That's right, the bus riders' union page is
http://www.busridersunion.org/index.html
steve
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Michael Perelman wrote:
> He was, if I am not mistaken, the main organizer of the Los Angeles Bus
> Riders Union -- an almost impossible task.
>
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 11:45:46PM +0100, Mark Jones wrote:
> > Stephen E Philion wrote:
> >
> > > I'd be curious to know what Mark thinks of
> > > Eric Mann's model of organizing and approach to theorizing the problem of
> > > the environment.
> >
> > I know so little about Eric Mann's work that I can only hope to learn more.
> > But when Mann says:
> >
> > >>For those of us who were active in the mass movements against the war in
> > Vietnam and in the Black liberation movement, there was once an
> > understanding that a U.S. left to be progressive had to begin and end with
> > the struggle against empire. <<
> >
> > and when he asks:
> >
> > >>in the struggle against U.S. imperialism, which side are you on? <<
> >
> > and when he argues that:
> >
> > >> the primary strategy at this point in history is the
> > construction of a world-wide anti-racist anti-imperialist united front<<
> >
> > then I can only applaud, and if this is the context of his organising work,
> > then of course he is right and it makes sense to raise demands over
> > environmental rights, racism, the wage, gender rights and so on. As a
> > one-time trade union organiser and labour rights activist myself, I warmly
> > embrace his ideas and work, what little I know of them.
> >
> > Mark Jones
> >
>
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> Michael Perelman
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> California State University
> Chico, CA 95929
>
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