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Labor, activists to celebrate King’s life
National radio talk show host Joe Madison, a former executive director of the Detroit branch of the NAACP, will moderate the town hall meeting, scheduled for Friday, January 13th, 2012.
First time ‘We Are One’ conference is being held in Detroit
Detroit—More than 500 labor leaders and activists are expected in Detroit this week to take part in the AFL-CIO Martin Luther King Jr. National Holiday Observance.
It's the first time in its 26-year history that the "We Are One" conference will be in the Motor City, said a spokeswoman for the AFL-CIO.
It is set for Thursday through Monday at the MotorCity Casino Hotel.
For more than two decades, members of the labor organization have met each year in a different U.S. city to honor the late civil rights leader, whose birthday is observed as a national holiday Jan. 16.
Rosalyn Pelles, an organizer of the conference and director of the AFL-CIO Civil Human and Women's Rights Department, said the conference gives the labor movement a chance to celebrate the life and work of King.
"It's also a chance to celebrate the relationship between the civil rights movement and labor rights," said Pelles.
"We appreciate how these two movements have worked together historically."
The conference will include workshops, including those on education and labor, as well as a town hall meeting. Conference participants also will take part in community outreach programs that include putting up the walls of two houses being built by Habitat for Humanity and taking part in service projects at local soup kitchens and food banks.
U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, who was the first to introduce legislation calling for a national holiday honoring King's birthday, and U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis will be among those honored during the conference.
National radio talk show host Joe Madison, a former executive director of the Detroit branch of the NAACP, will moderate the town hall meeting, scheduled for Friday.
Madison pointed out that many labor leaders were supporters of King's efforts and the slain civil rights activist was in Memphis to support striking public sanitation workers when he was assassinated April 4, 1968.
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Madison, a longtime Washington, D.C.-based activist, has already been named to the trade magazine's top 20 radio personalities among the "100 Most Important Talk Radio Show Hosts in America."
