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Martin Luther King, Jr., Civil Rights & Organized Labor: The Fight Against Right to Work Laws, Then and Now

Film & Panel Discussion
Wednesday, April 4th [ 6pm-8pm ]
Bell Museum, 10 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN

Join AFSCME Local 3800 for a film screening and
panel discussion to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the anniversary
of his assassination. “At the River I Stand” (1993) will be shown Wednesday,
April 4 at 6:00 p.m. at the Bell Museum,
located at the corner of University Ave. and 17th Ave. SE in Minneapolis on the
University of Minnesota campus. The film documents Dr. King’s last two months alive
and his work with the sanitation workers’ strike in Memphis in 1968. This
powerful documentary illuminates the connections between economic and civil
rights through these public employees’ fight for dignity and justice.

The film will be followed by a panel
discussion with: Eliot Seide, executive director, AFSCME Council 5; Peter
Rachleff, professor of Labor History, Macalester College; Rose Brewer,
professor of African-American and African Studies, University of Minnesota;
Aaron Sojourner, labor economist, Carlson School of Management; and Joe Burns,
author of Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power &
Transform America.

Please print and distribute the attached flier in your union and bring your coworkers, friends and family. FFI and to share on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/276414735767004/ (see link below)

Fellow AFSCME members: 

We are writing with an urgent update on contract negotiations and to ask you to take action this morning! Our bargaining committee has been called in to mediation for this afternoon and we have been told that we will receive a final offer from the University.  

AFSCME 3800 members: