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DESCRIPTION:Register for this free\, online event\n\nIn this conversation\,
  longtime social and economic justice organizer Erica Smiley will explore 
 how the pandemic has left millions of people behind—especially women and
  people of color—while wealth grows even more concentrated in the hands 
 of the few. She will explain why more political and economic democracy is 
 necessary to lessen poverty and racism.\n\nSmiley and respondents Margaret
  Hallock and Lisa Hubbard will discuss achieving worker power through orga
 nizing “whole people” in their communities. This strategy will help th
 e labor movement in the United States build on the unions we have in order
  to create the new institutions we need.\n\nErica Smiley is the executive 
 director of Jobs With Justice\, where she has been spearheading strategic 
 organizing and policy interventions for nearly 15 years. Smiley has served
  in numerous leadership capacities at Jobs With Justice\, including senior
  field organizer for the southern region and organizing director. She is a
  WILL Empower Fellow – a joint project of Rutgers University and Georget
 own University – and is currently co-authoring a book on bargaining and 
 working people democracy with Sarita Gupta.\n\nMargaret Hallock retired in
  2015 as the founding director of the University of Oregon’s Wayne Morse
  Center for Law and Politics. She formerly directed the UO Labor Education
  & Research Center (LERC). Hallock is a Ph.D. economist who taught economi
 cs and worked for Service Employees International Union 503 where she led 
 the struggle for pay equity for women workers. She served as a policy advi
 sor to Governor Ted Kulongoski for labor\, revenue and workforce developme
 nt. She serves on the boards of Sponsors\, a reentry organization\, and Pl
 anned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon.\n\nLisa Hubbard (she/they) is the in
 terim executive director of Portland Jobs with Justice. Growing up in a un
 ion family\, she learned the value of solidarity at an early age and has s
 pent more than 30 years as a strategic campaigner\, organizer\, and moveme
 nt builder with low wage workers and communities of color across the U.S. 
 She has led a combination of union and community organizing\, politics\, p
 olicy and communications at the national AFL-CIO\, UFCW\, SEIU\, a state l
 abor federation\, local unions\, and with the building trades.\n\n\nThis e
 vent is part of the Wayne Morse Center's Margaret Hallock Program for Wome
 n's Rights and is funded by the Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civ
 il Liberties. Cosponsored by the UO Department of Women’s\, Gender and S
 exuality Studies\, Labor Education & Research Center\, and Center for the 
 Study of Women in Society.
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SUMMARY:A Democracy Worth Fighting For: A Conversation with Erica Smiley\, 
 Lisa Hubbard\, and Margaret Hallock
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_democracy_worth_fighting
 _for_a_conversation_with_erica_smiley_lisa_hubbard_and_margaret_hallock
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