[Antiracism] [EFCA] Stewart Acuff Tomorrow!

[WMass Jobs with Justice]

As Special Assistant to AFL-CIO President John Sweeney since July 2008,
Stewart <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-qzEsGJoKM&feature=related>  Acuff
has been crisscrossing the country championing one of the highest priorities
of the federation—passing the Employee Free <>  Choice Act to restore the
freedom to form unions and bargain collectively to America’s workers.  He’s
been a community organizer and union organizer for over 30 years.

 

Stu will give a rousing May Day speech Friday May 1 in the Campus Center
Auditorium <> , University of Massachusetts Amherst, as part of the annual
Western Mass. Jobs with Justice May Day celebration and fundraiser.  He’ll
be flanked by music by The Raging Grannies, José Ayerve
<http://www.joseayerve.com/> , Tom Neilson <http://tomneilsonmusic.com/>  &
Kat Allen, Red Valley Fog <http://www.myspace.com/redvalleyfog> , Jay
Mankita <http://www.jaymankita.com/> , and Verne McArthur. 

 

The event is cosponsored by 

AFSCME Local 1776

American Friends Service Committee

Co-op Power

Collective Copies

Hampshire/Franklin Central Labor Council AFL-CIO

Massachusetts Nurses Association

Massachusetts Society of Professors (Massachusetts Teachers Association)

Pioneer Valley Central Labor Council AFL-CIO

UMass Graduate Student Senate

UMass Labor Relations & Research Center

UMass Labor/Management Workplace Education

UMass Professional Staff Union (Massachusetts Teachers Association)

UMass Student Government Association

United Auto Workers Local 2322 / UMass Graduate Employees Organization

United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1459

University Staff Association (Massachusetts Teachers Association)

WMUA 91.1FM

and many individual donors.

 

Spread the word!

 

Directions to UMass Campus Center Auditorium:  

 

The Lincoln Campus Center is in the very center of the UMass campus.  The
building is tall and concrete and visible just north of the Pond, all easy
to spot from North Pleasant St in Amherst.  Any parking lot is fine to park
in and free after 5 any day and on weekends.  The Campus Center garage costs
$1.50/hour, capped at $3 after 5pm.

 

See the maps & free parking info at http://parking.umass.edu, bottom of
page.  

 

To get to UMass:  

 

>From the north, take 91 south to Exit 25 for Route 116 in South Deerfield.
Then take 116 south to the UMass exit in Amherst.  

>From the south and MassPike Exit 4, take 91 north to Exit 19 for Route 9 in
Northampton and go east on Route 9 to Route 116 in Hadley.  Take the UMass
exit off 116.  

 

You’ll end up on Mass Ave.  Take that to the first light, Commonwealth Ave,
and take that to either the parking garage (closest to the Campus Center) or
to any nearby parking lot.  Then head toward the tallest buildings you see
at the center of the campus.  The tallest one you come to first is the
library and brick, then just north of that is the student union and attached
to it (tall again) is the Campus Center (concrete).  The auditorium is in
the basement (down the escalator).  

 

Another option when on Mass Ave is to go straight ahead and park in any lot
on the right after passing tall brick dorms on your right.  From these lots
head into campus walking along the big “U” toward the fine arts center, a
sculptural concrete building at the end of the “U”.  Go past that building
and past the pond after it and you come to the student union and then the
Campus Center.  It sounds harder than it is.  The map should help a lot.

 

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Win the Employee Free Choice Act - visit
<http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/> http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/,
<http://jwj.org/freechoice/index.html> http://jwj.org/freechoice/index.html,
and  <http://www.aflcio.org/joinaunion> http://www.aflcio.org/joinaunion.
Donate to the media campaign:
<https://secure.ga6.org/08/turnaroundamericafund?source=taafundwebpage>
https://secure.ga6.org/08/turnaroundamericafund?source=taafundwebpage.  

 

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solidarity with workplace and working class struggles. And these events are
opportunities for JwJ members to fulfill their pledge:
<http://www.jwj.org/pledge.html> "I'll be there for workers' rights at least
five times a year!" This is the core mission of Jobs with Justice (
<http://www.jwj.org/> www.jwj.org), affirming that workers' rights are human
rights. To subscribe, send an email to wmjwj at wmjwj.org with a Subject of
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Western Mass Jobs with Justice
640 Page Blvd #101
Springfield MA 01104
(413) 827-0301 

 

Street Heat is the AFL-CIO mobilization program. [Street Heat] is the
e-newsletter of the Mobilization Committee of the Pioneer Valley Central
Labor Council in cooperation with the Hampshire/Franklin Central Labor
Council.  All Affiliates and Delegates to these CLCs receive [Street Heat]
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Pioneer Valley Central Labor Council

640 Page Blvd

Springfield MA 01104

(413) 732-7970

 

 

 

 

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