June 3, 2018
GUEST: José A. Soler del Valle
TOPIC: Independence for Puerto Rico
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José
A. Soler del Valle
retired as Director of the Arnold M. Dubin Labor Education Center at
the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He has co-founded, led, and
participated in a multitude of struggles, but Puerto Rican independence
has always been at the center of his activism.
He served as national (US) president of the Puerto Rican Socialist
Party (PSP), the national organizing director of Clergy and Laity
Concerned, and the United Nations representative for the International
Organization of Journalists (IOJ). He was a founding
member of the National Alliance of Third World Journalists and helped
organize a US chapter of the IOJ. He was also involved in the Chicano
struggle in New Mexico and was a co-chair of the US Peace Council. His
vision of Puerto Rican independence has always
been tied to global decolonization, socialism, and Soler was deeply
involved in the global struggle against Apartheid and in support of
Central American liberation movements in the 1970s and 1980s. He has
participated in the US labor movement as a shop steward
and an assistant shop chairman of
Local 6 Hotel Workers (New York City). He was a labor journalist/
photographer for District 65, United Auto Workers. He was also a
journalist and an organizer for the Communication Workers
of America. He served as an elected
member of the UMass Dartmouth Faculty Federation, Local 1895, AFT and
is a part time community organizer for the Greater SE Mass Labor
Council. He is a member of COSODIBO( Puerto Rican
diaspora organization) and is also involved in the struggle against the
privatization of public education in the US, Puerto Rico and Latin
America. He helped organize the SE Massachusetts and Rhode Island
Coalition to Save Our Schools and is a member of the
Save Our Schools March Steering Committee and the Citizen for Public
Schools board.
Links
Jose can be reached via email here: cheoso@verizon.net
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