Mark Your Calendars

Update: Yesterday’s post was unclear about the location of the screening of Mountains that take Wing. It will be shown in the beautiful Cinemapolis, 120 East Green Street, Ithaca NY. The phone number is 277-6115. The Premier is Thursday July 29 at 7:15 pm. ===================================================== It’s not too early to remind everyone that the annual [...]

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Unemployment Extension, Another movie (and a little bragging)

At about 4 o’clock today, the Senate voted 60-40 to move the Unemployment Extension towards its final vote sometime later today. The House of Representatives is expected to pass the legislation as well. You can read the AP story on this site. This is good news indeed for many people who have been unemployed for [...]

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Workers Center Movie Night: Tonight! Free!

Come to our Free Summer movie night tonight, Monday July 19, at 6:30 to see our featured film, Made in L.A. This will be a chance to meet other Workers Center members who share our values of justice for and unity among all workers. There will be cookies, conversation …and connections to a struggle of [...]

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The Advocacy Center and how it can help

Every now and then we have a workshop or meeting with other agencies in town. Sometimes we share our knowledge with them, sometimes they teach us about their services. Yesterday, some representatives of the Advocacy Center came to talk to us. It was good to be reminded of the tremendous work the people there do.  [...]

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Friends we met in Chicago

The Chicago gathering of hundreds of community organizers was hard work but it enabled us to hobnob with incredible activists working on mind-boggling, creative campaigns during that intense long weekend. I’d like to introduce just a few of them to you now. The Latin American Workers Project is a Jackson Heights, Queens-based group that helps [...]

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Rules for Leadership

Yes, we’ve been away for a long time: conferences, social forums, holidays and vacations and playing catch-up after all that have scrambled our work days. But we’re back, better than ever, so here we go. Today I wanted to share information about one of the really engaging talks we heard at the conference we attended. [...]

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