Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Bill Fletcher, Jr. "is Executive Editor of The Black Commentator. He is also a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies and the immediate past president of TransAfrica Forum." [1]
He "is the Belle Zeller Visiting Professor at Brooklyn College-City University of New York. He has been President and Chief Executive Officer of TransAfrica Forum, a national non-profit organization organizing, educating and advocating for policies in favor of the peoples of Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America; Vice President for International Trade Union Development Programs for the George Meany Center of the AFL-CIO; and Education Director and later Assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO. He was a co-founder of the Black Radical Congress. He serves as the chairman of the Board of the International Labor Rights Fund and is a co-founder of the Center for Labor Renewal. A graduate of Harvard College, he has authored numerous articles published in a variety of newspapers and magazines, and is the co-author of the pictorial booklet; The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1934-1941." [2]
He has also been "a co-chair of United for Peace and Justice, and a founder of the Black Radical Congress." [3]
- Director, American Progressive Caucus Policy Foundation [4]
- Advisory Board, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
- Editorial Advisory Board, Amandla
- Editorial Advisory Board, Souls
- The Real News: International Founding Committee (formerly linked to the AFL-CIO)
- Former Director, Left Forum
- Board of Associate and Advisory Editors, International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest [5]
- Editorial Board, New Labor Forum [6]
Books
- Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Fernando Gapasin, Solidarity Divided (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008). review
Resources and articles
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References
- ↑ An Open Letter to the Major League Baseball Players' Association on Curt Flood, Znet, accessed April 14, 2008.
- ↑ Directors, Left Forum, accessed July 24, 2008.
- ↑ Stories by Bill Fletcher, Jr., AlterNet, accessed April 14, 2008.
- ↑ Directors, American Progressive Caucus Policy Foundation, accessed April 25, 2009.
- ↑ Board of Associate and Advisory Editors, International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, accessed September 10, 2009.
- ↑ Staff, New Labor Forum, accessed March 31, 2010.
