I like the bit about colorblindness, very thoughtful...
news
Schoolteachers and teachers in training have occupied the electoral institute's state offices in Chilpancingo, Guerrero and are threatening to destroy the ballots of today's statewide municipal elections.
articles
Theodor Adorno's critical analysis of popular music in capitalist society.
1968
An overview of the crisis in Czechoslovakia 1968, by the Trotskyist Alan Woods.
Tea Break
First issue of an irregular workers' bulletin put together by users of the website, libcom.org. This issue focuses on the 2008 pay dispute over sub-inflation pay offers.
Hey,
On Nate's recommendation I thought I would share the agenda more or less as it happened for our branch's strategy meeting on Saturday:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dvb5b8z_8fpg57ncx
It was a good meeting, lively but focussed, the parts where people get up and do things helped I think. Also a certain IW editor went all out on a feast for lunch (veg/meat chillie, bread, fruit, juice, chocolate soymilk, cheese... mmmm....). I think that helped keep everyone in a good mood. I would NOT recommend doing this without some sort of decent food.
We came up with three main goals for the next year:
* Have one organizing drive which involves 60%+ of branch members
* Improve our communications with folks outside the branch (general public)
* Increase the diversity of membership in the union
So ask me in a year how it turns out.
Feel free to take this agenda and modify it to suit your needs. But let me know how it turns out, will you?
I got a lot of ideas from a really excellent book called Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-making, which is really excellent. It's huge but that's mainly because pretty much every idea is represented both in text and as a picture. It is also layed out so that it can be photocopied easily.