Dolores Huerta Labor Institute

Lesson Title: The Environment, Jobs and Change

Course: Economics 1; Geography 2; Sociology 2

Expected Learning Objectives: Students will be able to:

1. Participate in conversations, discussions, and group activities
2. Speak clearly and ask questions
3. Review the current state of the energy/climate change crisis in the United States.
4. Synthesize, analyze, evaluate and summarize information gathered from films and readings on climate change.
5. Identify problems, issues, and questions regarding climate change and the green economy.
6. Evaluate a problem, facts, assumptions, issues, and values about climate change.
7. Identify and assess different proposals to solve the climate change and renewable energy crisis.
8. Apply problem-solving techniques to the identified issue(s) of climate change.
9. Organize ideas and communicate orally and in writing the problems and possible solutions to the climate crisis.
10. Create a plan of action to resolve the issue they identify about climate change.

Bill Fletcher, Jr., Labor Activist, Executive Editor of “The Black Commentator,” and Senior Scholar with the Policy Institute Forum spoke at LA City College in commemoration of African-American History Month about challenges facing the African-American community today in the struggle for social justice.

February 2008

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Former Garment Worker Center Director Kimi Lee speaks to students at East LA College after a screening of the documentary film "Made in LA."  The documentary follows the lives of  Los Angeles garment workers who worked for Forever 21 during the Forever 21 campaign.

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Speakers:

Bill Fletcher Jr., labor activist, editor of "The Black Commentator," Senior Scholar with the Policy Institute Forum

David Bacon, writer and photojournalist of labor, immigration and international trade

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Speakers:

Bill Fletcher Jr., labor activist, editor of "The Black Commentator," Senior Scholar with the Policy Institute Forum

David Bacon, writer and photojournalist of labor, immigration and international trade

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