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Meet Canadian Labor Leader Ron Oldfield
All EMLC members are invited to a discussion with
the Saint John, NB CLC president, at 2:30pm Sunday, April 27.
Come network with workers from our sister city, and stay for the
May Day Dinner! Contact Jack McKay at 989-4141 for more info.
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Jobs W/ Justice National Conference May 2-4, 2008, Providence,
RI
Several FAM members are carpooling down, and
funding is available from JwJ and the EMLC education fund for
those interested in attending. This is a great opportunity to
meet union members and workers' rights activists from across the
U.S. Learn more at the
JwJ website. The deadline to apply for scholarships is fast
approaching, so contact Jack, Martin, or Brent at 989-5860 if
you are interested.
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Food AND Medicine May Day Dinner Sunday,
April 27
Celebrate international worker solidarity! Help
recognize the Bucket Brigades whose solidarity raised over $80,000
for laid-off workers, and hear from Maine Attorney General Steven
Rowe and family childcare workers who just won their union. Also
featuring homemade food and a Working Chorus singing labor songs!
4-7 pm at the Solidarity Center. Admission is $10; tickets are available
by calling 989-5860. All proceeds go to support Food AND Medicine's
fight for workers' rights.
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Rock Show held at the Solidarity Center April 4
Local punk band Clinic Bomb brought 5 acts to the
Solidarity Center for a third rock show.
For info on future shows, contact Martin Chartrand
at 989-5850 or martin@foodandmedicine.org.
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Nationally recognized Worker Center founders speak
The Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York
(ROC-NY) has become a model for workers centers nationwide. According
to their materials, they "are a membership-based organization
composed of restaurant workers from all over the world who have
come together to improve working conditions for ourselves and for
future workers."
ROC-NY's founders, Saru Jayaraman and Fekkak Mamdouh,
are coming to spoke at the Solidarity Center on Feb. 7, as part
of the Worker Center of Eastern ME. The hall was packed as over
27 FAM and EMLC members learned about some of the most innovative
organizing strategies going on in the U.S.
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Worker Center now open for education and action
Nonunion workers
finally have somewhere to turn for help with problems on the job,
at the new Worker Center of Eastern Maine(WCEM).
Overtime that isn't paid, jobs
lost for trying to unionize, missing paychecks--the WCEM is here to
address all these assaults on working people.
The Worker Center
will hold regular Open Hours every Tuesday from 12-8PM and every
Saturday from 9AM-12PM . All EMLC members, Food AND Medicine members,
and allies are invited to visit during these times, or to hold an
event at the Worker Center.
Contact Martin
Chartrand at 989-5850 or Jack McKay at 989-4141 if you have questions,
or are interested in holding a presentation, workshop, or meeting.
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Food AND Medicine held our 5th Solidarity Harvest!
125 Thanksgiving meals of the finest locally-grown
ingredients were sent to workers from the recently-downsized Domtar
plant in Baileyville. 25 more meals were distributed to laid-off
workers here in Brewer. Thank you to all who helped organize, speak
to the press, and load and transport the food!
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James McMurtry and the Heartless Bastards Not So Heartless
After All: Texas Rockers Raise Money for Worker Center As 1,500
Cheer
Well
over fifteen hundred happy people filled the field at the corner
of Railroad and Main streets on the Bangor waterfront this Labor
Day to hear rebel rock and support worker rights.
The day dawned
cold, at midday turned windy (enough to lift a hospitality tent
up onto the roof of the covered stage; it was retrieved), then mellowed
to a pleasing coolness in the afternoon and evening, as the crowds
gathered and musicians began to play.
Headlining
the concert was Texan James McMurtry, who writes songs of stubborn
struggle and wild abandon and >>>Continue
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For more pictures of the concert,
click here.
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