Fighting Forward: A Labor & Working-Class Summit Comes to Madison This June

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The 2013 National Conference of the Working Class Studies Association is a gathering of working people, community and labor activists, students and educators focused on building a revitalized movement in support of labor and the working class. This year the conference is taking place at the Madison College Downtown Education Center from June 12-15.

Sessions include:

• Renewed Labor-Community Engagement
• Women in the Labor Movement
• Exploring Class
• Putting Militancy Back in the Labor Movement
• Working Class Solidarity and Poor People's Movements
• Organizing Locally, Globally and Transnationally
• More than Madison: Wisconsin Organizing Statewide

CMD will participate in a discussion on the American Legislative Exchange Council and its anti-worker and wage suppression legislation. The full program, along with registration and logistical information, is available at Fightingforward.org [4].

The event is organized by The Labor & Working-class Studies Project and The Working Class Studies Association and co-sponsored by the Center for Media and Democracy.

For more information, contact fightingforward2013@gmail.com.