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AS POSSIBLE STRIKE LOOMS, DC AREA COMMUNITY RALLIES BEHIND GROCERY WORKERS.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 27th, 2008
Contact: Ruth Castel-Branco– 202.489.2273, DC Jobs with Justice
WASHINGTON, DC—As the possibility of a DC metro-wide grocery strike looms, community allies, labor activists and faith leaders are taking to the sidewalks and parking lots of their local grocery stores in support of a just contract with affordable healthcare and pensions for all Safeway and Giant workers.
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DC JwJ Mobilizes to Support Grocery Workers
Join DC Jobs with Justice in taking action to defend health care and pensions for grocery workers. We’ll be holding a week of leafletting outside Safeway and Giant Stores. Read on to find out how you can take a stand for good jobs!
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VERIZON SETTLEMENT HOODWINKS DC RESIDENTS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Ruth Castel-Branco, DC Jobs with Justice, 202.489.2273
March 13, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC – On March 5, the DC Office of People’s Counsel reached a Price Cap Settlement with the phone and Inte
et company, Verizon. While the OPC touts this Settlement as an important step towards ensuring consumer protection standards in the District, unions, community groups and quality-of-service advocates are conce
ed over what they consider to be a substandard agreement with false solutions to serious quality of service complaints.
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IWJ Hosts Worker Justice Spring Break at Georgetown
While many of their fellow students were off carousing sun-drenched beaches in time-honored Spring Break tradition, nine Georgetown students rallied and leafleted in DC as part of an Alte
ative Spring Break program called “Worker Justice DC.”
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Creating a Vision for a Fair Economy: Investing in People and Communities
The 2008 National Community Reinvestment Coalition’s Annual Conference is a large gathering of community stakeholders who promote housing and economic development and support equal access to credit, capital and banking services for America’s working families.
The conference features in-depth trainings and plenary sessions on issues such as fair housing and fair lending, the Community Reinvestment Act, asset building strategies, foreclosure counseling, the relationship between environmental and economic justice, community organizing, small business development, fundraising and more.
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Lighting the Way in a Time of Darkness: A Community Conversation with Philippine Human Rights Advocates
Lighting the Way in a Time of Darkness: A Community Conversation with Philippine Human Rights Advocates
When: Saturday, March 8, 2008 at 7pm.
Where: Hilton Alexandria Mark Center Hotel. 5000 Seminary Road. Alexandria, VA. 22311.
Room to be announced
What: Please join us for a discussion on the Philippine human rights situation,advocacy gains over the past year and a look forward to the next. Featured speakers will include: Edita T. Burgos mother of abducted and still missing land advocate JonasBurgos and widow of the late Filipino press freedom-fighter Joe Burgos.
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DC COUNCIL THREATENS TO KILL PAID SICK AND SAFE DAYS BILL
MEDIA ADVISORY
For Immediate Release,
February 1st, 2008
Contact:
Mackenzie Baris (202) 213-6476 mbaris@dclabor.org
DC Council Threatens to Kill Paid Sick and Safe Days Bill
Bill would guarantee paid sick and safe days for all DC residents
WHO: Workers, community members, and advocates
WHAT: Press Conference to demand action on Paid Sick and Safe Days
WHEN: Monday, Feb. 4th at Noon
WHERE: Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Room 103
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Bus ads drive message to DC City Council: Verizon’s infrastructure lacking, the District needs FiOS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
January 31, 2008
Contact:
Ruth Castel-Branco 202.489.2273
Bus ads drive message to DC City Council:
Verizon’s infrastructure lacking, the District needs FiOS
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As D.C. City Council Buckles to Verizon Pressure, Unions and Community Groups say “Not Yet!â€
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Ruth Castel-Branco, DC Jobs with Justice, 202.489.2273
January 22, 2008
As D.C. City Council Buckles to Verizon Pressure, Unions and Community Groups say “Not Yet!â€
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City Council Buckles to Verizon, We Say “Not Yet!”
Last Saturday DC JwJ and CWA Local 2336 members ventured into the cold mo
ing, equipped with clipboards and pens, surveys and signs, ready to record the stories of those tormented by Verizon’s declining quality of service.
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