TAKE ACTION NOW in this issue

Healthcare for All Movement  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

Discussion and Book Signing with Bill Fletcher, 9/26

4th Annual Educating for Change Curriculum Fair, 9/27

Bread & Roses, 10/2

Labor Learn Film Series, 10/21

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

TAKE ACTION NOW

Join the Missouri Healthcare for All Movement!  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 movement will work to ensure that health care proposals move Missouri forward until we all have health care.  Joining this movement 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, September 26, 2008 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Discussion and Book Signing with Bill Fletcher
Come out and listen to Labor Organizer and Community Activist Bill Fletcher  as he discusses community organzing at the local level.  Mr. Fletcher is a founding member of the Black Radical Congress, Co-Founder of the Center for Labor Renewal, and a member of the Jobs with Justice National Workers' Rights Board.  

This event is free and open to the public and will be held at the Carpenters' Union Hall, 1401 Hampton Ave, 63109.  Sponsored by the Justice institute, in partnership with AFGE Local 3354, AFGE District 9, St. Louis Area Jobs with Justice, and the St. Louis Jobs Area Jobs with Justice Workers' Rights Board.  

A Book Signing will follow the presentation.    

Saturday, September 27, 2008 9 AM - 3PM
4th Annual Educating for Change Curriculum Fair "Defining Democracy"
Come take part in over forty table displays from educators and activistss in St. Louis focused on curriculum and inspirational ideas for teaching and organizing for Justice in the classroom.  Held at the University of Missouri - St. Louis, Marillac Hall, 8001 Natural Bridge Rd., 63121.  There is a suggested donation of $10. 

Interactive workshop sessions on themes such as, organizing for democratic action, understanding institutionalized poverty, resisting neo-liberalism and more. Featured speakers include:  Dr. Kevin Kumashiro, Director of the Center for Anti-Oppressive Education; Bill Fletcher Jr., organizer and author of "Solidarity Divided:  the Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path towards Social Justice; Anna Baltzer, author "Witness in Palestine:  A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories. For more information contact Rebecca Rogers at 314-516-5797 or Mary Ann Kramer at 314-367-5000.

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.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 6:45 PM - Fim Showing; 7:30 PM - Labor Council Meeting
Labor Learn Films Series:  "Mother Jones:  America's Most Dangerous Woman"
Come early to the St. Louis Labor Council monthly delegate meeting held the third Tuesday of every month.  Starting in October the St. Louis Labor Council will sponsor labor films and presentations at this time.  The series will begin October 21 at 6:45 PM with a short film about Mother Jones. Each month, the Labor Council will offer a different film on a relevant topic. 

The film showings will be held in the same hall as the Labor Council Meeting at IBEW Local 1, 5850 Elizabeth Ave, 63110.  The St. Louis Labor Council Meeting will follow these showings at 7:30 PM.  These films are open to ALL.  For more information contact Roz Sherman Voellinger at 314-615-7604 or sherman-voellingerr@missouri.edu.

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

The Jobs with Justice Solidarity News and Events keeps you informed about NEWS, ACTIONS, EVENTS and other opportunities to work for economic justice.

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Jobs with Justice is a coalition of progressive labor unions, community, student, and religious organizations committed to fighting together for economic justice.

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