Events

The Freedom Flame Award at the annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee in Selma, Alabama on March 5, 2011. 

As we announced at the SNCC Reunion 2010, the theme for this year’s Jubilee is “Celebrating Our Youth and the Spirit of SNCC.” The Jubilee commemorates Bloody Sunday, the day that Alabama State Troupers attacked peaceful marchers for the right to vote on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and celebrates the Voting Rights Movement and passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

The Pan Afrikan Voice invites all Afrikan/Black Working Class and Progressive People to celebrate the Life of this outstanding revolutionary Communist Working Class Hero and Mother of the Notting Hill Carnival

Meeting  21st February 2010 - 7 pm start

Speakers invited

Venue KARIBU EDUCATION CENTRE 7 Gresham Road, Brixton, London SW2 (3rd right street from Brixton Tube Station)

Claudia Jones, the "mother of the Notting Hill Carnival" was a communist who spent her last years in London after being hounded out of the United States during the McCarthy witchhunts.

Born in the British West Indian colony of Trinidad in 1915 her family emigrated to the black slums of Harlem, New York in 1922. She joined the youth movement of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), the Young Communist League (YCL) in 1936 and soon became YCL organiser for Harlem. An active campaigner for black and womens' rights Claudia was a regular writer for the American Daily Worker and editor of the YCL's Weekly Rev

The Small Farmers Conference, Marketing and Trade Show will host over 300 farmers, landowners and supporters from across the south. The conference objective is to provide information on USDA programs, marketing, technical assistance, legal risk management issues, conservation and a variety of other agriculture issues that impact the survival of small farmers.

Keynote speaker on Saturday will be Attorney Hank Sanders, Class Counsel of the Pigford Lawsuit. Other speakers will include Jonathon Coppess, Administration of the Farm Service Agency (USDA), Dr. Dave White, Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA); and Karis Gutter, Deputy Administrator for Field Operations (USDA).

** HEAR THE UPDATE ON
THE PIGFORD LAWSUIT SETTLEMENT **

Please register ASAP to reserve a place on the
bus tour on February 11 and for the meeting on Saturday.
Click here for the Registration Formthat can be emailed to heathergray@federation.coop
or faxed to the Albany office at 229 439 0894.

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Welcome to Shelbyville

A Film Screening and Discussion about Immigration and Change

Monday, February 7, 2011, 6:30-8:30 pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm; Screening at 7:00 pm)

Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center

3940 Broadway (at 165^th St.)

New York, New York

(Subway: A, C, or 1 train to 168^th St)

FREE ADMISSION

Welcome to Shelbyville, a documentary by award-winning filmmaker Kim A. Snyder, will be the focus of a film screening and discussion in Harlem on February 7. Set against the backdrop of a shaky economy, Welcome to Shelbyville takes an intimate look at a southern town as its residents - whites and African Americans, Latinos and Somalis - grapple with their beliefs, their histories and their evolving ways of life. The documentary is directed and produced by Kim A. Snyder and executive produced by BeCause Foundation in association with Active Voice. It will air nationally on PBS' Independent Lens series in May 2011.

Following the film screening, Ms. Snyder joi

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TOPIC FOR TODAY IS "WE WILL NOT BE MOVED!"

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A living wage is a wage which is based upon the cost of living in an area, rather than an arbitrary minimum. Under an ideal living wage, someone who works an ordinary 40 hour per week job would be able to afford shelter, food, health care, and other basic necessities of life. Existing legislation defines a living wage in New York City as a minimum of $10 per hour with benefits, or $11.50 per hour without benefits. (Click here for the Living Wage Calculator).

Living wage laws either require that any company receiving city contracts or subsidies must pay its workers a wage above the federal minimum. New York City passed a living wage law in 2002, but the law only covers a limited number of workers, and does not apply to employees who work in privately-owned, publicly-subsidized developments, such as stadiums, convention centers and shopping malls.

When public dollars are used to promote private enterprise, the public has the right to expect something in return: good jobs at good wages w