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January/February 2014 Vol The Gainesville Iguana January/February 2014 Vol. 28, Issue 1/2 CMC SpringBoard fundraiser March 21 by Joe Courter The date for the Civic Media Center’s annual SpringBoard fundraiser is Friday evening, March 21. There will be a new location this year after last year’s venture at Prairie Creek Lodge, and that is in the heart of Down- town Gainesville at the Wooly, 20 N. Main St., a new event venue in what is the old Woolworth building next to and run by The Top restaurant. There will be food from various area restaurants, a si- lent auction and raffle items, and awards. The speaker this year is an old friend of McDonald’s workers and allies strike on July 31, 2013 in Chicago. Photo by Steve Rhodes. the CMC, David Barsamian, the founder and main man with Alternative Radio, who said he is “honored to follow in No- 2013 in review: Aiming higher, am’s footsteps.” labor tries new angles and alliances That is fitting because Alternative Ra- by Jenny Brown ment that jobs that once paid the bills, dio has made a special effort to archive from bank teller to university instructor, Noam Chomsky talks since its founding This article originally appeared in the now require food stamps and Medicaid to in 1989. David’s radio show was a staple January 2014 issue of LaborNotes. You supplement the wages of those who work See SPRINGBOARD, p. 2 can read the online version, complete with informative links and resources, at www. every day. labornotes.org/2013/12/2013-review- California Walmart worker Anthony INSIDE ... aiming-higher-labor-tries-new-angles- Goytia spoke for many when he said it’s and-alliances#sthash.Hif2x7CZ.dpuf. no longer paycheck to paycheck for him From the Publisher . 3 and his co-workers, but payday loan to Black History Film Schedule. 8 Lean meanness stalked workplaces. The political and economic outlook contin- payday loan. CMC Events . 9 ued dismal. But the year was marked by When long-awaited provisions of Obam- Directory . 10-11 workers trying new things and setting acare kicked in, the promise of covering Event Calendar . 12-13 higher standards, for their employers, the uninsured was blighted by perverse Oral History Program ...14-15 their unions, and—in the case of low- incentives for employers to cut hours. Jamie Garvey ............16 wage workers—their pay. Businesses that didn’t want to give in- GROW Radio schedule . 23 Unemployment ticked down slightly, but surance cried crocodile tears, so Obama the jobs created paid worse than ever. delayed their fines by a year. But when Mainstream media reported with amaze- See LABOR, p. 4 Group forms to oppose Plum Creek development by Scott Camil For nearly two years, Plum Creek has At last, Plum Creek has submitted their Plum Creek, one of the largest Real Estate waged a state-of-the-art public relations formal request to the county. Investment Trusts in the country, is also campaign to orchestrate support for their Alachua County’s Comprehensive Plan the largest landowner in Alachua County. plans to develop this land. Numerous balances the need for growth and jobs “public workshops,” long on pictures Their roughly 65,000 acres east of with environmental protection and plan- Newnan’s Lake include some of the and promises but short on specifics, have ning, but Plum Creek is proposing its own wettest and most remote land left in the generated many misconceptions, the most plan. It’s requesting over 200 changes to county, and straddle an important re- important of which is that their proposal the Comprehensive Plan that would apply gional wildlife corridor. is an expression of the public will. only to their land. The public hearing process for this com- plex and historic proposal will play out over the spring and summer. A coalition called Stand By Our Plan is assembling to inform the public and defend the community’s Comprehensive Plan. Visit StandByOurPlan.org to learn more about Plum Creek’s intentions and to get involved. D SPRINGBOARD, from p. 1 of WUFT-FM in Gainesville until being dropped a couple years ago (“it was too one sided,” they said ... give me a break; that is what Public Radio is supposed to do, present other sides!), but it is still on the air locally on WGOT, the CMC’s Low Power FM station, as well as on hundreds of radio stations world wide. That’s not bad for a grassroots activist from Boulder, Colorado who brings dis- sident voices from around the world to audiences that otherwise would never have been reached, and regularly travels far and wide to capture these voices, or as in the case of our recent hosting of Chom- sky in Gainesville, air a recording that we provided him. David has met and dialogued with leading intellectuals like Vandana Shi- va, Howard Zinn, Arundhati Roy, and many many more. Visit www.alternativeradio.org, and you realize what a monumental contribution he has made to the body of knowledge we all need and share. Details on the event are still being deter- mined, but it will take place on Friday, March 21, from 6 to 9 pm at the Wooly. Advance tickets and other information is available from coordinators@civic- mediacenter.org. More info will be in the March Iguana, which should be out March 5. Save the date! D PAGE 2, IGUANA, JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA From the publisher ... Subscribe! Mandela, the Movement and Me The Gainesville Iguana We are just over a month since the death of Nelson Mandela, but is Gainesville's progressive I want to spend some words here on ways he and his struggle events calendar & newsletter. affected me. In 1963 I was 12 years old and not aware of the South African Individuals: $15 struggle against apartheid, but in this country others were. (or more if you can) Among them was a young man in Berkeley, CA named Mario Low/No income: What you can Savio, who, as one of his first political activities, had gone door- Groups: $20 to-door to free Nelson Mandela. Iguana, c/o CISPLA A year or so later Savio was one of the movement leaders during P.O. Box 14712 the Free Speech Movement. What was the genesis of the FSM? Gainesville, FL 32604 Information tables which were shut down, which had been set up Joe Courter by students who had gone to Mississippi for Mississippi Freedom Comments, suggestions, contributions Summer. My campus experience 1969 to 1973 was greatly impacted by the spirit of student protest (written or financial) are welcome. To which grew nationwide in opposition to the Viet Nam War. list your event or group, contact us at: Did the South African struggle motivate the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, which had been so (352) 378-5655 advanced by Mississippi Freedom Summer? Undoubtedly. And there is a direct line from Civil [email protected] Rights to the rise of the Women’s Movement, and specifically the founding of Gainesville Women’s www.gainesvilleiguana.org Liberation in 1968. The women of that group did a huge amount to advance my thinking as an facebook.com/gainesvilleiguana activist and organizer in the ’80s after I had moved to Gainesville and met them. In 1985 there was a major push to have universities divest their financial holding in South Africa, The Iguana has been published and here at UF there was a 40-day occupation of the steps and entry to Tigert Hall by the Student monthly or bimonthly by volunteers Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism. for more than 25 years. Circulation for this issue is 4,500. In fact, Tigert Hall was re-named Mandela Hall with a huge banner for the duration; I was in the van traveling back from a rally in DC when the decision was made to make the move on UF to Publisher: crank up the pressure to divest, and was at many rallies out there on those steps. The Krishnas Joe Courter would even move their lunch servings over there on rally days. Editors Emeritus: On the day Mandela was freed, I was watching it live on TV with my father-in-law James Cooke Brown, and it was profoundly stunning to see this noble, tall man walking down the road from Jenny Brown the jail, so different from the lone rather menacing photo which was in common usage. Then that Mark Piotrowski evening Jim and I went to Cultural Arts Coalition director Nkwanda Jah’s house for a party and there witnessed Jim be reunited with Dan Harmeling after spotting each other across the room. Editorial Board: They had been in jail together in St. Augustine after being arrested in a Civic Rights demonstration Pierce Butler in 1963, and had not seen each other since then. Joe Courter Beth Grobman Weeks later Nelson Mandela went on a speaking tour of a half dozen or so large arenas, and four of Jessica Newman us drove up to Atlanta and saw him at the Georgia Tech football stadium. Unforgettable. It was painful to hear his legacy so often trivialized or worse following his death. With brave Production work & assistance: perseverance and flexible tactics he is not a person to be dismissed in a sound bite, much as Martin Justine Mara Andersen Luther King has been with the frozen moment “I Have a Dream” speech. From a continent away Joye Barnes he changed my life and had influence on me, on how I view the world, and directly on the world I Robbie Czopek live in.
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