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Thursday, May 12, 2005
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From around the globe to the Metro Detroit area! It's Really Spring This Time Action Alert!
I need everyone who knows a Detroit Newspaper Worker to put out the call for help. If we're going to pull off a 10th year commemoration of the Newspaper struggle, we need all hands on deck. Please contact me so ACOSS and other less organized volunteers can get this party started. We will dedicate the event to the Youngstown Newspaper strikers, now in their sixth month of struggle. In the meantime, visit them at www.valleyvoiceonline.com. Don't let them down. Remember what it meant to look at six months.
Do you know that our government, in their quest to not represent a single citizen of this country, are in talks right now to pass a Thailand Free Trade Agreement? Thailand is the second largest producer of trucks in the world. This agreement would make them the largest. It could cost 25,000 jobs in this country (assembly and parts). Try the congressional switchboard at 800-284-2919 or (if you're at work) at 202 225-3121. Call your senator at 202 224-3121.
From Detroit Area Peace and Justice Network (DAPJN)
Please join Pointes for Peace on Wednesday, May 11 at 7:30 pm to hear Patrick Resta, National Guardsman, speak about his eight month experience as a medic in Iraq
at St. Ambrose Catholic Church
15020 Hampton (near E. Jefferson & Alter)
Grosse Pointe Park
For more information, call Mary Read (313-822-2702) or Carol Bendure (313-882-7732).
Saturday noon. Women in Black. Clark Park in Southwest Detroit. Silent protest, wear black, everyone welcome.
From Million Worker March Detroit:
Hi- I want to urge you to attend and participate in the national meeting of the Million Worker March organizers coming to Detroit this Saturday and Sunday, May 14 and 15. Clarence Thomas of the west coast longshore workers, Brenda Stokely of NYC AFSCME and Saledin Mohammed of Black Workers for Justice (N. Carolina) are only a few among the great labor
activists who are attending. This will be an important chance for us to network and exchange information/strategy on the rapidly changing labor scene. Feel free to bring literature from your local or group to share. Registration is Saturday at 9:30 am at UAW Local 22- 4300 Michigan Avenue (just west of W. Grand Blvd.). Lunch and dinner will be served in the hall (or just attend part of the program). Registration fee is a sliding scale - no one will be turned away. On Saturday night
from 6-8 PM the doors will be opened for a free Public Speak Out about budget cuts, the social cost of the Pentagon budget and more. Sunday will focus more on MWM organizational questions. Hope to see you there.
- David Sole, Pres. UAW Local 2334
From Wobbly brother Jim Rehberg, a reminder to be there for those who are out on the line:
Hello Fellow Workers,
Sad news to pass along. Once again a good job has gone bad. A place called Hercules Drawn Steel has locked out sixtysome workers. From what I've been told by people on the line is that in the past the old Man ran the plant and it was a good job, good pay and benefits. Now the sons have taken oven and have turned it into a mess. Guttng the contract of rights, slashing wages, passing huge health care cost on the workers and cutting the health care of the retirees. They rejected the last best offer Saturday afternoon April 30th and locked them out on MAYDAY. What a slap in the face to the people who by thier labor gave those sons a good life, now they want a better life. The Workers have been walking since then. No scabs yet but the company has plans. They have most all the people on the line but still need a shot in the arm. So if You can visit them and pass the word around. They sure do like company out there. Hercules is at 38901 Armhein Road, Livonia. Just south of 96 and west of Newburgh. Hope You can make it. See You there Jim Rehberg
Coming soon:
Premiere of film "Professional Revolutionary: The Life of Saul Wellman" Sunday, May 22, 3:00 P.M. 100 General Lectures Building, 5045 Anthony Wayne (3rd Street) at Warren, Wayne State University. Guest of honor: Victor Navasky, publisher of "The Nation" and author of "A Matter of Opinion."
Directed by Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Judith Montell, "Professional Revolutionary" tells the amazing and moving story of celebrated Detroiter Saul Wellman, who risked his life for his beliefs, nearly died in battle in two wars, lived as a radical political leader and then as an outcast, spurned material rewards and security, and eventually became an internationally honored mentor of younger political activists. This film about Saul, who died at the age of 90 in late 2003, was developed in a unique collaboration between Montell, dozens of local activists mentored by Saul, Detroit Public Television, and Wayne State University Distinguished Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies Ronald Aronson, and was supported by WSU, Michigan Humanities Council, Detroit Public Benefit Corporation, and hundreds of individual contributors.
Festivities will begin with a fund-raising reception honoring Victor Navasky, National Book Award-winning author of "Naming Names," from 2:00-3:00 in the Polish Lounge of Alex Manoogian Hall (directly west of General Lectures). The film will be shown at 3 PM, followed by a discussion with Victor, director Judith Montell, and film participants and friends of Saul. Through the premiere we hope to raise funds to help pay remaining production costs and enable us to edit the film for broadcast on Detroit Public Television and other PBS stations. Accordingly, we invite you to become a Supporter and meet Victor Navasky at the reception, or become a Patron and also have him personally sign a copy of his new book, "A Matter of Opinion" (all donations are tax deductible as allowed by law).
Please print and fill out the response form below and return it with your check as soon as possible to: Saul Wellman Film Project c/o Ronald Aronson, Room 2426, 5700 Cass, Detroit MI 48202.
NOTE: Supporter and Patron tickets will be mailed. Film-only tickets will be held for pick-up at the door.
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Name(s): _____________________________________________________
>Address: _____________________________________________________
>Phone: __________________Email:______________________________
> _____ Film-only Tickets @ $20 ($10 low income/student)
> _____ Supporter $75/$125 couple (includes film ticket and reception)
> _____ Patron $150/$225 couple (includes ticket and reception plus personally signed copy of A Matter of Opinion)
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I need everyone who knows a Detroit Newspaper Worker to put out the call for help. If we're going to pull off a 10th year commemoration of the Newspaper struggle, we need all hands on deck. Please contact me so ACOSS and other less organized volunteers can get this party started. We will dedicate the event to the Youngstown Newspaper strikers, now in their sixth month of struggle. In the meantime, visit them at www.valleyvoiceonline.com. Don't let them down. Remember what it meant to look at six months.
Do you know that our government, in their quest to not represent a single citizen of this country, are in talks right now to pass a Thailand Free Trade Agreement? Thailand is the second largest producer of trucks in the world. This agreement would make them the largest. It could cost 25,000 jobs in this country (assembly and parts). Try the congressional switchboard at 800-284-2919 or (if you're at work) at 202 225-3121. Call your senator at 202 224-3121.
From Detroit Area Peace and Justice Network (DAPJN)
Please join Pointes for Peace on Wednesday, May 11 at 7:30 pm to hear Patrick Resta, National Guardsman, speak about his eight month experience as a medic in Iraq
at St. Ambrose Catholic Church
15020 Hampton (near E. Jefferson & Alter)
Grosse Pointe Park
For more information, call Mary Read (313-822-2702) or Carol Bendure (313-882-7732).
Saturday noon. Women in Black. Clark Park in Southwest Detroit. Silent protest, wear black, everyone welcome.
From Million Worker March Detroit:
Hi- I want to urge you to attend and participate in the national meeting of the Million Worker March organizers coming to Detroit this Saturday and Sunday, May 14 and 15. Clarence Thomas of the west coast longshore workers, Brenda Stokely of NYC AFSCME and Saledin Mohammed of Black Workers for Justice (N. Carolina) are only a few among the great labor
activists who are attending. This will be an important chance for us to network and exchange information/strategy on the rapidly changing labor scene. Feel free to bring literature from your local or group to share. Registration is Saturday at 9:30 am at UAW Local 22- 4300 Michigan Avenue (just west of W. Grand Blvd.). Lunch and dinner will be served in the hall (or just attend part of the program). Registration fee is a sliding scale - no one will be turned away. On Saturday night
from 6-8 PM the doors will be opened for a free Public Speak Out about budget cuts, the social cost of the Pentagon budget and more. Sunday will focus more on MWM organizational questions. Hope to see you there.
- David Sole, Pres. UAW Local 2334
From Wobbly brother Jim Rehberg, a reminder to be there for those who are out on the line:
Hello Fellow Workers,
Sad news to pass along. Once again a good job has gone bad. A place called Hercules Drawn Steel has locked out sixtysome workers. From what I've been told by people on the line is that in the past the old Man ran the plant and it was a good job, good pay and benefits. Now the sons have taken oven and have turned it into a mess. Guttng the contract of rights, slashing wages, passing huge health care cost on the workers and cutting the health care of the retirees. They rejected the last best offer Saturday afternoon April 30th and locked them out on MAYDAY. What a slap in the face to the people who by thier labor gave those sons a good life, now they want a better life. The Workers have been walking since then. No scabs yet but the company has plans. They have most all the people on the line but still need a shot in the arm. So if You can visit them and pass the word around. They sure do like company out there. Hercules is at 38901 Armhein Road, Livonia. Just south of 96 and west of Newburgh. Hope You can make it. See You there Jim Rehberg
Coming soon:
Premiere of film "Professional Revolutionary: The Life of Saul Wellman" Sunday, May 22, 3:00 P.M. 100 General Lectures Building, 5045 Anthony Wayne (3rd Street) at Warren, Wayne State University. Guest of honor: Victor Navasky, publisher of "The Nation" and author of "A Matter of Opinion."
Directed by Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Judith Montell, "Professional Revolutionary" tells the amazing and moving story of celebrated Detroiter Saul Wellman, who risked his life for his beliefs, nearly died in battle in two wars, lived as a radical political leader and then as an outcast, spurned material rewards and security, and eventually became an internationally honored mentor of younger political activists. This film about Saul, who died at the age of 90 in late 2003, was developed in a unique collaboration between Montell, dozens of local activists mentored by Saul, Detroit Public Television, and Wayne State University Distinguished Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies Ronald Aronson, and was supported by WSU, Michigan Humanities Council, Detroit Public Benefit Corporation, and hundreds of individual contributors.
Festivities will begin with a fund-raising reception honoring Victor Navasky, National Book Award-winning author of "Naming Names," from 2:00-3:00 in the Polish Lounge of Alex Manoogian Hall (directly west of General Lectures). The film will be shown at 3 PM, followed by a discussion with Victor, director Judith Montell, and film participants and friends of Saul. Through the premiere we hope to raise funds to help pay remaining production costs and enable us to edit the film for broadcast on Detroit Public Television and other PBS stations. Accordingly, we invite you to become a Supporter and meet Victor Navasky at the reception, or become a Patron and also have him personally sign a copy of his new book, "A Matter of Opinion" (all donations are tax deductible as allowed by law).
Please print and fill out the response form below and return it with your check as soon as possible to: Saul Wellman Film Project c/o Ronald Aronson, Room 2426, 5700 Cass, Detroit MI 48202.
NOTE: Supporter and Patron tickets will be mailed. Film-only tickets will be held for pick-up at the door.
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Name(s): _____________________________________________________
>Address: _____________________________________________________
>Phone: __________________Email:______________________________
> _____ Film-only Tickets @ $20 ($10 low income/student)
> _____ Supporter $75/$125 couple (includes film ticket and reception)
> _____ Patron $150/$225 couple (includes ticket and reception plus personally signed copy of A Matter of Opinion)
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