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------WORKER RIGHTS McCallion insists that worker power is McCallion said that the emergence of the “Suddenly it seemed possible,” he said. Theunion has askedsee to the company’s This transition doesn’t just affect labor

per version of Barnes & Noble. New, high er-priced books are displayed more promi thannently usedbooks,non-book more and merchandise is sold at the front. McCallion noted that a lot of this is a response to the rise of e-reader, and the shrinking numbers of independent bookstores. “They’re look ing for short-term fixes,” he said. bolstered by the community of dents, local students resi and intellectuals who have a personal connection with the Strand, and that this community could be persuaded to support the workers and bring that message to the management. More important, rank-and-file this organization, which is work ing with activists from Occupy Work Your place, wants to be a harbinger for more re tail labor organizing around the city. Occupy Wall Street movement last fall was an inspiration for a retail bargainingwhose enthusiasm was waning. unit “Every struggle took unifyinggreat threada become ‘Occupy’has on a new context. for all the struggles going on.” posalmembers. to show to stillIt contains a two-tiered wage system, and a union source isconfidenthesays the membership willnot vote for a deal that contains such a sion. provi If a vote is held, it will takeearly April. Accordingplace to union sources,in the company has said it needs its worker give backs recent due to financial constraints. financial records, and management has re fused to provide them (as a privatelycompany, it held has no legal obligation It so). is clear to to some that the management do offensive is a result of Bass Wyden on the takingday-to-day business operations. “It’s been a colder shoulder than we’re used in to previous negotiations,” said one source. union issues. Workers believe that has changed the store from a dusty, bargain management warehouse for bibliophiles to a slightly hip SAM LEWIS SAM - - - - - “We want to fight the idea that you should you that idea fight the to want “We The union is currently finalizing pro a Retail, or “no-collar,” labor campaigns of campaigns labor “no-collar,” Retail,or chosen to work in a sector known for inferior for known sector a in work to chosen wages and benefitsrather than takinga job incivil service manufacturing. or just accept the fact that ‘I work in a turnover high- job, so I McCallion don’t deserve said. “It’s rights,’” a question someone’s treated how withdignity,not and of being profit supersedes anability to make awage commensurate the to cost living.” of out out there,” McCallion said, pointing to job less figures and stagnantwages brought on theby 2008 economic collapse. DuringIndus the public. skeptical a face ten trial of Workers the organizingWorld drive thesework thatscoffed Starbucks, people at ers got medical benefits, so theycomplain. Retail shouldn’t areworkers seen as having - - - What’s left is a young retail workforce There are “fewer union meetings,” McCal lion said, noting that “people don’t have a lot of interest in union matters.” On top of that, the workers are unsettled by the that fact they have few other career options. As jobs takeMcCallionexplained, people many at the Strand to bide their time. People with master’s degrees wait for a job. Writers and realmusicians work in retail academic to pay the bills until something better along. comes “There really isn’t that much better lationship between management and labor. “They are afraid for their jobs,” McCallion pure supervisors.a thetakethey “So of said disciplinaryly approach.” alienated from the Localunion, UAW 2179. ed from the bargaining unit, he explained, laid-off supervisors from Barnes & and Noble Borders are brought in, chilling the re IN A BIND: Chris McCallion is one of the many Strand workers who are opposed to the creation of an inferior wage and benefit tier for new workers. They are organizing with other retail worker groups, including Occupy Your Workplace. ------

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ers hours earlier on March 15, going pub lic with the rank-and-file anger owner’s about new the contract demands, which clude an ininferior wage tier for new workers, higher healthcare premiums and fewer days off. Store management has received a hand ful of media calls already, and McCallion, an employee since 2010, expects he’ll take some heat for speaking out. and 12th Street and founded in 1927, is bookstore.book-lovers In an a age when even corporate monoliths like Borders have im ploded and Barnes & Noble relies Nook on to the keep its remainsbooks, doors of miles legendary18 open, its with the Strand, transnewcan trip over you theplacewhere theSpanishvolumeson or Tolstoy lations of Civil War. It is a retail establishment witha mostly full-time workforce, about 150 of whom are unionized (plus nearly union 50 managers non-and probationary workers) healthcare have benefits.and renownedThis institution, which owns the takesisstill in money, rent thriving, buildingaccord and ing to an interview with co-ownerBass in Wyden The Daily Beast. Nancy organizationthathasgrown frustrated with the company’s demands for deep employee benefit cuts andstartedtakesinceNancy BassWyden to ever workplace restructuring over more day-to-day business 83. is duties who Bass, from Fred co-ownerand father her In addition to the contract demands, which would constitute a wage cut, management has taken a divide-and-conquer to approach workers. Older a workers buyout, which were many took. offered A warehouse space has been Square moved from location the some of to those workers Union to find Brooklyn, employment elsewhere, McCallion said. inspiring C By Ari Paul BOOK WORKERS DEFEND THEIR JOBS AND A MANHATTAN INSTITUTION A MANHATTAN AND JOBS THEIR DEFEND WORKERS BOOK Strand Up For Your Rights Your For Up Strand 4 MARCH 21 – APRIL 17, 2012 THE INDYPENDENT OCCUPY Photos By Shell Sheddy & Shell By Photos Staff Indypendent By Text FOR 99% SPRING 100% READY W and immigrantrightsgroups.Formore,seeoccupywallst.org. 1 asamajordayofprotestinconjunctionwithlaborunions in thedaysthatfollowedandispointingtowardMay come thearrivalofspring,OWSheldseveralprotests ith temperaturesbreaking70atUnionSquaretowel-

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cylost popularity after public outrage led to the resignation of Schools Chancellor Cathie newsa Black. presidentAsof paper company, Black once joked that the best deal with way school to overcrowd ing was more birth control. progress cannot be measured with cold, quantitative data, neither can the progressthis offshoot of OWS. If any of thing, according to Wolcott, the popularity of OWS tics tac has invited more people in different communities theprivatizaspeakabout out to tion education. of given people an space to air their grievances,” alternative discon real a “There’s said. she building.” that’s tent press March 22, Occupy the outside a protest planned DOE the offices of the Post ment, “publishing the ment, “publishing Teacher Data Reports of some 1,800 fourth through eighth grade teachers, with full knowledge inac from flaws many of their curate class rosters to statisti PAT ARNOW PAT There have been some victories, Wolcott Indeed, last month a Quinnipiac Univer GRASSROOTS GROUPS NEW YORK COLLECTIVE OF RADICAL EDUCATORS nycore.org A to group of dedicated fightingeducators in system. school the in racism and equality TEACHERS UNITE teachersunite.net Teachers working within their union to fight for and justice social educational for the low- served communities Cityby New York income schools. GRASSROOTS EDUCATION MOVEMENT gemnyc.org Parents, students and educators pushing for education reform by building alliances with other activist groups and on focusing school- organizing. level dardized testing as the only means of assessing assessing of means only the as testing dardized students.” and teachers said. For one thing,meetingsPEPone protests at For said. have focused media attention on the issues, andteacherhas involvementforcedthe UFT leadership to get more involved. “It’s inter esting to see how we are shifting versation in many the she ways,” said. can“We con influencepublic opinion and get traction on endingcertain policies, likeclosures co-and locations.” sitypollthat showed voters trusted the UFT more than City Hall. Certainly, some activ istsbelieve that Bloomberg’s education poli cally irrelevant cally sample sizes irrelevant and the massive on to focus stan their high stakes opposition ------Waiting An Incon and a 17-minute Obama Occupy the DOE, with its focus on the The movement combined protests with “Messaging is key. Most of this is a war Davis Guggenheim, the director of of of perception because the other side is very effective in messaging,” Wolcott said. 1%’s stake in so-called education points reform, out something the mainstream de and teachers.and Themovement,withalongthe UFT, supports legislation currently ingin Albany that would allow Community pend Education Councils to veto charter schools being located in public school buildings, a practice called co-location. These councils replaced district school boards after the im plementation mayoral of control. courting sympathetic lawmakers who may become more empowered to help if popular opinion sways against the Bloombergministration. ad bate about education ignores. Whileeasy to blame the right wing for this it assault is on education workers and the public good, the mess was created convenience,Republicanbeen by has berg,by a liberals. Bloom elected three times by liberal voters. Diane Ravitch, the founder of the charter schoolmovement who has since radically changed her position, metold in an interview several years ago that President Barack Obama farther is to the right in than terms George Bush was. W. of education the pro-charter for ‘Superman,’ schools also environmentalist directed film documentary Al venient Gore’s Truth re-election campaign film. Theregroups are like also Democrats for Educationform, Re whose board of several directors financiers. includes Whilesupport liberals unions, tend to collective education is the one thing it is safe for them bargaining in pickto on. - - - - - story New York Times Members of Occupy the DOE march through Brooklyn on March 1 en route to a meeting of the Panel for The OWS movement has been as much And why is this happening? Partly, it is be is it happening?thisPartly, is why And Occupy the DOE, on the other hand, sure what the market value of the $1 million the$1 thesuremarket what of value student city public school system was, but, he guesses, well “It’s into the billions.” about confronting corporate control has as been it about deviating from methods traditional of reform and creating new types resistance. of OccupytheDOE,For thathas entailed bringing its activists to PEP meet ings to protest not only its policies but also its inherently And anti-democratic while the UFT has advocated for more processes. it oversight,education into community input stillsupports mayoral control. In fact, when the State Legislature reauthorized mayoral control in 2009, UFTMulgrew said, “this legislation Presidentwill provide Michael model always ensures failure.” cause of the widely held belief that private- sector practices, which may work well producing for a variety of consumer goods, are a cure-all for the government’s institutional troubling,believe,manymore But problems. is that the support of hedge-fund managers and other financiers for charter proof schoolsthat they are investing is now for a pay out later (a 2010 for say couldn’t Wolcott supporters).crative, notes that hedge fund managers are among charterlu andloyal,advocacy mostgroups’ thetransparency and accountability, as well as parent participation, which our school progress system’s continue.” to will allow wants to end Bloombergsupporterstheproblems point to mayoral control outright. of the old board of education, rife which with was corruption and institutional ure, fail and the movement acknowledges this. But its members believe that create an elected the decision-making body that city can ensures equal input from parents, students ------MAKING THE GRADE: Educational Policy, the Mayor’s hand-picked school board. ------

t started as an act theOccupyduring Wall of theearlydays of political theater Street (OWS) encampment at Zuccotti

“Our problems stem from Wolcott, a member of the bringOccupythename to Theintochoice “This only leads you to one method of edmethodone of “This to leadsyou only Park. PubliclecteachersadjunctschoolPark.and turers hosted a “grade-in,” a public display of the endless work educators do after 3:30 p.m. and on weekends. These teachers, who came from various groups opposed to May or Michael Bloomberg’s assault on education public and frustrated with the bureaucracy of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), saw a unifying theme in their frustration. the fact that power, no voice in we the class have no rooms,” rooms,” said cott, an Kelley eighth-grade English Wol teacher in Red Hook, Brook lyn. And so Occupy the DOE (Department of was born. Education) UFT reform group Teachers Unite, ticked off the threats facing New York City pub lic education: the cap on the charterhasschools of number been lifted, budget cuts have caused class sizes to increase, the layoffs of several hundred school aides, school closings and a new tenure system that the on proof of burdenthe put all it top off, eight teacher.To of the 13 seats of DOE the decision-making main body, the Panel Policy for (PEP), Educational are by appointed the mayor, making tests against pro City Hall policy a vain endeavor. Yet, because Bloomberg has the support of most of NewCity’s daiYork lies, he is still able to spread the idea that all the problems are caused not by his complete control, but rather by pesky union near- contract terms. this new approach is not just because of its Zuccotti Park roots, but because Bloom

berg’s education policy is a blatant attempt good.public a becorporatize should to what Mayoral control of schools came to the city in 2002, replacing the system of local trictboards,Bloomberg disthe andadministra tion has used its power to bring the private- sector model of management to schools. A school’s success or failure, a multi-facetedand subjective judgment, is ing measured a us strictly quantitative method. of (Think Bloomberg’s rigid health-code system grading for restaurants applied ing children.) to Wolcott notes that educat this turns principals from pedagogical mere plant supervisors leaders who pressure teach into ers to produce good numbers by sidelining students who need more help because they could jeopardize test scores, while the rest learn to simply correctly answer standard ized exam questions rather than think criti cally. ucation,” she said. “It’s this data craze. It’s not even quasi-scientific. 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The one I grew up in, liamsburg, Brooklyn has a reputation as the f the several sects of ultra-Orthodox Satmarthe community City, Wil Jewsin York New in In yourIn book, youdetail youhowman Raised by her grandparents after her mother left her I recently caught with up Feldman between publicity appearances. I just received an email from a woman in strictest and least penetrable. Members selves found uncomfortably them in the public eye when last the October, Parks Department posted removed along Bedford Yiddish Avenue that signs ordered women to step aside for men on the sidewalk. If that was a win dow into Satmar culture, 25-year-old author and for mer Satmar Deborah Feldman has just blown the door open. Her first book, Rejection of My Hasidic Roots upbringing, arranged marriage, divorce and departure from the Satmar community. mentally disabled father and the community, Feldman attended Sarah Lawrence College in secret and began blogging under the name Hasidic Feminist. It was her education, both institutional and individual, that aided her departure from the sect. O ROSIE GOLDENSOHN: have left your community? DEBORAH FELDMAN: I can countfingers. on my know any don’t I women. Israel who is, as far as she knows, the only left theSatmar womanwho’s community in Israel. She wrote me a letter in Yiddish, she can’t speak English and is just learning He brew. She’s got to have even more courage to leave because the Satmar community in Israel is a lot more extreme. RG: agedtosecretly read English books askid a eventhoughtheyprohibited.were didHow you start reading secular books? DF: I would be in Borough Park taking that bus once a week and I remember for waiting the bus and looking seeingandlittle thatteeny across libraryMapleton the street branch. It was a little red Just on brick impulse I building.walked in and that’s sort of where it started. I went to the children’s section and read Roald Dahl’s Exodus from from Exodus Williamsburg MEMOIR FELDMAN’S DEBORAH SECT ULTRA-ORTHODOX SHOCKS By Rosie Goldensohn startedborrowingbringingbooksand them home when I finallygot old enoughto have a library card, and then I started workingand buying books Barnes at & Noble. RG: So when you curious were about how growing you thought up, the world I’m worked. DF: I didn’t really know there was a world, and if there was, it was like another plan et. I thought people looked at my costume and thought I was a freak and an Other. I even felt like an Other among most because Jews, even among most Jews, Satmar is like this freakish thing that we don’t know about or associate with, like so I I had always no felt place anywhereSatmar community. outside the RG: You applied to Sarah Lawrence secret ly, telling your husband you business were classes. taking Do other Satmar women ------The Guilt is a rite of

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I I went to Zuccotti Park on Oct. greatA retelling the of scene ap “Something happened in Sep the European summer what and might then be termed an Ameri can Fall. In July, the anti-consum erist magazine a call to “bring a tent” to protest Wall Street. In September, instead taking of Street, Wall small a band of activists did set up camp nondescript in a public-private named after a real estate parkcompany chairman. No one noticed. 14 at 5:30 a.m. A throng of thou sands ringed the park in a of show clear from City the prevent to force ing the plaza under the pretext of check mic unsanitary A conditions. then echoed, “We received notice from the owners of Zuccotti Park and they are postponing the clean Billionaire ing.” Bloomberg Mayor won. we and blinked pears in The Inside Story of an Action that ChangedAmerica cialmedia anecdotes chantsand of “We are the 99%” — now famil iar associations with the Occupy movement. tember 2011 so unexpected politician no thatcompundit or it saw ing,” reads the This introduction Changes to Everything to Occupy, the Tea Party crashed Democratic elected officials’town meetingsturnedhallinto themand “town hell meetings” with asinine rage to keep hands the off of government’s deficits Medicare. were the new Budget bogeyman. Banks nearly capitalism collapsed and global with bailouts while were we — and we rewarded were “we” knowwho evendid not yet — were told belts. to And then tighten it happened. our The American Left reared its head and breathed new life. We learned we and gave voice to rambling gen eral assemblieseraltroublingthe about triumvirate of race, class and gen der. Now, OWS is more diffuse.A series of insta-books have been published to make sense transformation. of The this Arab Spring bloomed into the O Occupy: Scenes from Occupied America Gazette the Occupy! Content by 2011 Verso, This Changes Everything Edited by Sarah van Gelder and the staff of YES! Magazine Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2011 Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America By Writers for the 99% OR Books, 2011 Wall Street Wall Docu-py 16 MARCH 21 – APRIL 17, 2012 THE INDYPENDENT Community Church of New York Unitarian-Universalist Libya theNewWorld Orderhadotherplans. The Arab Springcaptivatedtheplanet,butin Winter Libyan Spring Arab 31 Mar 31 Mar Apr 21 21 Apr May 5Four Shillings Short; Rise Up Singing -Peter Suggested Donation: $15 to $18 or TDF; $10 PVC members Apr 28 Joel 28 Landy,Apr Marc Leavitt &Rachel Stone doors open 7:30; wheelchair accessible More if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away www.peoplesvoicecafe.org years of celebrating music of peace Terry Kitchen; Pat Lamanna; Fred Arcoleo 40 E. 35th St. 35th E. 40 Toby Fagenson; Caroline Cutroneo &Mara Saturdays at 8p.m. Blood &Annie Patterson Apr 14 14 Apr New York, 10016 NY Levine; Gathering Time 212-787-3903 , and resistance and Ray Korona Band ( Madison/Park Vijay Prashad A critical new book by book new A critical Available this April www.akpress.org $14.95 |272 pages from AK Press from AK ) !

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ish ish always people, with a sense action of movement. and p r o d usmall c e d works for wealthy art and dealers, received big commis sions major from indus trialists and p o w e elites: r f u paint l ing beautiful, epic gles strug San inside cisco’s Fran stock e x c h a and Mexico’s n g e National Pal ace (contro versy over his The Island COURTESY OF MOMA OF COURTESY

fate Atlantis. of President shot like a news special charts a rather p and e r f u ncourse c t between o r y Nasheed’s indi vidual commit ment and public office. Yet, his appeal ciently suffi up makes for any lack of imaginative conception on Shenk’s Nasheed turned part. his plight country’s into a ment that could potentially save one planet to the that would pro vide the dives with fund Mal ing to resist the CHIARA GOIA CHIARA In January, a group of Occupy sion from the MexicanCommunist the from sion Party). protesters staged an action at the to callingattention exhibit, MoMA the museum’s corporate sponsor Rivera from aloud reading and ship benefactors benefactors led to Rivera’s expul role role of responsibility for ing mount a campaign thatfight makes against the tangible—if climate change not with a himself as the poster boy. Ir sexy—project, wife, Frida Kahlo, have outpaced her husband’s murals in terms of fame and influence. Rivera was a Marxist, creating images meant to champion and galvanize popular struggle. He populated scenes complex with simplified, cartoon ther and eventually washing over islands already seems number. Preemptive a strategies give utopian way to means of adaptation. Na- sheed’s hopes for the Copenhagen agreement devolve from a docu ------level of 350 2 Looked Looked at in the present day, sympathizes with his with frustration the The political atmospheric CO negotiations. shorelines and contaminatedshorelinesandfresh- water supplies are two disastrous consequences of the encroaching waves.) As the president and team hiswork up to the 2009 climate summitCopenhagen,in viewerthe partsmillionper necessary keep to the sea water from warming fur ness ness that also creates some vexing contextual complications — that makes his hubris artmacho so the great also dates his work consider By ably. now, the visceral, surreal, Rivera’s of paintings proto-feminist Rivera’s Rivera’s paintings possess a bold paint paint on canvas sometimes) proj ects the sort of airy slightness that the murals seem precisely built to draw of sketchbook 1927 A avoid. ings depicting lifehome and public unexan is Moscow in celebrations highlight. pectedexhibition

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hamed ‘Anni’ Nasheed, highlights one of the key David-versus-Goli ath narratives in recent eco-poli tics. As president of the Maldives, a stretch of 2,000 tiny islands the in middle of the Indian bly since 1978. Educated in Eng land, Nasheed returned home 1989 in and became a leader in the resistance movement against Gay T The Island President Shenk Directed by Jon 2012 Films, Goldwyn Samuel Forum Film St. Houston W. 209 April 10 28 – March Little Big Man I

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