[act-ma] 4/26 ANTHONY ZUBA - "Fighting for the Employee Free Choice Act"

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THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON
SUNDAY SPEAKERS FORUM presents...

Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 11:00am

International Workers' Day (part 1)
ANTHONY ZUBA
"Fighting for the Employee Free Choice Act"

Anthony Zuba, lead organizer of the Mass Interfaith Committee for Worker
Justice, comes to the job with a background in theology. Founded in 1996,
Interfaith Worker Justice educates, organizes & mobilizes the religious
community nationally on issues and campaigns to improve wages, benefits &
working conditions for all low-wage workers. The group focuses especially on
giving Blacks, Latinos & immigrants a voice in the workplace, protecting
their human rights as workers, and strengthening the communities where they
live.

Zuba considers the Employee Free Choice Act one of the most important civil
rights bills of our time. It would ensure that when a majority of employees
in a workplace decide to form a union, they could do so without the
harassment, intimidation, illegal firings & other tactics employers now use
to prevent workers' free choice. Both our faith-based and secular civic
traditions affirm the right of workers to form and join unions. However,
corporations have launched a massive, well-funded but undemocratic campaign
to fight the Act and the unionization efforts it would surely spark.

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NEXT WEEK'S COMMUNITY CHURCH FORUM (5/3)

International Workers' Day (part 2)
CENTRO PRESENTE
"The Struggles of Immigrant Workers in the U.S."


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On Sunday after our morning programs, we have lunch with one another in the
Guatemala Room (3rd floor), prepared by our cook Luis Alonso Guzman. Enjoy a
delicious lunch with friends! A small contribution is requested to help
cover lunch expenses.


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DIRECTIONS/PARKING

The Community Church is located at 565 Boylston Street in Copley Square,
between Dartmouth and Clarendon Streets.

Parking is available on Sunday mornings at the Back Bay Garage (entrances on
Clarendon Street or St. James Ave.). We can provide a sticker to affix to
your parking receipt, and you will be charged $5.00 for 3 hours of parking.

By public transportation, take the Green line to Copley or take the Orange
line to Back Bay station. Community Church is a 2-minute walk from either
station.


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The Community Church of Boston is a free community of human beings united
for the study and practice of universal religion, seeking to apply ethical
ideals to individual life and the democratic and cooperative principle to
all forms of social and economic life.


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FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT US

Jason Lydon, Congregational Director
Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
(617)266-6710
(617)266-0449 (fax)
info at commchurch.org
http://www.communitychurchofboston.org