January Detroit Monthly Branch Meeting

We are not meeting at a POB though... think it is at the regular location, St. Peters at Michigan and Trumbull. Click on the picture for the facebook event.

A message to the working class in the wake of the 2016 United States Presidential election from the General Executive Board of the Industrial Workers of the World

Official Statement - IWW General Executive Board, November 22, 2016

These are difficult times for the working class, times of struggle and hardship. The employing class controls more of the world’s wealth and power than ever before, and the divide between working people and our oppressors grows wider by the day.

It is important to remember that this is nothing new.

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An Open Letter to the Labor Movement: Stand in Solidarity With #NoDAPL

September 4, 2016

Fellow Workers:

If you've not read or seen the news about the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the vast and growing opposition to it (#NoDAPL) by now, you've not been paying attention.

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Helpful Resources for Running a Meeting

• https://YouTube.com/watch?v=uvLDlPlxaRg
• http://IWW.org/oldbranches/US/CA/lagmb/lit/meeting.pdf
• https://TorontoIWW.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/130701-how-to-have-a-good-meeting-and-rustys-rules-of-order.pdf

June - Detroit GMB Monthly Branch Business Meeting

Date: Wed, 06/22/2016 - 5:30pm - 7:30pm

• The Detroit GMB Monthly Branch Business Meeting will be held Wednesday, June 22nd at 7:00 PM EDT, with dues being taken at 6:30 PM
• It will run until 8:30 PM EDT. 
• It will be at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 1950 Trumbull, Detroit, MI, 48216.

Our meeting is open to all workers. 

Only members in good standing may have voice and/or vote in Branch matters.

First Newsletter from the Detroit AgitProp Committee

First Newsletter from the Detroit AgitProp Committee (click to download)

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How Labor's story is distorted in high school history textbooks

He who controls the present, controls the past. 

He who controls the past, controls the future. 

George Orwell, 1984

via American Labor in U.S. History Textbooks  

Words of Wisdom

"The IWW does not seek to just be an organization of bargaining units, though organizing bargaining units is important. The IWW seeks to create Wobblies: workers who understand the struggle, know who the real enemy is, understand the goals of the IWW, and understand the need to stand in solidarity with each other. Creating Wobblies takes education. The three stars of the IWW label stand for *Education *Organization *Emancipation. Through its papers, literature, speakers and culture, the IWW seeks to educate workers and when a worker becomes a Wobbly, that worker becomes knowledgeable of the conditions of working people and why they exist as they do."

via The Modern Relevance of the IWW, Arthur J. Miller @ IWW Archives