George Weekes and the Caribbean Radical Tradition: A Labor Narrative and Lessons for Today's Labor Movement in the U.S.

Join the Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR), for a presentation by Dr. Godfrey Vincent, author of Rebels at the Gates: The Oilfields Workers' Trade Union (OWTU) in the Era of George Weekes, 1962-1987. This will be an engaging discussion about the struggles for workers' rights in the Caribbean during the 1960s to 1980s and the lessons that can be used in the US labor movement today for better working conditions.

Dr. Vincent, Associate Professor of History at Wilberforce University, will be joined by Karl E. Klare, George J. and Katheleen Waters Matthews Distinguished University Professor and professor of law at Northeastern University School of Law; and Selwyn R. Cudjoe, Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College.

This is a hybrid event.

If attending via Zoom, register here: https://northeastern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEsdeqgqzwoEtytGfNoe_0XBJkZhNq31P66

If attending in person, lunch will be served in Dockser Hall at 11:45 a.m.

When: November 17, 2023, 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EST
Where: 240 Dockser Hall, Huntington Ave. Boston, MA. 02115
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