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PROGRAM
Labor-Religion Coalition
Conference
May 18 and 19, 2008
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NYSUT Conference Center,
800 Troy-Schenectady Road, Latham, NY 12110
Directions
News Release
Overview & Invitation
SUNDAY, MAY 18
2:00 – 2:30 P.M. Registration and Monday Workshop selection
2:30 – 2:45 Welcome: Brian O'Shaughnessy
2:45 – 5:30 Trainings (each participant chooses one):
A. HEALTHCARE NOW FOR ALL
Learn what “Healthcare-NOW” is doing across the country (and what YOU can do) to achieve a national health care system for every person in the U.S.
B. FAIR TRADE
Understand the roots of Fair Trade; experience tools/ techniques (and take them home) to promote it; learn the latest developments in the Fair Trade movement; taste samples.
C. SWEATSHOP-FREE PURCHASING & POLICIES
Workers in the United States and abroad are organizing to overcome exploitation. Find out how you can act locally to challenge corporate power and to end public financing of sweatshop exploitation.
D. IMMIGRATION [registration closed for this session]
How can we make our communities more welcoming for "the stranger among us?" Among other topics, learn about immigrant contributions to New York's economy and culture, the New Sanctuary Movement, and the interactive "Lets Talk Immigration" workshop.
5:30 – 6:00 Break/Networking/Socializing
6:00 – 7:00 Dinner
7:00 – 8:30 Awards and presentations by youth from around the state who are educating, activating, and empowering a new generation of social justice leaders
MONDAY, MAY 19
8:30 – 9:00 A.M. Registration and Workshop selection
9:00 – 9:45 Marilyn Clement, National Coordinator,
Healthcare-NOW
9:45 – 10:00 Break and move to workshops
10:00 – 11:15 Workshops (each participant chooses one):
1. Involving clergy/religious leadership in worker struggles
2. Acting “globally & locally” to come full circle
3. Engaging voters in a critical election year
4. Bringing farm worker and domestic worker rights into the 21st century
5. Uphill Battle: Worker organizing in an anti-unin setting & the need for the Educating & activating for the transforming Employee Free Choice Act
CONFERENCE COSTS
Please don't let the conference cost keep
you from participating. To request a low-income rate of $25 per day or a community scholarship, please send an email to Martha at MarthaS@ labor-religion.org
Full conference (2 meals, printed materials, training and workshop) = $110
One day (either Sunday or Monday)= $70
Hotel costs
are not included. To reserve a room, contact the Desmond Hotel at 518/ 869-8100. Inform them that
you will be attending the conference and you will be charged a special conference
rate.
REGISTER
OVERVIEW
Check back here for a conference
news release. The NYSUT Conference Center is located at 800 Troy Schenectady Road in the Albany suburb
of Latham.
For more information, call us, write or send email
to
Labor-Religion Coalition of New York State
800 Troy-Schenectady Rd.
Latham,
NY 12110-2455
518/ 213-6000 ext. 6294
marthas@labor-religion.org
