- Item #A095
- ISBN: 1891843095
- ISBN13: 978-1-891843-09-9
- Copyright 2001
- 37 pp.
- Form: Pamphlet
- Price: $5.00
About the Authors
Peter Kellman
Peter Kellman is a member of the UAW Local 1981 — the National Writers Union — President of the Southern Maine Labor Council AFL-CIO and sits on the Executive Board of the Maine AFL-CIO. He is currently working on a book about the different theories labor unions have used to promote workers rights.
He was employed for eight years by the Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy doing research, writing and public speaking on the history of corporate power, the struggle to build a democracy and the contradictions between the two.
Kellman spent most of the 1980s working within organized labor on political and strike related activity including the strike in Jay, Maine of 1987-88 where he was a strategist and organizer. His role is documented by Jack Getman in his book The Betrayal of Local 14.
During the 1970s Kellman worked with people on the seacoast of New Hampshire and southern Maine to build the Clamshell Alliance, a group which set the agenda for the anti-nuclear movement of that decade. Also in the 1970s Kellman became involved in the labor movement and was President of Shoe Workers Local 82 in Sanford, Maine.
He was involved in the civil rights movement in 1965-66 and worked for the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee in Alabama. He was also involved in the Anti-War movement, helping to start the anti-draft phase of that struggle.
He was born in 1946 in Brooklyn, NY, moved to northern New England in 1952. He lives in North Berwick, Maine.
For more information contact:
Peter Kellman
449 Maple St
North Berwick, ME 03906
(207)-676-3356
Matt Wuerker
Matt Wuerker is a political cartoonist based in Washington DC. He's currently the staff cartoonist for a newly launched newspaper/website, Politico.com.
His cartoons have been published widely in all sorts of publications that range from Funny Times, The Nation, and Z Magazine — to The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The Christian Science Monitor — to name a few. He's also staff "Artiste" for Jim Hightower's Lowdown.
Two collections of his cartoons have been published. Standing Tall in Deep Doo Doo: A Cartoon Chronicle of the Bush/Quayle Years (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1991) and Meanwhile, in Other News: A Graphic Look at Politics in the Empire of Money, Sex and Scandal (Common Courage Press 1998). He also co-authored The Madness of King George (Common Courage Press, 2003).