Djar Horn
Template:TOCnestleft Djar Horn is a staff rep at Health Professionals & Allied Employees. She is the partner of Francesco Condello. She's the New Jersey Area Director for the Committee of Interns and Residents.
Jersey Shore Neighborhood Cooperative
Djar Horn, a socialist and organizer, has worked as a union organizer, a carpenter and a member of a worker coop. She completed her MSW in Internat’l and Community Dev. from Monmouth Univ. where she focused on the development of Solidarity Economy (SE) and Social Movements. She works with the American Worker Coop-NJ a housekeeping and construction coop. She continues to support the work of the Jersey Shore Neighborhood Coop and its start-ups: a Pinata and a Youth Interpreter/Translator coop.
Education
Studied at Florida State University.
Dave Sullivan
Dave Sullivan lived with Djar Horn's mother for some years;
- Dave taught me a lot of things. To start with, it was because of him that I had the confidence to work as a union carpenter. The first time I met him, a large crew of leftists were building out a movement office in Chicago. He made me a pair of stilts. Shortly after that my mom and I started making routine visits to the south side. And around 1979 we moved in with him. I was about 8.
- He had me paint my room. He and Bill Boardman worked with me to build a bookshelf for my 4th grade class. They taught me basic tool use. And when I graduated from high school, they offered to have me apprentice with them rather than head off to college. I took the path I was meant to take, but I came back to construction ten years later.
- When my mom went to China in 1979, Dave got me into school and took care of me for a month. While I was happy to eat pizza for 30 days, Bill and Christine Boardman made sure I got an occasional well-balanced meal. Our time together had its kinks, but we worked them out. But I would be remiss if I didn’t tell the story of the fork. I know he told it quite a few times. Shortly after my mom left on her trip, Dave was instructing me in proper table etiquette. I have wonderful table manners.
- I like to think that I am street-smart, but the fact is when I moved to South Chicago, a mainly working class Chicano 'hood, I was a pretty easy target. A naïve, super-friendly 8-year-old white girl could find a lot of trouble. By the time we left 87th and Burnham, I was 12. And I know that Dave had laid down the law to the neighborhood boys.[1]
Left Forum 2010
New Developments in Solidarity Economy Organizing in the U.S.:
- Germai Medhanie (Chair) - Guramylay: Growing the Green Economy
- Carl Davidson - National Co-Chair, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism; Board member, US Solidarity Economy Network
- Lynn Benander - Dir. of Community Business Development for Co-op Power
- Maliha Safri - Economics, Drew University; Associate Editor, Rethinking Marxism; Member of Center for Popular Economics
- Djar Horn - Jersey Shore Neighborhood Cooperative; Social Work graduate student, Monmouth University; former union organizer and union carpenter
Left Forum 2012
Community Economic Development and Worker Cooperatives
Chair/Facilitator: Al Campbell
Speakers/Co-Facilitators:
Revolutionary Strategies to Beat the Rising Right Wing
Revolutionary Strategies to Beat the Rising Right Wing, was a nationwide conference call organized by Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Sunday October 30, 2016.
- What's the nature of this right-wing threat? What has this election cycle changed about the political terrain we're fighting on? How do we need to prepare for whats coming after the election? Hear about these crucial questions from our panel of top political strategists, including Nelini Stamp, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Linda Burnham, and Sendolo Diaminah.
Those indicating they would attend, on Facebook included Djar Horn.[2]