New
Ground 106
May - June, 2006
Contents
Chicago DSA Annual Membership Convention
IRS Decides DSA Is Fine
Walk for Justice Update - Springfield
to Chicago
"Meeting Face to Face"
"New Ground" Email Edition
DSA Books On-line
New Ground
106.1 - 05.23.2006
0. DSA News
Chicago DSA Signs on to Estate
Tax Letter (You can too!)
1. Politics
Battlemart: Ammo for Wal-Mart Warriors
More Budget Follies and Some Good News
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
2. Democratic Socialism
Naming the Beast or Whistling Past
the Graveyard
3. Upcoming Events of Interest
New Ground 106.2 - 06.03.2006
0. DSA News
Chicago DSA Web Site Updates
1. Politics
Rally Support for a Living Wage
For a Fair Illinois
Cook County Referendum on Iraq
CBTA Releases Charity Care Report
2. Upcoming Events of Interest
New Ground
106.3 - 06.13.2006
0. DSA News
DSA's National Office Moves
On the Rights of Undocumented Immigrants
Dr. Quentin Young in the Wikipedia
1. Politics
Labor Troubles
in Oak Park by Tom Broderick
The Congress Hotel Is Dead. Come to the Funeral.
No Freedom of Speech in Bentonville
Nurse Understaffing
Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
2. Democratic Socialism
Barbara Ehrenreich Talks About
Class
3. Upcoming Events of Interest
New Ground
106.4 - 06.22.2006
0. DSA News
Work for the Young Democratic Socialists
2006 Debs Thomas Harrington Dinner
1. Politics
Free Trade Losing Steam?
Slave Labor in Jordan
2. Democratic Socialism
Midwest Social Forum
Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
3. Upcoming Events of Interest
The
Illinois Coalition for Peace and Justice
by Bill Barclay
Founding Conference
They came from Mahomet. They came from
DeSoto. They came from Griggsville. They came from Rock Falls.
And of course they came from Chicago, Oak Park, Champaign-Urbana
and Bloomington-Normal. If you don't recognize some of these
places, look them up because they illustrate the geographical
spread of the Illinois movement against the US invasion and occupation
of Iraq. On April 1st, delegates from more than 80 organizations
met in Champaign-Urbana for the Founding conference of the Illinois Coalition for Peace and
Justice (ICPJ).
The organizations spanned the range
of the diverse anti-war movement in Illinois and the US. There
were student groups from campuses in the northern, central and
southern parts of the state, representatives of religious-based
peace and justice committees, community organizations active
against the war and on an array of other issues, and a scattering
of representatives from the growing labor activism against US
militarism and the Iraq War.
The delegates debated a range of proposals
for political action. Anti-war ballot initiatives, a march from
Springfield to Chicago, a sustained campaign against Illinois
representatives who fail to actively oppose the war, advocacy
of a Department of Peace, creation of a data base on all Illinois
elected political officials' Iraq War stands, and action against
Illinois based war profiteers garnering the most support from
the delegates. Several of these actions are already underway.
The impetus for the conference was the
growing sense that we, those of us who oppose the US imperial
adventure in Iraq, are the majority and we need to start
acting like and mobilizing like one. The goal of the conference
was to create a network of groups across the state that could
act together to increase the impact of each. To achieve this
goal the delegates established a loose organizational structure.
A Coordinating Committee consisting of individual committee chairs
(elected at the conference) and at large members to insure diversity
will discuss ICPJ issues on a regular basis. However, any member
organization may use the tools of the ICPJ website to recruit
other ICPJ members for an action or campaign, insuring continued
support for a range of political work.
Initial ICPJ Activities
The contacts made established and the
ideas exchanges at the founding conference have already borne
fruit. Immediately after the conference several ICPJ member organizations
began working on the strategic goal of "nationalizing"
the November elections, countering candidates' tendency to run
on disparate, local issues. Instead, the election should be a
referendum on the Bush administration's Iraq War policy. The
initial step in this effort was to utilize the democratic structures
that exist at the township level in Illinois. Several ICPJ member
organizations began efforts to get an Iraq War referendum on
their township November ballot by attending their township's
annual meeting of electors (any registered voter in the township).
The wording of the referendum closely tracks the wording used
by the Wisconsin Peace and Justice
Network in their recent success in obtaining approval for
this resolution in more than 20 Wisconsin cities and towns.
"Shall the United States Government
immediately begin an orderly and rapid withdrawal of all its
military personnel from Iraq, beginning with the National Guard
and Reserves?"
ICPJ member organizations succeeded
in placing this referendum on the November ballot in the Aurora,
Berwyn, DeKalb, Geneva, Oak Park and Sycamore townships as well
as in the cities of Springfield and Champaign.
However, this is only the beginning
of ICPJ work around the November election. A large number of
member organizations are now turning their attention to getting
a similar proposal on county wide ballots, including Cook and
the surrounding collar counties. This task is much bigger, requiring
valid signatures of 8% of the number of voters in the previous
gubernatorial election. While the challenge is significant, ICPJ
members are confident this goal can be achieved in many locales
and that the process of collecting these signatures will itself
increase the salience of and opposition to Bush's war among Illinois
residents. Most importantly, success in placing this referendum
on countywide ballots will provide a vehicle for anti-war groups
to demand that candidates speak to the issue of the Iraq invasion
rather than ducking this most important national issue.
ICPJ organizations are also involved
in the innovative effort by state Rep. Karen Yarbrough to request
that the Illinois state legislature call for the U.S. House to
consider impeachment proceedings against George Bush. Under what
are known as the Jefferson Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives,
any state legislature may call for impeachment of a sitting president
(or vice president) and the House must consider this as a priority
item of business. This action is obviously a higher stakes effort
but it shows the benefits for the anti-war movement of a state
wide organization.
Looking Forward
ICPJ is barely two months old but the
organizational gains from its creation are already evident. Without
the contacts made through the founding conference, coming together
on ballot initiatives or the Yarbrough impeachment resolution
would have been more difficult. Certainly fewer of the township
resolutions would have on the November ballot.
The organizers of the founding conference
were careful to limit the range of formal political discussion
to U.S. militarism and the Iraq War, not because we saw these
as the only issues facing us but because we wanted to get an
organization up and running without distracting discussions on
the broad range of questions on which many of us work. However,
we believe that the formulation "peace and justice"
allows scope for the political growth of ICPJ as the member organizations
become more confident and have the experience of working together.
The potential for this broader focus was foreshadowed in the
break out sessions at the founding conference itself. These ranged
from discussions of the interaction/tension between popular pressure
and electoral work to how progressives can/should use the media
to feminism and US militarism.
Stay tuned or better yet, join
us. ICPJ has only begun its journey.
Editor's Note: Bill Barclay was a
member of the ICPC Conference Planning Committee. He is a member
of Greater Oak Pak DSA, a founding member of DSA, and is on the
OPCTJ Organizing Committee.
A Nation
on the Move: the 48th Annual Debs Thomas Harrington
Dinner
by Ron Baiman
The assembled convened for the 48th
Annual Debs Thomas Harrington dinner on a beautiful
spring night at the Holiday Inn Mart Plaza, against a backdrop
of marches and demonstrations. There was a sense that the great
masses of America had come alive. And though this meant some
empty seats (some of our usual comrades were off on the all night
ride to New York to march in the April 29 anti-war march), the
attendees reveled in the sense of renewed activism and in anticipation
of the May 1 immigration march that was to be the largest demonstration
in Chicago history.
The Dinner Committee's honoring of an
organization, U.S.
Labor Against the War (USLAW), a key sponsor of the peace
march, was more than symbolic of this new hope translated
into activism.
Master of Ceremonies, long time Chicago
DSA Secretary and retired UCC Minister, Rev. Eugene Birmingham,
started the evening with a passage from Michael Harrington's
The Politics of God's Funeral by stating that though "the
political God is dead, the politics of the spirit is what can
bring us together". Gene than recognized and thanked the
two most important organizers of the dinner: the visible Carl
Shier, grandmaster of the dinner since its inception, and the
invisible (as usual) co-grandmaster and volunteer organizer of
the dinner, Bob Roman. A number of years ago, Bob revealed himself
to a Dinner but has since gone under cover again behind the DSA
tables in the hallways.
Calvin Morris
Gene Birmingham then asked Jane Ramsey,
Director of the Jewish Council
on Urban Affairs and former member of the Harold Washington
Administration, to introduce the first honoree of the night,
Reverend Dr. Calvin Morris, Executive Director of the Community
Renewal Society (CRS) and Chicago Jobs with Justice co-Convener.
Ramsey proceeded to enumerate some of the highlights of Calvin
Morris' personal history. This included serving as: Associate
Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Congress Operation
Bread Basket (now Rainbow-Push) under Martin Luther King, and
as Director of the Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta with
Coretta Scott King; a myriad of distinguished academic posts
at Simmon's College in Boston, Howard School of Divinity in Washington
DC, and the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta;
to the CRS in Chicago. Throughout his career, Ramsey said, Calvin
Morris has been a smart, reflective, activist, who is a passionate
activist for peace and social justice who is always on the side
of labor and the poor.
Ramsey than read the Debs Thomas
Harrington award to Morris:
"Calvin S. Morris. For your
life long commitment to social justice as an expression of the
Christian Gospel; For your work as an educator and supporter
of public education and the arts; For your leadership in the
advocacy of civil rights and civil liberties and in the opposition
to war torture, and the death penalty; For your efforts in support
of the rights of labor and economic justice; The Debs Thomas
Harrington Dinner Committee does hereby present you with
its annual award this 28th day of April, 2006."
After thanking Ramsey and the Committee,
and noting that he had been to the dinner many times over the
years "in many capacities," Calvin Morris demonstrated
his prodigious ability to inspire and move people with his acceptance
remarks. He talked about growing up in North Philadelphia where
his Mom was a chambermaid in a hotel, his dad a sanitation worker,
and his grandparents laundry and Junior High School food service
workers. He noted that there was not one college educated person
in the entire Congregation of the small North Philly Mission
Church that he grew up in. "These people," he said,
"are my heroes. I owe to them whatever I have been able
to do with my life." From these roots, he said, he had been
encouraged and supported by his family, who "had to take
a lot of stuff" from employees in order to help him to become
the person that he is. He said that when he sees "my brothers
and my sisters at the Congress Hotel and the laundry workers
here in Chicago, I see immigrant workers encouraging their children
to strive," just as his family did for him.
At age 12-13 he began going to a Quaker
school downtown. He learned about pacifism and non-violence,
and that residing in each individual is "a spark of the
divine." His life of activism began with fund raising for
the Montgomery Bus Boycott and for the Hungarian revolution.
U.S. Labor Against the War
Gene then turned to Lynn Talbott, an
international vice president of UNITE-HERE and a co-manager of
its Chicago and Mid-west Regional Joint Board , to present the
next award to Maria Guillen representing, as co-convener, U.S.
Labor Against the War (USLAW). Lynn Talbott noted that when USLAW
started at the hall of Teamster Local 705 on a cold day in January
2003 there were few members and even fewer union leaders present.
Now, in 2006, after three years of organizing efforts, USLAW
has 125 unions, central labor councils, state feds, and internationals,
as members. She noted that USLAW organized and supported the
U.S. 25 city tour of Iraqi labor leaders and tours by military
veterans and their families speaking out about the war's costs.
She said that (as of April 28, 2006) there were 2,389 U.S. dead,
more than 48,000 U.S. wounded, and over a 100,000 Iraqis dead
based on the most credible estimates, and that most Iraqis have
no jobs, electricity, or health care. For a cost of $251 billion
and counting we have created "training and recruitment"
grounds for terrorists, and at the same time provided tax breaks
for the rich and increased our national debt by $1.3 trillion.
She urged solidarity with the marchers in NYC and added that
USLAW helped organize 150 buses of demonstrators to NYC representing
a wide range of unions and labor organizations, including: UNITE-HERE,
UE, SEIU, UAW, JwJ, CLEW, LACLA, and CBTU.
Maria Guillen, Vice President of SEIU
Local 790 and delegate of the San Francisco Labor Council, accepted
the award:
"U.S. Labor Against the War.
Because the war on Iraq buys oil, obscenely, with the blood of
our sons and daughters; Because the continued slaughter of Iraqis
through invasion, poverty, and civil disorder is arguably a crime
against humanity; Because the military industrial complex's
continued domination of budget and policy has robbed us of the
peace dividend and has put both democracy and peace at risk;
Because U.S. Labor Against the War has been the single most effective
organization at educating the labor movement about the war and
at organizing labor support for peace; The Debs Thomas
Harrington Dinner Committee does hereby present U.S. Labor
Against the War with its annual award this 28th day of April,
2006."
Guillen spoke of the honor of being
the first organization to be awarded the Debs Thomas
Harrington award. She said that USLAW includes organizations
that represent 3-4 million members, and spoke of the "insanity
of even contemplating war with Iran at this time," and that
the war feeds off of greed and tries to rob us of the "well
textured cloak of Civil Rights." She said that last July's
resolution against the war at the national AFL-CIO convention
before the break up, which was a direct result of USLAW's efforts,
was the first time labor in the US had opposed an administration
during war time, something Eugene Debs in particular would have
been proud of. She ended her talk by citing Eugene Debs who was
famously jailed for his opposition to World War I. Debs stated
that there is only one war he would support: the war to overthrow
the exploiting classes of all nations
May Day Rising
Tim Yeager was then recognized to urge
all to attend the May Day event at Haymarket Square after the
immigration March on Monday that, as has been noted, was to mark
Chicago's biggest ever May Day demonstration (its taken immigrants
to show the "natives" how to do this right again!)
Henry Tamarin
John Wilhelm, President of UNITE HERE's
Hospitality Division, was then invited to the podium to recognize
Henry Tamarin. He remembered that Henry had been the key note
speaker at the dinner in 2003 that was held at the Congress Hotel
before the Congress
Hotel strike that is now 3 years old. He moved to recognize
six leaders of the Congress Hotel strike at this dinner. He then
talked about Henry Tamarin's history as a key organizer of the
Hotel workers who was brought in time and again to re-energize
and refocus organizing campaigns from Hartford (where he got
his start), to Boston, NYC, Atlantic City, and now Chicago, one
of the most important hotel cities in north America. In spite
of the hardship to himself and his family "Henry never complains
about anything" and in fact "is one of the funniest
people alive", eliciting a laugh from the UNITE-HERE tables
at the dinner. Furthermore, "you would think that he lived
in Chicago for 50 years" after just a few years here. He's
a harmless nice guy if you're on his side, but a fierce opponent
if your not.
Henry Tamarin than rose and accepted
his award:
"Henry Tamarin. For your third
of a century of service to your union as an organizer and as
an officer; For your long and ongoing efforts to organize women,
minority, and immigrant workers, to thereby transform low-wage
jobs into good jobs; For your defense of the rights of immigrant
workers; For you opposition to war and injustice; The Debs
Thomas Harrington Dinner Committee does hereby present
you with its annual award this 28th day of April, 2006."
In his opening remarks Henry Tamarin
quipped: "An intelligent person would sit down right now."
He continued by reminiscing about the first
(2003) dinner that he had attended honoring the Bernice and
Syd Bild and Mitch Vogel before the Congress Hotel strike. He
described the confrontation with a large "security guard"
who had threatened workers from the Congress Hotel, who were
guests at the dinner, with termination if they participated.
When the hotel management backed down in the face of the resistance
of the dinner participants, he said, "I thought, 'this organization
is pretty nifty!'"
He thanked Lynn Talbott (a past honoree)
and his many brothers and sisters and colleagues and comrades
from UNITE-HERE and spoke of the optimism, vitality, and great
hope that he saw for the future during "this remarkable
period in our history". He noted that "over 100,000"
people would be marching on Monday in a march in which "everyone
and no one is in charge" and that a massive outpouring would
occur in NYC on Saturday. This, he said, gives him hope and optimism
but that "fighting the good fight is not enough; I
really like winning!" He encouraged folks to come out and
support the Congress Hotel strikers. He noted that many of the
people at the dinner have do this from time to time, so this
is a "great place to meet people!"
John Nichols Burns the Barn
Next Gene introduced the key note speaker:
John Nichols, one of the nation's pre-eminent progressive journalists,
columnist for The Nation, Associate Editor of the Capital
Times in Madison, author of numerous books including: Dick
The Man Who is President, and recipient of numerous
awards for columns and editorials.
Nichols began with an admonishment:
"Comrades, though everything of consequence has been said,
not everyone has said it yet," and another quote from Eugene
Debs: "Chicago is a product of modern capitalism and, like
other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation."
He thanked Calvin Morris for his moving sharing of his personal
and family history and noted that whatever their differences,
the AFL-CIO and the Change to Win federation are united in USLAW
in opposition to the war in Iraq, adding that UNITE-HERE "is
a pretty smart union" that organizes workers from Latin
America and Asia that reflects the best of US Labor.
He remembered the last time he was on
a picket line with Paul Wellstone in Madison. Paul had terrible
back pain and could barely stand up but he went to visit a picket
line after a talk in Madison anyway. He forced himself to go
and told the workers to: "Join the union, get a contract,
and demand respect form your employers."
Nichols said that he almost didn't make
it to the dinner as he was waiting to get a call from the White
House to replace Scott McClellan. But they preferred Tony Snow
of Fox News who found Bush's last "State of the Union"
to be an "excellent address" and particularly highlighted
his "brilliant foreign policy".
But sincerely, he said, you can't make
up some of the stuff that is happening now with this administration.
Their Court of Appeals nomine is caught shop-lifting from Wal-Mart
and Bush's rating is now the same as Nixon's in April before
his impeachment. This year is the end of this administration.
The only thing that stands in the way is the Democratic Party.
You would have thought that after 9/11
the Democrats would have an agenda to address problems at home
that did not include invading countries that had nothing to do
with the 9/11 attack. But instead, Nichols said, leaders of the
party helped craft a resolution giving Bush authority to invade
Iraq. Now that 70% of the public think the war is a mistake and
60% want to get out now, the Democrats still consider it too
politically "risky" to come out boldly against the
war. Moreover, they are being dysfunctional on what to do about
Iran. The single best position Nichols said he had heard on this
was from Ron Paul, a Republican Representative from Texas, who
asked why should we be making Iran a US priority when the threat
is mostly to Europe and Israel and is 10-15 years away. And what
about their policy on Gas prices? Republicans want to give us
$100, and Democrats want to repeal the $0.18 a gallon gas tax.
What about the $8 billion profits for the oil companies? When
is somebody going to knock some oil company heads?!
The problem with the Democrats is that
they're trying to stumble into power if Bush screws up enough.
But they need an alternative. Toward this end Nichols posed three
points:
"Read the polls. The people are
more radical than the Democrats. They don't like stupid immoral
wars and they say that hotel workers should get a living wage.
"Educate. Take a stand and stick
to it for 3 or 4 years. If Bill Clinton had stuck with health
care we might have one, but he had to be willing to lose on this.
The abolitionists took 40 years to end slavery. This is a life
long struggle. DSA is right. Progressives need to come into the
Democratic Party and make it our party.
"In spite of my books I don't
like Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc, but they don't matter. Politics
today is all about personality, but what matters is what politicians
do."
Look for inspiration at the DSA Debs
Thomas Harrington Dinner, he continued.
These democratic socialists were patriotic
"anti-imperialists". Our nation's flag should not be
searching for monsters abroad to destroy.
They were "anti-corporatists"
before anti-corporate was cool.
Though they believed in the power of
government to do good, they also felt that it functioned best
when nobody in government could operate without checks and balances.
This Socialist progressive project is
the only critique that makes sense. But though it has been stolen
from discourse, stifled by spin and fear, and stymied by power,
it is still due and rising.
On April 4, twenty four Wisconsin counties
voted for mandatory withdrawal for troops from Iraq. Thought
the Democrats stayed away from immigration issue after the Sensenbrenner
bill, immigrants took to the streets. The Sensenbrenner bill
will not become law. They have permanently changed politics.
Nichols continued: as Debs said we should
work "not for empire but for Liberty" and as Wisconsin's
Progressive Governor and Senator Robert LaFollette said: "The
people shall rule."
Or quoting the great democrat Tom Paine:
"We have it within us to begin the world anew".
New York City! Chicago! Do not destroy
the power of the American revolution that is coming. Join kids
in Wisconsin, immigrants in the street, and anti-war protests
to carry it on. Brother, Sisters, Comrades, defend it. Followers
of Debs Thomas Harrington, this is our time to "begin
the world anew".
With this rousing conclusion the assembled
rose up and sang the traditional "Solidarity Forever".
We were inspired and we will take action, John. To misquote another
patriotic American "the times, they do seem to be a changing"
finally!
Editor's Note: Ron Baiman is Co-Chair
of Greater Oak Park DSA and represents GOP DSA on the Chicago
DSA Executive Committee.
Other
News
compiled by Bob Roman
Chicago DSA Annual Membership Convention
Our annual membership convention will
be on Saturday, June 24, at 1 PM. The venue will be the
Chicago DSA office at 1608 N. Milwaukee, Room 403, in
Chicago. This is on the 4th floor of the Northwest Tower Building
(aka "Coyote Tower") at the 3-way intersection of Milwaukee,
North, and Damen avenues, just off the Damen Avenue stop on the
CTA Blue Line to O'Hare. The agenda will include the election,
for a two-year term, of a Female Co-Chair, Treasurer, and Political
Education Officer. We will also adopt a budget for the July 1
June 30 fiscal year, plus "Good and Welfare"
(in other words, whatever else comes up). All DSA members really
ought to attend this meeting, at least, but others are
welcome too. Incidentally, at press time it was still not clear
whether we will be moving the office at the end of June, but
it's looking more likely. For more information, call 773.384.0327.
IRS Decides DSA Is Fine
About a year ago (July 27, to be exact,
see New
Ground 101, "Other News") we organized a house party to raise money
for DSA's legal defense. Some years ago, during Wellstone's last
campaign to be exact, the DSA Fund (our 501c3 arm) had organized
a voter registration effort in Minnesota. A local right wing
group charged that we were actually raising money to bring students
to Minnesota to vote. They later admitted this was nonsense,
but not before it was picked up by the Drudge Report then
by other "mainstream" media. The consequence was some
letters of complaint to the IRS and a subsequent IRS investigation.
It was all very costly, as one can't trust the truth alone to
be victorious; you need lawyers too.
The good news is that the IRS has found
the DSA Fund had done nothing worthy of a fine or, worse, revocation
of its tax exempt status. The bad news is that at least 80 other
organizations have been subjected to this harassment and the
IRS is seeking to end the exempt status of 3. More details are
available in the Spring, 2006, issue of Democratic Left,
available online at http://www.dsausa.org/dl/Spring_2006.pdf.
Walk for Justice Update - Springfield
to Chicago
Speaking of the taxman (but not too
loudly), the "successor" to Voices in the Wilderness
is the more aptly named Voices for Creative Nonviolence. They
are starting an interesting educational project, a "Walk
for Justice: from the Midwest to the Mideast". This will
be a march from Springfield, Illinois, starting on June 7. Scheduled
stops on the march include Pekin, Peoria, El Paso, LaSalle, Ottawa,
Sandwich, DeKalb, St. Charles, Batavia (hello, Speaker Hastert!),
ending in North Chicago on July 5th. As the name suggests, the
primary focus of the educational efforts will be on Iraq, Iran,
and Israel / Palestine. But they also intend to address the war
on minority youth here in the States (thus the stops for prisons
in Pekin and St. Charles), the inadequate care for veterans,
and military recruitment.
For more information, call 773.878.3815
or email info@vcnv.org or
go to http://www.vcnv.org.
"Meeting Face to Face"
About a year ago, US Labor Against the
War sponsored a nationwide speaking tour of the United States
by six senior Iraqi labor leaders. This really caught the attention
of the U.S. labor movement as even then there were growing questions
about what we are doing over there and what the next steps should
be. This was a priceless opportunity to get a perspective directly
from those most affected, people very much like the target audience.
If you missed this opportunity for dialogue,
the Center for Study of Working Class Life at SUNY Stony Brook
has produced a 27 minute documentary that "breaks through
the media walls that keep Iraqi and labor voices out of the debate
about the war Meeting Face to Face brings the voices of
Iraqi working people directly into the conversation as we consider
the war and continuing occupation and what the next steps should
be."
The documentary has its own web site:
http://www.meetingfacetoface.org,
where copies may be ordered and where more information is available.
The price is $9.95 in DVD format or $14.95 in VHS for individuals
in the U.S. Outside the States and for institutions, the pricing
is different. New York residents need to add sales tax and they're
charging $5 per copy for shipping and handling. Make your check
or money order payable to "Meeting Face to Face SBU"
and mail to Meeting Face to Face, Center for Study of Working
Class Life, Department of Economics, State University of New
York, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384.
"New Ground" Email Edition
Just a reminder that New Ground
also has an email edition. It's been coming out about 4 to 6
times every two months, not quite weekly but no less than bi-weekly.
The latest issue, New Ground 105.6, included coverage
of the May Day Immigrant Rights march in Chicago, the effort
at beginning the impeachment process through the state legislatures,
opposition to the Estate Tax repeal, a discussion of the Israel
Lobby paper by Mearsheimer and Walt, and a review of the new
history Death in the Haymarket by James Green. Some of
this is written specially for New Ground, the rest consists
of links set in context. Each issue is posted on our web site,
so it vaguely resembles a blog. But if you'd like to get it delivered
directly to your inbox, simply send an email to ng@chicagodsa.org
with "Add" in the subject line.
DSA Books On-line
DSA's on-line bookshop has been completely
redesigned. The bookshop offers members and friends the opportunity
to order books from the on-line bookseller powells.com. Books
by members and non-members of DSA are among the featured titles.
Powell's search engine and other books are also available for
sale there. DSA receives a small commission (up to ten percent)
that is used to support our program to educate a new generation
of socialists. As you read about social change you can help us
to make social change. So as you get ready for the summer reading
season be sure to check out DSA's on-line bookshop: http://www.dsausa.org/books/books.html.
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