Brooklyn For Peace Online Forum: LABOR and Movements for Peace & Justice
Register at bit.ly/Labor4Peace

Brooklyn For Peace is looking for community groups to help us get the word out about our upcoming virtual forum Labor and the Movements for Peace and Social Justice. The forum will examine a bit of history of Labor’s involvement in struggles for peace and social, economic, and racial justice.

Often, labor was in the forefront of these struggles. We want to find out why that is not as true today as it was in earlier times. What effect did the McCarthy era attack on unions have in diminishing labor’s membership and power and also in making it more cautious in speaking out on broader issues of peace and social justice?

Our panel of experts will help us examine what the relationship between the labor, peace and social justice movements are and what they can be. We will be asking:

• Why is Labor’s participation in movements for peace and social justice so important? What’s the history of Labor’s involvement? What forces acted against labor’s participation in those kinds of struggles?
• Where is Labor’s involvement on those issues today, such as; war, women’s equality, Black Lives Matter, climate crisis?
• How can progressives outside of labor in the peace and other progressive movements ally with labor and give assistance to unions in their battles  and, conversely, how can labor help build those social movements, making them stronger and more diverse?

We ask that you help us get the word out about the event by sharing the Facebook event announcement in your networks and on your social media platforms. You are also invited to co-sponsor, if you would like to add the name of your organization.

If you would like posts that you can share, or if you would like to co-sponsor, respond to this email and we will send you our social media toolkit.

Date: Wednesday, May 5th, 2021
Time: 6:30 PM
Speakers: Christine Lewis, Iris Delutro, Steve Kramer and Mike Zweig
Register: bit.ly/Labor4Peace