Minister Louis Farrakhan to address Black labor, Aug.20, Chicago

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Contact person: Chris Silvera, Chairman, Teamster
National Black Caucus 917-297-2241

Minister Louis Farrakhan to address Black labor,
Aug. 20, Chicago

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan will be
addressing the delegates attending the 30th Annual
Educational Conference and Banquet on behalf of the
Millions More Movement. The conference will be held
at the Hyatt Regency, McCormick Place, on August
16-21, 2005. Minister Farrakhan will be the Keynote
Speaker at our banquet on the evening of August 20,
2005.

The Teamsters National Black Caucus is an organization
of Black trade unionists fighting to defeat
discrimination inside and outside of the International
Brotherhood of Teamsters. We believe in educating and
activating the rank and file.

In Chicago, Illinois, we pick up the torch that was
carried so valiantly by the late Reverend Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. The clergy, the civil rights
warriors, the anti-war movement and Black Labor have
joined together to mobilize the working class to
"forge a fight back."

The Million Worker March Movement and the Teamsters
National Black Caucus have joined with the Millions
More Movement to put forward a workers agenda with a
list of demands which includes workers and human
rights; the right to a job with a living wage; the
right to organize; the right to strike without being
replaced; the right to national health care; the
enforcement of civil rights against all racist and
discriminatory acts; the right to affordable housing
and an end to the war in Iraq. We must protect and
enhance Social Security and multi-employer pension
plans which should be guaranteed for all working
people. Education is a right, not a privilege.

Common cause has brought us together to build a
movement powerful enough to affect social and economic
justice. This movement must be built and led by the
"millions who carry the rich on their backs." We must
let Wall Street corporate bosses who control both
political parties and run our government, know that we
will not accept the theft of jobs, resources and the
future of our children instead of the rebuilding of
our cities and the full restoration of vital public
services.

The membership of the Teamsters National Black Caucus
comprises officers, stewards and rank and file labor
activists. The organization continues to stretch
forth its hands in support of all worthy actions that
uplift all workers. TNBC has worked tirelessly to
improve the wages, benefits and working condition of
all workers.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has 400,000
Black members. Silvera was one of the co-coordinators
of the Oct. 17, 2004 Million Workers March on the east
coast.