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From the Shop Floor to Gaza, Palestine Solidarity is a Labor Issue
April 7 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm EDT
Our main panel will feature manufacturing and Arab American workers organizing for Palestine Solidarity on the shop floor, within their unions, and how they’re building a movement and overcoming barriers as they’re told this isn’t the “right kind” of solidarity for labor. The panel will include:
📌 Jessie Kelly, UAW Local 160, will share a vision for what a just transition to a peace economy could look like for UAW members and other weapons manufacturing workers
📌 Mary Jirmanus Saba, UAW Local 4811, is a filmmaker and labor historian of the Arab world
📌 Marcie Pedraza, electrician for 25 years from UAW Local 551; union and environmental justice activist from the southeast side of Chicago
📌 Paul Stauffer, UA Local 63 rank-and-file organizer
We’ll also hear from some special guests, including community organizers — Layla Elabed, lead organizer for Listen to Michigan’s ‘Vote Uncommitted’ campaign, and Zena Ozeir, Dearborn-based attorney and community organizer — and movement elders — Alan Amen, one of the leaders of the 1973 Arab American Workers Walkout, and Jerome Scott, an organizer with the League of Revolutionary Black workers and currently works with League of Revolutionaries for a New America — who will tell us about the legacy of anti-imperial organizing and how organizing in our unions can strengthen our collective efforts.
Register: bit.ly/uawd_palestine_solidarity