Bill Fletcher speaks to Austin audience:
Union organizing and class struggle
By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / March 29, 2009
On Sunday night, March 28, Bill Fletcher, Jr. — union organizer, historian, and strategist, and progressive political activist — spoke at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin as part of the Third Coast Activist Final Sunday series. Responding to questions from UT-Austin Journalism Professor and Rag Blog contributor Bob Jensen, Fletcher said he’d be glad to take Glenn Beck on in a televised debate on class struggle.
Fletcher went on to discuss his views on working class organizing, coalescing with the community-based organizations, global capitalism, and the unprecedented income divide in this country.
[Bill Fletcher, Jr., is the co-author of Solidarity Divided, a book about labor’s role in the struggle for social justice, and is executive editor of The Black Commentator. He will speak again tonight, Monday, March 29, at 6:45 p.m., at the National Association of Letter Carriers Union Hall at 604 Williams in Austin. The event is open to the public.]
When willBill Fletcher and his so-called “Progressives for Obama” join the progressive movement in advocating a real alternative to Wall Street’s agenda of war, racism and poverty?