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Join the Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice and First Unitarian Society for a showing of the film At the River I Stand. The showing will be on Sunday April 1st, 2012 from 4-6:30pm at First Unitarian Society in the Gaebler Living Room. First Unitarian Society is located at 900 University Bay Drive in Madison. At [...]
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On Valentine’s Day 2012 Wisconsin still loves Justice! Tuesday, February 14 is the One-Year Anniversary of the Wisconsin Uprising. Participate in an Act of Solidarity: The faith and labor communities are joining together to call for the restoration of collective bargaining rights and funding for education. The Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice, MTI and TAA will each [...]
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Valentine’s Day 2011 the ‘Wisconsin Uprising’ began – This Valentine’s Day we celebrate Solidarity in the Heartland! Tuesday February 14th, 2012 ▪ 8:00-10:00am ▪ Cost $25 First United Methodist Church ▪ 203 Wisconsin Avenue, Madison Solidarity march to the Capitol will follow the breakfast! Keynote Speakers Pastor Troy Jackson, an evangelical pastor in Cincinnati, OH, [...]
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ICWJ and groups in cities across the country will take action to stop wage theft, a national crime wave that every year robs millions of workers out of billions of dollars they’ve worked for but never seen. The national network Interfaith Worker Justice has declared November 17-21 a National Days of Action Against Wage Theft [...]
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The Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice and Workers Rights Center is having their annual End of the Year Celebration and Fundraiser! It will be held at the home of Marc Rosenthal and Julie Derwinski on Thursday December 8th from 5-8pm. There will be music, drinks and snacks to celebrate ICWJ and WRCs accomplishments for the [...]
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In honor of Labor Day and all the workers in our community, ICWJ coordinated Labor in the Pulpits speaking engagements at a dozen congregations in the Madison area over the past couple weekends. Board member Craig Myrbo preached at Prairie Unitarian Universalist Society. To listen to his message in MP3 format, please click here (19 minutes, [...]
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Do you wish you understood more about why our U.S. immigration system is broken and how it can be fixed? Just register by the Sept. 4 deadline for the exciting class, “Immigration as a Moral Issue”, which will be held at James Reeb Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 2146 E. Johnson St. in Madison, on Sundays from Sept. 18 [...]
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Each Labor Day weekend, congregations across the country host union members and labor leaders or focus their weekend services to reflect on faith, work, justice, and the meaning of Labor Day. This year in Wisconsin, we’ll celebrate the newly revitalized labor movement, reflect on the loss of workers’ rights for most public sector workers, and [...]
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The Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice of South Central Wisconsin joins many other local unions and organizations in endorsing the May Day rally in Madison this Sunday. The rally, organized by the Immigrant Workers Union, or Union de Trabajadores Inmigrantes (UTI), will begin at 1:00 PM on Sunday, May 1st, in Brittingham Park in Madison, [...]
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This weekend, ICWJ will be joining faith communities, labor unions, civil rights activists, workers, and students across the country in commemorating the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination in Memphis, TN on April 4th, 1968. Dr. King was advocating for the rights of sanitation workers in Memphis to collectively bargain to better their [...]
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ICWJ is cosponsoring a University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School forum this Wednesday, March 30th. The forum, the Role of Organized Labor in a Democracy, will feature speakers from the UW Center on Wisconsin Strategies, Marquette University Law School, and ICWJ Board member Jonathan Rosenblum. Come learn more about the impact of Wisconsin’s budget bill and the [...]
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