Is the Coalition Falling Apart?

[Marta Russell]

This message is from a coordinator of the People's Global
Action Caravan in Pennsylvania that dozens of organizations have already
formed a coalition around demonstrating at the Republican National
Convention in Philadelphia. Listserves have been created, and they want to
coordinate with protests at the Dem Convention in L.A.

I haven't yet checked to see what groups are participating.

If you want to contact this coalition, email:

Philly2000-subscribe at listbot.com
for action alerts only

July3-subscribe at listbot.com
for discussion, strategy, theorizing, etc.

marta

Doug Henwood wrote:


> ssherman wrote:
>
> >Has anyone considered whether there is any room for African Americans in this
> >emergent labor-environmental coalition?
>
> Damn, I sure hope so; if there isn't, it isn't worth much. If I were
> an organizer, I'd want to be bringing in environmental justice
> people, since most of the toxic waste they fight against is produced
> by WTO-loving multinationals. Unions, despite their often sorry
> record on anti-racist politics, probably do help African-Americans
> more than white workers (unorganized workers are more likely to
> suffer employment discrimination). And polls show black Americans
> more pro-union than white ones.
>
> Doug