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We look forward to celebrating The Power of Women Workers: Organizing, Social Justice & Community Change in DC!

MORNING SESSION

9:00AM - 10:00AM

Registration & Lite Refreshments

10:00AM - 10:30AM

• Welcome

• DC Labor Chorus

• Grounding Exercise with Labor Educator Julie Méndez-de Leon 

• Remarks from AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride

10:30AM - 11:05AM

• Installation of DC State CLUW Officers

• Keynote Remarks from CLUW National President Sylvia J. Ramos

• Presenting Sponsor Remarks from AFGE District 14 National Vice President Ottis Johnson Jr.

11:15AM - 12:15PM

Remarks from Metro Washington Council President Samuel Epps IV

Panel Discussion: Building Power and Solidarity Through the Fight for Labor Rights & Social Justice

• Rev. Patti Fears, Boycott Target DC

• Emily Siegal, DC 4 Palestine

• Xiomara Flores, 32BJ SEIU

• Moderator: Carol Rosenblatt, Former CLUW Executive Director 

12:15PM - 12:30PM

• Video Message from AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler

• Spoken Word & Poetry Selections from UMWA Civil Rights Director Shanna Peeks and Labor Educator Julie Méndez-de Leon 

AFTERNOON SESSIONS

1:15PM - 1:30PM

Recognition of Past Metro DC CLUW Officers

1:30PM - 2:30PM

Presenting Sponsor Remarks from Value Your Legacy Financial

Labor Artistic Expression - Choose Your Own Adventure (See descriptions below)

• Song Writing with Susan Rogers & Sonia Kassambara

• Patch Making with Lisa Garlock

2:45PM - 3:25PM

Organizing and Building Worker Power with Guest Speakers:

• Alissa Tafti, Co-Executive Director of Branch4

• Di Carey, IATSE Local 22 Organizing Chair & and IMP Worker Organizers Ashley Avila and Emily Wilkins

3:30PM - 4:40PM
Union Women Interactive Game with Labor Heritage Foundation Secretary Kimmon “MacGyver” Williams

Panel Discussion: Women and Labor: An Intergenerational Discussion on the Landscape for Working Women & Femmes in Metro DC Area Over the Last 50 Years

• Joni Eisenberg, To Heal DC, WPFW

• Marilyn J. Wiley, CLUW National Treasurer

• Debby Szeredy, APWU Executive Vice President

• Moderator: Shara Smith, Metro DC CLUW Member

4:45PM - 5:00PM

Closing