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Building A Global Movement; What It Will Take To Win

November 18, 2012 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Building A Global Movement; What It Will Take To Win

photos of panelistsPlease join us at the first event hosted by the Lucy Gonzalez Parsons Institute for Education and Justice, a new left political education institute in the DC area. Our political education projects aim to build leadership and deepen analysis in the struggle against global capitalism. This winter, we will be launching a workshop series that will delve into movement history and examine class struggle, the economy, imperialism, race and national oppression, gender and patriarchy, immigration, and organizing.

Panelists:

  • Bill Fletcher, Jr, Author of, They’re Bankrupting Us! And 20 Other Myths About Unions, and co-author of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice,
  • Barbara Ehrenreich, Author, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America and Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
  • Elmer Labog (via video), National Chairperson, Kilusang Mayo Uno, May First Workers Center in the Philippines

For more information email info@lucygonzalezparsonsinstitute.org or call 202-618-0297.

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Date:
November 18, 2012
Time:
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Venue

Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO, CLC
501 3rd Street, NW
Washington, DC United States
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