How Change is Effected: courts, legislation, grass roots - led by Martha Coakley

Date: 

Thursday, March 5, 2015, 4:00pm

Location: 

Littauer 166, HKS

Session #3: Grassroots and its relevance to addressing income inequality

Guests: Tim Foley, Executive Vice President Mass. SIEU  1199 and Deb Fastino, the Executive Director of the Coalition for Social Justice

The Coalition, with help from other organizers, was primarily responsible for organizing and moving ahead on raising the minimum wage and earned sick time in Massachusetts. They will discuss how they were able to organize a very successful grassroots movement here in Massachusetts that will impact efforts to address income inequality.

***All study groups are off-the-record and not for media coverage***