Omaha Steve and the socialist movement....

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Omaha Steve
 
The uprising of the invisible

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http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=9caef075f8&e=9baae85844


 

They're calling it the "uprising of the invisible."

Cleaning workers in the Netherlands have been on strike for 30 days and have now asked for international solidarity.

They've created an online campaign on LabourStart which needs your help.

It will take you just one minute to tell their employers -- and their employers' clients -- that it's time to show these workers some respect, and to reach agreement to end the strike.

Please send off your message today and spread the word: http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=1254&src=lsmm

(It takes TWO clicks to send the message)

And one more thing …

We've just announced the dates for the third annual LabourStart Global Solidarity Conference, to be held in Sydney, Australia from 26-29 November 2012.

To learn more and show your interest in attending, please visit the Event page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/260537070684403/

Thanks - and see you in Sydney!

 

Eric Lee

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/1117178


Who is Eric Lee you ask?

About Eric Lee

Born in New York City in 1955, Eric Lee has been active on the democratic Left for nearly forty years. Initially involved in the anti-Vietnam-war movement, he joined the Young People's Socialist League, the youth section of the Socialist Party USA, in 1971. He chaired its second largest chapter (at Cornell University) until 1975 and was elected to serve on the organization's National Executive Committee.

His first jobs were with the trade union movement -- working with the United Federation of Teachers' Youth Vote Project in 1972 and as an intern with the Textile Workers Union of America in 1974. In 1975, he went to work (briefly) for the YPSL, which was by then the youth section of Social Democrats USA. In late 1975, he joined the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, chaired by Michael Harrington, and a year later began work on its national staff.

He spent nearly all of 1976 living and working in Israel, on Kibbutz Beit Hashita, where he studied Hebrew and worked in the kibbutz's olive factory and in its grapefruit orchard.

In 1977 he founded The New International Review, a quarterly journal of democratic socialist theory and analysis. It continued publishing until 1989.

A member of DSOC's National Board representing its largest chapter (in New York City), he helped organize the opposition in 1980 to the merger between DSOC and New American Movement which resulted in the formation of Democratic Socialists of America.

While living in New York City, he worked for the Mayor's Office of SRO Housing (1979) and, in 1980, Helsinki Watch (now, Human Rights Watch). He wrote for a wide range of publications including Democratic Left, In These Times and others.

In 1980, he spent 6 weeks living in Toronto where he worked on the successful election campaign of New Democrat Neil Young (no, not that Neil Young). He published several articles on Canadian politics for left publications in the US.

In 1981, he moved to Israel where he became a member of Kibbutz Ein Dor. There, he worked on the shop floor of its wire and cable factory Teldor, milked cows, cared for children, and learned to program computers.

He began programming on an IBM S/34 midrange computer in 1984 and continued on the S/36 and AS/400 models, becoming proficient in RPG II and successor languages. Several of his programs were published in professional journals such as Scope/36 and Midrange Computing.

He lectured regularly on political issues at the Givat Haviva center, a kibbutz educational facility, and wrote for a wide range of newspapers and magazines in Hebrew and English, including Davar, Ha'aretz, and the Jerusalem Post. In 1987 he began writing regularly for the daily newspaper Al Hamishmar, covering foreign affairs. In 1990, he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the United Workers Party, Mapam.

In 1991, he completed his first book, Saigon to Jerusalem: Conversations with Israel's Vietnam Veterans, which was published in the United States. It was well-received by critics and sold 4 copies.

In 1993 he began work for the International Federation of Workers Education Associations as founding editor of its quarterly magazine, Workers Education, which was published in English, French and Spanish. Later that year, he published a special edition of the magazine devoted to computer communications and the labour movement.

During the mid 1990s he completed writing his second book, Mole: Stalin and the Okhrana, which despite a foreword from George F. Kennan and a contract from a US publisher, was not published. However, a portion of the book is available online. He intends eventually to find another publisher and bring the book to print.

In 1996, immediately following the election victory of Binyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, he launched the highly popular (and controversial) BibiWATCH website.

Later that year his third book, The Labour Movement and the Internet: The New Internationalism, was published in Britain by Pluto Press.

In 1997 and again in 1998, he lead the annual "Internet Blackouts" to commemorate (and mourn) Netanyahu's election victory.

In 1998, he began work in London as the ICT Co-ordinator for Labour and Society International, and launched the LabourStart website. That same year, "The Labour Movement and the Internet" was published in Korean.

In 2000, he ran as an independent labour candidate in the first (and last) elections to the ICANN Board. He placed 4th out of 54 candidates in what the winner called a "strong expression for organized labor". As part of his campaign, he published his fourth book, The Internet Belongs to Everyone. The book was published in electronic format only -- in PDF, HTML, Palm and Microsoft Reader versions.

Since then, he has travelled and written extensively, and has designed dozens of trade union websites in Britain and elsewhere.

In April 2005, Lee published his fifth book, How Internet Radio Can Change the World. The book was published using cutting-edge print-on-demand technology and is primarily being sold online.

For another view -- "Lee is one of the most experienced and influential agents of the bourgeoisie in the world labor movement" -- go here.

http://www.ericlee.info/1955/07/about_eric_lee_1.html



 

[Skul]

Tue Jan 31, 2012, 06:05 PM
Omaha Steve (31,132 posts)


I will be away a few days
My mom is ok. She is still in the hospital. I came home sick today to other bad news. My family is going through a rough time.

Wed Feb 1, 2012, 09:44 AM
 Omaha Steve (31,136 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore


 Big Kansas City Organizing Win—First at GE in 10 Years (after seeing a co-worker die)
>snip<
I'm home from work today sick. I'll catch hell from the cave dwellers since I said I would be away following a family tragedy yesterday.

Ya think??

[JohnnyReb]

Cleaning workers in the Netherlands have been on strike for 30 days and have now asked for international solidarity.

Again the DUmmies are ahead of the news curve...Occupoopers trashed the place months ago.

[franksolich]

Ya think??

The big guy's as bad as nadin.  He can't stay away, no matter what.

[Ballygrl]

So can we expect Obama, in his re-election bid, allow the Unions here to tout this? and of course to recognize the source?

[Rugnuts]

talk about replaceable workforce, let the "housekeepers" strike.
replace 'em and move on.

[GOBUCKS]

Thanks - and see you in Sydney!

Steve Dawes, the Bellevue, Nebraska self-avowed socialist, couldn't make it to Wisconsin for the occupooper desecration of the statehouse.

He's a long shot for Australia.

He probably got all excited and thought this socialist meeting was in Sidney, Nebraska.

[franksolich]

What the?

In 1991, he completed his first book, Saigon to Jerusalem: Conversations with Israel's Vietnam Veterans, which was published in the United States. It was well-received by critics and sold 4 copies.

[Skul]

What the?

Though you were messin' with us.
Went and looked.
You weren't.
Here's the link again.
About half-way down the article.
http://www.ericlee.info/1955/07/about_eric_lee_1.html

[Airwolf]

What the?

LOL, Sold 4 copies. LOL.  Way to go their sport (OmahaSteve) . Hitching your campain wagon to a frackin socialist loser and then posting about it online. Your making this to easy.

[Mr Mannn]

Omaha Steve
We've just announced the dates for the third annual LabourStart Global Solidarity Conference, to be held in Sydney, Australia from 26-29 November 2012.

To learn more and show your interest in attending, please visit the Event page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/260537070684403/

Thanks - and see you in Sydney!

Don't you have an election to attend too? Don't you plan to be a little busy after your victory?
This little trip does NOT sound like the plan of a man running for office...

and who is going to pay for this trip, Steve?

[formerlurker]

What the?

I laughed out loud over that also -- this stuff is gold.    I wish I was OS's opponent.  The fun I would have...

[formerlurker]

Don't you have an election to attend too? Don't you plan to be a little busy after your victory?
This little trip does NOT sound like the plan of a man running for office...

and who is going to pay for this trip, Steve?

That is not Steve, it's the socialist Eric Lee - if you go to the site you will laugh, it's a movement for those who live in their parents' basement:

 

LabourStart...Where trade unionists start their day on the net.

http://www.labourstart.org/


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[GOBUCKS]

It must be a really smart group.

It adds that eurotrash "u" to "labor".

[diesel driver]

Tue Jan 31, 2012, 06:05 PM
Omaha Steve (31,132 posts)


I will be away a few days
My mom is ok. She is still in the hospital. I came home sick today to other bad news. My family is going through a rough time.

Sounds like a book I read by Lewis Grizzard:  "Elvis Is Dead, And I Don't Feel So Good Myself."   

[Skul]

It must be a really smart group.

It adds that eurotrash "u" to "labor".

Colour me shocked!

[JakeStyle]

Omaha Steve has a long history of threatening to "be away" from the DUmp for various, vague reasons, yet he always keeps posting.  He is just fishing for DU approval and affirmation.

[Skul]

Omaha Steve has a long history of threatening to "be away" from the DUmp for various, vague reasons, yet he always keeps posting.  He is just fishing for DU approval and affirmation.

If Obamaha Steve wishes approval, he needs go no futher than here.
I most definately approve of his running, and incourage him to do so.
Sic-em Obamaha, don't let the man drag you down.

[GOBUCKS]

If Steve Dawes overcame all odds and won a seat on the Bellevue, Nebraska city council, I bet he'd be the first self-proclaimed socialist ever elected in Bellevue.

[Skul]

If Steve Dawes overcame all odds and won a seat on the Bellevue, Nebraska city council, I bet he'd be the first self-proclaimed socialist ever elected in Bellevue.

GOBUCKS, I oughta BS you for just creepin' me out.
Stop that.