People’s Assembly meets, talks of struggle

Some 70 people gathered at the headquarters of Teamsters Local 808 in Long Island City on Dec. 11 for a People’s Assembly six-hour discussion of working-class struggles all over the New York City area. The meeting, which was co-chaired by Jonna of BAYAN and Daniel Villa of the Independent Workers’ Movement of day laborers of Queens, presented updates and reports from many organizations, including the Transport Workers Union, the Freedom Party, the South Bronx Coalition, the Million Workers Movement, the May 1st Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights, the Peoples Organization for Progress in New Jersey and Picture the Homeless. A farmworker organizer and others also spoke. There were cultural performances and workshops on labor, health, immigrant rights and housing.