[URBANTH-L]SCA Open Forum on AAA and Labor Relations

[Robert T. O'Brien]

OPEN FORUM ON THE AAA AND LABOR RELATIONS 

Hyatt Regency Atlanta 265 Peachtree Street North East (6 
blocks 
from the AAA meeting hotel) 

Friday, December 17, 2004 5:00-7:30 PM 

SCA has organized this forum in order to promote discussion 
about current struggles involving workers in the hotel and 
restaurant industry and, specifically, about how professional 
groups such as the American Anthropological Association might 
play an active role in solidarity with hotel and restaurant 
workers. The forum is intended to be forward-looking and 
practical. Discussion topics will include the strategies of 
organized labor; proposals for alternate meeting sites and 
structures; and the kinds of plans AAA is making for future 
meetings. 

PRESENTATIONS (5:00 - 6:15 PM) 

Neal Kwatra (Department of Strategic Affairs, UNITE HERE!) 
Paul 
Durrenberger (Pennsylvania State) Suzan Erem (Independent 
Scholar, Writer, and Activist) Sandy Smith-Nonini (Elon 
University & Society for the Anthropology of Work) Elizabeth 
Brumfiel (President, American Anthropological Association) 
DISCUSSION: THE AUDIENCE (6:15 -- 7:30 PM) Moderators: 
Pauline 
Strong (President, Society for Cultural Anthropology) Robert 
Foster (Treasurer, Society for Cultural Anthropology) 

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Robert T. O'Brien 
AAAUnite Ad Hoc Committee
http://AAAUnite.blogspot.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aaaunite/
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Anthropology 
Temple University 
robrien at temple.edu 
215-803-5181 

"Don't mourn, organize!" 
-- Labor organizer Joe Hill, before being murdered in 1915 by a firing squad.