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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>News Note:</span></b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Workers at the <b>Smithfield</b>
Packing Co. slaughterhouse and packing plant in Tar Heel will vote today and
tomorrow on whether or not to join the United Food and Commercial Workers
(UFCW). <a
href="http://www.examiner.com/a-1734996~Union_vote_begins_Wednesday_at_huge_NC_pork_plant.html">More
here.</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thursday
December 11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <b>HANDBILLING
IN FRONT OF 2 WAL-MART STORES<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> 4-5pm,
1105 Boston Rd, Springfield, & 591 Memorial Drive, Chicopee. Families,
grassroots activists, and all allies: Please tell Tyrone Housey, 732-6209 x17, <a
href="mailto:thousey@ufcw1459.com">thousey@ufcw1459.com</a>, which store you
plan to target. See <a href="http://www.wakeupwalmart.com">www.wakeupwalmart.com</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thursday
December 11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>SPRAWL
& LOCAL ECONOMIES TEACH-IN<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>6pm,
Food for Thought Books, 106 N Pleasant St, downtown Amherst. Coincides with
Home Depot “Grand Opening” - Will you attend the Home Depot
opening, celebrating yet another big box for the Pioneer Valley and the
traffic-choked eyesore that Route 9 has become; or will you attend the Sprawl
and Local Economies Teach-in, and participate in a community discussion about
economic and environmental sustainability, and what makes the Pioneer Valley so
special? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>What’s
at stake? • vibrant downtowns • locally- and family-owned
businesses • open space • farmland • wetlands •
air/water/noise/light pollution • traffic • public safety •
emergency response times • the rail trail • smart growth •
taxpayer burden • local and foreign workers' rights • a sense of
community, and the Valley's unique quality of life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Come
share your perspectives on the region’s future with contractors,
planners, environmentalists, students, labor organizers, business owners, and
others. Speakers include Emily Kawano, Center for Popular Economics; Jon
Weissman, Western Mass Jobs with Justice; Nick Seamon, Black Sheep Deli; and
Prakash Laufer, United for a Fair Economy. We beat the Wal-Mart Superstore. Now
let’s celebrate, and protect, what we’ve got. Info: Aron Goldman,
218-7865, <a href="mailto:goldman@policydevelopment.org">goldman@policydevelopment.org</a>;
Erika Arthur, 253-5432, <a href="mailto:info@foodforthoughtbooks.com">info@foodforthoughtbooks.com</a>;
and <a href="http://www.stopsprawlmart.org">www.stopsprawlmart.org</a>, <u><span
style='color:blue'><a href="http://www.foodforthoughtbooks">www.foodforthoughtbooks</a></span></u>,
<a href="http://www.jwj.org">www.jwj.org</a>, <a
href="http://www.hadleyneighbors.org">www.hadleyneighbors.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thursday
December 11 (changed from First Thursday this month)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>MASS
CITIZENS AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>7-8:30pm,
Unitarian Society, 245 Porter Lake Drive, Springfield (736-2324). Agenda items
include Sacco Vanzetti 2009 Commemoration. Info: 567-3451, <a
href="mailto:CAJOWL66@aol.com">CAJOWL66@aol.com</a>, <a
href="http://www.mcadp.org">http://www.mcadp.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>TO
UNSUBSCRIBE, send an email to <a href="mailto:wmjwj@wmjwj.org">wmjwj@wmjwj.org</a>
with a Subject of "Unsub Workers' Rights".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>[Workers'
Rights] posts opportunities for you to learn about and show solidarity with
workplace and working class struggles. And these events are opportunities for
JwJ members to fulfill their pledge: <a href="http://www.jwj.org/pledge.html"><span
style='text-decoration:none'>"</span>I'll be there for workers' rights at
least five times a year!<span style='text-decoration:none'>"</span></a> This
is the core mission of Jobs with Justice (<a href="http://www.jwj.org/">www.jwj.org</a>),
affirming that workers' rights are human rights. To subscribe, send an email to
<a href="mailto:wmjwj@wmjwj.org">wmjwj@wmjwj.org</a> with a Subject of
"Subscribe Workers' Rights".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Western Mass
Jobs with Justice<br>
640 Page Blvd #101<br>
Springfield MA 01104<br>
(413) 827-0301 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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