Dear AFGE Family,
This upcoming weekend is the Women’s and Fair Practices Departments' final weekend offering its Community Activism and Racial justice is Real trainings. These trainings will provide our members with the insights and skills needed to be true and progressive advocates in their locals and districts.
Descriptions of the trainings offered and registration links can be found below. We hope you are able to join us!
Racial Justice is Real:
In 1964, Sister Fannie Lou Hamer proclaimed she was sick and tired of being sick and tired. These famous words were in reference to being treated as a second-class citizen in this country. Despite decades of culture shifts and policy changes, prejudices against communities of color has intensified. This workshop will take a look at how specific changes throughout history have had negative effects on communities of color and how we can support efforts to fight back. Participants will look at what racial justice means for our work in the union and the labor movement and how we as people of color, activists and allies can bring about positive change for our members and their families.
Saturday, December 12 from 11am - 3pm ET
Community Activism:
This course will focus on building our AFGE
members into community activists who will work to mobilize around racial,
social, and economic based justice issues that many of our AFGE members are
faced with not only in their workplaces, but also within their communities.
This training will be presented by our HRC, YOUNG, and AFL-CIO Constituency
Group Leaders and will provide an overview of AFGE’s Women’s and Fair Practices
Departments, our programs and support, our partnerships and coalitions, as well
as preparing our members with becoming true representatives of labor, civil,
and human rights.
Sunday, December 13 from 11am - 3pm ET
In Solidarity,
Jeremy A. Lannan
NVP for Women and Fair Practices
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