LOCATION CHANGE! Dignity Overdue: Stand Together For The Domestic Workers Bill Of Rights

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22 Apr 2010

Domestic Workers United, The Foundry Theatre, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, and the Mission and Social Justice Department of The Riverside Church cordially invite you to:

DIGNITY OVERDUE:

STAND TOGETHER FOR THE DOMESTIC WORKERS BILL OF RIGHTS

TOWN HALL MEETING

THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2010

7PM-9PM

(Doors open at 6:30 p.m)

Join legendary Civil Rights activist Esther Cooper Jackson, Senator Diane Savino, Assemblyman Keith Wright, CUNY distinguished lecturer Ed Ott, activist and scholar Frances Fox Piven, 1199 SEIU President George Gresham, Working Families Party Executive Director Dan Cantor, domestic workers, and supporters invite you to a town hall meeting that will highlight the unique conditions facing domestic workers and urge New York State to pass the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights.

ALSO

Join us as we premiere "Invisible Women-Rise," a dance theater performance produced in collaboration with members of Domestic Workers United, artist Lisa Ramirez, and the Foundry Theatre.

LOCATION: RIVERSIDE CHURCH

(bet. 120th and 122nd Streets)

490 Riverside Drive

New York, NY 10027-5788

Directions: Take the 1 train heading Uptown / to Van Cortlandt Park. Get off at 125 Street. Exit near intersection of Tiemann Pl and Broadway. Start out going south on Broadway towards La Salle Street, turn right onto W 122nd St. Turn left onto Riverside Dr.

Sponsored by: Working Families Party, SEIU 32BJ, La Fuente: A Tri-State Worker and Community Fund, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, City Councilmember Gale Brewer, City Councilmember Brad Lander, City Councilmember Rosie Mendez, Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, Senator Bill Perkins, UAW Region 9A, Urban Justice Center, National Employment Law Project, UFCW Local 1500, Laborers International Union of North America Local 10, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Adhikaar, Picture the Homeless, Brecht Forum, NY Taxi Workers Alliance, May 1st Coalition, New York Jobs with Justice, Congregation B'Nai Jeshurun, NYC LCLAA, Transport Workers Union Local 100, Damayan Migrant Workers Association, United Hebrew Trades Division of the Jewish Labor Committee, Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition, Kolot Chayeinu, ACLU Women’s Rights Project, Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, Social Service Employees Union Local 371, NYCLU, Outten & Golden, A Better Balance: The Work and Family Legal Center, CAAAV, The Actor's Temple, BJ Tzeirim, ROC-NY, Movement Solidarity Project, Center for Immigrant Families, Fulton Youth of the Future, Columbia/Barnard Hillel Social Justice, list in formation.

For more information or to co-sponsor

CONTACT DWU - (212) 481-5747

Email: dwuinfo@domesticworkersunited.org

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