U.S. Labor Against the War Records
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U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW) was founded on October 25th, 2003 in Chicago at the National Assembly for Peace conference in response to the United States's invasion of Iraq in 2003. The organization's mission is twofold: demilitarizing U.S. foreign policy and organizing for a new economy. This collection contains notes, newsclippings, proposals, contracts, speeches, and multi-media items (photographs, videos, audio recordings) pertaining to the early days of USLAW, delegations to Iraq, Iraq labor solidarity, and AFL-CIO response to the Iraq War.
Historical Note
U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW) was founded on October 25th, 2003 in Chicago at the National Assembly for Peace conference in response to the United State's invasion of Iraq in 2003. The organization's mission is twofold: demilitarizing U.S. foreign policy and organizing for a new economy. In an effort to fulfill this mission, USLAW works closely with labor organization in the US and abroad including the Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative, Cohilition on Human Needs, War Resisters League and U.S. Peace Council on topics including veterans rights, labor rights in Iraq, and climate change. USLAW is affiliated with numerous national, regional, state, and local labor organizations.
Source: http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/
Arrangement
This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. The materials are arranged in the order in which they were received from the donor.
Scope and Contents
This collection contains notes, news clippings, proposals, contracts, speeches, and multi-media items (photographs, videos, audio recordings) pertaining to the early days of U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW), delegations to Iraq, Iraq labor solidarity, and AFL-CIO resolutions on the Iraq War. There are documents regarding the founding of the organization in Chicago of 2003; notes on USLAW's work with the Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq (FWCUI); anti-war articles and strategies; reports on labor movements in Iraq at the turn of the 21st century; reports on US military spending; and audio and video recordings of speeches at the USLAW National Assembly meetings, conventions, press conferences, and meetings overseas (including Iraq, Spain, Germany and England).
Materials added in 2018 include proposals, memorandums, reports, notes, agendas, pamphlets, flyers, and printed email correspondence pertaining to U.S. intervention and occupation in Iraq, Iraq labor solidarity, climate change, the Islamic State, and conflicts in Syria. They contain general organizational information such as bylaws, mission statements, and meeting minutes, and include documentation from USLAW national assemblies, conferences, and chapter meetings between 2003 and 2017.
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection, created by the U.S. Labor Against the War was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; U.S. Labor Against the War Records; WAG 332; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Michael Zweig, 2015. The accession number associated with this gift is 2015.028. An additional accession was donated in November 2017 by Michael Zweig. The accession number associated with this gift is 2018.015.
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Appraisal
Duplicates of commercial DVDs and buttons were discarded. Floppy disks were discarded after forensic imaging and analysis determined items contained no usable data.
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Processing Information
At the time of accessioning, materials were moved into archival housing and a collection-level finding aid was created to describe these materials. No physical processing or arrangement was done at this time. In the event of refoldering, original caption information, when available, was transcribed onto new folders. Born-digital items including CDs, DVDs and floppy disks were identified and imaged.
New materials donated in 2017 were described at the time of accessioning and at the box level. Materials were previously housed in labeled envelopes. Loose-leaf documents were placed in folders and given captions based on the envelope container they arrived in. Items housed in folders were kept in their original folders. These materials are in the order in which they were received by the donor.
