Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:41:36 -0600
From: Education for Democracy Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Education for Democracy Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Urgent: Petition to Save Institute for Labor Studies at UMKC
[CM]
PETITION TO RESTORE FULL FUNDING FOR THE INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES
(ILS) AT UMKC
TO: Guy Bailey, Chancellor UMKC
Karen Vorst, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences UMKC
SPONSORED BY: UMKC chapter of the American Association of University
Professors (AAUP)
BACKGROUND: Although ILS was given a short reprieve, it is still slated
for termination. Please sign the petition to insure it has a future.
The current civilian labor force in the United States numbers over
153,000,000 people. Labor studies is the only academic discipline that
focuses on the conditions and needs of that workforce and the history of
working people.
In the summer of 2007 UMKC announced it was closing the Institute
for Labor Studies by defunding it. ILS is the only labor education
program between Columbia, MO and Albuquerque, NM. ILS provides crucial
services to our community and educates working people about their
rights, for example, through credit and non-credit courses, conferences,
and the weekly radio show, Heartland Labor Forum, on Community Radio
KKFI 90.1 FM.
We the undersigned, recognizing the value of labor education,
particularly at a time of outsourcing and continuing attacks on unions
and our standard of living, strongly urge UMKC to restore full funding
for the Institute of Labor Studies.
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TO SIGN THIS PETITION:
1) Above or below the petition, type in:
a) your name
b) your Academic/Organizational Affiliation (if any)
c) your city and state.
2) Click on "Reply" to this e-mail (send to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY TO OTHER PEOPLE AND YOUR NETWORKS.
Many thanks to all those who wrote the Chancellor in response to our
earlier appeal. And many thanks in advance for your help with this
petition.
Patricia Brodsky
David Brodsky
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
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