A CALL FOR
ECONOMIC JUSTICE

Amend the Constitution
to Guarantee Everyone
a Job at a Living Wage

Pay Laid-Off Workers
Two Months
Severance for Every
Year of Service

Restore Workers
Rights to Organize,
Bargain and Strike

End Bigotry:
An Injury to One
Is an Injury to All

Guarantee Universal
Access to Quality
Health Care

More Time
for Family
and Community

Protect
Our Families

Ensure Everyone
Access to Quality
Public Education

Stop Corporate
Abuse of Trade

End Corporate
Welfare As
We Know It

Make the Wealthy
Pay Their Fair Share
of Taxes

Revitalize the
Public Sector

End Corporate
Domination of
Elections

Build a Just
Transition
Movement
to Protect Jobs
and the
Environment

Enforce Safety &
Health Regulation
with Worker
Inspectors

Reclaim the
Workplace:
Job Design,
Technology
and Skill

LABOR PARTY
DOCUMENTS
from the First
Constitutional
Convention

Resolution:
Just Healthcare

Resolution:
Workplace Bill of Rights

Resolution:
Fair Trade Campaign

Resolution:
Protect Social Security

Organizing Resolution:
LP Style of Work

Organizing Resolution:
Change the Party Structure

Organizing Resolution:
More LP Campaigns

General Resolutions
and Solidarity

A Call for Economic Justice:
The Labor Party Program

Labor Party
Constitution

Labor Party
Implementation Agreement

CONTENTS
Feature Story

LP Challenges
the Candidates:
Just Adopt
Just Health Care
With the most detailed effort yet to explain how "single-payer" health care could work in the United States, the Labor Party has challenged the presidential candidates to adopt our Just Health Care program. Here's the response (so far) ... and your chance to check out how Just Health Care would work ...

Capitol Hill Shop Steward
Try These Appetizers ...

Building Our Party —
Con Jobs
[A Column by the Labor Party's
National Organizer Tony Mazzocchi]

Elections —
Dirty Money 2000

Technology & Health
LP Weighs in On
Human Genome Project

Labor Party Video
A Party of Our Own

Labor Party
A Call for 100 Volunteers

Labor Party Documents
The resolutions and documents acted on by the First Constitutional Convention are available in the LP Documents area (and listed at left).

On-line Flier:
Labor Party's
Action Program

Labor Party Press
Volume Five,
Number Five

August - September, 2000

Published bimonthly in January, March, May, July, September and November.

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Interim National Council
(in formation)

Co-Chairpersons:
Robert Clark, Bill Kane,  Baldemar Velasquez & Barbara Walden

At Large: representatives of PACE, UE, BMWE, ILWU, CNA, AFGE, UMWA, CA State Council of Carpenters, and FLOC;  Noel Beasley, Joanne Bell, Dave Campbell, Marilyn Clement, Donna Dewitt, Mark Dimondstein, Lisa Frank, Ed Grystar, Gary Holloway, Cheri Honkala, Bill Kane, Kathy King, Ed Kornegay, Jr., Dan McCarthy, Adolph Reed, Jr., Tim Schermerhorn, Brenda Stokely, Sean Sweeney, Barbara Walden, Gerry Zero

Trustees:
Chris Townsend, Gerry Zero, Joanne Bell

Interim National Organizer:
Tony Mazzocchi

Recording Secretary-Treasurer:
Katherine Isaac

Organizers:

Bob Brown, Mid-Atlantic
243 Livingston Ave.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel: 732-418-1721;
Fax: 732-846-3939

Ed Bruno, New England
515 Washington St, 3rd Fl
Boston, MA 02111
Tel: 617-531-0901;
Fax: 617-531-0902

Leo Seidlitz, Pacific
1188 Franklin St.,
Suite 203
San Francisco, CA 94109
Tel: 415-440-4809;
Fax: 415-440-9297

Editor:
Laura McClure

Managing Editor:
Katherine Isaac

Art Director:
Michael Kaufman

Contributing Editors:
Lynne Baker, Peter Gilmore, Adolph Reed, Jr.

Artists:
Gary Huck, Mike Konopacki, Bill Yund

Photographers:
Carol Lambiase; Impact Visuals: H.I. Delgado, Dave Hartman, Jeremy Hogan, Evan Johnson, Michael Kaufman, Nancy Shia

Special thanks to
The Labor Institute

Thanks to:
Philomena Mariani for editorial expertise; Rick Peduzzi, this web issue.

The Labor Party Press is produced by members of the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union and the National Writers Union/U.A.W.