[ASDnet] NEW DEM DAILY: A New Economy Labor Movement

[LeoCasey at aol.com]

I would not jump to too many quick conclusions here. NEIS is also linked to 
the AFL-CIO and other international union web sites and to EPI, where Max 
Sawicky works. It is an attempt at a broader-based effort than just the 
remnants of SDUSA. There are a lot of the recognizable SDUSA names here, but 
before one is too dismissive remember that people like Paul Starr, founding 
editor of the _American Prospect_ and author of the classic _Social 
Transformation of American Medicine_, falls into the category of SDUSA 
intellectual. From what I can see, some of the issue addressed by their 
"Organizing Unions in the New Economy" conference are questions we need to 
address. The answers they provide are problematic, but there are not a lot of 
folks even asking the questions.


> Well, looking over the site, NEIS is a project of the Center for Democratic
> Education, which has received about $800,000 from the rightwing Bradley and
> Carthage foundations.  The links at NEIS are all to National Endowment for
> Democracy places, so the whole operation looks to be the AFL-CIA in exile,
> setting up shop with financial support from rightwing foundations.  Which
> 

Leo Casey
United Federation of Teachers
260 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)

Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never has, and it never will.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who 
want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and 
lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
-- Frederick Douglass --

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