NEWS

Over 200 workers and community activists rallied outside the John A. Wilson Building Tuesday mo
ing to protest Mayor Adrian Fenty’s attacks on workers and ongoing attempts to sell public property to private interests without community input. “We now have an administration that is of profiteers, by profiteers, and for profiteers,” said Metro Council President Jos Williams. “Tenants are being ripped off, the homeless are being ejected from shelters, and workers are being taken advantage of.

Using Popular Education: the Tricks and Techniques of Educating for Social Change
An introductory workshop to popular education with an emphasis of tools and techniques for curriculum development.
St Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 1525 Newton St NW

Accessing Unemployment Insurance
Unemployment benefits are becoming harder to come by, find out how the system works, and how you can get the benefits you need.
Family Life Center, 605 Rhode Island Ave NE

Getting Your Message Out Through the Mediar

September 16th will mark the launch a new monthly education program for DC Jobs with Justice.

“We’re really excited about this new initiative,” said Ruth Castel-Branco, organizer with DC JwJ. “The monthly trainings is really an opportunity for organizers to come together, sharpen our organizing tools, develop new leaders in the movement for the rights of working people and of course, to have to fun!”

Last week marked a double victory for DC JwJ member, Communications Workers of American Local 2336. After almost a year of negotiations, the District of Columbia and Verizon reached an agreement that will bring FiOS to the nation’s capital, possibly as early as January 2009.
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Poverty wages, brutal conditions, crippling injuries – 5,500 workers in Tar Heel, North Carolina face this every day at Smithfield Packing, the world’s largest hog processing plant.

Cited by Human Rights Watch for violating inte
ational human rights standards, Smithfield has created an environment of intimidation, racial tension, and sometimes violence for workers fighting for a voice on the job.
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