This
publication is part of a series of resources developed with funding from
the Tobacco
Technical Assistance Consortium that are designed to help advocates bridge
tobacco
control organizing and other health justice issues. The Praxis Project
would like to
thank the publication authors Kim Fellner and Alec Dubro for an incredible
job of
pulling this guide together:
Alec Dubro became a professional journalist 1968 writing for publications such as Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Mother Jones and many others. He is co-author of Yakuza, a history of Japanese organized crime, which sold 200,000 copies world-wide and was translated into eight languages. A 14-year activist with the National Writers Union, Dubro was national president from 1987 through 1990. Since 1992, he produced communications for the labor movement and for other progressive groups.
Kim Fellner has spent 30 years working with labor and community organizations. She was a staffer for the Service Employees International Union, the Screen Actors Guild and the National Writers Union and served for 10 years as director of the National Organizers Alliance. She’s now taking time to write and reflect from her home in Washington, DC.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Labor Primer:
Laboring for Health: Unions Leadership Role in Health Policy
Taking Health Care to the States and the Streets
Best Practices for the Long Haul
Worker Centers: Another Resource
The Soul of Labor History is the Story of Democracy
Appendices:
Article: Unions are from Mars, Community Groups are from Venus: Does that Mean We are All Aliens?