Event Title
Panel 3: Unexpected Coalitions: Dream Act/Marriage Equality/Domestic Worker Legislation
Location
Krongard Room
Start Date
29-3-2013 1:30 PM
End Date
1-3-2013 3:00 PM
Description
Lane Levine will be speaking about his work with Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ). JFREJ is a community organization in New York City that engaged a solidarity organizing model to help win the passage of the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in New York State. JFREJ engages in campaigns where its positioning on the political power map can make a strategic difference. With domestic workers, JFREJ organized Jewish employers of nannies and housekeepers to stand alongside workers, arguing that the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights would lead to a stable workforce, a more moral Jewish community, and a host of other transformations that fit with the values of liberal, feminist, progressive white Jews (and even some who don't fit those categories).
JFREJ's organizing model engages the vast experiences and identities of its members, invoking ritualistic and cultural aspects of Judaism to build a stronger movement for justice. JFREJ's annual Purim
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Panel 3: Unexpected Coalitions: Dream Act/Marriage Equality/Domestic Worker Legislation
Krongard Room
Lane Levine will be speaking about his work with Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ). JFREJ is a community organization in New York City that engaged a solidarity organizing model to help win the passage of the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in New York State. JFREJ engages in campaigns where its positioning on the political power map can make a strategic difference. With domestic workers, JFREJ organized Jewish employers of nannies and housekeepers to stand alongside workers, arguing that the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights would lead to a stable workforce, a more moral Jewish community, and a host of other transformations that fit with the values of liberal, feminist, progressive white Jews (and even some who don't fit those categories).
JFREJ's organizing model engages the vast experiences and identities of its members, invoking ritualistic and cultural aspects of Judaism to build a stronger movement for justice. JFREJ's annual Purim