Labor & Sustainability Conference

Labor & Sustainability Conference

January 19th-20th, 2007

Next weekend --- mark your calendar

please distribute widely

UNITED AUTO WORKERS 879 Union Hall

2191 Ford Parkway, St. Paul, MN

Phone: 651-699-4246

[To go to the web site click on the title]

Free & Open To The Public

FRIDAY EVENING PROGRAM --- January 19

6:00 PM Reception

7:00 PM Speakers

“Building A Movement For Sustainability: How Labor Can Respond to the Climate Crisis”
Jack Rasmus, Chairperson of Bay Area National Writers Union 1981 (UAW) & Author of The War At Home: The Corporate Offensive From Reagan To Bush and Fire On Pier 32.

Bill Onasch, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1287 Retiree (Kansas City, MO Bus Drivers), Labor Party Interim National Council & U.S. Labor Against the War Steering Committee.

SATURDAY SCHEDULE--- January 20

8:00 AM Registration

9:00 AM Welcoming Address by Lynn Hinkle, Health & Safety Director, UAW 879

10:00 AM First Workshop Session

12:00 Lunch-Time Press Conference in the Rotunda of the MNSCU Training Center

1:00 PM Second Workshop Session

3:00 PM Plenary to Discuss & Vote on Action Resolutions

DINNER-TIME PANEL DISCUSSION

Charles Griffith, Auto Project Director, Ecology Center, Ann Arbor, MI

Bracken Hendricks, Executive Director, Apollo Alliance

8:30 PM Poetry by members of the Minnesota Spoken Word Association

9:00 PM Dance

Free & Open To The Public.

Endorsed By:

AFSCME 3800, Douglas County Supervisor Adam Ritscher, 4th & 5th CDs Green Party, IMPACT, Labor Education Service, Mac CARES, Mayday Books, Mpls. CLUC, MN AFL-CIO, MN-CPUSA, MNs For Peace & Social Justice, Prof. Peter Rachleff, Red Lake Casino, Hotel & Restaurant Employees’ Union Org. Cmte., Save Our Bog, St. Paul Area Trades & Labor Assembly, State Rep. Frank Hornstein, 3CTC, UAW 879, UFCW 789, UTU 650, WAMM, WILPF-MN Metro.

For More Information: www.laborandsustainability.org

Email: info@laborandsustainability.org Or Phone: 651-699-4246.