Chris Kromm
Template:TOCnestleft Chris Kromm is the Executive Director of the Institute for Southern Studies and the publisher of Southern Exposure. Before working at the Institute, Kromm was an organizer with the N.C. Student Rural Health Coalition. From 1992 to 1994, Kromm was Communications Director for the Student Environmental Action Coalition and editor of its monthly magazine, Threshold.[1]
He is associated with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.
War Times
In January 2002, a group of San Francisco leftists, mainly involved with STORM or Committees of Correspondence, founded a national anti-Iraq War newspaper[2] War Times.
Endorsers of the project included Chris Kromm, director, Institute for Southern Studies.
Voter registration rally
Part of the crowd on West Jones Street April 13, 2011, in Raleigh protesting at the General Assembly the Republican majority's plan to suppress votes through a new voter photo ID law.
Speakers included two college students who talked about the disproportionate impact on young voters whose existing photo IDs will probably not have their college addresses. Senior citizens who've given up their driving privileges and who do not have birth certificates spoke, along with a representative of the American Assoc. of Retired Persons. A homeless veteran spoke against the law, along with representatives of North Carolina Fair Share. Chris Kromm of the Institute for Southern Studies spoke as did several members of the General Assembly. Rep. Alma Adams asked rhetorically, "If you look like me, do you need a voter ID? Hell no!"
Rep. Larry Hall, one of the leaders of the opposition in the General Assembly, summed up the conclusion of many of the speakers ... that the supposed "need" for this proposed law only emerged after the Republicans took control of the General Assembly. "They want us to be stuck with them forever," Rep. Hall said, and the way to do that is to suppress the votes of groups not naturally aligned with the extreme conservative views of those now running the General Assembly.
Rev. William J. Barber II of the NC NAACP thundered for all of us: "Tell it like it is! This is a voter-suppression, voter-intimidation law. But we won't go back! Too many have cried, too many have died for the right to vote!"[3]
AFL-CIO panel on trade
December 1, 2014, the AFL-CIO convened a aanel about Pending Trade Deals as Free Trade “Charm Offensive” Comes to Charlotte
- Panelists will highlight for public and press what pro-traders want to hide, Dec. 1 at 6:30 PM
- The panel of policy makers, policy experts, business leaders, and workers will discuss whether trade deals lead to job creation and greater prosperity for our country or the devastation of our manufacturing sector, more offshoring of service-sector jobs and a growing trade deficit that leaves us more in debt to the rest of the world.
Who: Congresswoman Alma Adams; Celeste Drake, AFL-CIO trade policy expert; MaryBe McMillan, Secretary-Treasurer of the NC State AFL-CIO; Chris Kromm, Executive Director of the Institute for Southern Studies; Tony Hawkins with UAW Local 5285; Ed Kaleda with CWA 3603; Rick Malliris, retired CEO of KB Alloys (now known as AMG Aluminum).
Contacts: Jeremy Sprinkle, Communications Director, DeLane Adams, AFL-CIO Field Communications.[4]
The Nation
Kromm was an occasional author for The Nation.[5]
External links
References
Template:Reflist Template:War Times endorsers
- ↑ Institute for Southern Studies staff
- ↑ WAR TIMES January 29, 2002
- ↑ wataugawatch UP-TO-DATE ANALYSIS OF THE LOCAL POLITICAL LANDSCAPE Thursday, April 14, 2011 Stop Photo ID: Respect Our Vote!]
- ↑ AFL-CIO Convenes Panel in Charlotte about Pending Trade Deals, Media Advisory for December 1, 2014
- ↑ Biography with The Nation