UNION CITY!
News from the Metro Washington Council, AFL-CIO
(Excerpts)

March 31, 2003

*Students & Labor March Together For Justice
*Pre-Organizing Future Workers
*LABOR WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

CHAVEZ-KING NATIONAL STUDENT LABOR WEEK OF ACTION:
DC-AREA CALENDAR

-TODAY! Monday, 3/31: "Our Struggles Are Really One"
Rally/March; Rally 4PM, AFL-CIO, 815 16th St, NW; March
4:30PM to International Square, 1850 K St, NW

STUDENTS & LABOR MARCH TOGETHER FOR JUSTICE: Students and labor activists will unite today under a banner declaring "Our Struggles Are Really One" as they support workers' rights and affirmative action. The 4PM rally and march kicks off the Chavez-King National Student Labor Week of Action, over 200 events nation-wide celebrating the legacies of Cesar Chavez and Dr. Martin Luther King. Continuing Chavez and King's struggles for equality and justice, activists will rally to call on the Supreme Court to uphold the University of Michigan affirmative action program and then march to support janitors fighting for living wages and health care benefits.

Speakers:

*Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer
*Linda Chavez-Thompson, AFL-CIO Executive Vice President *Wade Henderson, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
*Fred Azcarate, Jobs with Justice
*Shabatayah Andrich, former University of Michigan student *Liz Tylander, American University Solidarity Committee *Valarie Long, SEIU 82 Justice for Janitors.

-Tuesday, 4/1: Time to Take Affirmative Action, 9AM-12
noon; Rally on the steps of the Supreme Court

-Tuesday, 4/1: "We Ain't Foolin' Stop the War!"
5PM, Farragut Square (17th between I and K St, NW)
Tell President Bush to stop the war, create jobs and lift the economy. DC Labor Committee for Peace and Justice; thomasm-AT-seiu.org .

-Wednesday, 4/2: Labor Education Fair, 10AM-1PM, American
University main Quad; gamehendge-AT-aol.com

-Wednesday, 4/2: Worker Appreciation Day, 3-7PM, George
Washington University, (22nd & H); mbunton-AT-gwu.edu

- Wednesday, 4/2: FILM: "Live Nude Girls Unite!", 3PM,
George Washington University, Marvin Center room 404
(21st & H); meganvdavis-AT-hotmail.com

-Thursday, 4/3, Rally for a Living Wage 12:45PM, Georgetown
University, Red Square; ewy-AT-georgetown.edu

-Friday, 4/4: FILM: "At the River I Stand", 6PM, University
of Maryland, Art/Sociology building, Rm 2203; mpant-AT-wam.umd.edu

PRE-ORGANIZING FUTURE WORKERS: Help students get a
positive image of labor as they consider their life
goals and job opportunities by presenting at an upcoming
school career day.

For more info, call Alva Braxton-Rowe at 202-698-1111, Ms. Venorian Parker at 202-645-3400 or Jeanine Nagrod at futureforce-AT-dclabor.org .

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LABOR WEBSITE OF THE WEEK:
www.aflcio.org/issuespolitics/votes

See where your U.S. senators or representative stood on nearly two dozen important working family issues in Congress in 2002, as well as your lawmaker's lifetime
"right" or "wrong" record on key union and working family bills.

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