E-242 - Can Unions Save Immigrants?

Event Description:

Dr. Alethia Jones will deliver a lecture: Can Unions Save Immigrants? Dr. Jones is a professor at the School for Labor and Urban Studies at the City University of New York and a practitioner-scholar of labor, immigrant and black feminist movements. She serves on the boards of Highlander Research and Education Center and Training for Change. In addition, she advises the Advancing Black Strategists Initiative (Jobs with Justice) and United Maroon Indigenous Peoples. She co-authored the award-winning book, A’int Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith (with Virginia Eubanks and Barbara Smith). Originally from Kingston, Jamaica, she resides in Brooklyn’s Little Caribbean neighborhood.