1st meeting debrief

Roger, Phil, Jonathan, and I met for the 1st meeting, a 2-hour discussion that ranged all the way from personal memories of the racial stratification in Detroit in the '70s, to a bit of local Portland stuff, and then onward to issues of immigration and postcolonial theory (although we didn't name it that exactly).  How we got there from the opening chapters in this book might appear to be mysterious, but it was more directly obvious if you were in the discussion.  But everything is connected to everything else, so you hang on for the ride that might veer off at any intersection or pause at some vista that looks out for as far as you can see.  

Some items of business and recent updates: 

• AK Press told me on the phone that they lost our order, and besides they have 0 copies of our book.  This past month we assumed that the order was being shipped.  So... now with no books, I will be posting scanned in chapters for you to download.  
• To avoid scheduling conflicts, our schedule is now revised (see above).
• We opened by noting a local coincidence.  Martin Glaberman is mentioned (pg 16) as leading a study group on Marx's Das Kapital for the activists who went on to start a radical newspaper (Inner City Voice) and the union and then the League of Revolutionary Black Workers.  The coincidence is that our PDX IWW branch now has Glaberman's library -- some 2000 books -- but we still need to find an appropriate space for those books.