REAP (Research Education and Action for Power)
Organization profile published 1979

Publisher:  Participatory Research Project, International Council for Adult Education, Toronto, Canada
Year Published:  1979
Pages:  8pp   Resource Type:  Organization
Cx Number:  CX2066

Abstract: 
The purpose of this newsletter is to link the struggles of working, and oppresed people in North America, and is directed particularly to educators, researchers and activists allied with peoples' organizations. REAP is a thematic newsletter; the theme of this issue is Energy. Themes for the next three issues are: Textiles and Garmet, Urban Minority Groups, and Food Productin and Rural Underdevelopment.

In this first issue of REAP the authors wish to make two basic points: "First, the struggle to defeat the energy monopoly and to create one, based on a popular production and distribution must be a collective one, based on a popular alliance of indigenous peoples, workers in the energy sector, and consumers of energy in the community. Second, progressive education and research in communities of indigenous peoples, in the labour movement, and in communities of non-native working peoples -- are of the greatest strategic significance in moving this struggle forward."

This issue of REAP puts the "spotlight" on an energy multinational. AMAX, American Metal Climax and its mining operations around the world. The authors of REAP see AMAX as a viable focus for a cooperative, international fight against the energy monopoly. The Participatory Research Project (the publisher of REAP) is putting together materials on AMAX which would link workers and communities struggling against AMAX in Canada, the U.S. and Africa, Australia, Latin America, and Europe. The first objective of the work is to circulate educational material on the corporate record of AMAX and on efforts to fight the company in the workplace and in the community.

This organization no longer exists.
This abstract was published in the Connexions Digest in 1979.