Wednesday, August 6, 2008

I AM A HUMAN 04/04/08 MLK Commemoration Service and March

Reverend Alan Joplin Photo by Harvey Finkle

Allied Barton Security Guard

Student Labor Action Project, local community activists rallies!

Security guards, local faith, community members, students and labor march in commemoration of MLK Jr's assassination and march to continue his economic justice legacy in Philadelphia

Allied Barton Security Guard

Bishop Dwayne Royster, Living Water United Church of Christ

Allied Barton Security Guard

Rev. Jay Broadnax, Mt Pisgha Church

Allied Barton Security Guard

Eduardo Soriano Castillo, JwJ Field Organizer

Drew Pankeri, JwJ Volunteer Artist

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Just Do It

It’s More Than Just a Dream

by Deesha Dyer

Published: Apr 2, 2008

www.morethanjustadream.org

Forty years ago this weekend, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down in Tennessee while supporting the Memphis Sanitation Workers strike. In his spirit, the Philadelphia Officers and Workers Rising, Jobs with Justice and the Student Labor Action Project are hosting It’s More Than Just a Dream, a service and rally to commemorate the assassination and remind the community that the struggle for civil rights in the workplace still continues.

Sunday’s service will end a weeklong campaign for the security guards of AlliedBarton, who, like the Memphis workers of 1968, are asking for better wages, affordable health care and improved working conditions. "We want to give the guards from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Temple and Penn a platform to educate the faith community about the campaign and why it is important to the general public," says Fabricio Rodriguez, director of Jobs With Justice in Philadelphia. Ultimately, Rodriguez hopes that negotiations will insure the guards (97 percent of whom are African-American) rights, proper training and fair compensation. A sweet dream, indeed.

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The JwJ Pledge

During the next year, I will be there at least five times for someone else's fight, as well as my own. If enough of us are there, we'll all start winning.

STAND UP for our rights as working people to a decent standard of living.

SUPPORT the right of all workers to organize and bargain collectively.

FIGHT for secure family-wage jobs in the face of corporate attacks on working people and our communities.

ORGANIZE the unorganized to take aggressive action to secure a better economic future for all of us.

MOBILIZE those already organized to join the fight for jobs with justice.

Volunteer

Jobs With Justice is looking for Volunteers! Interested in workers' rights? Interested in fighting for social justice work? We need volunteers to help fight for the rights of workers in Philadelphia, as part of a broader social justice struggle. We need people to help distribute handbills, with data entry, writing articles and letters, mailings, photocopying, and much more.

If you want to engage with Jobs with Justice and be part of the solution, please be in touch!

Contact:
director@phillyjwj.org

Student Labor Action Project

As Philadelphia students and youth we commit ourselves to the struggles of working class people in this city and to the fight against all forms of oppression including racism, sexism, and homophobia. We stand for equality, the rights of workers, justice, and democracy. We are against the corporatization of education and aim to make our universities fully accountable to the communities they were built to serve. We believe that direct action wins working class families better working conditions, affordable health care, paid sick days. SLAP provides dedicated student leaders with the skills and tools necessary to affect meaningful change for workers on our campuses and in our communities through trainings, events, and actions.

Contact:

Paul Prescod

piknrol@aol.com