Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/community/page/48/)
The AFL-CIO seeks up to 1,000 more volunteers to work for three weeks at Red Cross relief shelters in the area clobbered by Hurricane Katrina, the federation said. Meanwhile, donations from unionists to help people left homeless and jobless after Katrina devastated Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama keep rolling in, hitting $10 million from unions and their members combined.
From the national AFL-CIO, to international unions, to regional councils and central labor bodies, the union movement is mobilizing to assist union members and other people impacted by Hurricane Katrina.
The AFL-CIO Hurricane Katrina Relief Center in Pearl, Miss., is appealing for specific supplies in bulk for hurricane victims, says federation relief coordinator Judy Parkins.
For a quarter century Northland Poster Collective has strategized with unions and social justice organizations and designed and produced posters, buttons, tee shirts, mugs, and other organizing materials to advance a more peaceful, just, sustainable and witty world.
The monthly program of the St. Paul Labor Speakers Club will focus on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the lack of response by the Bush administration.
A nationally touring collection of art, cartoons and photographs saluting the 100th anniversary of the International Workers of the World — the Wobblies — will be on display at Macalester College from Sept. 7-Oct. 16.
Minnesota’s art-makers for the labor movement, the Northland Poster Collective, will celebrate 25 years of arts activism with a cabaret concert Saturday, Sept. 17, at the Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Ave. So., Minneapolis. Doors open at 7 p.m.
Responding to the widespread, record devastation from Hurricane Katrina in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi, the AFL-CIO established a relief center in a Communications Workers hall in Jackson, Miss., and planned other efforts as well.
The AFL-CIO’s Union Community Fund is providing aid to families in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama in distress due to Hurricane Katrina. Union members are being urged to donate to the fund.
The Duluth AFL-CIO Central Labor Body’s Labor Day Picnic has been a
tradition nearly as long as Labor Day itself, which dates back to 1882. This
year will mark the 117th Labor Day observance in Duluth.