Hitting the Streets for Thunderous Thursday
Thursday, April 24, 2014(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
Three
demonstrations today headline a full day of local labor
actions that also includes a
noontime discussion on
copyright and an evening town hall on Fast Track.
First up is the Postal Workers Protest at
Staples at 11a at 19th
& L, followed by Unite Here
23’s Stand with Seasons Culinary Workers at 12 noon at the NEA on 16th
Street.
Then at 12:30p the NWU hosts Copyright in the Digital Age:
Creators in a landscape
of Google Books and Orphan Works,
and at 5:30p the AFL-CIO, International Labor Rights Forum and United Students
Against Sweatshops hit the streets in Columbia Heights for a Global Day of Action for
Bangladesh Factory Collapse
Victims.
Wrap up the day with the Fast Track Town
Hall at 6:30p at the
University of Maryland, College
Park, sponsored by Communications Workers of America, Sierra Club, Maryland
United for Peace and Justice, Divest Montgomery County, Popular Resistance.org,
Flush the TPP, and Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch.