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Calendar of Labor Cultural Events
Please let us know about (upcoming) events in your community and email to info@laborheritage.org |
January 15 - June 1, 2008
Art exhibit honoring the 40th Anniversary of the Memphis Sanitation Strike and the Death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Features photos, banners and quotes — from Dr. King and from the sanitation workers.
March 31 - brown bag discussion and book-signing at 12:30 p.m. with Mike Honey, author
of Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last
Campaign.
AFL-CIO Lobby, 815 16th St., NW, Washington, DC
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008, 8PM
MAY DAY JAM: A Concert for Radical Labor and Social Change
Celebrate the radical heritage of May Day at a special evening hosted by Alternative Protest ensemble THE FLAMES OF DISCONTENT
and featuring the militant Hip Hop of THE READNEX POETRY SQUAD and Mexican Revolutionary Music of ZENOTE SOMPANTLE,
plus guest speakers from labor, immigrants rights and other social justice organizations.
The Muddy Cup Coffeehouse, 58 Main Street, New Paltz, NY 12561
For more information visit www.flamesofdiscontent.org
Friday May 9, 2008 at 8 PM
DC Labor Chorus Spring Concert: "Lift Every Voice - A Benefit for Community Arts"
Half the proceeds go to the Emergence Community Arts Collective.
First Lutheran Church, 501 4th St., NW, Washington, DC
For more information call Genna Teitelbaum at 631-513-9745.
Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 8 PM
New York City Labor Chorus in Concert
PEOPLES' VOICE CAFE, at The Workmen's Circle, 45 East 33rd St. (between Madison & Park), New York, NY
For info call 212-787-3903 or visit www.peoplesvoicecafe.org
June 6-8, 2008
40th Annual Pacific Labour History Conference
The 40th Annual Pacific NORTHWEST LABOUR HISTORY Conference with theme
"INDIGENOUS, IMMIGRANT, MIGRANT LABOUR & GLOBALIZATION." Speakers include Kent
Wong, UCLA, and David Montgomery, one of the great deans of US Labor History
scholarship. Co- sponsoring organization, Labor and Working Class History
Association (LAWCHA). Simon Fraser University Harbour Center, Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada. Information available at
http://www3.telus.net/robbgibbs/PNLHA/home.html
June 22-24, 2008
30th Annual Great Labor Arts Exchange & 11th Annual Conference on Creative Organizing
National Labor College, 10000 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD.
For more information visit www.laborheritage.org/glaecco.htm
October 9-12, 2008
2008 DC Labor FilmFest
American Film Institute, Silver Spring, MD.
For more info visit
www.dclabor.org/ht/d/ProgramDetails/i/23256/pid/46784
If you have a labor cultural event you would like us to add to our calendar
please email us at info@laborheritage.org
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