Austin: Report Back from the U.S. Social Forum
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010| August 19, 2010 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
In June, thousands of social justice activists met in Detroit at the USSF to discuss, plan, and organize the struggle for a more just, equitable, and sustainable world. It was the second of these vibrant, cross-issue social change gatherings. Those of us from TSEU were inspired by seeing so many labor union groups all through the event–UAW, Teamsters, Steelworkers, AFSCME, United Electrical Workers, AFT, etc., etc.Anne Lewis, a TSEU activist, who will show clips from a presentation she made to the US Social Forum about Anne Braden, a most dedicated fighter against racism and political repression.
Josefina Castillo and Judith Rosenberg of Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera, which organizes solidarity and support for workers in Mexico organizing inside and outside of unions
Leslie Cunningham, a TSEU activist, who will report on the role of labor unions in the social justice movement
Maribel Falcon of Workers Defense Project/Proyecto Defensa Laboral, which is having great
success on wage theft and construction safety issues in Austin as part of the labor movement which is larger than unions alone.
Carmen Llanes with PODER in East Austin, who will report on environmental justice organizing.
For more information, contact Will Rogers at 280-7549 or whroger@aol.com
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Domestic workers union marches at USSF (photo by Jim West, Labor Notes)
