Jane Slaughter
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Jane Slaughter is a Detroit based activist.
Early NAM leadership
In 1971, the New American Movement National Interim Committee was composed of:
- Lynn North, Ann Arbor Mich.
- Harry Boyte, Chapel Hill, No. Carolina
- Martha Williams, Wash. DC
- Harold Henderson, Peoria, Ill.
- Marjorie Fields, New York City
- Staughton Lynd, Chicago, Ill
- Diana Adams, Cleveland, Ohio
- Frank Speltz, Davenport Iowa
- Chip Marshall - Field Staff Coordinator –
- Frank Speltz – Coordinator of the national conference
Travelers for NAM:
- Frank Blumer, Northwest
- Michael Lerner, California
- Randy Bregman, Midwest
- Lynn North & Jane Slaughter, South
- Jeremy Rifkin, Northeast
- Chip Marshall, Southwest, Mountain & Plains states[1]
NAM first national conference
The first national meeting of the New American Movement was held in Chicago October 9-11. Up to 75 delegates and observers from 25 cities participated. The meeting laid the basis for a Thanksgiving conference on program in Chicago. The politiçal principles, program, and structure of the organization were discussed;
At the conference, a body mandated a committee to write a shorter version of the original NAM document in a style, adapted to mass distribution. People elected to this committee were:[2]
- Diana Adams (Cleveland, Ohio),
- Jeremy Rifkin (Washington, D;C;),
- Jane Slaughter of the national staff,
- Karen Whitman (Baltimore, Md.),
- Michael Lerner (Berkeley, Calif),
- Alice Lynd (Chicago, Ill),
- Harry Boyte (Chapel Hill, N.C.).
The committee was mandated to have the basic document written by October 23.1971
ISO
Jane Slaughter is a former member of the International Socialist Organization.
Socialist Scholars 1997
In March 28-30 1997 Democratic Socialists of America convened their annual Socialist Scholars Conference at Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York.
The conference was themed "Radical alternatives on the eve of the millenium".
Invitees were asked to join Doug Henwood, Robert Heilbroner, Paul Sweezy, Harry Magdoff, Bill Tabb, Frances Fox Piven, Robert Fitch, Jane Slaughter and Ellen Meiksins Wood "as they debate changes in the labor movement, Marxist theory, the state of the economy, market socialism, and other areas where theory and practice meet".
Or "listen to the United States' only independent and socialist congressman", Rep. Bernie Sanders, "dialogue with" Joel Rogers of the New Party and In These Times' ....Salim Muwakkil on independent politics..[3].
Center for Labor Renewal
In 2009 Jane Slaughter was listed as an endorser of the Center for Labor Renewal[4].
Against the Current
In 2009 Jane Slaughter was listed as an advisory editor of Against the Current, bi-monthly analytical journal of U.S. Trotskyite organization Solidarity .[5]
Labor Notes
In 2009 Jane Slaughter, Co-founder of Labor Notes, editor of A Troublemaker's Handbook 2, Detroit was a member of the Labor Notes policy committee[6].
"Real World Labor"
In August 2009 Dollars & Sense, produced an anthology entitled "Real World Labor", edited by Immanuel Ness, Amy Offner and Chris Sturr and the Dollars & Sense Collective.
Contributors included David Bacon, Kim Bobo, Aviva Chomsky, Steve Early, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Staughton Lynd, Arthur MacEwan, John Miller, Frances Fox Piven, Robert Pollin, Jane Slaughter.[7]
References
- ↑ New American Movement newspaper Vol. 1/No. 2 1971
- ↑ From New American Movement, Nov,-Dec, 1971
- ↑ http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/pen-l/1997m03.d/msg00084.htm
- ↑ http://www.centerforlaborrenewal.org/?P=EN
- ↑ About Against the Current
- ↑ http://labornotes.org/staff
- ↑ TYR, Sep. 2009
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