Bruce Colburn
Template:TOCnestleft Bruce Colburn
Affiliations
In 1996 Bruce Colburn was secretary-treasurer of the Milwaukee County Labor Council AFL-CIO, co-chair of the Campaign for a Sustainable Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Jobs Initiative, president of Wisconsin Citizen Action, and one of the founders of Progressive Milwaukee.[1]
New Party builder
New Party News Fall 1994 listed over 100 New Party activists-"some of the community leaders, organizers, retirees,, scholars, artists, parents, students, doctors, writers and other activists who are building the NP." The list included Bruce Colburn, Milwaukee Central Labor Council
In 1995, Bruce Colburn was an officer of the Milwaukee Central Labor Council and the Chair of the local New Party affiliate in Milwaukee.
The Chicago New Party began to get organized in January 1995.[2]
- On Saturday, January 14, the New Party in Chicago took another step in its effort to establish itself as a political force by holding a major outreach meeting directed at Chicago's Left. About 100 people, with sizable delegations from DSA and CoC among others, heard Bruce Colburn and Elaine Bernard preach the gospel of the New Party...
DSA member
In 1996 Milwaukee AFL-CIO Central Labor Council President Democratic Socialists of America member Bruce Colburn and New Party chair Joel Rogers wrote a "provocative article in the November 18, The Nation argued "that the left's capacity for independent political action must be built from the grassroots up. Their stress on independent left electoral activity at the local level — whether inside, outside, or fused with the Democratic Party — evidences the realism of the New Party's approach to building a third electoral force".[3]
SEIU
In 2010, Bruce Colburn served on the SEIU Wisconsin State Council Executive Board.[4]
References
- ↑ Research Review, Volume 1 | Number 24, Building Independent Political Power
- ↑ New Ground 38, January - February, 1995
- ↑ [Dem. Left, Nov./Dec. 1996]
- ↑ http://seiuwi.localsonline.org/about/