Friday, November 13, 2009

National Jobs Conference Set For Nov. 13-14 in New York City!

NATIONAL CONFERENCE TO CREATE LIVING-WAGE JOBS FOR ALL, MEET HUMAN NEEDS & SUSTAIN THE ENVIRONMENT

Friday & Saturday, November 13-14, 2009, New York, NY

Friday, Nov. 13: Interchurch Center, 475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY -- Map
Saturday, Nov. 14: District Council 37, 125 Barclay Street, New York, NY -- Map

Register Now! Registration fee includes continental breakfast and buffet lunch for both days

Conference Brochure with Agenda as of 11-11-09 (Word)

Conference Promotional Booklet with Call to Action & Endorser List (PDF)

11/6/09 News Release

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Confirmed speakers include:

Barbara Arms
, Treasurer and Community Organizer, Coalition for Economic and Social Justice, Belleville, IL

Bill Barclay, Chicago Political Economy Group

Cassandra Barham, Ohio Empowerment Coalition/ Cincinnati Contact Center

Charles Bell, Conference Chair, Vice-President, National Jobs for All Coalition, and Programs Director, Consumers Union

Pres. Barbara Bowen, Professional Staff Congress-CUNY, AFL-CIO

Larry Bresler, Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign

Sheila Collins, Professor of Political Science, William Paterson University. Author, Let Them Eat Ketchup: The Politics of Poverty and Inequality; co-author, Washington's New Poor Law: Welfare Reform and the Roads Not Taken, 1935 to the Present.

Gary Dorrien, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY, and Professor of Religion, Columbia University, author of many books, including Social Ethics in the Making: Interpreting an American Tradition, and Imperial Designs: Neoconservatism and the New Pax Americana

Glen Ford, Editor, Black Agenda Report

Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg, Professor of Social Policy and Chair, Ph.D. Program in Social Work, Adelphi University. Poor Women in Rich Countries: The Feminization of Poverty over the Life Course (editor and co-author). Washington's New Poor Law: Welfare "Reform" and the Roads Not Taken, 1935 to the Present (co-author)

Helen Lachs Ginsburg, Professor Emerita of Economics, Brooklyn College, CUNY. Author, Full Employment and Public Policy: The United States and Sweden; Jobs for All: A Plan for the Revitalization of America (co-authored)

Philip Harvey, Professor of Law and Economics, Rutgers School of Law. Author, Securing the Right to Employment: Social Welfare Policy and the Unemployed in the United States; co-author of America's Misunderstood Welfare State: Persistent Myths, Enduring Realities.

Christine Firer Hinze, Professor, Christian Ethics, Fordham University. Author, Comprehending Power in Christian Social Ethics

Peter Knowlton, President of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), Northeast Region, and Vice-President on the General Executive Board of the UE National

Myles Lennon, Laborers Union, Local 10

Dedrick Muhammad
, Senior Organizer and Research Associate, Program on Inequality and the Common Good, Institute for Policy Studies

Ed Ott, Joseph Murphy Center for Labor, Community, and Policy Studies, CUNY

Bill Perkins, Senator, New York State Senate, 30th District

Joe Persky, Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago Political Economy Group

Robert Pollin, Professor of Economics and founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, co-author, Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy

Bill Quigley, Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights, and Loyola University School of Law. Author of Ending Poverty as We Know It: Guaranteeing a Right to a Job at a Living Wage and Storms Still Raging: Katrina, New Orleans and Social Justice .

Elce Redmond, South Austin Community Coalition, Committee for New Priorities and Executive Committee, Chicago Job With Justice

Lillian Roberts, Executive Director, District Council 37, AFSCME, AFL-CIO

Paul Sherry, former President, United Church of Christ

Holly Sklar, policy advisor, Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign, author, Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies That Work for All of Us.

James Thindwa, labor and community activist, and former Executive Director of Chicago Jobs With Justice. James recently joined the American Federation of Teacher's Strategic Campaigns Team, a national campaign to organize charter school employees. He writes for, and is a board member of In These Times magazine, and serves on the board of directors of Illinois Labor History Society

Chloe Tribich, Senior Organizer, Center for Working Families

Ricardo Valadez, Program and Communications Director, Jobs with Justice

Deborah Weinstein, Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs, Washington, DC

TOPICS TO BE ADDRESSED during the two-day conference include:

-- the current crisis in unemployment and underemployment;
-- faith and community perspectives on the need for living wage jobs and decent work;
-- America’s “other deficit” of underinvestment in physical infrastructure and public services, and opportunities to create jobs that fix America and put unemployed people back to work;
-- labor union initiatives to create jobs, raise wages and improve working conditions;
-- policy options to promote green jobs and environmental sustainability;
-- developing a transformative legislative program for job creation and economic renewal; and
-- organizing and building a broad-based social movement to create living wage jobs for everyone who wants to work, and achieve full employment.


CONFERENCE CALL TO ACTION

Our country is in the throes of an economic crisis—the most severe since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Unemployment is at the disaster level. And even before the onset of our current, deep recession, chronic unemployment, low and stagnant wages, myriad unmet needs and unprecedented environmental degradation were endemic.

Current Job Crisis

* Nearly 30 million workers fully or partially jobless (June 2009)
* Most rapid job less of any downturn since the Great Depression
* 5 million fewer jobs in the U.S. economy since the onset of the recession.
* High unemployment expected to persist, even if the economy “recovers.”
* Many of the long-term unemployed will lose benefits, their savings, their homes and more

Weak Stimulus

By the Administration’s own estimate, the economic stimulus will make up for a fraction of the millions of jobs lost since the recession began. Nor will the Stimulus stem the continuing job hemorrhage.

“Good Old Days”

Even in “good” times: 5 million or more women and men were officially jobless; hidden unemployment afflicted many millions more; and poverty wages were rampant. Inequality reigned, our infrastructure was crumbling, and human services fell far short of needs. We must not go back to those “Good Old Days.”

Instead, we should be guided by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933): We cannot be content, no matter how high the general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people … is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.

Real Reform

Now is the time to organize and mobilize to create a just economy--one that assures living wage jobs for all, sustains the environment, and repairs our social and physical infrastructure.

JOIN A COALITION of LABOR, RELIGIOUS, ANTI-POVERTY, COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATIONS … & CONCERNED PEOPLE

- ATTEND & SUPPORT THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN NEW YORK
- HELP TO ORGANIZE SIMILAR CONFERENCES ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES
- PLAN A MASS DEMONSTRATION FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE IN WASHINGTON

Registration is $60 for general admission (or $50 Early Bird rate through Nov. 6) and $35 for students. The fee includes continental breakfast and buffet lunch for both days.

One day registration is $35 for general admission, and $20 for students.

NOTE: The Friday dinner/social event is NOT included in the registration fee and will be an extra charge).

To register for the conference, visit: http://www.jobsconference.org/ and the registration page at: http://www.jobsconference.eventbrite.com/ If you need more information or have suggestions for the program, please email us at JobsConference@njfac.org


INITIAL ENDORSERS OF THE CONFERENCE -- [list in formation]

Adelphi University School of Social Work
Americans for Democratic Action, Darryl Fagin, Legal Director
Ron Baiman, Chicago Political Economy Group, Director of Budget and Policy Analysis, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability. Chicago
Bill Barclay, Chicago Political Economy Group, Oak Park Citizens for Truth and Justice, Progressive Democrats of America
Charles Bell, National Jobs for All Coalition, Conference Chair
Center for Constitutional Rights, Bill Quigley, Legal Director
Center for Media and Democracy
Chicago & Midwest Regional Joint Board, Workers United, SEIU
Coalition for Economic and Social Justice, San Francisco & Belleville, IL, Barbara Arms, Community Organizer
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Hartford, Ct Chapter
Coalition on Human Needs, Deborah Weinstein, Executive Director
Sheila Collins, National Jobs for All Coalition, Professor of Political Science, William Paterson University
Committee For New Priorities/Chicago Jobs With Justice
NY Administrative Employees CWA Local 1180
University of Connecticut School of Social Work
Cornell ILR Extension Programs, New York City
Deborah D'Amico, Murphy Institute of CUNY
DC 37 AFSCME, Lillian Roberts, President
Democratic Socialists of American, NYC Chapter
Bill Fletcher, Jr., Executive Editor, BlackCommentator.com
Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Senior Pastor Emeritus, Riverside Church of New York, Pres., Healing of the Nations Foundation
Helen Ginsburg, National Jobs for All Coalition, Professor Emerita of Economics, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church
Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition, Rabbi Michael Feinberg, Director
Green Party, NYC Local
Philip Harvey, Professor of Law & Economics, Rutgers School of Law
Howie Hawkins, Green Party, Teamsters Local 317, Syracuse NY
Hospitality House Inc [Maine]
Hunter College School of Social Work
Haydar Kurban, Chicago Political Economy Group, Associate Professor of Economics, Howard University
Garth Mangum, Max McGraw Professor Emeritus, Economics & Management, Univ. of Utah
Logan Martinez, Miami Valley Full Employment Council/Organize Ohio
Mass Welfare Rights Union
Muntu Matsimela, Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, African American Studies Dept.
Martin Morand, Emeritus, Indiana U of PA, Industrial-Labor Relations
Joseph Murphy Center for Labor, Community, and Policy Studies, CUNY
National Council of Churches
National Jobs for All Coalition, Trudy Goldberg, Chair
New Priorities/Chicago Jobs With Justice
Ohio Empowerment Coalition
Jeanette Mott Oxford, Missouri House of Representatives, State Representative, 59th District
Joseph Persky, Chicago Political Economy Group, Professor of Economics, University of Illinois, Chicago
Robert Pollin, Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign
Presbyterian Public Policy Network of the Synod of the Northeast (PPAN)
Presbytery of New York
Professional Staff Congress-CUNY, AFL-CIO
Elce Redmond, Chicago Political Economy Group, South Austin Coalition, Chicago
Nancy E. Rose, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, California State University, San Bernardino
Marguerite G. Rosenthal, National Jobs for All Coalition, Professor Emerita of Social Work, Salem State College
Shalom Center, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Director
Stony Brook University, School of Social Welfare, Social Justice Center
Frank Stricker, Emeritus Professor of History, California State University, Dominguez Hills
Rekindling Reform
Mel Rothenberg, Chicago Political Economy Group, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of Chicago
Rutgers University School of Social Work
Dr. Peg Strobel, Professor Emerita, University of Illinois at Chicago
Survival News
Union of Radical Political Economists (URPE)
UAW Local 2110
David Welsh, Delegate, San Francisco Labor Council
Rev. Marcel Welty, Conference Coordinator
Women in Transition [Louisville]
Workers Defense League
Working Families Party
Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University
June Zaccone, National Jobs for All Coalition, Associate Professor Emerita of Economics, Hofstra University

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