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1987 1987-05Read it in the scan (PDF at ETOL), page 3 →
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P.O. Box 1046 GMF Boston, MA 02205 (617) 391-7087 Chicago Socialist P.O. Box 267848 Chicago, IL 60626 Cincinnati Socialist P.O. Box 37029 Cincinnati, OH 45222 (513) 272-2596 Cleveland socialist ACtION P.O. Box 6151 Cleveland, OH 44101 (216) 429-2167 Detroit Socialist P.O. Box 19613 Detroit, MI 48219 Grand Rapids Socialist Action P.O. Box 3505 Grand Rapids, MI 49501 Los Angalos Soc P.O. Box 60605 Terminal Annex Los Angeles, CA 90060 (213) 250-4608 Minneapolis Socialist P.O. Box 14087 Dinkeytown Station Minneapolis, MN 55414 New York Socialist Action P.O. Box 20209 Ca. Finance 693 Columbus Ave.
New York, NY 10025 Phoenix Socialist Action P.O. Box 5161 Phoenix, AZ 85010 (602) 263-5190 San Francisco Socialist Action 3435 Army St., Suite 308 San Francisco, CA 94110 (415) 821-0458 Keynote speakers were the Rev. A. Wright-Riggins (on Southern Africa), Dr. Charlie Clements (on Central America), and Dolores Huerta of the United Farm Workers (on domestic issues). Music was provided by Jackson Browne and by Sangre Machehual.
Organized by the April 4th Coalition, endorsers included the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO), L.A. Labor Committee on Central America, the Los Angeles Catholic Worker, Clergy and Laity Concerned, and the Fall Mobilization on Central America.
A call to attend the April 25 demon -stration in San Francisco was made and bus tickets were sold. form its own independent political party—a labor party based on the unions and open to all the oppressed people in this country—is getting a better hearing among labor's rank and file. Such a party would drastically change the face of politics in this country.
The job of social and political activists today is to reach the real forces who have the power to change society-working people, the unemployed, farmers, students, and youth.
Linking the majority sentiment against U.S. aid to the contras and U.S. aid to apartheid in South Africa with the demand for jobs will place antiwar activists in the best position to appeal to the millions who are suffering under the worsening conditions of the capitalist crisis. TACTION MAY 1987 3
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Columbia University students at an anti-fascist rally in 1936 The American Youth Congress was called in 1935 to gather youth support for the Roosevelt administration. But the radicalism of the young people who attended pushed the Congress in a different direction.
A central focus of the Congress was the drafting of an American Youth Act. The major demands of this Act called for:
• A government-sponsored system to support students by funding all tuition plus average weekly living expenses of needy students in high schools and vocational schools;
• A government-sponsored system of vocational training and employment on public enterprises for those between the ages of 16 and 25. The wages "are to be equal to the prevailing rates for the work performed as established by the recognized organizations of labor in each community;"
• Minimum compensation for labor to be increased in conformity with the rise in the cost of living;
• All work projects authorized under the Act are to be beneficial to the community, and none of them "are to be directly or indirectly of a military character or designed to subsidize any private-profit-making enterprise."
The American Youth Congress was able to mobilize thousands of young people in support of this Act. Although it was never passed, the Act gave a clear picture of the needs and demands of young people during that period.
Militancy sidetracked
The student movement of the '30s had the potential to link up with the labor struggles of the time and move forward to build a new social system that could totally