Archive: Georgetown University

• Act Now: Save the G2 Bus for Georgetown Campus Workers!

  WMATA plans to eliminate the G2 bus and replace it with a D2 bus that picks up passengers at the intersection of 34th and Q Streets. Act now by telling WMATA to preserve the G2 bus that Georgetown wor

  Categories: Immigration and Labor Project, Programs Tags: Action Alert, Campus Workers, Georgetown University, Public transportation, Transit Justice, WMATA

• Preregister for Social Justice in the Spring Semester

  Georgetown offers an array of courses delving into issues of social justice taught by brilliant professors with expertise and real-life experiences in their field. We've highlighted some of these cou

  Category: Labor Studies Tags: Georgetown University, Labor Studies, Preregistration, Social Justice, Working-Class Studies

• Kalmanovitz Initiative to Help Build New Generation of Women’s Labor Leadership

  Georgetown’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor will identify, nurture, train and convene a new generation of diverse, female labor leaders in a collaborative effort with Rutgers

  Category: Our Staff Tags: AFL-CIO, Berger-Marks Foundation, Center for Innovation in Worker Organization, Feminism, Georgetown University, Grants, Immigration, Joseph McCartin, Kalmanovitz Initiative, Labor Movement, Lane Windham, Linda Foley, Liz Shuler, Marilyn Sneiderman, Racial Justice, Rutgers University, Sheri Davis-Faulkner, WILL Empower, Women, Women's Leadership, Worker Justice

• Preregister for Social Justice in Your Fall Semester

  The best problem to have is too many good options. At Georgetown University, there is an abundance of undergraduate courses that engage labor, worker rights, or social justice more broadly. To help

  Category: Labor Studies Tags: Academia, Course List, Course Listings, Economic Justice, Faculty, Georgetown University, Joseph A. McCartin, Labor Studies, Social Justice, Working-Class Studies

• Make Social Justice Part of Your Spring Semester

  One of the greatest parts about attending Georgetown University is the abundance of undergraduate courses that engage social justice, including labor and worker rights! To make course selection easi

  Category: Labor Studies Tags: Academia, Course List, Course Listings, Economic Justice, Faculty, Georgetown University, Joseph A. McCartin, Labor Studies, Social Justice, Working-Class Studies

• Farmworkers and Allies March for Fair Food: Featured Video

  [embed]https://vimeo.com/191589944[/embed] Shalina Chatlani (SFS ’17) interns for Industry Dive and is an Undergraduate Writing Fellow for the Kalmanovitz Initiative. We are thrilled to feature her w

  Category: Uncategorized Tags: CIW, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Georgetown University, Industry Dive, March, Protest, SFA, Shalina Chatlani, Student Farmworker Alliance, Undergraduate Writing Fellow, Wendy's

• Rerum Novarum: Worker Justice in the Church and on Campus

  This year marks the 125th Anniversary of Rerum Novarum (new window), Pope Leo XIII’s pivotal 19th century encyclical that laid the foundation for Catholic teaching on labor and the dignity of work. More than a century later, these principles remain profoundly relevant to our society and our campus community on the Hilltop.

  Categories: Events, Just Employment Policy Tags: Catholic Chaplaincy, Catholic social teaching, Catholic Student Fellowship, Center for Social Justice, Events, Georgetown Solidarity Committee, Georgetown University, Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, Living Wage, Population Health Initiative, Rerum Novarum, Right to Organize, Social Justice, Worker Rights

• 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

• Finding a Home on the Hilltop Through Farmworker Justice

  Pamela Escalante (SFS '17) reflects on her experience organizing with the Student Farmworker Alliance and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to eliminate sweatshop conditions in the fields and build a

  Category: Student Leaders Tags: CIW, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, DC Fair Food, Fair Food Program, Georgetown University, Pam Escalante, Pamela Escalante, SFA, Social Justice, Student Farmworker Alliance

• DC Schools Project Practices True Student-Worker Solidarity

  [caption id="attachment_3090" align="aligncenter" width="885"] Katherine Leopold (SFS '18) with Tackie Memuna, a long-serving Facilities worker at Georgetown.[/caption] Anastasia Sendoun (COL '18) an

  Category: Student Leaders Tags: Alexa Pereda, Anastasia Sendoun, Center for Social Justice, Citizenship, CSJ, DC Schools Project, ESL, Georgetown University, Jesuit Values, Just Employment Policy, Student-Worker Solidarity