American Workers in the Age of Austerity
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| Kimberly Freeman Brown |
If you’re in Washington, D.C., next week, hope you can stop by the AFL-CIO for a discussion on “American Workers in an Age of Austerity.” Panelists will talk about what we can learn from the past as we strategize for the future in the context of labor, progessives and the current U.S. political environment.
Join Dissent co-editor Michael Kazin and Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson in a panel moderated by American Rights at Work Executive Director Kimberly Freeman Brown.
A discussion will follow the event, which is Wednesday, Jan. 25, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the AFL-CIO.
The event is sponsored by Dissent magazine and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor of Georgetown University.
To RSVP or for more information, contact editors@dissentmagazine.org.
Sweeney to Keynote Conference on 120th Anniversary of Landmark ‘Rerum Novarum’
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AFL-CIO President Emeritus John Sweeney will keynote a two-day conference celebrating the 120th anniversary of the landmark papal encyclical Rerum Novarum (Of New Things).
The Church, Labor and the New Things of the Modern World conference at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., May 2-3, will bring together top Catholic religious leaders and scholars, journalists Harold Meyerson and E.J. Dionne and others to discuss the relevance of Catholic social teaching in the modern world.
Sweeney’s keynote speech on “Renewing the Historic Partnership of Unions and the Catholic Church in an Anti-Worker Era” on May 2 will explore Catholic involvement in labor issues around the world guided by the principles outlined in Rerum Novarum. While the conference is free and open to the public, you must register. Click here to learn more about the conference and here to RSVP.
Labor Journalists Will Look Behind the Scenes Before G-20 Meets
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Two weeks before the G-20 summit rolls into Pittsburgh to discuss the global economic crisis, labor journalists from across the country will come to the Steel City to document the real economic picture for workers without the hype.
As part of its biennial convention, Sept. 10-12, the International Labor Communications Association (ILCA) will create a 48-hour “media center” to serve as the nerve center of a special project about Pittsburgh’s workers, their organizing and bargaining campaigns, their victories and how their stories illustrate the deeper economic shifts affecting us all.
After a day of training and a morning of briefings by Pittsburgh activists, the journalists will form teams and fan out over the city covering workers’ stories. When they return, they will use the media center to write and post stories, blogs, photo galleries and other media.
The registration deadline is Aug. 7. Click here to register for the convention and here for more information on the convention.
