[SDCPJ] Please FORWARD: Two labor activists to speak on FRIDAY, Oct. 24th, 7pm : with new book, SOLIDARITY DIVIDED

Join Bill Fletcher, Jr. & Fernando Gapasin to discuss their new book

            SOLIDARITY DIVIDED

The crisis in organized labor and a new path toward social justice

University of San Diego
Friday, Oct. 24^th, 12:30 - 2 PM, UC Forum A
or

Joyce Beers Center (in Uptown Shopping Center Hillcrest)
Friday, Oct. 24^th, 7 PM

"A landmark in all debates about 'what next' for
labor.”Mike Davis, author of Prisoners of the
American Dream 

"Both in its sweeping analysis and priceless
reportage, Solidarity Divided is a deeply illuminating
book and a solid argument for why our unions
need to reclaim their historic heritage as a militant,
grassroots movement."

”Barbara Ehrenreich,
author of Nickel and Dimed

Bill Fletcher, Jr. is Director of Field
Services and Education for the American
Federation of Government Employees,
Executive Editor of BlackCommentator.com,
and Co-Founder of the Center for Labor
Renewal. He was formerly the Education
Director and later Assistant to the President
of the AFL-CIO.

Fernando Gapasin, nephew of the legendary

Filipino labor organizer, Philip Vera Cruz, former Vice President

of the United Farm Workers, is President of the Central Oregon Labor Council and General. 
He currently teaches at the University of Oregon. He was the principal researcher of the AFL-CIOs Union Cities program and former faculty at the National Labor College (Labor Studies), Penn State (Industrial Relations), and UCLA (Chicana/o Studies).