The Officers and Board of the DC LERA invite you
to join them at the January Luncheon Program.
Fighting Wage Theft: Opportunities in 2012
Noon – Wednesday, January 25, 2012
at the historic Woman’s National Democratic Club
Speaker
Ms. Kim Bobo
Executive Director and Founder of Interfaith Worker Justice
Ms. Bobo will address the
ways in which the crisis of wage theft is affecting Americans and how
attorneys are participating with community organizations to fight back.
Kim is the Executive
Director and founder of Interfaith Worker Justice, the nation’s largest
network of people of faith engaging in local and national actions to
improve wages, benefits and conditions for workers, especially those in
the low-wage economy. She was named one of Utne Reader’s “50 Visionaries
Who Are Changing Your World” in 2009.
Prior to Interfaith
Worker Justice, Kim was a trainer for the Midwest Academy, and Director
of Organizing for Bread for the World. She writes a column for the
online magazine Religion Dispatches. She is co-author of Organizing for
Social Change, the best-selling organizing manual in the country, and
the author of Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Working Americans
Are Not Getting Paid - And What We Can Do About It, the first and only
book to document the wage theft crisis in the nation and propose
practical solutions for addressing it. A second edition of Wage Theft in
America will be out for Labor Day, 2011.
Location: We are delighted to announce that this
event will be at the
Woman's National Democratic Club,
the venue of many DC LERA
luncheons in the past. 1526 New Hampshire Ave. NW,
Washington, D.C. 20036. The historic Whittemore House is
located one block from Dupont Circle and its Red Line Metro
station.
Cost: Members $25, Non-members or unreserved $30
Menu: Our meal service includes
a three-course menu served to your table, plus coffee/iced tea. Cash wine
service will be available. Please let Babbi know if you need a vegetarian
meal.
Reserve and pay online.
Use a debit or credit card or PayPal, if you have an account. If this reservation will be for more than one person, please provide
the names of all registrants.
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