Solidarity Education Center
May 31, 2007
Solidarity Education Center Jerry Tucker/Retired UAW International Executive Board Member
Colleagues,
I'm sending, for your use and distribution, the formal announcement/registration form (attached in pdf) for the upcoming 1st Upper Midwest Solidarity School sponsored by the Solidarity Education Center (SEC) & the Center for Labor Renewal (CLR).
Dates: Thursday (evening), August 9 - Sunday, August 12, 2007
Place: The Retreat Center at St. John's
44011 Five Mile Road
Plymouth, MI 48170
www.theretreatcenter.org (check it out)
www.solidarityeducationcenter.org
P O Box 190544
St. Louis, MO
63119 ~ 314-968-5534
jtuckernd@sbcglobal.org
This is both and invitation for you to participate in the School, and for your assistance in circulating the information and helping to recruit worker-activists from unions, worker centers, and other working class organizations to participate. Several allied web sites have already posted info on the School and we value that effort but it also takes person to person outreach to bring people together in this period of protracted social injustice. Our adversaries have a plan. We have some institutions heading in the wrong direction in response, and we need new strategies, new networks, and to bring along a new generation of worker-leaders into the struggle.
A number of strategists and labor educators will be on hand to facilitate key sessions and discussion groups at the School. Among them will be Stanley Aronowitz, Bill Fletcher; Elly Leary; Elena Herrada; Immanuel Ness; Gregg Shotwell; Tanya Wallace, and others. The School is being promoted by a network of upper Midwest area activists and Canadians, many of you among them, who have deep concerns about the challenges facing our working class and particularly the US Labor Movement's inability to produce winning strategies and connect worker struggles here and internationally against a transnational corporate agenda. This will be the place to express and connect those concerns. I'm also attaching a report by two participants to the recent Solidarity School held in New Jersey this past March, FYI.
Both the SEC & SEC web sites have more information and downloadable materials: www.solidarityeducationcenter.org & www.centerforlaborrenewal.org
We hope you will be able to participate and/or also help recruit other worker/activists for the comprehensive sessions we are planning for August 9-12, 2007 in Plymouth, Michigan. You can reach me at 314-968-5534 or jtuckernd@sbcglobal.org with any questions or ideas about building the School participation. Thanks.