Subject: M-G: Fw: AGITPROP NEWS_12.6.97 From: Labor Art and Mural Project <lamp-AT-igc.apc.org> Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 07:29:25 -0800 (PST) Forwarded by Liam R.Flynn <trinity-AT-hot-shot.com> ---------------- Original message follows ---------------- From: Labor Art and Mural Project <lamp-AT-igc.apc.org> Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 07:29:25 -0800 (PST) Subject: AGITPROP NEWS_12.6.97 -- Please post & distribute: LaBOR aRT & MuRAL PRoJECT AGITPROP NEWS 12.6.97 In this issue: 1. The Resurrection of Wesley Everest 2. Mama Dont Allow No Cuban Music Playin Round Here 3. Cuban Movies 4. Bolshevism 5. Carl Albert Walters Query 6. Pillaged Lives CD 7. Safe Jobs, Safe Communities Poster 8. Conversian Charts 9. Disorderly Conduct 10. Human Rights and Labor Solidarity Conference 11. Common Threads- Hidden Labor 12. Israeli General Strike 13. Marx Library 14. Gorbachov & Pizza Hut _____________________________________________________________ 1. The Resurrection of Wesley Everest Join activists from the northwest in dedicating the new Mike Alewitz mural in Centralia Washington, where IWW organizer Wesley Everest was lynched in 1919. Saturday, Dec. 13th 10:00am: Tours of Wobbly War sites begin in front of Centralia Square. 1:00pm: Dedication of mural Workshops: 2:30-4:30 -location will be announced at the dedication Workshops: 1. Rights of immigrant workers 2. Organizing in Centralia 3. IWW workshop 4. AgitProp Art and the Labor Movement 5:00pm: Reception at the Carpenters Hall, 417 North Pearl St. Refreshments and Music Discount tickets are available on Amtrak, roundtrip from Seattle to Centralia. If Seattle-based folks are interested they should call Rita Shaw of the Labor Party -AT- 206-282-6659 _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Mama Dont Allow No Cuban Music Playin Round Here US AUTHORITIES DENY VISA TO CUBAN MUSICAL GROUP San Juan, November 25 (RHC)-- The US government has denied entry visas to the Cuban salsa band "Juan Carlos y Su Dan Den", that was scheduled to arrive in Puerto Rico Monday. The office of producer Jerry Masucci said that the visas were denied on the claim that the Cuban musical group would be making a commercial rather than a cultural tour of the Caribbean island, which violates Washington's more than 35 year blockade against Cuba. As Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the United States, it cannot authorize the entrance of foreigners into its territory without the US State Department's permission. The Cuban salsa band was scheduled to perform in popular concerts and its agenda included a series of encounters with the Puerto Rican press to promote its new CD "Mi Cuerpo" or My Body. Juan Carlos y Su Dan Den is represented by Nueva Fania Records and its productions distributed by Sony Discos Internacional. The group which was set up in 1988 in Bejucal outside of Havana, has accompanied several international salsa bands and singers including Oscar de Leon from Venezuela, La Sonora Poncena and Cheo Feliciano from Puerto Rico and the Grupo Niche >from Colombia. [c] 1997. Radio Habana Cuba All rights reserved ____________________________________________________________ 3. THREE CUBAN FEATURE LENGTH FICTION FILMS WILL BE SCREENED AT LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL Havana, December 4(RHC)-- During the most difficult years of Cuba's economic crisis, known here as the "special period", rumour abounded that the island's International Festival of New Latin American Film would be cancelled. Though the lavish parties ended, and some year's Cuba had no entries in the competetion, the Festival continued and continues. And this year, as YF reports, Cuba has three feature length fiction films in competion: "Love, tenderness, fantasy, seduction, nostalgia and humor are among the themes touched upon by the 58 Cuban movies, documentaries, short subjects and videos in competetion in this year's film festival. In the feature length fiction category are: "Vertical Love", by Arturo Sotto, "Kleines tropicana" by veteran filmmaker Daniel Diaz Torres and "Sapphires, Blue Madness" by Manuel Herrera. "Vertical Love" is a passionate and surreal love story, narrated in a sometimes comical, sometimes sensual way. Among the film's many actors are Jorge Perugorria, of Strawberry and Chocolate, Silvia Aguila, Manuel Porto, Aramis Delgado and Paula Ali. "Kleines tropicana" is a Cuban production with the colaboration of the German, Hispanic BMG company. The film, a dective movie, is directed by Daniel Diaz Torres who is known for his movies, "Jibaro" and "The Other Woman". It is based on real events and takes place in Havana of today. "Sapphires, Blue Madness" focuses on a group of people in Havana of the l960's. The cast includes Luis Alberto Garcia, Nelson Jimenez and Barbaro Marin. In the documentary category is "Sometimes we meet", by Ramon Estevanell, "Africa Story" by Rebeca Chavez and "Cuban Mass by Idelfonso Ramos". These are just a few of the island's 58 entries in this year`s edition of the Festival. ================================================================ NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt-AT-blythe.org ================================================================|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||| ***Cuba Information Access *** |||| The current events in La Republica de Cuba, from the C.I.A. |||| Where else are you going to get it ? |||| <companiero-AT-gbso.net> |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| __________________________________________________________________ 4. Bolshevism "Bolshevism is knocking at our gates, we can't afford to let it in....We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We must keep the worker away from red literature and red ruses; we must see that his mind remains healthy." --Al Capone tristan-AT-iww.org ____________________________________________________________ 5. Carl Albert Walters Query >From: lastmarx-AT-worldnet.att.net To: "Labor Art & Mural Project" <lamp-AT-igc.apc.org> Does your project have any info on Carl Albert Walters(1885-1955), painter and ceramic artist? During his time in Portland (1912-19) he was friend of John Reed and CES Wood and introduced Reed to Louise Bryant. His work is in most major museums and his wife Helen was one of the witnesses in Beatty's "Reds." I've been doing research on his Portland years and desperately seek reproductions of his paintings. Regards, Mike Munk ______________________________________________________________ 6. PILLAGED LIVES : THIRD WORLD DEBT & GLOBAL INSTITUTIONS Montreal November 12, 1997 The total debt of Third World to rich countries is over two trillion dollars. Why is the huge discrepancy in wealth between the rich and poor nations increasing? What are the causes of poverty and even misery in the Third World? The Social Justice Committee of Montreal has been helping people understand the roots of this poverty, as well as possible solutions, for the past twenty five years. Now our organization, in partnership with Concordia University, has developed an exhaustive CD ROM program that explores the links among debt, communities, environment and global institutions. This program provides an accessible and comprehensive overview of the Third World debt problem: its origins, evolution, and the devastating impact it has on so many lives. It includes easy-to-understand narration, stunning images, music, in-depth cases studies, background documents and an action section. This unique educational and informative guide is currently available at an affordable price of twenty five dollars ($25.00). Your support of this product helps us in continuing our task of education and advocacy. Cheque and credit card purchases can be made, by contacting the Social Justice Committee of Montreal at 1857 de Maisonneuve West, Montreal Quebec. H3H 1J9 E-mail sjc-AT-web.net Tel: (514) 933 6797 Fax (514) 933 9517 Thank you very much for your support. ***************************************************************** Please send me _______ copies of the CD ROM. ___ I am enclosing a money order, or cheque, for $________ payable to Social Justice Committee of Montreal, or ___ I will pay by Visa or Mastercard My credit card number is ________________________________ Expiry date__________ Signature_________________________ ****** A-Infos News Service ***** News about and of interest to anarchists ______________________________________________________________ 7. Safe Jobs, Safe Communities Poster Support a healthy environment for workers and communities and get a striking poster to share the message! The Occupational Health & Safety Section of the American Public Health Association will acknowledge tax-deductible donations of $12.00 or more to its Scholarship Fund with a three-color 17x24" poster which features an original photograph by photojournalist Earl Dotter and design/production by Lincoln Cushing, printed by Inkworks Press. The Scholarship fund will help enable students and workers to participate in annual public health meetings. The poster calls for: Safe Jobs! Safe Communities! for our brothers, our sisters, our children. Checks should be made out to: American Public Health Association With "OH&S Fund" in note field Send checks to: Janie Gordon 405 W. Redwood, 2nd Fl. Baltimore, Md. 21201 jgordon-AT-umppa1.ab.umd.edu You'll receive your poster packaged in a cardboard mailing tube, ready to hang! Inkworks Press - worker-owned and operated since 1974 _____________________________________________________________ 8. Conversian Charts 10**12 Microphones = 1 Megaphone 10**6 bicycles = 2 megacycles 500 millinaries = 1 seminary 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds 10 cards = 1 decacards 1/2 lavatory = 1 demijohn 10**-6 fish = 1 microfiche 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake 10**12 pins = 1 terrapin 10**21 picolos = 1 gigolo 10 rations = 1 decoration 100 rations = 1 C-ration 10 millipedes = 1 centipede 3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent 5 holocausts = 1 Pentacost 10 monologues = 5 dialogues = 1 decalogue 2 monograms = 1 diagram 8 nickles = 2 paradigms 2 snake eyes = 1 paradise 2 wharves = 1 paradox Gag-O-Mactic Joke Server 2.0 ___________________________________________________________ 9. Disorderly Conduct DISORDERLY CONDUCT: ARE THE POLICE KILLING US? (30 minutes,VHS, $25) *Finalist, South Bronx Film & Video Festival, 1997* In contrast to the prevailing attitudes toward law enforcement by the media, which often condone police behavior, DISORDERLY CONDUCT provides a unique look at the violence and racism of police culture. Through the use of interviews, archival footage and recent news reports, this sobering, cutting-edge documentary gives a voice to the victims of police abuse. The documentary includes a detailed report of the shocking case of Abner Louima, who was tortured and beaten by officers of the 70th Precinct in Brooklyn, NY. Some of the community activists and civic leaders who appear in DISORDERLY CONDUCT: former NYC Mayor David Dinkins, Gerald LeMelle of Amnesty International, Richie Perez of the National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights, Roger Wareham and Viola Plummer of the December 12th Movement, and Ron Hampton of the National Black Police Association. Some of the victims who appear in DISORDERLY CONDUCT: Vanessa Maldonado, whose finance Charles Campbell was murdered by an off-duty NYPD cop over a parking space, Steven Resto, who was choked by Office Francis Livoti two years before Anthony Baez, and Jackie Casto, who was arrested, detained, and strip-searched after a routine traffic stop. TO ORDER: Call 1 800 764-0235 Make checks payable to: David A. Love, 135-46 227th Street, laurelton, NY 11413-2438 Richie Perez rperez-AT-boricuanet.org 212 614-5355 ________________________________________________________________ 10. Human Rights and Labor Solidarity Conference >Human Rights and Labor Solidarity: >Working in the Pacific Rim. > >On January 29-30, 1998, UC Berkeley's Center for Labor Research and >Education will host its second annual global conference entitled: "Human >Rights and Labor Solidarity: Working in the Pacific Rim." > > The conference will bring together labor leaders from the US, Thailand, >Burma, South Korea, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand with human rights >activists and academics to discuss the causes, problems and solutions of >worker repression in the Pacific Rim. > > The conference plenary sessions will focus on Globalization And The >Effects >Of Worker And Capital Migration. Invited speakers include William Greider, >author of One World Ready or Not, Barbara Shailor, International Affairs >Director for the AFL-CIO and Sidney Jones, Executive Director of Asia Watch. >Other conference sessions will explore issues of Child Labor And Women >(with a representative from a women's union in Thailand); Repression Of >Trade Unionists (with Rekson Silaban, International Affairs Director for the >Indonesian Prosperity Trade Union ) and The Rise of Independent Unions (With >Young-Kil Kwon, Leader of the Korean Congress of Trade Unions). The Closing >plenary sessions will look at some Labor Solidarity Campaigns and the >possibility for inter-union concerted bargaining and political activity. >Examples will include representatives the NIKE and New Otani campaigns, the >SBSI campaign in Indonesia and the work of the KCTU to build an opposition >movement to the South Korean government. > > This two-day meeting is an opportunity for human rights activists, labor >leaders, union members and academics to work together on new theoretical >approaches to globalization and also to work on real strategies for >addressing human rights and labor issues in the global economy. > > The conference will cost $25 for two days ($10 for students). The >conference will be held at the International House on the University of >California at Berkeley campus. For a conference registration form, contact >the Labor Center at 510-642-0323. > >Co-sponsored by: Center for South East Asian Studies, Center for Korean >Studies, Institute of Industrial Relations, UCB, Labor Center UCLA , Labour >Market and Regional Studies Center, International Business Institute, >University of Woolongong. > >**************************************************************************** >Jacob A. Ely >Center for Labor Research and Education >University of California, Berkeley >Office: 510-642-0323 >Fax: 510-642-6432 >http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~iir/clre/clre.html >**************************************************************************** _________________________________________________________________ 11. Common Threads- Hidden Labor Hello all, I'm a member of Common Threads, a group of women in the L.A. area who have been supporting UNITE and local garment workers in their efforts to better working conditions through unionization over the past three years. Edna Bonacich has talked about our work previously and how some of our more attention-getting efforts have been cultural/arts related (we got sued by GUESS the clothing manufacturer for a poetry reading supporting garment workers fired by GUESS contractors for trying to organize). On May 4 the Common Threads Artists opened a public art installation in nine storefront windows of a former department store in downtown L.A. about the history of L.A.'s garment workers. While wandering around the web the other day, I came across that project, called "Hidden Labor: Uncovering L.A.'s Garment Industry," on USC's site (their downtown L.A. public art tour)! So if you are interested you can see it at: www.usc.edu/Library/Ref/LA/PubArt/Downtown/Hidden Labor. The web site has photos, paragraphs that contextualize each window and the text from a timeline (that runs across the bottom of the entire installation) that's an overview of garment workers' efforts at organizing, mainly in L.A., along with some information about the development of the industry nationally. The exhibition is based on research and interviews with dozens of current and retired garment workers. It was blasted by many of the same garment industry officials who tried to shut down the Smithsonian's upcoming exhibition on sweatshops. But the funders (the public art program of the Community Redevelopment Agency) supported the project as an important piece of local history (we agree). The installation is up through May 1, 1998 - on 7th Street between Hope and Grand in downtown L.A. - visible 24 hours a day. Much of it is in both Spanish and English. We're glad to give "walking tours" to groups, classes, etc. We also have the script for a street theater "fashion show," which you are welcome to use - it's perfect for the holiday shopping season. I'd be glad to pass it on. Keep up all the great work everyone, Judy Branfman jbranfman-AT-loop.com ____________________________________________________________ 12. Israeli General Strike ICEM UPDATE No. 74/1997 4 December 1997 The following is from the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM): ISRAEL: MINISTER'S INSULTS SPARK GENERAL STRIKE Some 700,000 Israeli workers walked off the job yesterday (3 December) in a general strike that will continue "until further notice", the General Federation of Labour in Israel (Histadrut) reports. Among the wide range of sectors hit by the strike are oil refineries, gas companies and the Israel Electric Company. Histadrut had been in lengthy negotiations with the Ministry of Finance over Israeli government plans for major privatisations and pension scheme cuts. The talks ceased on Monday, Histadrut says, when "the Minister of Finance described workers as 'enemies of the state' and 'ticking bombs'. These expressions incensed the workers and their representatives and resulted in the declaration of an immedi ate, country-wide general strike." The indefinite strike is also to mark "opposition to the government's budget proposals, which will put all the burden of the economic moves on the shoulders of the poor and the workers." Histadrut says public reaction to the strike has been "very positive." At the global level, Histadrut is affiliated to the 20-million-strong International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM). _________________ Individual ICEM UPDATE items can be supplied in other languages on request. Our print magazines ICEM INFO and ICEM GLOBAL are available in Arabic, English, French, German, Russian, Scandinavian and Spanish. Visit our World Wide Web site at http://www.icem.org/ ______________________________________________________________ 13. Marx Library Tish Newland, the librarian at the Marx Memorial Library in London, has just sent me a letter that the library was just awarded an grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (maybe one of the British susbcribers can explain exactly what this is as I can't other than it is money from the Lottery). The grant is =A3359,00 to be matched by =A3119,000 raised by the Library. This is extremely good news as these incredible valuable collections will now be better preserved and available to researchers. Some of the materials date back to Cromwell, I believe they have an original of the People's Charter, several items and artifacts from William Morris... According to the library's press release the money will be used for the following purposes: catalogue the 150,000 books, pamphlets and periodiclas and put it on the Internet protect and conserve the thousands of rare documents by installing new heating and colling systems improve book storage conditions by installing new shelving protect a site of immense historical significance "The grant recognizes that the Library collection reflects the valuable historic building in which it is housed. The house on Clerkenwell Green was built in 1737 and is now the oldest house in this part of London. It ws one of the first charity schools. Lenin's newspaper Iskra was edited and printed here. Karl marx's daughter, Eloeanor, and William Morris addressed crowds on Clerkenwell Green from its its windows. Marx's own International Working Men's Association (the First International) had committee meetings in what is now a front room of the Library." I am quite excited at the prospect of the materials being made available by this project. The collections at the library are indeed of immense historical importance and of an international scope. But the library has struggled along for years on the contributions of its members. Andrew H. Lee andrew.lee-AT-nyu.edu _____________________________________________________________ 14. Former Soviet Premier Lends Pizza Hut His Image By ALESSANDRA STANLEY MOSCOW -- The last leader of the Soviet Union was unable to prevent the collapse of communism. So now he has conspicuously taken his place on the winning side. Mikhail Gorbachev, 66, has shot a commercial endorsement for Pizza Hut. Gorbachev agreed to sit down at a table with his granddaughter in the Moscow outlet of Pizza Hut and pay tribute to capitalism and its greasiest offshoot: American fast food. Gorbachev said he was not exactly sure how much he was being paid, but some reports indicate his fee is close to $1 million. Explaining that he badly needed the money to finance his foundation, a research institute that bears his name, Gorbachev said in an interview Tuesday that he had declined many other offers to endorse products but made an exception for Pizza Hut. "I thought that it is a people's matter -- food," he said. "This is why if my name works for the benefit of consumers, to hell with it -- I can risk it." The script is deferential; indeed, it could be viewed as Gorbachev's ultimate fantasy. He arrives by limousine at a Pizza Hut and some patrons notice him. An older man grumbles, "Because of him, we have economic confusion." A younger man disagrees, saying, "Because of him we have opportunity." Patrons continue to argue, until an older woman pipes up, "Because of him we have things like Pizza Hut." The patrons rise and give a standing ovation to their former leader, holding pizza slices aloft in tribute. Gorbachev responds with a dignified smile. He does not actually eat a slice of pizza, but sips coffee as he watches his granddaughter dig in happily. Though the ad was shot in Moscow last Thursday, there are no plans to broadcast it in Russia. Esteemed in the West as the statesman who ended the Cold War, Gorbachev is extremely unpopular in Russia, where he is blamed for allowing the Soviet Union to fall apart and for not having pushed reform of the command economy far enough. When he ran for the presidency last year -- his first campaign for public office -- he won less than 1 percent of the vote. (Excerpts) ________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ ARTISTS AND WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE... YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT BAD TASTE! 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