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IWW Organizing Summit 2006

Submitted on Wed, 02/15/2006 - 5:12am

"By building organizations based on solidarity, rather than on bureaucratic chain-of-command, we build organizations that by their very existence help to bring a new kind of society into being." --Staughton Lynd, Solidarity Unionism

For the first time in recent memory wobblies from all over will be meeting with the primary objective of discussing organizing. The Organizing Summit is what many wobs have been wanting for years. It is a chance to focus on organizing in the union and what it means to say, "Every member is an organizer."

The weekend will be hosted by the Austin GMB and was proposed at General Assembly 2005 in the hopes of supporting the work of the Organizing Department Formation Committee (ODFC). The assembly endorsed the Summit and the ODFC has also endorsed the meeting.

As proposed by the Austin GMB, the weekend will have four goals:

  • organizing workshops
  • organizing discussions and presentations
  • the state of organizing in the union
  • discussion of the preliminary report of the ODFC

Attendees must be in good standing in the IWW. Presenters in some cases will not be required to be IWWs.

REGISTRATION FORM

(Due Feb. 25, 2006)

Name:

Branch or home town:

IU:

Address:

Phone:

Email:

On what nights will you need housing?

Do you have any needs or requests (disability/allergies/smoking/food etc.)?

Will you need transportation?

When will you arrive?

When will you depart?

Will you be bringing any media/lit. to share?

Are you up for helping with cooking or anything else?

Can we put your phone and email in attendee list for distro to attendees?

*The registration fee is $20 and may be waived by request.

We will be limiting the breakouts by the number of registrants so please get your registration in early. Meals will be prepared and served on-site.

For more information and to send your registration in:
EMAIL [email protected]

Session Proposal

Presenters on similar or related topics will be put in touch with each other to prevent crossover and to keep the number of breakout sessions down.

What session do you wish to present or facilitate?

What is your experience in the area?

What issues to you wish to explore?

What format would you like the session to be?

Please provide your preferred title for the session and a one paragraph description:

Interest Survey

  1. What would you like in an IWW Organizing Summit?
  2. What format of sessions? (moderated discussion, Q/A, panel, speeches, debate, etc.)
  3. What topics would you like covered?
  4. What can you contribute? ($ for gas/food/travel fund...trainings, media, speakers, handouts, literature...branch/campaign report backs, fliers, etc.)
  5. If you want to present, what do you need? (Projector, copies, etc.)
  6. What tactics would you like covered? (recruiting, retention, mapping, shop floor solidarity, house calls, canvasing, legal, etc.)
  7. Do you plan on attending this year? And what is the most important reason for you in deciding whether or not to attend?