[act-ma] Tonight - Bill Fletcher, Jr. & Friends - Movements, Yesterday & Today (3/11/21, 7:00 Eastern)

Thu Mar 11 10:28:25 PST 2021

SEATTLE 1999 TO D.C. 2021  The Millennial Turns and this Decisive Decade

How are today's social justice, immigrants rights, racial justice, and
socialist movements shaped by the movements of the millennium (especially
the Global Justice Movement with its global, democratic, and anarchist
turns) and what can we learn from them?  A group of activist intellectuals
based in movements, trade unions, and the academy come together, build off
a collection of the articles that they wrote, to address precisely these
questions. Join the conversation on Thursday, March 11, 2021, at 7:00 p.m.
(Eastern).

The articles appear *Socialism and Democracy <http://sdonline.org>.*

The panel includes Ben Manski, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Hillary Lazar, Jackie
Smith, Lesley Wood, Norman Stockwell, Shannon Gleeson, and Suren Moodliar.
(see below for their bios)
March 2021
11
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   - *Bill Fletcher Jr.* has been an activist since his teen years; after
   college he went to work as a welder in a shipyard, thereby entering the
   labor movement. He has worked for labor unions in addition to serving as a
   senior staff person in the national AFL-CIO and a former president of
   TransAfrica Forum. Fletcher is the co-author (with Peter Agard) of *The
   Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of
   Industrial Organizations, 1934-1941*; the co-author (with Dr. Fernando
   Gapasin) of *Solidarity Divided: The crisis in organized labor and a new
   path toward social justice*; the author of *'They’re Bankrupting Us!’ –
   And Twenty Other Myths About Unions;* and the author of the mystery
   novel, *The Man Who Fell from the Sky*.
   - *Shannon Gleeson *is an Associate Professor of Labor Relations, Law,
   and History at the Cornell University ILR School. Her books include
*Conflicting
   Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose
   and Houston* (2012) and *Precarious Claims: The Promise and Failure of
   Workplace Protections in the United States* (2016).
   - *Hillary Lazar* is a Doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University
   of Pittsburgh and holds an MA in History from San Francisco State
   University. Her research focuses on historical and contemporary anarchism,
   movement evaluation, and the politics of emotions. She has been published
   in *Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, Anarchism: A Conceptual Approach*,
   and has forthcoming work in *Research in Political Sociology*. Hillary
   is on the advisory board for Anarchist Agency.
   - *Ben Manski *is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at George Mason
   University specializing in social movements, popular constitutionalism,
   environmental sociology, and next system studies. He has a PhD from the
   University of California, Santa Barbara and a JD from the University of
   Wisconsin Law School. Manski was in Seattle with the education syndicalist
   group 180/MDE, and was a founder of the Democracy Teach-Ins, Liberty Tree
   Foundation for the Democratic Revolution, Move to Amend, Wisconsin Wave,
   and an instigator of the Global Climate Strikes.
   - *Suren Moodliar *is the managing editor of *Socialism and Democracy,* and
   coordinator of encuentro5, a movement-building center in Boston. He is a
   co-author of *A People's Guide to Greater Boston* (2020) and most
   recently of *Chomsky for Activists* (2021).
   - *Jackie Smith* is a Professor of Sociology at the University of
   Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on how globalization impacts people and
   communities, and how social movements for the environment, health, and
   economic justice have advanced transformative struggles. She has documented
   long-term trends in transnational social movement organizations and
   coalitions, in addition to research on connections between global politics
   and activism in cities and communities. Smith is currently engaged in
   participatory research with Pittsburgh and with national human rights
   organizers and engaged in work to connect municipalities with United
   Nations human rights work.
   - *Norman Stockwell* is the publisher of *The Progressive*. Previously,
   for over 20 years, he served as WORT Community Radio’s Operations
   Coordinator in Madison, Wisconsin. He also coordinated the IraqJournal
   website in 2002-2003. In 2011, he regularly reported on protests in Madison
   for Iran’s PressTV and other outlets. His reports and interviews have
   appeared on Free Speech Radio News, Democracy Now!, and Air America, and in
   print in *Z Magazine*, the *Capital Times*, AlterNet, *Toward Freedom*,
   the *Tico Times*, the *Feminist Connection*, and elsewhere. He is
   co-editor of the book *REBEL REPORTING: John Ross Speaks to Independent
   Journalists*.
   - *Lesley Wood *is the author of *Direct Action, Deliberation and
   Diffusion: Collective Action after the WTO Protests in Seattle* (2012).
   Sadly, she was not in Seattle in 1999, but has spent a great deal of time
   thinking about that event since. She is active in anti-poverty and other
   movements in Toronto and is Chair, and Associate Professor of Sociology at
   York University.

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