TAKE ACTION NOW in this issue

Healthcare for All coalition  YOU CAN change health in Missouri!  NOW is the time to endorse principles that demand a plan to make sure ALL MISSOURIANS HAVE HEALTH CARE.

SOLIDARITY EVENTS in this issue

City Workers Rally, 8/29

2008 Bread & Roses Committee Now Calling for Film Submissions, Theme: Condition Critical - Health Care in America

Labor Law Breakfast Series, 9/10

Building Jobs with Justice Training, 9/12-14

Community Against Poverty Candidate Forum, 9/24

Bread & Roses, 10/2

MASW Annual Conference, 10/22-23

JOB OPENINGS/ INTERNSHIPS in this issue

Metropolitan Congregations United seeks full-time community organzier

GRO has summer/fall interships available

Advancement Project Seeks Kansas City Local Voter Protection Advocate

TAKE ACTION NOW

Join the Missouri Healthcare for All Coalition!  Endorse principles that demand a plan to make sure ALL MISSOURIANS HAVE HEALTH CARE  Missouri Health Care for All is seeking both group and  individual endorsements at this time!

Join a growing group of organizations, faith communities and individuals who believe that all Missourians should have access to affordable, quality healthcare.  This long-tem, state-wide coalition will work to ensure that health care proposals move Missouri forward until we all have health care.  Joining this coalition will elevate the grassroots voice that demands affordable, quality care for everyone.  Visit www.myspace.com/mohealthcareforall, or click here NOW to sign on as a supporter. Be sure to promote this opportunity to your congregations and community organizations!

SOLIDARITY EVENTS

Friday, August 29, 2008 - DEADLINE
2008 Bread & Roses Committee Calling for Film Submissions!
The St. Louis Coalition of Missouri Jobs with Justice is seeking film submissions for the annual Bread & Roses Exhibition.  For the past six years, "Bread & Roses" has served as an annual celebration of the arts in political action and in the lives of workers.  "Bread & Roses" was named for the labor hymn which reminds us "Hearts starve as well as bodies". 

The 2008 theme, Condition Critical: Health Care in America speaks to the millions of Missouri workers who continue to struggle with the rising costs and disparities that exist in the American health care system. 

This year, the Bread & Roses committee will only be accepting pieces from one artistic medium, Film.  They will consider productions in the following categories:  Narrative Short, Documentary Short, Mockumentary Short, Animated Short, Experiemental Short, PSA, and Music Video.  Films must be 10 minutes or shorter, and PSA's must be 15, 30, or 60 seconds in length. 

There will be a workshop offered in early July for beginning filmmakers utilzing the health care story bank for the Bread & Roses project.  All films must be submitted in DVD format.  For more information, go to www.stl-jwj.org/bread-and-roses/ or contact Aaron Burnett at 314-644-0466 x 11 or aaron@stl-jwj.org.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 8 AM - Breakfast; 8:30-9:30 AM - Presentation
Labor Law Breakfast Series - Insubordination Grievances: Winners and Losers
Has your member been disciplined or discharged for insubordination?  Some employers favor this as a catch-all reason for disciplinary action.  Join Brian Love of Hammond, Shinners, Turcotte, Larrew, and Young as he discusses the investigative tactics needed to get all the facts and enable the union to present the strongest case possible.

Held at IBEW Local 1439 Hall, 2121 59th St., 63110.  Use the back entrance to the meeting hall.  Parking is availabe on the street, in the back lot or at the Glaziers Hall at 5916 Wilson Ave.  Cost:  $15/person if annual fee has not been paid.  Make Checks payable to St. Louis County Extension Council.  For more information or to register by phone or email contact Roz Sherman Voellinger, Labor Education Specialist at 314-615-7604 or sherman-voellingerr@missouri.edu. 

Friday, Septmber 12-14, 2008 Begins Friday, 10 AM
Building Jobs with Justice Training
Take part in the Missouri Jobs with Justice leadership training.   The training includes several sessions including such topics as: building relationships, understanding power, the meaning and understanding of self interest, issues and actions, creating winnable campaigns.  The training will be held at the Rickman Center outside of Jefferson City.  Application deadline is August 15, 2008.  Some scholarships are available.  For more information click here. 

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 7 PM
Community Against Poverty Candidate Forum
Members of Jobs with Justice are encouraged to mark September 24th at 7 PM on their calendars.  Community Against Poverty (CAP), a coalition of interfaith, civic, and community organizations convened by the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), will sponsor a candidate forum to focused on the issues surrounding poverty.  Jobs with Justice is one of the co-sponsoring organizations.  

This event is open to the public and free of charge.  It will be held in the auditorium at the Missouri History Museum at Forest Park.  JCRC is aksing that those who attend bring winter coats and non-perishable food items to be donated to local charities.  For more information, please go to the JCRC website www.jcrcstl.org or contact Phyllis Markus at 314-495-7271.  

Thursday, October 2, 2008 7 PM
2008 Bread & Roses Exhibition - Critical Condition Health Care in America
Join the members of Jobs with Justice in their 6th annual celebration of the Arts in political action.  Each year the Bread & Roses exhibition calls for submissions based on a different theme, drawn from the struggles of working people.  This years event will showcase short films and spoken word works centered around America's broken health care system and the struggles working people face working within that system. 

This exhibition will be held at the Regional Arts Commision, 6128 Delmar Blvd, 63112 at 7 PM.  Come out and celebrate the lives of working people.  As the labor hyn for which the event is named reminds us, "Hearts starve as well as bodies..." For more information, contact Aaron Burnett at 314-644-0466 x 11 or aaron@stl-jwj.org.

Wednesday October 22-23, 2008
MASW 108th Annual Conference
MASW is proud to annoucne its 108th annual conference to be held October 22-23, 2008 at the Holiday Inn Executive Center in Columbia, Missouri.  This year's Conference, "Economic Injustice - The Increasing Divide and Rising Economic Insecurities" will explore the complex intersection of economics and policy, and how we might work to even the playing feidl in combating social stratification in America.  The Conference will feature speakers Robert Kuttner, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the American Prospect and Candace Iveson, Founder of Policy Works.

Special student rates, and scholarship applications are available. For more information call MASW at 1-888-634-2901 or email citizenvoice@masw.org. 

JOB OPENINGS/INTERNSHIPS

Metropolitan Congregations United Seeks Full-Time Community Organizer
MCU seeks a full time community organizer.  MCU is a regional grassroots organization of 50 congregations, rooted in faith values.  Its mission is to win concrete improvements in the lives of families, congregations, and others in the St. Louis Metro region by developing leaders and organizing around winnable issues.  MCU enables people to realize their own power and gives them the skills and allies necessary to build the power for change.  The organization has a successful 15-year tract  record and is connected national to the Gamaliel Foundation.  Visit our website at www.mcustl.org for more information, or submit resume and cover letter to the director at: 

Metropolitan Congregations United
Attn: Katie Jansen Larson
4501 Westminster Place
St. Louis, MO 63108
kjansen@mcustl.org

GrassRoots Organizing Annouces Internship Opportunities for the Summer and Fall - 3-4 Positions
GRO- Grass Roots Organizing announces that educational internships are available for the GRO THE VOTE non-partisan community voting project and grassroots leadership development programs. 

If you or someone you know is interested in exciting, hands on, people powered learning experiences, wants to develop valuable skills and be part of a successful that bulids community organization, this opportunity is for you.  GRO will provide intern/practicum student with materials needed to complete internship.  A small stipend based on the number of intern hours completed and intensiveness of the overall learning experience is provided at the mid-term and upon successful completion of internship and overall performance evaluation.

For more information, or to apply send resume and cover letter to Robin Acree, Executive Director at:

GRO - Grass Roots Organizing
304 E. Breckenridge
Mexico, MO  65265
(573) 581-9595
(573) 581-1255 - FAX
robin@gromo.org

Advancement Project Seeks Local Voter Protection Advocate in Kansas City, MO
Advancement Project (DC), a non-partisan nationa civil rights and racial justice action organization with a Voter Protection Program in Missouri, sees a temporary, part-time, local Voter Protection Advocate for Kansas City, Missouri.  Through non-partisan voter protection work, the job will focus on sustained pre-election activities in order to permanently break down barriers to voting in the 2008 election cycle and beyond. 

The Kansas City Local Voter Protection Advocate will be Advancement Project's on-the-ground eyes and ears in the Kansas City area, including Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri. 

Qualifications:  Candidate must have strong written and oral communication skills, good interpersonal skills, and a proven commitment to racial justice.  A college degree required.  Coalition experience, and familiarity with voting rights and/or civil rights laws and pluses.  Salary based on experience. 

To Apply:  Applicants should send their resume with a list of references and the phrase "KC Local Voter Protection Advocate" in the subject line, to Denise Lieberman, Missouri Attorney and Voter Protection Advocate at dlieberman@advancementproject.org or by fax to (202) 728-9557. 

Deadline:  Applications will be accepted until position is filled - position needs to be filled as soon as possible. 

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