War and Democracy - Michael Eisenscher

This Forum of the Humanist Community in Silicon Valley (www.humanists.org) was held on 7/31/2022. To see all of our Forum videos, please visit vimeo.com/hcsv.

Michael Eisenscher has spent the last few years focusing on the intersection of labor, environment, foreign policy, and militarism, as interconnected and mutually-interrelated features of 21st Century US capitalism.

He will put forward some thoughts about their interconnection, and pose some questions to discuss with us.

Reading the following articles may provide a preview of some of the issues he will address.

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Michael Eisenscher is now in his sixth decade of activism in the labor and progressive movements - in struggles for peace, civil rights, civil liberties, women's rights, immigrant rights, and environmental justice.

From 1972 until 2003, he worked for unions as an organizer and negotiator.

In 2003, he joined with other labor activists to found US Labor Against the War (USLAW), and served as its National Coordinator for the next dozen years.

Since "retiring" in 2015, he has continued his labor activity as a delegate to the Alameda Labor Council, helping to found its Climate and Environmental Justice Caucus.

He also joined other Bay Area trade unionists to found Labor Rise for Climate, Jobs, Justice & Peace, and is a member of the national Labor Network for Sustainability.

His articles have appeared in a number of periodicals, journals and bulletins, and in chapters of three labor anthologies.

Along the way, he picked up a BA in Labor Studies from San Francisco State University and MA in Public Policy from University of Massachusetts-Boston.

For six years he taught a course in political economy in the Labor Studies Program at Laney College.

He also produces memes and a twice-weekly news bulletin for SolidarityINFOService, which he established during the historic Teamsters UPS Part-timers strike in 1997.

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