Archive: Events

• Global Women / Global Work

  Join us at 4pm on Monday, September 26 in Copley Formal Lounge for an event exploring the experiences of working women whose lives are impacted by globalization in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas.

  Categories: Events, Our Staff Tags: Anthropology, Arab Studies, Denise Brennen, Discussion, Events, Fida Adely, Foreign Service, Globalization, Gwendolyn Mikkell, Joseph A. McCartin, Women, Women's and Gender Studies, You-Me Park

• Women in Labor and Community Organizing at Georgetown

  In partnership with the Georgetown Women’s Alliance, the Kalmanovitz Initiative hosted a discussion that addressed women’s leadership in labor and community organizing. The event aimed to encourage, inspire, and offer substantive ideas to women in the Georgetown community who are interested in social justice organizing and activism.

  Categories: Events, Student Leaders Tags: Alumni, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Community Organizing, DC Fair Food, Erin Riordan, Georgetown Women's Alliance, GWA, Karina Lopez, Labor, Lane Windham, Maria Ochoa, Organizing, Sarah Vazquez, SEIU Local 1199, Showing Up for Racial Justice, SURJ, Taylor Griffin, UFCW Local 400, Women

• Join us at the Kalmanovitz Initiative Fall 2016 Open House!

  The KI is excited to welcome all of our students and colleagues back to the Hilltop! Please join us for an open house on Friday, September 2, from 3:00 to 5:00 PM in Maguire Hall 209.

  Category: Events Tags: Fall Semester, Open House, Social Justice

• Fixing Los Angeles and Bargaining for the Common Good

  On Wednesday, July 13, nearly 150 representatives of community organizations, unions, think tanks, and universities gathered to look closely at the success of the “Fix LA” movement and discuss the state of Bargaining for the Common Good efforts around the country.

  Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, Events Tags: AFSCME, AFT, Amisha Patel, Amy Schur, Bargaining for the Common Good, BCG, Center for Popular Democracy, Fix LA, Gilda Valdez, Jobs with Justice, Joseph A. McCartin, Kalmanovitz Initiative, Marilyn Sneiderman, Matthew Polk, Maurice Weeks, NEA, Patrick Dixon, People's Action, Peter Kuhns, PICO National Network, Randi Weingarten, Reverend William D. Smart, Saqib Bhatti, SEIU

• Bargain for the Common Good: Lessons from LA and Beyond

  Find out how the Fix LA Coalition united labor and community groups, broke the mold on collective bargaining, and WON BIG – and how the Bargaining for the Common Good strategy used in LA is helping workers and their allies around the country roll back austerity, win new revenues for public services, and build power together.

  Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, Events Tags: AFSCME, AFT, Bargaining for the Common Good, BCG, CIWO, Fix LA, Fix Los Angels, Los Angeles, NEA, Rutgers, SEIU

• Celebrating Ten Years of Just Employment at Georgetown

  On November 5, 2015, Georgetown students, alumni, staff, faculty, and administrators gathered in Riggs Library to reflect and celebrate the way the university realizes its Catholic identity and Jesuit heritage to the men and women who sustain our campus: the Just Employment Policy (JEP).

  Categories: Events, In the News, Just Employment Policy, Student Leaders Tags: Bob Stumberg, Cal Watson, Caleb Weaver, Chris Kerr, DC Action Lab, Donte Crestwell, Erik Smulson, Georgetown Solidarity Committee, Georgetown University, Hannah Cook, Hunger Strike, Ignatian Solidarity Network, JEP, Joseph A. McCartin, Just Employment Policy, Kerry Danner McDonald, Lisa Krim, Living Wage, Natalie Yoon, Nick Wertsch, Raymond Kemp, Robert Groves, United Students Against Sweatshops, Virginia Leavell

• Welcome Back Open House

  The Kalmanovitz Initiative is excited to welcome and welcome back all of our students to the Hilltop! Please join us for an open house on Wednesday, September 9, from 3:00 to 5:00 PM in our office, Maguire Hall 209.

  Category: Events

• 5th Annual Labor Research and Action Network Conference

  The Kalmanovitz Initiative hosted the fifth annual national Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) conference at Georgetown University Law Center on June 15-16, 2015.

  Category: Events Tag: Labor Research and Action Network

• Fighting Inequality: Joint Conference of LAWCHA and WCSA

  Fighting Inequality: Class, Race, and Power is a joint conference of the Labor and Working-Class History Association and the Working-Class Studies Association. The Kalmanovitz Initiative will host the conference from May 28-31, 2015, at Georgetown University.

  Category: Events Tags: Labor and Working-Class History Association, Working-Class Studies Association

• In Defense of the Public Square

  The Kalmanovitz Initiative is pleased to host In Defense of the Public Square, a conference of elected officials, public intellectuals and union, business and civil rights leaders on May 1 and 2, 2015, in partnership with the Albert Shanker Institute.

  Category: Events Tags: AFSCME, AFT, Albert Shanker Institute, American Prospect, Dissent Magazine, SEIU