Submitted by x344543 on Sun, 01/14/2007 - 11:40pm
The Twin Cities Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is pleased to announce the Winter session of the WORK PEOPLES COLLEGE. The WORK PEOPLES COLLEGE continues the legacy of working-class education for emancipation carried out by the Duluth, MN IWW in the first part of the 20th Century.
The first Winter class offering is "Imagination and Social Liberation."
This class is dedicated the concept of the ‘imagination,’ which is increasingly used almost as a code-word for modern struggles for social justice and liberation. But what do we mean when we use the word? This class will examine the history of the word in philosophy and practice, from Greek and Muslim philosophers to contemporary social thinkers, and rely on the participation of the students to create a practice-based definition of the word, and justification for why we might (or might not) care about ‘liberating the imaginary.’
This class may be of interest especially to workers and students involved in such movements but lacking a philosophical background, or students of philosophy and psychology with an interest in such movements.
Submitted by x356985 on Sun, 01/14/2007 - 10:28pm
Fellow Workers and Friends –
The Twin Cities GMB is hosting an organizer training on Saturday and Sunday the 3
rd and 4
th of February. We cordially invite you to attend the training, which will focus on how the IWW does workplace organizing.
Any member of the IWW is welcome to attend. There is no charge. Please RSVP if you plan on attending - call our branch voicemail at (612) 339-1266 or email twincities@iww.org. If you let us know in advance we can find housing for those who need it. We're also planning a hootenanny that weekend for members of the union and friends.
We hope to increase the core of workplace organizers in the union, while growing our capacity to organize strong branches and regional organizing structures. Please join us!
Submitted by x360711 on Tue, 01/02/2007 - 2:26pm
The Twin Cities GMB has written a letter to Scottish Parliament Members expressing our solidarity with the affected workers in the current dispute there, whose struggle has been endorsed by both the local IWW and the National Union of Journalists. Full text below the fold...
Industrial Workers of the World
Twin Cities General Membership Branch
TO:
Tommy Sheridan MSP
Rosemary Byrne MSP
George Reid MSP (Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament)
Scottish Parliament
Holyrood, Edinburgh
EH99 1SP, United Kingdom
CC: Barbara Scott
14 December 2006
The Twin Cities General Membership Branch (GMB) of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) supports the IWW and the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) at the Scottish Parliament in their industrial dispute with Tommy Sheridan MSP and Rosemary Byrne MSP. We call for:
- an immediate return of all misappropriated funds to the employees resources group, an apology from the two MSPs, and for the Scottish Parliament to accept its culpability in conspiring with Sheridan and Byrne to unilaterally abrogate workers' collective contracts, thus forcing them into redundancy.
- The workers in question, who are employed by the Scottish Parliament as Caseworkers, Researchers and Parliamentary Assistant's for the SSP group, gained a major improvement in their employment situation when the May 2005 contract pooling MSP employment funds was won. These are collective gains; precisely the kind that we value the most and must protect.
The workers have made it very clear, and the Twin Cities GMB reaffirms, that this is not a political dispute but an industrial one. It is untenable that politician-employers could unilaterally, with the connivance of the Scottish Parliament, discard these collective gains for the sake of a political dispute. Workers' rights are not subject to political machinations.
Submitted by x344543 on Sun, 10/01/2006 - 1:47pm
The Twin Cities Branch of the INDUSTRIAL WORKERS of the WORLD (IWW) is pleased to announce the opening session of the WORK PEOPLES COLLEGE. The WORK PEOPLES COLLEGE continues the legacy of working-class education for emancipation carried out by the Duluth, MN IWW in the first part of the 20th Century.
The initial Fall class offering is "LESSONS OF THE SPANISH REVOLUTION":
Using texts, movies and group discussion, this class will focus on one of history's most significant efforts to achieve working-class freedom: The Spanish Revolution of 1936.
Come learn, discuss, and debate the lessons from this heroic, but ultimately failed attempt to kick the bosses out.
The class meets Saturdays October 14 - November 18 from 3-5 pm at the new Minneapolis Central Library -- 300 Nicollet Mall Conference Room N-202.
Submitted by x344543 on Tue, 08/08/2006 - 3:10am
Adopted August 1, 2006 by the Twin Cities General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
I. Whereas the IWW has always stood for international solidarity and against all exploitation, oppression and attempts to divide our class by war,
II. Whereas the State of Israel’s U.S.-backed aggression against the people of Lebanon and Palestine has caused the murder of hundreds of working-class civilians (including many children), the displacement of hundreds of thousands, and the destruction of communities and infrastructure,
III. Whereas this war - like the rest of the so-called “War on Terrorism” will not bring security to working people in any country, but only more violence and repression,
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