Workers' Center First Annual Picnic to Take Place, Saturday, September 29th,
from 1-5 p.m. in Stewart Park (Ithaca)--Theme: Get Up, Stand Up; Stand Up for
Your Rights!
Please join the Tompkins County Workers' Center as we hold our first-ever
Annual Picnic on Saturday, September 29th, from 1-5 p.m. in the large pavilion
at Stewart Park in Ithaca. The public is invited; free meat, veggie burger, hot
dogs, beverages, and ice cream will be provided. Folks are encouraged to bring
a dish-to-pass as well. Musicians and speakers will focus on themes of
organizing around workers' rights issues. There will be activities for kids.
The theme of the Picnic is: "Get Up, Stand Up; Stand Up for Your Rights", a
central organizing principle of the Workers' Center.
>From the Workers' Center's Mission Statement: "We seek to inform, educate and
>shape community values and standards of employer behavior with respect to
>workplace rights and the treatment of low-income people. We support the use of
>diverse strategies to achieve social change, such as popular education, public
>testimony (telling what is really happening in our workplaces and in the lives
>of low-income people), public protests, direct action, dialogue with
>employers, and legislative campaigns."
For more information, and/or if your organization would like to "table" at the
Picnic, please contact the Workers' Center at 269-0409
Pete Meyers
TC Workers' Center
115 E. State Street
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-269-0409
www.TCWorkersCenter.org
"As long as there is a lower class, I am in it.
As long as there is a criminal element, I'm of it.
As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
-Eugene Debs
"The seed of our unhappiness lies in our wish to control how things will
be".--Roger Rosenbaum
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