by DC Jobs with Justice | May 25, 2010 | Projects
Benjamin Banneker Summer Fellowship program rnrnDC Jobs with Justice (DC JwJ) is seeking a DC Public School student or recent DCPS graduate for a paid summer organizing fellowship. rnrnBackground: DC Jobs with Justice is a coalition of labor organizations, community...
by DC Jobs with Justice | May 19, 2010 | Projects
Former director of American Rights at Work, Mary Beth Maxwell (left); ACLU-NCA Executive Director Johnny Barnes; The Justice at Wings Campaign and Fair Budget Coalition’s Kristi Matthews will be this year’s awardees for the 2010 DC Jobs with Justice...
by DC Jobs with Justice | May 19, 2010 | Projects
The workers compensation program for D.C. government employees has been fraught with problems for decades, often driving middle-class injured workers into poverty. But in recent years, injured government workers have made some significant gains, due largely to the...
by DC Jobs with Justice | May 19, 2010 | Projects
Between June 22-26, tens of thousands of people will once again gather in Detroit for the second US Social Forum under the banner, “Another World is Possible, Another US is necessary.” The forum comes on the heels of the Greater DC People’s Assembly...
by DC Jobs with Justice | May 11, 2010 | Projects
Last month David Krakow, a former history teacher at the Cesar Chavez charter school, reached a settlement with his former employer, which fired him last year shortly after he began organizing with his co-workers. Krakow chose to donate the bulk of his settlement...
by DC Jobs with Justice | Apr 28, 2010 | Immigrant Rights, Projects, Trabajadores Unidos de DC / United Workers of DC
Condemning Arizona’s new immigration law program as “racist and perverse,†dozens of labor, community and immigrant rights activists spoke out forcefully yesterday about the dangers of collaboration between local police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
