Archive: Organizing

• Apply for the 2019 KI Summer Organizing or Research in Action Internship!

  KI is now accepting applications for its paid, full-time 8-week internship for Summer 2019 open to Georgetown students. Each summer, KI recruits Georgetown students who are dedicated to social justic

  Categories: Organizing Internship, Research in Action Internship Tags: Catholic Labor Network, DC JWJ, Good Jobs First, Juan Belman, Many Languages One Voice, ONE DC, Organizing, Organizing Internship, Research, Research in Action, Summer Organizing Internship, WILL Empower

• Heather Booth Film Leaves GU Inspired and Hopeful

  A screening last week of Heather Booth: Changing the World left a crowd of students, faculty, and community members stirred to action, and more committed than ever to working for social justice. H

  Category: Women Innovating Labor Leadership Tags: Events, Films, Heather Booth, Lane Windham, Organizing, WILL Empower

• Worker Organizing Roundtable features Lane Windham’s Knocking on Labor’s Door

  How can working people build power today when organizing a union is so difficult? That question was at the heart of a KI roundtable discussion on strategic twenty-first century worker organizing with AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride, Jobs with Justice Organizing Director Erica Smiley, and KI Associate Director Lane Windham.

  Categories: Events, Our Staff, Women Innovating Labor Leadership Tags: 1970s, AFSCME, Elissa McBride, Erica Smiley, Jane Fonda, Jobs with Justice, Joseph A. McCartin, Knocking on Labor's Door, Lane Windham, Organizing, WILL Empower, Women

• 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

• Apply to Be a KI Organizing Fellow for Fall 2016!

  Applications are live for the 2016 KI Fall Organizing Internship! The KI Organizing Internship provides an opportunity for Georgetown students to observe the impact of community and labor organizing

  Category: Organizing Internship Tags: DC EJC, DC Jobs with Justice, Internships, Nick Wertsch, ONE DC, Organizing, Organizing Internship, ROC-DC, Student Programs

• Apply for the 2016 KI Summer Organizing Internship

  Applications are now live for the 2016 KI Summer Organizing Internship! The KI Summer Organizing Internship provides an opportunity for Georgetown students to observe the impact of community and lab

  Category: Organizing Internship Tags: Applications, DC Jobs with Justice, DC JWJ, Many Languages One Voice, MLOV, ONE DC, Organizing, Organizing Internship

• WCP: Organizing Miracles

  What motivates people to risk their comfort and safety to confront oppression? How can organizing foster a movement that leads to major change? In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Jack Metzgar

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Church, East Germany, Jack Metzgar, Leipzig, Nonviolence, Organizing, Protest, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives