January 1972 Articles

    A Note To Readers
    The Berkeley chapter debated at length how to organize this issue. Well aware of this Newspaper’s “mistakes of the past,” we wondered whether 1) to delay publication in order to solicit different interpretations of conference events from the various chapters or 2) to put out this issue quickly so that...

    Anti-Corporation Organizing Priority Proposal
    Anti-Corporation Organizing Priority Proposal Much of what has been discussed this weekend, in terms both of general political-economic analysis and in terms of concrete programs, has focused on the need to bring together workplace and community organizing. The movement has developed some grassroots strengths is the latter; nothing of...

    Campus Organizing - Majority Position
    Students are taught usually to see themselves as completely distinct from and usually above the working class. Through our work on campus, we would like to unite the struggle of students with those of working people. In addition our work on campus should be directed against ways that the universities...

    Economic Programs of N.A.M., Adopted at Davenport, Iowa
    November, 1971 Internal Education Strike Support Equal Work and Equal Pay for Women Price Activity Taxation Social Services Day Care People’s Control of the Economy 1. Internal Education The National Interim Committee shall develop an educational program on the economy for all N.A.M. chapters. 2. Strike...

    Health and Safety: Political Perspectives
    I. Definition. Occupational health includes the conditions of any workplace which affect the mental or physical health of the men and women working there-in both long and short range terms. It includes workplaces such as hospitals, offices, and farms as well as factories. For women it includes the added effects...

    Letter from National Office ad hoc Temporary Collective
    Dear Sisters and Brothers, After the smoke cleared from the confusion of the last plenary, the new National Interim Committee met and decided the following: 1. The temporary national office will be in Minneapolis (three people on the NIC live there, office space is available, there are two chapters to...

    NAM CONFERENCE - Notes from Davenport by Nick Rabkin and Jim Weinstein
    *The following report on the NAM Thanksgiving conference is limited to the events at plenary sessions and at the workshop on the economy, which both of us attended. There were many other workshops, whose discussions must go unreported in this issue. The report represents our view of these events and...

    NAM Volume 2
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    National Interim Committee - Structural Proposal
    The current National Interim Committee wishes to propose the following structural proposal for NAM after Thanksgiving, incorporating a number of criticisms and comments we have received on the original proposal. We propose for the continuing national structure of NAM an interim committee of 13, at least half women, to be...

    National Interim Committee As Elected
    November 28, 1971 Pam Beardsley Atlanta, Georgia Harry Boyte Chapel Hill, North Carolina Marv Davidov Minneapolis, Minnesota Janet Gallagher Monrolville, Pennsylvania Paula Giese Minneapolis, Minnesota Ann Laska Madison, Wisconsin Roberta Lynch Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Staughton Lynd Chicago, Illinois Fred Ojile Minneapolis, Minnesota Patty Lee Parmalee Los Angeles, California Jan Rubin Philadelphia,...

    Priority Proposal From The War And Imperialism Workshop
    (Existing NAM materials are grossly deficient in dealing with anti-imperialism. Regardless of the plenary’s decision concerning the rest of the war and imperialism workshop proposal, it is essential that all NAM descriptive materials include the sense of the following:) PROPOSED TEXT FOR USE IN NAM INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL The struggle...

    Women in NAM: Report on the Women's Caucus by Judy Maclean and Roberta Lynch
    The Women's Caucus of the NAM November 25-29 conference in Davenport met four times that weekend—always hurriedly and straining under the tensions and pressures which carried over from other conference sessions. Our actual decisions were few: 1. There will be a women's internal discussion bulletin in NAM, 2. The policy...