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The Nightwatchman (Tom Morello) performed for the closing of Participatory Democracy and Social Justice Struggles: From Port Huron to #Occupy.

For his last song, he performed "World Wide Rebel Songs," which he wrote when unionized Korean workers fighting for better working conditions at the Cort Guitar factory in Seoul came to LA to do a fundraiser for their cause-- until the earthquake in Haiti hit. Despite their need for financial support, the Korean workers donated the proceeds of their concert to the relief effort.
http://cortaction.wordpress.com/tag/tom-morello/

This conference was co-sponsored by the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, the UCLA Social Science Division and
**the UCLA Labor Center**
http://www.irle.ucla.edu/events/2012/PortHuronProgram.html

The morning had graduate student paper presentations. In the afternoon, UCLA students presented their reflections and revisions of the Port Huron Statement as part of a UCLA Labor and Workplace Minor course taught by Tom Hayden, the author of the "participatory democracy" concept at Port Huron, Michigan. Additional speakers include Gioconda Belli, a former Sandinista who currently is a poet and novelist; Maria Varela, who organized with SNCC in the Deep South, and is active in health care and Latina feminist movements in New Mexico; and Dick and Mickey Flacks, who have been active in teaching and local organizing in the Santa Barbara area for decades; and Charles McDew, the first chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Varela, the Flacks and McDew were all participants at Port Huron.