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Economic Justice and
African-American Communities

A D&S forum, held on Friday, Sept. 15th, 2006 at the Community Church of Boston.

Diane Dujon

Longtime welfare rights and anti-poverty organizer; editor of For Crying Out Loud: Women's Poverty in the United States; administrator at the College of Public and Community Service, U. Mass-Boston.

Bill Fletcher Jr.

Longtime labor and international activist; until recently president of TransAfrica Forum; former education director of the AFL-CIO following years as an organizer in the SEIU, District 65-UAW, and other unions.

Chuck Turner

Boston City Councilor and longtime activist; has directed a CDC, an organizer training center, and a jobs agency for construction workers of color; worked at a nonprofit consulting firm focused on establishing worker cooperatives.

This forum honored Chris Tilly.

Chris Tilly, scholar and activist of labor and equality issues, "retired" from the Dollars & Sense collective this year after 20 years of dedicated involvement.

Click here to give D&S a donation in honor of Chris Tilly.

Dollars & Sense co-editor Amy Gluckman holds up the commemorative D&S cover we made for the occasion.