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To Eric Lee,
Briefly, It makes no sense to keep trying to “organize” if the same old
ideas of what and who and why you are organizing still remains
unchanged! Insanity is to keep doing the same things over and over again
and expect a different result!
1. Organized labor with some money set aside for “organizing” should set
up a new organization dedicated to promoting the interests of working
people – especially those who are not in unions at the present time.
Let us call this organization the National Organization for Working
People (NOWP) for right now.
2. The first purpose of the NOWP is educational. The working people of
this country has NO MEDIA at all that promotes their interests in
reporting the news for example. NOWP must create a national news network
that presents the news and information vital for working people to
understand what is happening to them as they are being destroyed by the
class war being waged against them continuously.
For example, on every front, living standards are plummeting. There
is no national health care system, prescription drugs are unaffordable,
hospitals are closing, Social Security is threatened, housing costs are
skyrocketing. In the building where I work, a latino works there has to
work two full time jobs 16 hours a day(!) at minimum wage pay, to
support his family with two small children. He only sees them asleep
during the week, gets about 4 hours sleep a night, has done this for two
years!
3. The war(s) of the Bush Project for a New American Century are
bankrupting the economy. Tax cuts for the wealthy, massive corruption at
the Federal level, etc. All this is rapidly causing a huge shift in
wealth to an ever increasing portion of the population.
4. The most crucial element that this new NOWP organization must make is
this: it must become anti-capitalist (what we have now is actually
“capitalism run amok” with no checks and balances at all). The current
conservative trade union movement in U.S. has always tried to “partner”
with businesses — which are continually destroying the unions. The
last remaining unions are surviving only at the convenience of capital.
The unions remaining are a discipline of labor, and collaborate with
capital to maximize profit. Corporations are constantly throwing out
benefits, pensions, slashing wages, until finally they close-up and go
overseas.
5. The NOWP now has a news information program worthy of engaging
working people. It must now take this program to PBS TV and threaten to
sue them if they do not allow a half hour program every night to counter
the corporate control and indoctrination on PBS (I refrain from ranting
on about the class-war character of PBS!). Of course a national radio
program or radio network must be developed.
6. The NOWP starts soliciting for members. No great demands or
requirements to join! (Something like AARP does for senior citizens).
NOWP members start with a national monthly newspaper, or national email
news releases, etc. Educating, informing, showing the economics of
what is happening, etc.
7. The NOWP now has the nucleus of informed people nationwide to start
the creation of a National Working Peoples Party (whatever name)… We
have an agenda and a platform that we have developed nationally and
locally. Local groups can be formed to run local and state candidates
who all support and agree to the platform.
8. The NOWP can also be a PRECURSOR to organizing union(s) nationally
and locally where possible.
9. Two essential characteristics: FEEDBACK and MEMBERSHIP INVOLVEMENT
and ultimate CONTROL FROM THE BOTTOM. NO BIG FAT CATS AT THE TOP TO GET
INTO BED WITH CORPORATIONS.
10. It is essential finally to maintain an anti-capitalist point-of-
view. The US Government was found of, by and for the people. It has been
totally taken over by big business, military-industrial complex, etc.
The US Government was founded as a secular government with freedom of
religion for all (NO TO PAT ROBERTSON— being paid millions as a
“faith-based” organization!) NOWP must cut through the indoctrination
of several generations about the glory of capitalism. Capitalism “as we
now know it” is destroying the planet, millions of people abroad and at
home!
Thanks if you actually read all this stuff!
jeremy@infowells.com
Santa Monica, CA , USA