Dave Marsh
Template:TOCnestleft Dave Marsh has written more than 20 books about rock and popular music. His first book, “Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story” made the New York Times best-seller list. He co-founded Creem, the legendary Motor City rock and roll magazine that helped launch heavy metal, glam and punk, and he was a writer for Rolling Stone. Marsh edits the music and politics newsletter, Rock and Rap Confidential. He has lectured widely on music, politics, and censorship.
Supporting EFCA
On April 7, 2009, at Ithaca, NY — The Tompkins County Workers Center held a rally in support of the Employee Free Choice Act on the steps of the Tompkins Court House just prior to a meeting of the legislature.
Dave Marsh, President of the Building Trades Council, introduced Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of Labor Education Research at Cornell's School of Industrial & Labor Relations, followed by Pete Meiers representing the Tompkins County Workers Center and Marty Luster representing Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America . Legislators Pamela Mackesey, Carol Chock, Martha Robertson, Kathy Luz Herrera, Nathan Shinagawa, and Will Burbank spoke in turn giving context to their support of the Employee Free Choice Act and the pending resolution in support of the legislation to be taken up by the Tompkins County Legislature. That concludes the video, which is unedited raw footage of the rally.
The resolution in support of the Employee Free Choice Act passed handily by a vote of 12-3.[1]
Campaign for Peace and Democracy
Marsh is listed as an endorser of the Campaign for Peace and Democracy, as of March 15, 2010.[2]
Speakers for a New America
Circa 2015 Dave Marsh was part of Speakers for a New America, the speakers bureau for League of Revolutionaries for a New America.
Unionizing baristas
Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America November 27, 2017;
Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America Presents # 772: “Labor Day Awards 2017” Rob Brown, Sam Mason, Pete Meyers, Ellen David Friedman, Megan Graham, Shoshe Cole, Rachel Gunderson, David Kornreich, Dave Marsh, Angela Cornell, Leni Hochman, Eric Evans and Lindsay Mercer tell us about unionizing baristas at Gimme!, the Ithaca College faculty fired three, help from the Cornell Labor Law Clinic, workers supporting the Robin Fund, unionbusting at Cornell, and bad building practices of Cayuga Medical Center. Recorded September 4, 2017.