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 LAANE Announces Upcoming 2009 City of Justice Awards Dinner
LAANE will celebrate the national movement to create good, green jobs at the 2009 City of Justice Awards Dinner this December. Honorees will include the Natural Resources Defense Council, LAANE’s partner on the Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports and one of the nation’s leading environmental organizations, and Mark Ayers, president of the Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, a leading advocate for making family-sustaining jobs a core component of the new green economy. Also honored will be community activist, political advisor, urban farmer and LAANE Advisory Boardmember Amy Elaine Wakeland, along with the Hotel Diversity Task Force, a labor/management/community partnership focusing on recruiting African Americans to work in the hospitality industry. Singer/Songwriter Michelle Shocked will welcome those attending, and a video on LAANE’s work to improve conditions for hotel workers along Century Boulevard will round out the evening. Manuel Pastor, LAANE boardmember and Director of the Program for Environmental and Region Equity (PERE) at the University of Southern California, will co-emcee the event alongside hotel worker Angela Reid, an actor, activist and shop steward for UNITE HERE Local 11. Thursday, December 10, 2009
Beverly Hilton Hotel 9876 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills Reception: 6:00 pm Dinner & Program: 7:00 pm Dinner Invite Buy Tickets Sponsorship Fact Sheet |
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