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31st August 2015, 06:17
All out to Charleston's Days of Grace! Sept 5 & 6
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Days of Grace Schedule
Sept 5 - 9a
March & Rally begins @ Wragg Square (342 Meeting St)
Sept 5 - 12:30p
Southern Workers Assembly mtg @ ILA Local 1422 Hall (1142 Morrison Dr)
Sept 5 - 2 - 6p
Conference @ ILA Local 1422 Hall (1142 Morrison Dr)
Sept 6 - 7:30a
Interdenominational Service (Location TBA)
Sept 6 - 10a - 3p
Conference @ ILA Local 1422 Hall (1142 Morrison Dr)
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Join SWA Workers Contingent at Days of Grace March & Post-March SWA Meeting
Saturday, September 5 @ 12:30p
ILA Local 1422 Hall (1142 Morrison Dr)
Immediately following the conclusion of the Days of Grace march (see full weekend schedule from the coalition to the left), the Southern Workers Assembly will be convening an important meeting to discuss how to strengthen our alliance of Southern labor unions and workers organizations in this critical period. Please plan to join us and spread the word throughout your locals and memberships.
Southern Workers can't continue to be silent or count on the leadership of politicians. We as workers must lead, must stand up for ourselves, and act now! We need a united and well organized SWA. See you Saturday at the march!
The Days of Grace coalition is urgently seeking donations to help with costs associated with holding a large demonstration and conference. Please consider making a donation here:
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Charleston's History of Struggle
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Top Left: Denmark Vesey (statue in Hampton Park pictured), a founder of the AME church that later became Mother Emanuel, who used the church as a meeting place to organize the Black freedom struggle and planned a major slave revolt
Top Right: Septima Clark, a Charleston public school teacher and civil rights freedom fighter who fought for mass public education of Black people and led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's popular education efforts
Bottom Left: The Charleston hospital workers struggle of 1968-69 / Coretta Scott King pictured here marching with hospital workers -- mostly Black women -- who went on strike to demand recognition of their union, Local 1199B of the Retail Drug and Hospital Employees
Bottom Right: The Charleston 5 // ILA Local 1422 picketed a company that attempted to use nonunion labor to unload its cargo, which was subsequently attacked by police and resulted in 5 union members receiving charges; an international movement to free the Charleston 5 and highlight the unjust treatment of Blackworkers in the South led to victory
The Southern Workers Assembly, a rank-and-file workers/labor network committed to organizing workers power throughout the U.S. South, calls on Southern workers to mobilize for the Days of Grace/Rage in Charleston, SC on September 5 & 6, 2015, and to commit to organizing workers power with a program that challenges corporate greed and the racist system that it has created.
To challenge and defeat this racist system, the power of the people, especially the Black and general working-class must be organized and mobilized against the economic and political forces and system that places profits over human needs and rights.
The last 7 years has made clear, that without the organized power of the people, especially the Black and general working-class, that elected officials at best, try to exercise power within a system dominated by the corporate power of the 1-percent. Most unfortunately follow the dictates of big money.
Just as the ILA 1422 struggle for labor rights built a national and international movement that demanded and won the Freedom of the Charleston 5; it must utilize the Days of Grace/Rage mobilization to inspire all of labor to mobilize their power to stop this War on Black America and the working-class!
Organized labor must become a force for not only for economic justice, but also social justice and fundamental change that benefits the majority of the people without special privileges.
Labor must prepare itself to shut the economy down to stop the War on Black America and the working-class!
Forward Together! Not One Step Back!
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PO Box 934
Rocky Mount, NC 27802
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Days of Grace Schedule
Sept 5 - 9a
March & Rally begins @ Wragg Square (342 Meeting St)
Sept 5 - 12:30p
Southern Workers Assembly mtg @ ILA Local 1422 Hall (1142 Morrison Dr)
Sept 5 - 2 - 6p
Conference @ ILA Local 1422 Hall (1142 Morrison Dr)
Sept 6 - 7:30a
Interdenominational Service (Location TBA)
Sept 6 - 10a - 3p
Conference @ ILA Local 1422 Hall (1142 Morrison Dr)
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Join SWA Workers Contingent at Days of Grace March & Post-March SWA Meeting
Saturday, September 5 @ 12:30p
ILA Local 1422 Hall (1142 Morrison Dr)
Immediately following the conclusion of the Days of Grace march (see full weekend schedule from the coalition to the left), the Southern Workers Assembly will be convening an important meeting to discuss how to strengthen our alliance of Southern labor unions and workers organizations in this critical period. Please plan to join us and spread the word throughout your locals and memberships.
Southern Workers can't continue to be silent or count on the leadership of politicians. We as workers must lead, must stand up for ourselves, and act now! We need a united and well organized SWA. See you Saturday at the march!
The Days of Grace coalition is urgently seeking donations to help with costs associated with holding a large demonstration and conference. Please consider making a donation here:
Donate to Days of Grace coalition (http://southernworker.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=552d3a984b02de482ee7d0a6b&id=d6be21de7a&e=48ada11f89)
Share (http://southernworker.us7.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=552d3a984b02de482ee7d0a6b&id=1d9d7bf5f7&e=48ada11f89)
Tweet (http://southernworker.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=552d3a984b02de482ee7d0a6b&id=49b0a48c82&e=48ada11f89)
Forward (http://us7.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=552d3a984b02de482ee7d0a6b&id=3031962b04&e=48ada11f89)
Charleston's History of Struggle
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Top Left: Denmark Vesey (statue in Hampton Park pictured), a founder of the AME church that later became Mother Emanuel, who used the church as a meeting place to organize the Black freedom struggle and planned a major slave revolt
Top Right: Septima Clark, a Charleston public school teacher and civil rights freedom fighter who fought for mass public education of Black people and led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's popular education efforts
Bottom Left: The Charleston hospital workers struggle of 1968-69 / Coretta Scott King pictured here marching with hospital workers -- mostly Black women -- who went on strike to demand recognition of their union, Local 1199B of the Retail Drug and Hospital Employees
Bottom Right: The Charleston 5 // ILA Local 1422 picketed a company that attempted to use nonunion labor to unload its cargo, which was subsequently attacked by police and resulted in 5 union members receiving charges; an international movement to free the Charleston 5 and highlight the unjust treatment of Blackworkers in the South led to victory
The Southern Workers Assembly, a rank-and-file workers/labor network committed to organizing workers power throughout the U.S. South, calls on Southern workers to mobilize for the Days of Grace/Rage in Charleston, SC on September 5 & 6, 2015, and to commit to organizing workers power with a program that challenges corporate greed and the racist system that it has created.
To challenge and defeat this racist system, the power of the people, especially the Black and general working-class must be organized and mobilized against the economic and political forces and system that places profits over human needs and rights.
The last 7 years has made clear, that without the organized power of the people, especially the Black and general working-class, that elected officials at best, try to exercise power within a system dominated by the corporate power of the 1-percent. Most unfortunately follow the dictates of big money.
Just as the ILA 1422 struggle for labor rights built a national and international movement that demanded and won the Freedom of the Charleston 5; it must utilize the Days of Grace/Rage mobilization to inspire all of labor to mobilize their power to stop this War on Black America and the working-class!
Organized labor must become a force for not only for economic justice, but also social justice and fundamental change that benefits the majority of the people without special privileges.
Labor must prepare itself to shut the economy down to stop the War on Black America and the working-class!
Forward Together! Not One Step Back!
Copyright © 2015 Southern Workers Assembly, All rights reserved.
You either attended an event hosted by the Southern Workers Assembly or have signed one of our online petitions.
Our mailing address is:
Southern Workers Assembly
PO Box 934
Rocky Mount, NC 27802
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