Black Lives & Just Transition (Labor Network for Sustainability)

June 24, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

(webinar hosted by Bill Fletcher, Jr.)

Wednesday, June 24, 2020
5 pm – 6:15 pm Pacific

Explore history of Black workers in the U.S. during economic transitions. Hear perspectives from labor leaders on the impact of the pandemic, the unfolding economic crisis and climate change as well as the potential of the global uprising for Black lives to help shape a just, sustainable economic future for all workers and communities.

The webinar will include an interview with Jhacova Williams, economist for the Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy (PREE) of the Economic Policy Institute, and a roundtable discussion with Nia Winston, General Vice President of UNITE HERE, Tanya Wallace Gobern, Executive Director of the National Black Workers Center and others.

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Date:: June 24, 2020
Time:: 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Event Category:: Community Events
Event Tags:: Economics
Website:: https://labor4sustainability.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=492

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