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=="Towards Collective Liberation" editorial crew== | =="Towards Collective Liberation" editorial crew== | ||
[[Chris Crass]]', 2013 book " was "Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy..." was edited by a team consisting of Chris and Molly, [[Rahula Janowski]] [[Lydia Pelot-Hobbs]], [[Nisha Anand]], [[Sasha Vodnik]], [[Cile Beatty]], [[Danni Marilyn West]], [[Amie Fishman]], [[Jeff Giaquinto]] , [[Sharon Martinas]], [[Gabriel Sayegh]], [[Clare Bayard]], [[Z. Lula Haukeness]], [[Cindy Breunig]], [[Jardana Peacock]], [[Betty-Jeane Ruters-Ward]], [[Betita Martinez]], [[Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz]], [[Paul Kivel]], [[Ingrid Chapman]], [[Dan Berger]], [[Josh Warren-White]], [[Rachel Luft]], [[Kerry Levenberg]], [[Johnna Bossuot]], [[Leah Jo Carnine]], [[Berkley Carnine]], [[Leah Close]], [[Vivian Sanati]], [[Dara Silverman]], [[Helen Luu]], [[Pauline Hwang Nrinder]], [[N.K. Nann]], [[Marc Mascarenhas-Swan]], [[Max Elbaum]], [[Keith McHenry]], [[James Tracy]], [[Alice Nuccio]], [[Laura McNeill]], [[Azedeh Ghafari]], [[J.C. Callender]], [[Nilou Mostoufi]], [[April Sullivan-FitzHugh]], [[Michelle O'Brien]], [[Joe Tolbert]], [[Tufara Waller Muhammad]], [[Karly Safar]], [[Jayanni Webster]], [[Joshua Kahn Russell]], prof. [[Laura Head]], [[Andrew Cornell]], [[Harjir Singh Gill]], [[Emily Thuma]], [[Rami Elamine]], [[Chanelle Gallant]], [[Charlie Frederick]], [[Amar Shah]], [[Alicia Garza]], [[Elandria Williams]], [[Carla Wallace]], [[Ernesto Aguilar]], [[Lisa Albrecht]].<ref>Towards Collective Liberation Acknowledgents XV]</ref> | [[Chris Crass]]', 2013 book " was "Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy..." was edited by a team consisting of Chris and Molly, [[Rahula Janowski]] [[Lydia Pelot-Hobbs]], [[Nisha Anand]], [[Sasha Vodnik]], [[Cile Beatty]], [[Danni Marilyn West]], [[Amie Fishman]], [[Jeff Giaquinto]] , [[Sharon Martinas]], [[Gabriel Sayegh]], [[Clare Bayard]], [[Z. Lula Haukeness]], [[Cindy Breunig]], [[Jardana Peacock]], [[Betty-Jeane Ruters-Ward]], [[Betita Martinez]], [[Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz]], [[Paul Kivel]], [[Ingrid Chapman]], [[Dan Berger]], [[Josh Warren-White]], [[Rachel Luft]], [[Kerry Levenberg]], [[Johnna Bossuot]], [[Leah Jo Carnine]], [[Berkley Carnine]], [[Leah Close]], [[Vivian Sanati]], [[Dara Silverman]], [[Helen Luu]], [[Pauline Hwang Nrinder]], [[N.K. Nann]], [[Marc Mascarenhas-Swan]], [[Max Elbaum]], [[Keith McHenry]], [[James Tracy]], [[Alice Nuccio]], [[Laura McNeill]], [[Azedeh Ghafari]], [[J.C. Callender]], [[Nilou Mostoufi]], [[April Sullivan-FitzHugh]], [[Michelle O'Brien]], [[Joe Tolbert]], [[Tufara Waller Muhammad]], [[Karly Safar]], [[Jayanni Webster]], [[Joshua Kahn Russell]], prof. [[Laura Head]], [[Andrew Cornell]], [[Harjir Singh Gill]], [[Emily Thuma]], [[Rami Elamine]], [[Chanelle Gallant]], [[Charlie Frederick]], [[Amar Shah]], [[Alicia Garza]], [[Elandria Williams]], [[Carla Wallace]], [[Ernesto Aguilar]], [[Lisa Albrecht]].<ref>Towards Collective Liberation Acknowledgents XV]</ref> | ||
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+ | [[Tamam Arafat]] is associated with [[Rahleecoh Justis Ishakarah]], [[Bjorn Sea]], [[Jayanni Elizabeth]], [[Chris Johnson]] and [[Dana Asbury]]. | ||
==Fair wage products== | ==Fair wage products== |
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Template:TOCnestleft Jayanni Webster Webster is a Memphis Tennessee activist. She is the God daughter of Memphis businessman Webster Smith.
Freedom Rider
Jayanni Webster, was one of the forty Student Freedom Riders participating in the 2011 Student Freedom Ride. From May 6-16, college students joined original Freedom Riders in retracing the 1961 Rides from Washington, DC to New Orleans, LA.
"Towards Collective Liberation" editorial crew
Chris Crass', 2013 book " was "Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy..." was edited by a team consisting of Chris and Molly, Rahula Janowski Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Nisha Anand, Sasha Vodnik, Cile Beatty, Danni Marilyn West, Amie Fishman, Jeff Giaquinto , Sharon Martinas, Gabriel Sayegh, Clare Bayard, Z. Lula Haukeness, Cindy Breunig, Jardana Peacock, Betty-Jeane Ruters-Ward, Betita Martinez, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Paul Kivel, Ingrid Chapman, Dan Berger, Josh Warren-White, Rachel Luft, Kerry Levenberg, Johnna Bossuot, Leah Jo Carnine, Berkley Carnine, Leah Close, Vivian Sanati, Dara Silverman, Helen Luu, Pauline Hwang Nrinder, N.K. Nann, Marc Mascarenhas-Swan, Max Elbaum, Keith McHenry, James Tracy, Alice Nuccio, Laura McNeill, Azedeh Ghafari, J.C. Callender, Nilou Mostoufi, April Sullivan-FitzHugh, Michelle O'Brien, Joe Tolbert, Tufara Waller Muhammad, Karly Safar, Jayanni Webster, Joshua Kahn Russell, prof. Laura Head, Andrew Cornell, Harjir Singh Gill, Emily Thuma, Rami Elamine, Chanelle Gallant, Charlie Frederick, Amar Shah, Alicia Garza, Elandria Williams, Carla Wallace, Ernesto Aguilar, Lisa Albrecht.[1]
Comrades
Tamam Arafat is associated with Rahleecoh Justis Ishakarah, Bjorn Sea, Jayanni Elizabeth, Chris Johnson and Dana Asbury.
Fair wage products
Does a person have the right to sustain himself?
In an increasingly global marketplace, clothing manufacturers contract the lowest labor costs available to remain competitive, regardless of the repercussions. Direct vendors like the UT bookstore commonly deal with intermediaries that outsource production to manufacturers overseas with poor labor practices.
Gretchen Chromas and Jayanni Webster want to change that.
“A fair wage ... supports the right for all individuals and workers to receive payment for their work that reflects their hours and effort and helps them live more than impoverished lives,” Webster said in a statement. “I personally believe it’s a human right and everyone’s responsibility to support fair wages.”
Both women believe that philosophy should be applicable to UT’s sales model.
“Fair wages should be the bottom line for human rights when we’re looking at how UT’s apparel business is directed,” Webster said.
Chomas sees the life-changing benefit that an appropriate wage can bring to an individual.
“People who are paid a fair wage are able to purchase clean water and adequate food and other necessities of life,” Chomas said. “Therefore they have a higher quality of life, less disease and fewer health problems. It also increases self worth knowing that they are going to really be able to live on that wage and not just exist.”
Possessing a drive to promote change, both young women were driven to play some role in improving global working conditions.
“Since my freshman year I’ve been working with Amnesty International at UTK and about two years ago we were in the midst of a sweatshop-free campaign at UT,” Webster said. “It ended with the university affiliating with the Workers Rights Consortium, which is a third-party watch-dog organization that monitors where our UT apparel is being made. Students worked really hard to instate WRC affiliation, but we recognize it is just a step in the right direction. Even with WRC, violations, like the one adidas is implicated in at the PT Kizone factory, continue to occur.”
Alta Gracia, a fair-wage manufacturer in the Dominican Republic, promotes a different type of business model.
“We like Alta Gracia because it goes above and beyond anything else offered in the bookstore by paying living-wages, embracing its factory union and allowing WRC unrestricted access to monitor its business in a way no business has ever opened itself up to before.”
After that success, both students continued in their cause. Chomas’ focus on improving working conditions in apparel factories sparked their quest to see fair-wage manufactured products supplied by UT’s bookstore.
“Dr. Fran Ansley, law professor emeritus, was our initial faculty supporter and has been a great source of support,” Webster said. “Now we have over 50 faculty sponsors. Groups backing us include Amnesty International @ UTK, Community Partnership Service Corps, SPEAK, Progressive Student Alliance and the United Campus Workers.”[2]
Fight for $15
Jayanni Webster, a local leader in the Fight for $15 addressed Pax Christi’s May 2016 gathering in Memphis. She was accompanied by fellow campaigners Dunetra Merritt, Mary Payne and David Mott, union organizer, to share stories. [3]
BLM blockade post
Jayanni Webster with Bailey Mukes wrote a post on Elizabeth's FB page July 12 2016;
- comrades and fellow organizers, sunday was beautiful, messy, humbling, and powerful
- a dozen revolutionaries have been in conversation since sunday night about the new political moment the #blacklivesmatter blockade of I-40 created for the city of #memphis. below are collective take-a-ways that comrades - me, & Jeffrey (Jeffrey Lichtenstein), Dana (Dana Asbury), Anjie (Anjie Mizuki}, Thomas (Thomas Wayne Walker) & T. Shelton (Todd Shelton)- some members of Freedom Road and others unaffiliated revolutionaries - wish to offer:
- - Memphians have BEEN ready for an uprising. like bodies on. the. line. type ready. for a long time. anyone could see from all the t-shirts, flags, paintings & posters brought that people deeply resonate w/ the politics of #blacklivesmatter. people voted w/ their feet and although we’ve had dozens of protests, vigils and meetings this time people found their own way into the streets.
- - police are on this city like an occupation. murdering, injuring, sexually assaulting and arresting Black people w/ impunity. but for a handful of hours sunday night we were able to confront them directly. AND they couldn't stop us. politicians who benefit from the subjugation of our communities tripped over themselves to set up meetings. not b/c we were polite or respectable, but because we were DEEP and in the words of so many of us on the bridge - we “shut -ish down” and “hit them in their pockets”.
- ....the system isn’t broken, it was built like this. no amount of reform will be enough, we need Black power, self-determination, and an economy run by working people. How do we get there? seriously. how?
Supporting Cazembe
When Cazembe Jackson became the new National Organizer for Freedom Road Socialist Organization in July 2016, Jayanni Webster contributed a supportive comment, on Freedom Road's Facebook page.
2016 Memphis PSA launch
Join us for the UofM Progressive Student Alliance kick-off meeting this coming Tuesday, September 20th on the UofM Campus. It will be in Clement Hall, Room 213 at 4PM. We are THE organization on campus fighting against racism, gender oppression, and economic injustice. Join us as we unite for our first meeting and discuss the general structure of PSA, our vision, and our campaigns for the semester. The 2016 presidential election season is upon us. The time is ripe to organize, and to DUMP Donald TRUMP!
Invited Paul Morquecho, Annie Bird, Katy Ochoa, Jeshua David, Rickie Aimee, Lucas Olsen, Mia Jordan, Jonathan Capriel, Chase Baltz, Matthew Brown, Sydney Melissa, Jroc Jarvis, Josh Adams, Leslie Monique Wellman, Carly Christensen, Keedran Franklin, Allison Escobar, Kayla Marie Thomas, Jayanni Elizabeth, Ellen Uhlmann, Tailer Ransom, Lizzie Dean, Dai Williams, Wesley Morgan Paraham, Tamam Arafat, Cali Baer, Brandon C J Shaw, Charlotte Watson, Anna CP, Chrissy Green, Mike Butler, Thomas Wayne Walker, Tom Smith, Dana Asbury, Jeffrey Lichtenstein.
Interested Carolyn Snowden Mallett, Reid Russom, Sam Cruze, Jessica Ann Buttermore, Sarah Kathryn Marshall
Attended Heather Gallandat, Lindsey Smith, Lang Ston, Ant Stone
Dump Trump
DUMP TRUMP, DEFEAT RACISM AND MISOGYNY, BUILD THE LEFT was an open letter to the left from 47 grassroots organizers. October 17, 2016.
- A lot of us see something really clearly, but few of us—radical and revolutionary organizers—are willing to say it out loud.
- So we’re going to say it. Defeating Trump in the presidential election is a top priority for the left. And at a minimum, that means mobilizing voters for Hillary Clinton in swing states even if you vote for another candidate in a safe state. We’ve got to beat Trump and Trumpism while building movements that will fight, resist and disrupt a Clinton administration that will be militaristic and pro-corporate...
- As we mentioned at the beginning, defeating Trump is not enough. We need movements strong enough to fight a Clinton administration on several fronts—whether Israel/Palestine, free trade agreements, climate change, a $15 minimum wage, or the prison-industrial complex. And neutralizing the appeal of the far right means we need to both strengthen our movements for racial justice and win over white workers to a progressive class politics as an alternative to Trump’s racist economic nationalism. Finally, we need to build a left that can help anchor a visionary alternative to corporate Democrats. It won’t be easy, but we’ve come this far. Let’s defend what we’ve got in this election, and keep our eye on collective liberation.
Signatories included Jayanni Webster, community organizer Memphis, Tennessee. .
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 interest in attending, on Facebook included Jayanni Elizabeth.[4]
Now What? Defying Trump and the Left's Way Forward
Now What? Defying Trump and the Left's Way Forward was a phone in webinar organized by Freedom Road Socialist Organization in the wake of the 2016 election.
- Now what? We’re all asking ourselves that question in the wake of Trump’s victory. We’ve got urgent strategizing and work to do, together. Join Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson of the Movement for Black Lives and Freedom Road, Calvin Cheung-Miaw, Jodeen Olguin-Taylor of Mijente and WFP, Joe Schwartz of the Democratic Socialists of America, and Sendolo Diaminah of Freedom Road for a discussion of what happened, and what we should be doing to build mass defiance. And above all, how do we build the Left in this, which we know is the only solution to the crises we face?
- This event will take place Tuesday November 15, 2016 at 9pm Eastern/8pm Central/6pm Pacific.
Those expressing interest in attending, on Facebook included Jayanni Webster.[5]
References
- ↑ Towards Collective Liberation Acknowledgents XV]
- ↑ [The Daily Beacon, Students call for fair-wage sourced products BY BLAIR KUYKENDALL, EDITOR IN CHIEF Published: Mon Mar 26, 2012]
- ↑ [Pax Christi Memphis News and Notes Number 5, May 2016]
- ↑ FB Revolutionary Strategies to Beat the Rising Right Wing Went 109
- ↑ [1]