[Antiracism] [Workers Rights] Invitation to Meet Kim Bobo 10/4

[WMass Jobs With Justice]

Dear friends,

Please accept an invitation to hear, meet, take action with Kim Bobo.  (And
please extend this invitation to others.)

Kim is the founding Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice
(www.iwj.org), a network of people of faith that calls upon our religious
values in order to educate, organize, and mobilize the religious community
in the US on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits, and
conditions for workers, and give voice to workers, especially low-wage
workers.  On Wednesday, October 3, she will address the Mass. Nurses Assn.
Convention in Springfield.

On Thursday, October 4, Kim will join the Justice @ Smithfield Committee of
Western Mass. Jobs with Justice as we attempt to meet with corporate execs
at Big Y Foods, 2145 Roosevelt Avenue, Springfield, regarding Big Y's sale
of pork products from Smithfield Foods's Tar Heel NC slaughterhouse.
Background info at www.smithfieldjustice.com and
www.massaflcio.org/node/3723 (the request to contact Big Y mentioned there
continued past Sep. 10).  

Please consider joining the Delegation!  We will meet at the Pioneer Valley
AFL-CIO hq, 640 Page Blvd, Springfield*, at 10am, and car-pool to Big Y hq
to get there around 10:30.  To join the Delegation, contact Jon Weissman,
(413) 827-0301, mailto:wmjwj at wmjwj.org, by 5:30pm, Wednesday 10/3.

Afterward, we'll head back to the AFL-CIO Hall in time for lunch.  Kim will
say a few words about Interfaith Worker Justice.  People interested in IWJ
are invited to lunch even if you can't do the Delegation Visit.  RSVP for
lunch by 6pm, Monday 10/1: Jon Weissman, (413) 827-0301,
mailto:wmjwj at wmjwj.org.


* Directions
(1a) from Mass Pike Exit 6 to I-291 West, Exit 5:
West on Page Boulevard to East Springfield. Pass McDonald's on left & Dunkin
Donuts on right.
(1b) from I-91 Exit 8 to I-291 East, Exit 4:
East on Page Boulevard (right at lights). Pass Stevens Street on right &
Gendon's on left.
(2) 640 Page Boulevard is a low red-brick building on the north side, next
to the Cornerstone Bar (at corner with Osborne Ter), across from the main
entrance to the old Westinghouse factory (Springfield Industrial Center).
Park in front.

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