Announcing the launch of New Beginnings: A Journal of Independent Labor

[Omaha Steve]

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Announcing the launch of New Beginnings: A Journal of Independent Labor

Monday, September 03 2007 @ 07:12 PM PDT
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AnnouncementsNew Beginnings: A Journal of Independent Labor is a collaborative project of workers, activists, students and community members in the U.S. We seek to promote discussion, of both labor history and current labor struggles, animated by a tradition of direct democracy, anti-racism and workers' self-management. New Beginnings hopes to act as a forum where perspectives and strategies for an independent labor movement can be debated and in turn be used to inform the practice of ongoing and new organizing efforts in workplaces, schools and neighborhoods across the country.

http://www.nbjournal.org/

We do not know our own strength and no one dares to tell us.

New Beginnings: A Journal of Independent Labor is a collaborative project of workers, activists, students and community members in the U.S. We seek to promote discussion, of both labor history and current labor struggles, animated by a tradition of direct democracy, anti-racism and workers' self-management. New Beginnings hopes to act as a forum where perspectives and strategies for an independent labor movement can be debated and in turn be used to inform the practice of ongoing and new organizing efforts in workplaces, schools and neighborhoods across the country.

The first issue of this online publication includes:

Commentary:
--Hurricane Katrina and the Crisis of Black Politics

--¡Si Se Puede!: Recent Immigrant Struggles

--From the Wobblies to Change to Win?

Essays:
-- Selma James and the Wages for Housework Campaign
By Shemon Salam

-- "A Disgrace Before God": Striking Black Sanitation Workers vs. Black Officialdom in 1977 Atlanta
By Jason Schultz

Activist Reports:
--Not Only the Front or Back, But the Whole Bus Will Be Ours: Reflections on Organizing Around Atlanta Public Transit
By Atlanta Unity & Struggle

--Reflections on the Graduate Teaching Assistant Strike at New York University
By M. Love

Interviews:
--"The Bottom Line Isn't the Whole Thing": Detroit, Anti-Racism and Labor History
An Interview with Detroit activist and organizer Mike Ermler

...And More!

Visit http://www.nbjournal.org/ or for more information contact the New Beginnings editors at [e-mail].

In Solidarity,
Lauren Ray
New Beginnings Editorial Collective

[grasswire]

1. I applaud this venture!

Anything that can strengthen unions as they continue to fight for working families is welcome.