Workers' Center Picnic; New Logo, and Latin Dance Party Benefit

I. Workers' Center Picnic to Take Place, Saturday, September 29th, from 1-5 p.m. in Stewart Park

Please join the Tompkins County Workers' Center as we hold our first-ever Annual Picnic on Saturday, September 29th, from 1-5 p.m. in the large pavilion at Stewart Park in Ithaca. The public is invited; free meat, veggie burger, hot dogs, beverages, and ice cream will be provided. Folks are encouraged to bring a dish-to-pass as well. Musicians and speakers will focus on themes of organizing around workers' rights issues. There will be activities for kids.

We have a special need for volunteers for the event. As well, we're hoping to sell as many raffle tickets as possible in advance of the event (a 50/50 drawing where winner gets half, Workers' Center gets other half). If you are able to help out, either before or during event, please contact us at 269-0409 or pete@tclivingwage.org

The theme of the Picnic is: "Get Up, Stand Up; Stand Up for Our Rights", a central organizing principle of the Workers' Center.

We at the Tompkins County Workers' Center are seeing a steady uptick of workers coming to us, especially from retail and service sector industries. These workers are sick and tired of: being fired for no just cause; getting paid wages that keep them stuck in lives of poverty in this community and country of great wealth; being treated with disrespect on a daily basis.

We are working closely with hotel workers who are sick and tired of having to clean 20-30 rooms a day for minimum wage, restaurant workers who don't get the tips they should be getting and/or are not being paid overtime. The list of workers' rights violations, let alone the poverty wages earned by so many service and retail workers, should no longer be acceptable to us as a society.

For more information, please contact 607-269-0409 or email TCWRC@yahoo.com or go to our website at www.TCWorkersCenter.org

II. New Logo for Workers' Center Chosen!

After a year of struggling to find the appropriate balance in a logo that meets the diverse aspects of the Workers' Center, and after having a logo contest, the Workers' Center finally was able to pick the following logo, designed by Jeci Brown, as its best representative. Thanks to the thirty people who entered the contest!

III. Salsa Latin Dance Party Benefit for Workers' Center, Saturday, 9/29 @ Castaways in Ithaca

Dance, meet new people, have a great time, and support local-global social justice organizing on Saturday 9/29 at Castaways (for DIRECTIONS scroll to bottom).

Proyecto ¡ Pa'lante! in collaboration with the Tompkins County Workers' Center and CUSLAR CUSLAR invites you to . . . .

NOCHE DE SALSA LATIN DANCE PARTY & BENEFIT

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 29th
CASTAWAYS
413 Taughannock Blvd - Ithaca, NY

Salsa Dura, Suave y Bailable
plus Merengue, Bachata, Cha Cha Cha, Reggaeton and more with Proyecto ¡Pa'lante!
DJ Michael Luis

Free Salsa Dance Lesson 9pm

*18+* ID Required
$5 Cover
Doors open 8:45pm party til late

For more info:
Event website: www.rso.cornell.edu/palante/events.html

Directions to Castaways
From Cornell/Collegetown and downtown Ithaca: Get onto Buffalo Street and go all the way down (heading west) past Rt. 13 intersection, make right onto Old Taughannock Blvd. If coming on Rt. 13 itself, turn onto Buffalo Street (right if coming on Rt. 13 South and left if on Rt. 13 North) and do the same.
From Binghamton, Syracuse, Rochester, Elmira, Watkins Glen: go to http://castawaysithaca.com/directions.cfm