Dolores Huerta Labor Institute

 Jose Tello, attorney with Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County (NLS) will be making a special presentation to students at LA Trade-Tech College on worker rights.  Mr. Tello will be presenting on wage/hour laws, breaks, leaves, and other workplace laws and will talk about NLS's work in the community.

The presentation/workshop will be in TE 221.

 DHLI will be co-hosting a workshop with LA Valley College faculty at their opening day on August 26, 2010.  

Discover new ways to engage students by connecting what you teach to issues that affect them.  Presenters from the Dolores Huerta Labor Institute, the Southern California Library, and LAVC will share creative strategies and resources for incorporating labor studies into your classes and developing new curriculum.  We will cover:

• * How to get students interested in social justice issues and see the relevance of their educational experience to issues affecting their lives
• * What Valley faculty are doing to enhance the learning experience 
• * Resources faculty can use to enhance their classes and motivate students

Don Tanaka of the Southern California Pipe Trades District Council 16 will be speaking to students in Bill Loiterman's Political Science class about his work and the labor movement.

 Jane Templin, ETI Outreach Director from IBEW Local 11 will speak to the the students at Harbor College's women's history class about her life and work in the unionized trades and in the labor movement.

 "MOVING MILLIONS: How Coyote Capitalism Fuels Global Immigration" <http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/PressRelease/pressReleaseId-70657.html> (Wiley, May 2010), a new book from Los Angeles-based journalist and long-time PBS NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Kaye, looks past fences and green cards to address the underlying causes of immigration and how conservatives and liberals can work towards truly comprehensive reform. Please respond to this email if you're interested in receiving a complimentary review copy of this important work.

Kaye's phrase "coyote capitalism" captures the idea-practiced by many businesses and governments-that people, like other natural resources, are supplies to be shifted around to meet demand, without considering or taking responsibility for the consequences for economies, communities, or individuals. An immigrant himself, Kaye gives startling account of frontline stories from the real immigration battle-from Arizona to the Philippines, Pennsylvania to Senegal-between workers of every kind and the global forces that have created the most nomadic population in the history of the world.