Tuesday, January 1, 1991

SEAC talks to OCAW, the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers' Union (by Ericka Kurz)

Threshold (SEAC national magazine), page 36, Jan-Feb 1991

by Ericka Kurz
SEAC National Campaign Coordinator

Several SEAC representatives met with Tony Mazzocchi, Secretary-Treasurer of OCAW and publisher of New Solutions, a journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy. At New York City's Labor Institute in late November, they discussed common interests between OCAW and SEAC. The meeting consisted of three main topics:

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National Campaign Update (by Ericka Kurz)

Threshold (SEAC national magazine), pages 6-8, Jan-Feb 1991

by Ericka Kurz
SEAC National Campaign Coordinator

Oil and energy are very much on everyone's minds these days, and fortunately for us, we've been focusing on these issues since fall. Much is going on within SEAC on the local level, and this spring we'll see some action on the national level. What we need to do now is to solidify the campaign strategies which have been developed on every level, link organizers working on the different levels and in different parts of the country together more effectively, and in the meantime, strengthen our documentation of goings-on in every nook and cranny of SEAC. This article is an overview of what's been going on and what's being planned for our campaign on national, regional, local (and international) levels.

It's time for a battle of grassroots grit against the million dollar muscle of the oil and nuclear lobbies on Capitol Hill...

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In hopes of a more peaceful future (by Ericka Kurz)

Threshold (SEAC national magazine), page 4, Jan-Feb 1991



by Ericka Kurz
SEAC National Campaign Coordinator

(originally written 1/29/91, on night of George H.W. Bush's 1991 State of the Union address)

This war is hitting home for a lot of people. Many here in North Carolina have daughters and sons in the service and are doing all they can to give the troops moral support, my little sister Elizabeth just got arrested in an anti-war demonstration in San Francisco, and I'm working in the office for safer energy resources and stronger democracy in hopes of a more peaceful future...


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