The Praxis Project has announced the themes for their 2009 Learning Circles: Communicating to Advance Racial Justice (January 23-25), Community Organizing: Building Toward Long-Term Change (March 13-15) and Policy Advocacy: Creating Better Policies (May 29-31). Intended for individuals interested in advancing health justice in their communities, these sessions will be held in Silver Spring, Maryland at the National Labor College. For more information, contact Ditra Edwards (Director of Training) at ditra@thepraxisproject.org or (202) 234-2689.
HSF Program Officer, Shona Chakravartty collaborated with Jane Lin of the Tides Foundation and Charles Fields of the Marguerite Casey Foundation in organizing a panel for the 2008 Annual Conference of the Neighborhood Funders Group. The conference will be held October 1-3 in Los Angeles, California. Titled The Face of the New Labor Movement: A Budding Relationship between the Immigrant Worker Rights Movement and Organized Labor, the panel is scheduled for Wednesday, October 1st at 2 pm and will feature 3 speakers: Ellen Widess with the Rosenberg Foundation, Pablo Alvarado with the National Day Labor Organizing Network and Jon Hiatt with the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO).