In This
Message:
I. Spring 2008 Workers'
Center Organizing School to Start in
February
II. OF SPECIAL INTEREST
TO RELIGIOUS LEADERS: Breakfast Briefing for Religious Leaders,
Tuesday, January 29th @ 8:30 a.m.
III. Health Care Task
Force and Workers' Center Sponsor Brown Bag Lunch For Next Steps
to Push Universal/Single-Payer Agenda Forward; Friday,
1/25
IV. Winter '08
Workers' Center Newsletter Is Online!
V. SAVE-THE-DATE:
National Jobs with Justice Conference in Providence, RI; May 2nd
thru 4th
I. Spring
2008 Workers' Center Organizing School to Start in
February
The Tompkins County Workers' Center
is looking for young people, artists, activists, and anyone
wanting to make a difference to come eat, think, and work with
us as we talk about what's wrong in our community and our world
and what we're doing about it.
Interested in ending poverty?
Globalization? Hunger? Interested in politics and protest?
Interested in belonging to a community of like-minded people?
Come join us. Be inspired to action.The Spring 2008 Organizing
School starts in early February.
The Workers' Center also has the
ability to come out to middle and high schools,
colleges, religious institutions, and anywhere that people
are gathered to give workshops related to economic justice.
Samples of workshops include the
following:
I. Introduction to the
Tompkins County Workers' Center
II. Child Labor: Then
and....Now?
III. Wealth
Distribution in the U.S.
IV. Role of Unions
Today
V. Making Ends Meet:
Minimum Wage Work
VI. Distributing
Income: You Be the Judge
VII. Universal
Declaration of Human Rights
VIII. Organizing
School: Popular Education
Groups
Please email Jessica Brown, Workers'
Center Service Learning Coordinator, at nariah@gmail.com. Or
contact the Center at 607-269-0409 for information about the
Organizing School and Popular Education workshop
offerings.
II. OF
SPECIAL INTEREST TO RELIGIOUS LEADERS: Breakfast Briefing for
Religious Leaders, Tuesday, January 29th @ 8:30
a.m.
On behalf of the Tompkins County
Religious Task Force for a Living Wage, we would like to invite
all religious leaders to attend an informational meeting on
Tuesday, January 29th, 8:30 to 10:00 a.m at the Parish Hall of
St. John's Episcopal Church (210 N. Cayuga Street, Ithaca) to
learn about the Tompkins County Workers' Center and ways in
which your congregation may participate in efforts to seek
greater economic justice in our own community.
Workers' Center organizers will be
present to discuss supports the the Center provides to
individuals facing unfair labor practices in their workplace.
Organizers will also speak about local campaigns now being waged
to secure better wages and benefits for low wage workers. Rev.
Phillip Snyder, Pastor of St. John's Episcopal Church, and Rev.
Rich Rose, Past of Ithaca's First Baptist Church, will also be
on hand to discuss the process that led their congregations to
become "Living Wage-Certified" Employers. In addition,
representatives of the Tompkins County Religious Task Force for
a Living Wage will also be present to describe its mission and
invite your faith community's participation in its important
work. (The Task Force is a joint project of the Workers' Center
and the Justice and Peace Ministry of Catholic
Charities).
If you are a religious leader
and are interested in attending this important Briefing, please
contact Edie Reagan ereagan@dor.org
607-272-5062 by January 25th. A light breakfast of bagels and
fruit will be provided.
III. Health
Care Task Force and Workers' Center Sponsors Brown Bag Lunch For
Next Steps to Push Universal/Single-Payer Agenda Forward;
Friday, 1/25
What: A Working Session to Discuss Ways
Organizations Can Help Educate the Community and Use Their
Legislative Agenda to Achieve the Goal of Universal/Single-Payer
Health Care
Where: Department of Social Services (DSS),
320 W. State Street, Ithaca
Beverages and desserts supplied; contact
Rebecca Elgie at 607-269-0409; 607-272-0621 for more
information
IV.
Winter '08 Workers' Center Newsletter Is Now
Online!
If you don't get our quarterly newsletter
mailed out to you, please consider becoming a Member of the
Workers' Center so you can do so. Click here to find out
more about becoming a Member.
Articles in our latest newsletter
include:
- Out of the Shadows: Hotel Workers' Rise
Up
- Tell the Governor: We Need Health
Insurance
- Lover of Justice and Former Ithaca Mayor
Ben Nichols Dies
- Workers' Center Member Spotlight on Gino
Bush
- Into the Classroom: Social Justice
Learning Takes Off
- Crisis with Adjunct Professors
- Complete Listing of Living Wage-Certified
Employers (presently 47)
V.
SAVE-THE-DATE: National Jobs with Justice Conference in
Providence, RI; May 2nd thru 4th
The Tompkins County Workers' Center
affiliated with Jobs with Justice one
year ago. Every two years, Jobs with Justice holds a national
conference, and this year the Workers' Center will be taking
people there.
The 2008 Jobs with Justice National
Conference will attract a diverse group of more than 1,000
labor, community, student, and religious activists from across
the world for sessions on building power for workers, immigrant
rights, health care, student and youth organizing, low-income
worker organizing, music, art, fun, and more!
