Labor in Illinois

HEAR ANNE FEENEY sing on Swedish TV. "A Song for Santiago Cruz", written at Polk 2007: http://tv4play.se/aktualitet/nyhetsmorgon?videoId=1.1121438&renderingdepartment=2.34562

August 15: ACCOUNTABILITY HEARING. Bring your stories of jobs lost, economic stress to a meeting with representatives of the Federal Reserve of Washington DC at Decatur Civic Center, 9:30 am. Sponsored by the Central Illinois Organizing Project (CIOP) and National Training and Information Center (NTIC). Call 309-827-9627 or 217-428-4336 to reserve your free ticket.

September 12: MOTORCYCLES. District 7 Steelworkers Solidarity Run and Roast to benefit Los Mineros de Cananea. $25 per rider, scenic run, hog roast, entertainment. Call Blanca Morales at 219-886-2596 or 1-800-937-8007 before Sept. 4th.

September 14: ARCHIE GREEN memorial celebration 7 pm at 504 East Armory Street, Champaign. Archie Green, labor educator and ILIR librarian, was founder of the American Folk Life Center which is part of the Smithsonian Museum. He organized and led the folksong group which was the largest student organization on the UIUC campus in the 1970s.

September 19: THE BANKING INDUSTRY. 9:00 am – 12:00 at CLEP offices, 815 West Van Buren, Chicago. Daniel Schmid, MA, 19 years of experience as bank examiner for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, will explain and discuss banking industry trends. $25. Limited to 25 registrations. Call Nancy LaHare at 312-996-2127.

September 24-November 19, B&RB CLASS. Thursdays from 6:00 – 8:30 pm. Building and Rebuilding the Labor Movement: Confronting the Economic Crisis. Co-sponsored by the Campaign County AFL-CIO, UIUC Labor Education Program, Central Illinois Jobs with Justice, UIUC Campus Labor Coalition and Central Illinois IWW. Where does the crisis come from? Who is to blame? How have unions responded? How can we help our members? What resources are available locally? What would a good, sustainable, fair economy look like? What are our political opportunities in this period of EFCA, health care, stimulus money and the war? $70 per person. Call Joe Berry at 217-333-2388 or Martha Kelley at 217-333-0980.

September 24-25-26: SECOND ANNUAL LOCAL UNION PRESIDENTS CONFERENCE. For elected leaders. Champaign. Current Illinois struggles, case studies, legal update, how to perform your job, labor’s response to the economic crisis, honing the message of healthcare reform and the Employee Free Choice Act (do your members get it?), the next four years. $220 early bird, $325 regular. Call Monica Bielski at 217-244-4094.

Stan Rosen, professor emeritus of labor education at Illinois, wrote: “I have boxes of files on labor education I would like to send to anyone who might find them useful. Interested persons should contact me at 505-473-4454.”On Sunday, Sept 13, from 8:00- 10:00 pm Rosen will be doing his annual labor day folk program streamed on KSFR.org.

CONTACTS:

Chicago, Yesenia Vargas, 312-996-2624

Champaign: Martha Kelley, 217-333-0980

Helena Worthen

Clinical Associate Professor

Labor Education Program University of Illinois

504 East Armory, Champaign, IL 61820

217-244-4095

hworthen@illinois.edu

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