursue. We're thinking about educational, organizational and networking things especially. Want to participate? Drop by 339 Lafayette St. in Manhattan [The Peace Building, on Bleecker a block north of Houston] at 7:00 pm on the first Thursday of the month (except June and July). Ring the bell for Room 202 and someone will buzz you in.
If you have questions, contact the LBC / Anarchist Forum, 212-979-8353 or e-mail: roberterler (at) erols.com
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