Bill Fletcher Jr. & Fernando Gapasin

Discuss Their New Book

SOLIDARITY DIVIDED

The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice

Saturday, October 25th, 2:00-5:00 PM

Writers Guild of America West Building

7000 W 3rd Street, Los Angeles 90048

(SW corner of 3rd and Fairfax)

(Parking is accessible through the rear entrance on Blackburn Ave, one block south of 3rd and Fairfax)

Global economic crisis, the bailouts, union-busting, declining membership, foreclosures….

How can/should the labor movement respond?

Join two veteran labor leaders, Bill Fletcher Jr. & Fernando Gapasin, for a discussion of their new book,

Solidarity Divided - & the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement.

The event will be held in the Multi-Purpose Room and Lounge on the 2nd floor.

There will be signs in the elevators from the parking lot and main entrance.

"A landmark in all debates about ‘what next’ for labor."

—Mike Davis, author of Prisoners of the American Dream

Bill Fletcher, Jr. is Director of Field Services and Education for the American Federation of Government Employees, Executive Editor of BlackCommentator.com, and Co-Founder of the Center for Labor Renewal. He was formerly the Education Director and later Assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO.

Fernando Gapasin is President of the Central Oregon Labor Council and General Board Member of the Oregon State Federation of Labor. He currently teaches at the University of Oregon. He was the principal researcher of the AFL-CIO’s Union Cities program.

For more info, contact Jeff Hermanson: JHermanson@wga.org - 323-782-4895

Books available for sale & signing at the event.

"You must read Solidarity Divided. Fletcher and Gapasin provide a superior narrative of the road the labor movement has traveled, and chart the path it must now take for its own survival."—Black Commentator

http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/11121.php

Bill Fletcher Speaking on "Solidarity Divided"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vo1ZvBP2cY

—–Original Message—–From: ellenr@ucr.edu

Mubarak Rashid, The Army Ranger that ends the film ARLINGTON WEST, passed away on Tuesday morning.

Mubarak Rashid – 1940-2008 - PRESENTE

Rashid had been suffering for many years with the effects of Agent Orange from his time spent in Vietnam.  This last year he was in a hospice as a charity patient, and the Veterans Hospitals had done nothing to help him.

The experience that he shared on the Arlington West Film has saved thousands of student’s lives, and made them conscious of the emotional and physical effects of war.

Rashid was cremated and will be buried at sea.  The cost is minimal…$670. 

His wife Doris has little money and no provisions as the widow of a U.S. Soldier. 

We are asking our Peace Community to help.

Thank you very much!

Checks may be written to:

Doris Rashid

c/o Peter Dudar

1302 N. Sweetzer Ave.

Flat 203

Los Angeles, CA  90069

If you have any questions, please call Sally & Peter at: (323) 650-8166 or email:  mail@arlingtonwestfilm.com

The following have donated:

Veterans For Peace, Los Angeles

Larry Abbott

Kathleen Hernandez

Peter Dudar & Sally Marr

Frank & Jane Dorrel

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Dear All,

We just received a call from Doris……Rashid, the Delta Force Ranger at the end of the film ARLINGTON WEST passed away around midnight.

Rashid struggled with the after effects of Agent Orange since his time in Viet Nam. He stopped eating about two weeks ago. He leaves behind his wife Doris of 22 years of marriage.

In Solidarity,

Peter Dudar & Sally Marr

323-650-8166  

mail@arlingtonwestfilm.com

www.arlingtonwestfilm.com