Labnet: Conf. Ann: LAWCHA and PNLHA joint labor history conference in Vancouver, BC, June 6-8, 2008

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[Cross-posted, with thanks, from H-Labor. AB]

From:    "Michael Honey" <mhoney at u.washington.edu>

The Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) and the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association (PNLHA) are co-sponsoring a conference on history and current struggles --

Indigenous, Immigrant, Migrant Labour and Globalization, 

at the Simon Fraser University Centre in downtown Vancouver, BC, June 6-8.

This will be an exciting trans-national gathering of scholars and activists including a plenary session on restoring the right to organize, addressed by AFL-CIO Director of Organizing Stewart Acuff.

To register, go online to www.pnlha.org. PLEASE NOTE: a block of hotel rooms in Vancouver are on hold until May 5th only, and it could be difficult to get a room after that. Cheaper conference registration rates are also in effect until May 5th.

For other questions, see http://www.lawcha.org or contact Jacob Remes
lawcha at duke.edu.

LAWCHA publishes a twice yearly newsletter (the recent one is on labor and politics), and a quarterly journal, Labor, Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, edited by Leon Fink.

In Solidarity,
Michael Honey, President, LAWCHA

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For recent articles commemorating 40 years since King, Apr. 4 1968-2008, see:

* Memphis: The Strike that changed a nation
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2007/jan/14/strike-changed-nation/

* King's Legacy: Defending the Right to Organize
http://blogs.uwnews.org/politics/CategoryView,category,Labor.aspx

* King's politics of Hope and the Obama campaign
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2004133442_mlk21.html

* The Making of Jericho Road, an interview with Michael Honey in
http://solidarity-us.org/atc/current

* Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last
Campaign (W.W. Norton, 2007

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