jim writes:

"Race and Labor Matters"
hosted by the Brooklyn College Graduate Center for Worker Education
Thursday, December 4th 6pm-10pm
Friday, December 5th 8am-6pm
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th St.), New York City

Historically, labor has played an important, if under analyzed, role in the struggle against racism. However, the U.S. labor movement has never fully addressed the complex and enduring issues of race and racism. Profound and ongoing structural, political, technological, and demographic transformations have fundamentally changed the dynamics of race and labor in America and in the globalized work force. What are the new problems, opportunities, and features of labor's 21st century color barrier?

Join leading labor scholars and trade union activists for a reframing of the relationship between race and labor in America. Through interdisciplinary approaches to the subject, panelists will consider significant economic, social, historical, and political conditions affecting racial stratification in union and non-union labor. Panels will discuss U.S. labor and race matters in relation to affirmative action, immigration, labor-community relations, diversity, globalization, anti-racist union efforts, union democracy, gender and possibilities for social change.

http://www.raceandlabor.org/index.htm"