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WHAT: One Night, Human Rights and Labor Rights -- Unite!
WHO: Bettie Mae Fikes, Michael Honey, Steve DeTray
WHEN: Thursday, May 14, 2009 -- 6:00 p.m.
WHERE: Carwein Auditorium, University of Washington-Tacoma campus
[Via Mike Honey]
Student organizations at the University of Washington-Tacoma are co-sponsoring an important event free for students and the community, bringing a delegation of workers who sat in at the Republic Window Company and refused to leave until the bailed-out bank gave their company a loan and started them back to work. Pres. Obama supported them, and they won! They will tell us how they did it, and we will also hear some great freedom and labor music.
Thursday, May 14, 6:00 p.m., Carwein Auditorium (center plaza of UWT campus, one block up the stairs from 19th and Pacific)
Subject: One Night, Human Rights and Labor Rights -- Unite!
The Student Labor Action Project at UW Tacoma, HOPE Network, Black Student Union, Latino Student Organization, ACLU student chapter will bring together two events on the same night!!!
What: The UE Republic Victory story, along with the powerful music of Bettie Mae Fikes and Professors Michael Honey and Steve DeTray will be on stage!
Clear your calendar for the night of Thursday, May 14, 2009. The location is the Carwein Auditorium.
This event is FREE! Light refreshments will be provided.
SLAP @ UWT -- Student Labor Action Project "at" [the] University of Washington Tacoma:
We are a group of students at the University of Washington Tacoma who are committed to the rights of all workers, learning about labor rights, and building strong leadership skills in order to address the following struggles:
*Supporting worker and immigrant rights
*Undoing institutionalized racism
*Combating other forms of oppression in the labor market
*Changing people's consumption practices to promote social justice
*Lobbying decision-makers to advance working class issues
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Star Angelina Murray, SLAP student representative
Student Labor Action Project at UW Tacoma
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Information regarding our guests:
Please see these web links for more information about The Republic Doors and Windows Victory @ http://www.ueunion.org/ue_republic.html
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Links on the Chain: Freedom Singer Bettie Mae Fikes with Professor Michael Honey
U.S. musician and civil rights activist Bettie Mae Fikes was born in Selma, Alabama, in 1948 and began singing at the age of four. She received a three-week jail sentence for her protest singing during the Selma, Alabama, voting-rights struggle in 1963. She was fifteen years old. Martin Luther King, Julian Bond, and other civil rights activists took her under their wing as she became a teenage music leader for the Civil Rights Movement. She has continued as a freedom singer, and a professional blues and gospel musician ever since. She lives near Los Angeles, touring periodically.
In May 1998 she appeared at Carnegie Hall, and performed with folk singers Peter, Paul, and Mary at the Newport Folk Festival. For the last ten years, she has toured with the Freedom Singers -- a group that emerged from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s. Ms. Fikes occasionally teams up with historian and guitarist Michael Honey to present "Links on the Chain, Songs of Labor and Civil Rights History," through narrative, photos, and song. Honey performed this with Pete Seeger to a mass audience at the Seattle Folk Festival in 1997. He and Fikes will be performing together again in the spring of 2009 at a freedom movement and labor history conference in Chicago.
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