Also: http://southernworker.org/
Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) participating in the first Southern Workers Assembly Sept. 3, 2012 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Southern Workers Assembly on Facebook
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Philippines: Drop the Charges Against Union Leaders
Sign petition: http://tinyurl.com/chrcn6q
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Milwaukee, March 2: 23rd Annual Malcolm X Educational Forum
FLYER: http://tinyurl.com/ct8n4rk
Know the Enemy, It’s Not The Man, It’s The Plan: http://tinyurl.com/c7oqnq5
Saturday, March 2
2-5 p.m.
Parklawn YMCA
4340 N 46th Street
Free and open to the public
Sponsored by Africans on The Move
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Milwaukee, Feb. 16: African American Labor & Community Summit
On Saturday, February 16 at 12:00 p.m. the Milwaukee Chapters of the A. Philip Randolph Institute and the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists will host the 11th Annual African-American Labor Leadership & Community Summit.
The focus of this year’s Summit will be to identify policy positions for African-Americans and other working families on the issue of job creation. The event aims to develop and launch a collaborative agenda on African-American job creation strategies to be presented to both state and local government for implementation by January 1, 2014.
The format for this year’s event will consist of a panel and audience discussion on the “State of Working Wisconsin” in specific regards to the African-American community. The panel will consist of Professor James H. Peoples, UW-Milwaukee Economics; Laura Dresser, Associate Director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy; and Fred Redmond, United Steel Workers International Vice President of Human Affairs.
Please join us for this great event!
Date: Saturday, February 16, 2013
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Location: Laborer’s Local 113 Hall, 6310 West Appleton Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53210
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Madison, Feb. 14: Demand Walker Expand Badgercare
Assembly Parlor of the state Capitol, Madison
12 Noon
2 E Main St
Madison, WI 53703
More info on the campaign to expand Badgercare: http://wisconsinjobsnow.org/
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Pan African Newswire
DPRK Foreign Ministry Statement
Wisconsin, South Carolina Unions Call National Labor Fightback Conference in May 2013
[To read full open letter: http://laborfightback.org/]
Dear Brothers and Sisters:
Please be advised that a national Labor Fightback Conference for concerned trade unionists who want to do something about labor’s plight will be held May 10-12, 2013 at the Rutgers University Student Center, New Brunswick, New Jersey. The undersigned urge attendance at this critically needed conference, with any interested union free to send as many representatives as desired.
This conference will address the key question: “What strategy will enable labor to mount the most effective and powerful fightback possible against the corporate assaults?”…
[To read full open letter: http://laborfightback.org/]
For further information and/or endorse, please call 973-944-8975 or email conference@laborfightback.org or write Labor Fightback Conference, P.O. Box 187, Flanders, NJ 07836.
In solidarity,
Ken Riley, President, South Carolina AFL-CIO
Donna Dewitt, Retired President, South Carolina AFL-CIO
Kevin Gundlach, President, South Central Federation of Labor, Wisconsin
Charity Schmidt, Co-President, University of Wisconsin-Madison Teachers Assistants’ Association (TAA) and Executive Board, South Central Federation of Labor, Wisconsin
Southern Workers Assembly conference Sept. 3, 2012.
Thousands occupying the state capitol in Madison Feb. 18, 2011.
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UW-Milwaukee, Feb. 14: One Billion Rising
FLYER: http://tinyurl.com/au6fmau 
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