Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 07:01:44 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Harry M. Cleaver" <hmcleave-AT-eco.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: AUT: Good Leaflelts????



Thomas,
Two things.
First, for the first Intercontinental Encuentro in Chiapas
back in 1996, we (Accion Zapatista of Austin) put together a series
pamphlets/leaflets on neoliberalism. Each pamphlet was done in English and
Spanish on a sheet of 8.5X11 paper folded in thirds and the text entered
vertically, each pamphlet had the same cover, each topic was printed on a
different color of paper, so they made a nice little packet. There were
seven of them I think, with topics corresponding to the organization of
the encuentro, for the most part. The texts can be found at:
http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/nave/ but you have to follow the link to AZ
Editorial Collective and then Against Neoliberalism.

Second, two nights ago I debated a business school professor on
outsourcing and prepared a set of power point slides on the subject. The
room was packed with over a hundred students, many sitting on the floor,
many clearly deeply worried about their futures. I gave my prepared
presentation which sketched what outsourcing was all about (business
decomposition of the labor force for reduced costs and increased profits)
and argued, a bit to his dismay, that I was all for it - for the same
reason Marx embraced free trade in the 19th Century: it forces workers to
look and organize beyond their borders (they lose if they don't) - but
that workers displaced by outsourcing should be fully compensated
income-wise until they get new jobs at equivalent wages/benefits. In
short that workers have to organize globally - as business has done - or
they will lose. In my presentation I drew on Doug Henwood's contribution
to the Nation article on outsourcing and his sources vis a vis the scope
of the phenomenon. The business school professor responded with a canned
free market and "personal responsibility" line that alienated quite a few
of those anxious students. If you are interested, I'll send you the set of
slides.
H.



On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Thomas Seay wrote:

>
> I have never seen people as angry in Silicon Valley as
> I am now seeing...especially now that a huge layoff
> has been announced, to be followed by a round of
> "outsourcing".  I want to put out a leaflet at my
> workplace.  It's been a long time since I have written
> a leaflet, and I was wondering if anybody would pass
> along some examples of leaflets that they thought were
> good.  You know, intelligent and clear, neither
> condescending nor full of cant.
>
> Obviously there are particularities to my
> workplace...but I am just looking for examples to
> inspire my writing. I am looking to write this for a
> workplace of engineers, programmers, informational
> workers, maintenance workers, etc, though the examples
> you provide me could be from any context.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas
>
> __________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway
> http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/
>
>
>      --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
>

............................................................................
Snail-mail:
Harry Cleaver
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Economics
BRB 1.116
1 University Station, C3100
Austin, Texas 78712-0301  USA

Phone Numbers:
(hm)  (512) 442-5036
(off) (512) 475-8535
Fax:(512) 471-3510

E-mail:
hmcleave-AT-eco.utexas.edu

Cleaver homepage:
http://www.eco.utexas.edu/facstaff/Cleaver/index.html

Chiapas95 homepage:
http://www.eco.utexas.edu/facstaff/Cleaver/chiapas95.html
............................................................................



     --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---