Join the UCLA Labor Center and Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO on Monday, June 8 for our third episode of Labor’s Voice, a labor education series featuring the voices of workers, labor leaders, community leaders, and educators to promote inspiring ideas to advance policy change.

This episode will feature the powerful voice of Rev. James Lawson, Jr., a Methodist minister and a key architect of the nonviolent tactics of the Civil Rights Movement. On the eve of his assassination, Martin Luther King called Lawson “the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world.”

The police murder of George Floyd has once again exposed the pattern of state-sanctioned violence directed at people of color, especially black men. The Trump administration promotes white supremacy, attacks blacks and immigrants, and encourages racial violence.

This is a critical time for labor to respond. We need to demand police accountability, call for an end to state-sanctioned racial violence, and mobilize opposition to the Trump administration and white supremacy. This is a time to mobilize our communities in peaceful protest, to demand accountability, and to use direct action to bring about change.

We are joined by:

Ron Herrera, President, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO

Rev. James Morris Lawson, Jr., Methodist minister