Socialist Workers Party Records, 1928-2002

Container Title
M96-084
Part 5 (M96-084): Additions, 1983-1992
Physical Description: 7.4 cubic feet (7 record center cartons and 1 archives box) 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1983-1992, from INFACT's Boston office, documenting the change in focus from infant formula to anti-nuclear weapons work, and the organizing of the boycott of General Electric (GE). Two segments of the GE-focused campaign are particularly well-documented: organizing people to put pressure on retail chains, mainly Target, to carry alternatives to GE products, and arranging to buy stock in GE so as to have influence on the company. Included are minutes of board meetings, memoranda, flyers, budget materials, planning documents, research files, correspondence with community organizers, policy memoranda, national campaign director's files, files concerning the book INFACT Brings General Electric to Light, and staff meeting notes.
Box   1
Folder   1
People of Faith United to Stop Nuclear Weapons, 1988
Box   1
Folder   2
Miscellaneous, 1989
Box   1
Folder   3
Accent/Western North Carolina Alliance, “From Helplessness to Action,” Chaquia Mahony's speech, 1991 Summer
Box   1
Folder   4
Sikh Dharma conference, Canada, correspondence, 1990
Box   1
Folder   5
Retail research, 1991
Box   1
Folder   6
Press contacts
Decision to focus on weapon makers; initial research on possible weapon makers
Box   1
Folder   7
Board meeting, weapons industry proposal
Box   1
Folder   8-9
Weapons research and development
Box   1
Folder   10
Research and development, preliminary campaign planning
Box   1
Folder   11
Weapons campaign survey, 1984 April
Box   1
Folder   12
Weapons, communications with other groups and friends
Research and development, corporate profiles
Box   1
Folder   13
Monsanto/Morton-Thiokol
Box   1
Folder   14
Martin Marietta/Rockwell International
Box   1
Folder   15
Bechtel/GE
Box   1
Folder   16
Singer/Westinghouse Electric
Box   1
Folder   17
Kodak
Box   1
Folder   18
Rockwell International
Box   1
Folder   19
Monsanto
Board meetings
Box   1
Folder   20
Old INFACT board resignations, notes, 1986 March
Box   1
Folder   21
1986 February 12 and 20
Box   1
Folder   22
Board policy implementation, infant formula transfer
Box   1
Folder   23
Boston, 1986 January 18
Box   1
Folder   24
Board issues, 1985 December
Box   1
Folder   25
Board packet, 1985 November
Box   1
Folder   26
Board minutes, 1985 September
Note: Includes approval of infant formula.
Box   1
Folder   27
Minutes, 1985 September 29
Box   1
Folder   27
Special vote, 1985 October 6
Box   1
Folder   28
1985 Fall
Box   1
Folder   29
1985 June
Box   1
Folder   30
Board memos and decisions, 1985 Spring/Summer
Box   1
Folder   31
INFACT board minutes, 1985 April 26-28
Box   1
Folder   32
1985 April
Box   1
Folder   33
Notes, Camp Kingswood, 1985 April 26-28
Box   1
Folder   34
Executive Committee call, 1985 February 6
Box   1
Folder   35-38
Minutes, Board packets, preparation and follow-up, 1985 January 18-20
Box   1
Folder   39-41
1984 September 21-23
Box   1
Folder   42
1984 July, by-law amendment
Box   1
Folder   43
Board packet, 1984 July 19
Box   1
Folder   44
1984 June, minutes, by-law changes
Box   1
Folder   45
Agreements, Douglas Johnson and Nancy Cole, 1984 Spring
Box   1
Folder   46
1984 May, next issue
Box   1
Folder   47
Research and development reports for board, 1984 May 4-7
Box   1
Folder   48
1984 March
Note: Infant formula compliance unit.
Box   1
Folder   49
1983 July 23-25
Box   1
Folder   50-51
Minutes, 1983 January
Budgets and financial projections/reports, 1986-1991
Box   2
Folder   1
Final approval, 1991
Box   2
Folder   2
Budget, 1990
Box   2
Folder   3
Budget, interim, 1990 January-February
Box   2
Folder   4
Complete budget revisions made, 1989
Box   2
Folder   5
Budget, revisions for second half of year, 1988
Box   2
Folder   6
Budget, full year, 1988
Box   2
Folder   7
Budget, by month, 1987
Box   2
Folder   8
Budget, 1987, revisions for second and third trimester
Box   2
Folder   9
Budget, second half of year, 1987, revised 1987 July 30
Box   2
Folder   10
National field campaign budgets, 1987
Box   2
Folder   11-14
Budget, preparation, third trimester revisions, expansion, summary 1986
Southern California Campaign Center
Box   2
Folder   15
Event, 1989 October 14
Note: Area-wide gathering
Box   2
Folder   16
Event, area-wide planning and street theater, 1988 October 15
Box   2
Folder   17
Organizers' kit, prototype
Box   2
Folder   18
Northwest campaign center organizer training, 1988 July
Box   2
Folder   19
Training and development needs assessment
Box   2
Folder   20-23
Planning, 1988-1990
Box   2
Folder   24
Structure project
Box   2
Folder   25
Action Committee workshops, 1988 June
Box   2
Folder   26
GE stockholders meeting, Greenville, South Carolina, 1989 April
Box   2
Folder   27
Stockholder meeting, Erie, Pennsylvania, 1990
Box   2
Folder   28
LBAWG, agenda, 1990 April
Box   2
Folder   29
Delivery to GE Capital, Century City
Box   2
Folder   30
Letters to GE
Box   2
Folder   31
Meetings with GE representatives
Box   2
Folder   32
Long Beach delivery, 1989 January 11
Box   2
Folder   33
Delivery, William French Smith, 1988 November 15
Box   2
Folder   34
Orange County Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND)
Box   2
Folder   35
Major goals and strategies, 1987
Box   2
Folder   36
Boycott art
Box   2
Folder   37
Strategy team, 1989
Box   2
Folder   38
Ontario event, 1991 February 25
Box   2
Folder   39
Press release, “We Want Our Money Back,” 1990 February
Box   2
Folder   40
Circuit court action, 1990 January
Box   2
Folder   41
Video project, Action Committee member letter
Box   2
Folder   42
GE Board of Directors letters, 1989
Box   2
Folder   43
City Council work, 1988
Box   2
Folder   44-45
Holiday blitz, 1988
Box   2
Folder   46
Sears, Roebuck and Company, 1988 August
Box   2
Folder   47
Exposé, delivery of reports to Smith, 1988 February 24
Box   2
Folder   48
Smith, William French
Box   2
Folder   49
Area-wide and leaflet blitz, 1987 November 1
Box   2
Folder   50
Song sheets and chants
Box   2
Folder   51
Street theater
Target [Corporation]
Box   2
Folder   52
Information
Box   2
Folder   53
Chronology and article
Box   2
Folder   54-55
Letters to and from Target and Safeway
Box   2
Folder   56
Articles
Box   2
Folder   57
Press releases
Box   2
Folder   58
Notes from meetings with managers, et cetera
Box   2
Folder   59
Welcome new pledgers
Box   2
Folder   60
Pledge letters
Box   2
Folder   61
Organization newsletters, regarding boycott/campaign
Box   2
Folder   62
Ocean Beach Greens
Box   2
Folder   63
San Diego, area-wide, 1991 April 7
Box   2
Folder   64
INFACT nuclear weapon makers campaign, long-range campaign framework
Box   2
Folder   65
Organizer training and drive, 1990 Spring
Zamarin, Kim
Box   2
Folder   66
Miscellaneous
Box   2
Folder   67
Medical
West Los Angeles
Box   2
Folder   68
Action Committee notes
Box   2
Folder   69
Actions and sites
Box   2
Folder   70
Organizing statistics
San Fernando Valley
Box   2
Folder   71
Action Committee notes
Box   2
Folder   72
Action list and sites
Box   2
Folder   73
Action/organizer statistics
Box   2
Folder   74
Raps
Box   2
Folder   75
Southern California planning
Campaign phase of pressuring GE through their medical division
Box   2
Folder   76
“People of Faith” letters, originals
Box   2
Folder   77
Medical information
Box   2
Folder   78
National poll, 1987 July
Box   2
Folder   79
Religious
Box   2
Folder   80
Endorsers
Box   2
Folder   81-82
“People of Faith” flyer, originals
Box   2
Folder   83
Medical questionnaires
Box   2
Folder   84
Special materials/articles
Box   2
Folder   85
Campaign materials
Box   2
Folder   86
Memos, from Catherine Brady
Box   2
Folder   87
Articles on INFACT
Box   3
Folder   1
Endorsements
Box   3
Folder   2
Presentation, health system ethics conference, 1991 April
Box   3
Folder   3
Medical questionnaire, 1990 November
Box   3
Folder   4
Sample proposals
Box   3
Folder   5
Endorsements
Box   3
Folder   6
Medical
Box   3
Folder   7
Internship, 1991
Northwest Campaign Center, planning and other administrative files
Box   3
Folder   8
National and regional planning notes
Box   3
Folder   9
Notes for creative visibility actions
Box   3
Folder   10
Activist certification, 1990
Box   3
Folder   11
Phone banks
Box   3
Folder   12
Pledge letters
Box   3
Folder   13
Phone bank planning
Box   3
Folder   14
Telephone raps
Box   3
Folder   15
Materials, originals
Box   3
Folder   16
National planning, 1990
Box   3
Folder   17
Follow-up
Box   3
Folder   18
Mid-year planning meetings, 1991
Box   3
Folder   19
INFACT recruitment
Box   3
Folder   20
Organizer position advertising
Box   3
Folder   21
NFC (fundraising) planning meetings, 1990
Box   3
Folder   22-23
Planning notes, 1989-1990
Box   3
Folder   24
Personnel, staff documents
Box   3
Folder   25
Foundations
Box   3
Folder   26-27
INFACT, plans and budgets, 1990-1992
National campaign director's files, 1983-1985
Box   3
Folder   28-31
Boston Campaign Center
Box   3
Folder   32-33
Twin Cities campaign center
Box   4
Folder   1-4
Chicago Campaign Center
Ruth Shy files on GE campaign tactics
Box   4
Folder   5-8
Target [Corporation]
Box   4
Folder   9
Retail research, 1990
Executive director, Nancy Cole, planning meeting files
Box   4
Folder   10
1992, planning
1991
Box   4
Folder   11
Summary of organization-wide plans and budget
Box   4
Folder   12
Preparation, overview planning body
Box   4
Folder   13
Budget (first half)
Box   4
Folder   14
Mid-point revisions
Box   4
Folder   15
Plans and budget, overall and mid-point
1990
Box   4
Folder   16
Summary of organization-wide plans and budget
Box   4
Folder   17
Preparation, overview planning body
Box   4
Folder   18
Descriptive program summaries
Box   4
Folder   19
Budget drafts
Box   4
Folder   20
Overview/management team calls
Box   4
Folder   21
Organization-wide planning, detailed notes
Box   4
Folder   22
Organization-wide drive
Box   4
Folder   23
Mid-point revisions
1989
Box   4
Folder   24
Preparation, overview planning body
Box   4
Folder   25
Descriptive program summaries
Box   4
Folder   26
Plans and budget
Box   4
Folder   27
Budgets
Box   5
Folder   1
Mid-point revisions
Box   5
Folder   2
Plans and budget, overall and mid-point
1988
Box   5
Folder   3
Summary of organization-wide plans and budget
Box   5
Folder   4
Preparation, overview planning body
Box   5
Folder   5
Plans and budget, overall and mid-point
Box   5
Folder   6
Mid-point revisions
1987
Box   5
Folder   7
Summary of organization-wide plans and budget
Box   5
Folder   8
Preparation, overview planning body, November and April
Box   5
Folder   9
Budget
Box   5
Folder   10
Plans and budget, overall and mid-point
Box   5
Folder   11
Mid-point revisions
1986
Box   5
Folder   12
Summary of organization-wide plans and budget
Box   5
Folder   13
Budgets
Box   5
Folder   14
Plans and budget, overall and trimester
Box   5
Folder   15
1985, organizational plans
1984
Box   5
Folder   16
Organizational plans (second half of year)
Box   5
Folder   17
INFACT formula proposals
Box   5
Folder   18
Organizational planning
Non-research files of the Campaign Development Unit, Hyattsville, Maryland
Box   5
Folder   19
Business materials, information requests
Box   5
Folder   20
Funding proposals
Box   5
Folder   21
Cartoons
Box   5
Folder   22
Graphics
Box   5
Folder   23
Recruitment, staff
Box   5
Folder   24
Berkeley, California
Book
Box   5
Folder   25
Flyer/ads, et cetera
Box   5
Folder   26
Delivery
Box   5
Folder   27
Reviews
Box   5
Folder   28
Update, 1990
Box   5
Folder   29
Boycott launch, Los Angeles
Box   5
Folder   30
Brown University student activities
Box   5
Folder   31
Campaign materials
Box   5
Folder   32
Campaign news, 1991
Box   5
Folder   33
Campaign summaries
Box   5
Folder   34
Campaign news/stories
Box   5
Folder   35
Challenge document
Box   5
Folder   36
Colleges/universities
Box   5
Folder   37
Commercial, INFACT, 1986 June
Box   5
Folder   38
“Consider the Alternatives” radio program
Box   5
Folder   39
Cornell
Box   5
Folder   40
Correspondence
Box   5
Folder   41
Day's wages, 1989 March
Box   5
Folder   42
Direct mail
Box   5
Folder   43
Endorsements, INFACT, Nestlé boycott
Box   5
Folder   44
Erikson, Greg
Box   5
Folder   45
Financial impact project, press, 1989
Box   5
Folder   46
Florida activities
Box   5
Folder   47
Holiday blitz
Box   5
Folder   48
Illinois campaign center
Box   5
Folder   49
Institutional boycott
Box   5
Folder   50
International work, INFACT
Box   5
Folder   51
Letters to the editor
Correspondence to GE
Box   5
Folder   52
Architects, builders, contractors
Box   5
Folder   53
Doctors and health professionals
Box   5
Folder   54
Groups and institutions
Box   5
Folder   55
Individuals
Mailings
Box   5
Folder   56
National field campaign packets
Box   5
Folder   57
Shy, Ruth
Box   5
Folder   58
National office, pledge letters
Box   6
Folder   1
New England Campaign Center
Box   6
Folder   2
Northern California Campaign Center
Box   6
Folder   3
Northwest Campaign Center
Box   6
Folder   4
Pennsylvania INFACT
Box   6
Folder   5
Pledge delivery, 1987
Box   6
Folder   6
Newsletters, INFACT
Box   6
Folder   7
Newsletter articles, GE boycott
Box   6
Folder   8
Press releases
Box   6
Folder   9
Radiation Awareness Month, 1989 October
Box   6
Folder   10
Raps
Box   6
Folder   11
Religious, letters to GE
Box   6
Folder   12
Religious leaders letter
Box   6
Folder   13
Retail focus
Box   6
Folder   14
Safeway
Box   6
Folder   15-18
GE shareholder meetings, 1986, 1989-1990
Box   6
Folder   19
Southern California Campaign Center
Box   6
Folder   20
Staff meetings, national
Box   6
Folder   21
Target Stores, INFACT campaign
Box   6
Folder   22
University of California-Los Angeles
Box   6
Folder   23
Upper Midwest Campaign Center
INFACT book, production and some research files, and a copy of the book itself
Box   6
Folder   24
Drafts
Box   6
Folder   25
Publishers, permission, cartoonists
Box   6
Folder   26
Production schedules, specifications, notes
Box   6
Folder   27
Cartoons about peace and nuclear weapons
Box   6
Folder   28
Correspondence, New Society Publishers
Box   6
Folder   29
Timelines, project stepping stones, pieces of work
Box   6
Folder   30
Planning and objectives of book
Box   6
Folder   31
Edits
Box   6
Folder   32
Drafts, Advisory Committee, Mark Schultz
Box   6
Folder   33
Bringing GE to Light - How General Electric Shapes Nuclear Weapons Policies for Profits, INFACT, 1990
National campaign director, Ruth Shy files, GE campaign tactics
Box   6
Folder   34
Building constructors
Box   6
Folder   35
Sales losses, GE
Box   6
Folder   36
Press release, GE/Hanford, 1990 July
Box   6
Folder   37
GE, INFACT communications, deliveries
Box   6
Folder   38-39
Retail campaigns
Box   6
Folder   40
Alternative campaigns, 1987-1988
Box   6
Folder   41
Publix Supermarkets
Box   6
Folder   42-43
Safeway Stores, 1989
Box   6
Folder   44
Store surveys
Box   6
Folder   45
Day's wages to INFACT, 1989
Box   6
Folder   46
Benefit, Los Angeles, 1989 September 16
Box   6
Folder   47
GE, radiation
Box   6
Folder   48
Press statistics, coverage, 1988
Box   6
Folder   48
Press, media work, 1988-1989
Box   6
Folder   49
Street theater
Box   6
Folder   50
Holiday blitz, 1988
Box   6
Folder   51
Neighborhood campaign (all campaign centers), door-to-door, 1988
Box   6
Folder   52
Canvass, 1988
Box   6
Folder   52
Special outreach drive
Box   6
Folder   53
Sears, Roebuck and Company, 1988
Box   6
Folder   54
“Close the Revolving Door,” 1988 June
Box   6
Folder   55
News/campaign updates
Box   6
Folder   56
Old office wall charts, 1988-1989
Box   6
Folder   57
Action Committees, map of U.S., 1988
Box   6
Folder   58
Book distribution, 1988
Box   6
Folder   59
Statistics, all campaign centers, books, goals, et cetera, books out, 1988-1989
Box   6
Folder   60
Book release, 1988 February 24
Box   6
Folder   61
Institutional boycott support
Box   7
Folder   1
Action reports, 1988-1990
Box   7
Folder   2
Boycott pledge delivery, 1987 February
Box   7
Folder   3
Los Angeles pledge drive
Box   7
Folder   4-5
Press, media, 1987
Box   7
Folder   6
Mailings, to organizations, independents, 1986
1986 June 12
Box   7
Folder   7
National events
Box   7
Folder   8
Boycott pledge forms
Box   7
Folder   9
GE boycott launch, original report
Box   7
Folder   10
Memos (carbon copies), 1987-1988
Box   7
Folder   11
Fundraising, near north film benefit, 1986 March
Box   7
Folder   12
Messages to CEOs, scroll delivery, 1985
Box   7
Folder   13
Messages to INFACT from supporters, 1985
Box   7
Folder   14
Tax day action, press, et cetera, “generals” campaign
Box   7
Folder   15
Quiz, GE influence
Box   7
Folder   16-17
Originals
Box   7
Folder   18-19
Leaflets, 1984-1985
Box   7
Folder   20
Responses from corporations, 1984-1985
Box   7
Folder   21
Correspondence, 1984-1985
Box   7
Folder   22-23
Campaign materials, 1984-1985
Box   7
Folder   24
Campaign director, 1983-1984
Box   7
Folder   25
Statistics, boycott pledge
Box   7
Folder   26
Memos sent out to campaign centers, 1985-1986
Box   7
Folder   27
Conference calls, 1984-1985
Box   7
Folder   28
Pledge programs, pledge drives, 1984
Box   7
Folder   29
Education, training on issues, 1984
Box   7
Folder   30
Action program, 1983
Box   7
Folder   31-36
Phone banks, 1983-1991
Box   7
Folder   37-38
Southern California Campaign Center, 1990
Box   7
Folder   39
Pennsylvania office, 1989
Box   7
Folder   40-41
Northwest Campaign Center, 1990
Box   7
Folder   42-44
Northern California Campaign Center, 1990
Box   7
Folder   45
Upper Midwest Campaign Center, 1990
Box   8
Folder   1
Upper Midwest Campaign Center, 1990 (continued)
Box   8
Folder   2-3
New England Campaign Center, 1990
Box   8
Folder   4
GE medical (religious) boycott information, 1989-1990
Box   8
Folder   5-6
Fassett, Wendy, international, 1990