Join us for the

 
             

 

Annual Clarence Darrow
Commemorative Ceremony

Friday, March 13, 2009
10:00 a.m.
Press release

Wreath-tossing ceremony at the

Clarence Darrow Bridge in Jackson Park
(behind the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry).
Take the first Lake Shore Drive cut-off south of 57th Street ["Science Road"]
and follow the left fork of that road to the bridge south of the Museum.
  

Symposium follows at 10:45 a.m.
in
 The Rosenwald Auditorium located in the West Pavilion of the
Museum of Science and Industry

Challenges for Today’s Labor Movement:
115 Years after the Pullman Strike

Daniel B. Cornfield, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology, Vanderbilt University
Co-editor, Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds: Local Solidarity in a Global Economy,
Cornell University Press (2007)
Professor Cornfield’s research and writing has focused on labor movements and
labor management relations.

Representative, United Electrical Workers Local 1110
Last December, members of Local 1110 staged a successful sit-in at Republic Windows and Doors
to protest the plant’s closing and layoffs.

 

For further information, call:
Herb Kraus 312-578-9114 or Tracy Baim 773-387-2394.
 

 

You might enjoy a Darrow presentation created for a
"Law and Society"class by University of West Florida students
Anna Lewis, Michelle Gothard, and Eric Demara (PowerPoint) (PDF).

Links to previous Darrow Commemorative Ceremony web pages:
(2001)  (2002)  (2003)  (2004)  (2005)  (2006)   (2007)   (2008)
  
  
Darrow on the web

  
More to come!

    

Rev. 02/28/2009. - - Comments and suggestions to Earl C. Swallow .