Archive: Events
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One Hundred Years of U.S. Labor and Employment Relations
Registration from 8:30 am to 9 am. The conference will begin at 9 am.
Please RSVP here by Wednesday, April 24th.
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Teachers, Unions, and School Reform: A Dialogue
** event cancelled, to be rescheduled ** Join us for a dialogue on the future of education. Featuring Kaya Henderson, DCPS Chancellor; Nathan A. Saunders, President of the Washington Teachers’ Union; and Alexandra Fuentes, Biology Teacher at Caesar Chavez Public Charter High School for Public Policy.
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From the Fields: An American Journey
Please join the Kalmanovitz Initiative for a screening of From the Fields: An American Journey and a discussion with filmmaker Carolyn Brown and NBC News reporter and former farmworker Damian Trujillo.
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Class, Culture, and Advocacy: Building Working-Class Studies
New Georgetown English professor Sherry Linkon and retired Labor Studies Professor John Russo will tell the story of the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University and highlight lessons for organizing from their experience.
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Unpaid = Unfair? Law, Economics, & Ethics of Unpaid Internships
Join the Kalmanovitz Initiative and the Georgetown Solidarity Committee on March 18, 2013 for “Unpaid = Unfair? Law, Economics, & Ethics of Unpaid Internships.”
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Together, We Are Super-Human: Cory Doctorow Speaks at Georgetown
On February 25, 2013, science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger Cory Doctorow joined the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and the Georgetown University Lecture Fund for a talk titled, “Together, We Are Super-Human: How Technology Gives Communities Super Powers.”
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Music That Does Justice
Featuring labor and environmental activist Joe Uehlein, vocalist of roots-rock and Americana band The U-Liners. Come hear the songs and stories from the movements to support workers’ rights, environmental and economic justice, and peace.
Categories: Events, Practitioner Fellows
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Together, We Are Super-Human: How Technology Gives Communities Super Powers
Featuring Cory Doctorow, science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger; co-editor of Boing Boing and the author of novels Pirate Cinema (Tor Teen, 2012), For the Win (2010) and the bestselling Little Brother (2008). His latest novel is Homeland, the sequel to Little Brother.
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Panics, Politics and Party: How Financial Panics Defined and Redefined American Politics, 1789 to the Present
In his new book, historian Scott Reynolds Nelson shows that consumer debt has underpinned almost every major financial panic in the nation’s history. Join us for a conversation with Nelson about how financial panics have shaped American politics.
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So Rich, So Poor: Reviving the Fight Against Poverty
Join us for a conversation with Peter Edelman, one of the nation’s foremost champions of the poor, about his book, So Rich, So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America.
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