"Race & Labor Matters"
December 4th (6pm-10pm) & 5th (8:30am-5pm)
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th St.), New York City

Join leading labor scholars and trade union activists for a reframing of the relationship between race and labor in America. Through interdisciplinary approaches to the subject, panelists will consider significant economic, social, historical, and political conditions affecting racial stratification in union and non-union labor. Panels will discuss U.S. labor and race matters in relation to affirmative action, immigration, labor-community relations, diversity, globalization, anti-racist union efforts, union democracy, gender, and possibilities for social change.

Speakers (partial list): Manning Marable, Columbia; Bill Fletcher, TransAfrica Forum; Stewart Acuff, AFL-CIO; Leith Mullings, CUNY; Gerry Hudson, 1199; Gerald Horne, University of Houston; Alfred Blumrosen, Rutgers; Juan Gonzalez, NY Daily News; Saru Jayaraman, ROC NY; Frances Fox Piven, CUNY; Cecelia McCall, PSC; Betty Hughley, 1199; Ray Bradford, AFTRA; Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY; Robin D.G. Kelley, Columbia; Anna Burger, SEIU; Dennis Serette, CWA Local 1180; Roger Toussaint, TWU Local 100; Michael Goldfield, Wayne State University; Joshua Freeman, CUNY; Adolph Reed, New School; Steven Pitts, U.C. Berkeley, Brenda Stokely, AFSME DC 1707, and many more!

For more details or to register, visit our website or call Nancy Weyandt. (Due to limited seating, early registration is strongly suggested)