The SoCal Black Employee Hub (SCBWH) and the organizations’ California Black Employee Outreach Venture (CWOP) will host the twond annual “Black August: A Commemoration & Celebration” on Wednesday, Aug. 13, from 5:30 p.m. to –8:30 p.m., at The Gathering Spot, positioned at 5211 W. Adams Blvd., in Los Angeles. ,
Thea free occasion containswith foods and drinks, music, and shows by all sectors of Black labor and its supporters.
This system will start by honoring ancestral connections with drumming by members of the Earthlodge Middle for Transformation, adopted by a spoken phrase efficiency by Grammy-nominated poet Sekou Andrews.
Particular friends will embody California Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas, who helped create the primary Los Angeles Black Employees Middle and the SCBWH. The night will finish with a efficiency by hip-hop icon Medusa, “The Gangsta Goddess.”
A panel titled, “Legacy, Labor, Liberation: Constructing Black Employee Energy” will function representatives from all through labor, philanthropy, the Los Angeles Black Employee Middle, elected officers, and the California Coalition for Black Employee Energy. An replace on the SCBWH docuseries, “Echo Black Voices” will share commentary from 20 contributors within the venture. A renewed name to put money into Black Employee Facilities throughout Los Angeles, the Inland Empire, and San Diego will spherical out this system.
“This occasion is a reminder that our individuals have all the time fought for freedom—not simply within the streets, however within the fields, on the store flooring, and in each nook of this economic system,” says Daybreak Modkins, director, SCBWH director. “We’re right here to honor that legacy, uplift at present’s Black staff, and construct energy for the lengthy haul.”
A current triumph for the SCBWH has beenwas final 12 months’s passing of SB 1340 by Gov. Newsom, which mandates the California Civil Rights Division to collaborate with native companies to forestall and eradicate illegal practices of employee discrimination and probably present extra immediate and localized responses to discrimination complaints.
Modkins says that Los Angeles is lucky in having a neighborhood human rights division, which can now be accountable for working with state companies to enact protections round discrimination. She says that the SCBWH is presently selling Senate Invoice 578 to construct a partnership between the California Employee Outreach Venture (CWOP) and the California Division of Industrial Relations.
One of many SCBWH’s new initiatives is the CA Employee Outreach Venture (CWOP 5.0), in collaboration with regional Black Employee Facilities and companions, in creating the Entry, Pathways, and (APPS) empowerment area. This system is concentrated on deepening organizing round employee rights, labor legal guidelines and holistic wellness for Black staff over the following two years.
On-line coaching by APPS (https://socalblackworkersunited.org/occasion/echoblackvoices-edu-series-session-4/) is held each Wednesday from 6:30 p.m. to –8 p.m., to encourage and help Black staff in getting into industries the place they’ve been excluded or new industries the place they haven’t been considered a possible workforce, such because the inexperienced economic system and expertise fields. Modkins says that an instance of that is the truth that in anticipation of the 2028 Olympics and the potential of L.A. internet hosting FIFA, lower than one p.c of the hospitality trade are Black staff.
Black August is a nationwide commemoration of the murders of fallen Freedom Fighters, Jonathan Jackson, George Jackson, William Christmas, James McClain, and Khatari Gaulden. At present, Black August is noticed with occasions honoring the custom of resistance towards anti-Black violence and systemic oppression.
Modkins says she hopes that attendees to the Black August celebration will obtain, “… an honoring of our ancestors who fought to withstand political oppression earlier than us [and] an
understanding of every our personal respective assignments to proceed the legacies of that resistance and particularly at present, [continuing] the battle to construct futures we wish to see and deserve.”
She additionally hopes the occasion encourages attendees to interact in Black therapeutic and wellness with the Earthlodge Middle for Transformation and to help the “College to Motion” pipeline led by CARE At Work, a program of the UCLA Labor Middle.
“We would like people to have walked away with feeling wonderful about shared group celebration of the collective works in direction of Constructing Black Employee Energy,” says Modkins, “and go away with renewed commitments to becoming a member of their native Black Employee Facilities in San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire, the Excessive Desert and Lengthy Seashore, and to face in unity as one California towards authoritarian fascist rule.”
To attend “Black August: A Commemoration & Celebration,” register free of charge admission on the SCBWH web site at https://socalblackworkersunited.org/occasion/blackaugust/
Go to YouTube for a have a look atTo view final 12 months’s Black August celebration, go tointroduced by the SCBWH and the CWOP.
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