Please join us in welcoming Special Guest Speaker Michael Letwin at our upcoming union training! Michael Letwin is a lifelong revolutionary socialist and 37-year Brooklyn public defender who has participated in movements against the Vietnam War, apartheid South Africa, and U.S. intervention in Iran, Central America, the Middle East, and around the world. A former president of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW Local 2325 (1990-2003), he is a co-founder of New York City Labor Against the War (2001), Labor for Palestine (2004), Jews for Palestinian Right of Return (2013), and Labor for Standing Rock (2016); and a founding member of UAW Labor for Palestine (2023) and New York City Labor for Palestine (2024).

*Please note: this training will be recorded for our much-needed Labor for an Arms Embargo media kit! By RSVPing to this event you agree that you'll be within a room that is being video recorded and could end up being a part of the final video. If you are uncomfortable being filmed, please let us know.

Workers have the power to enact an arms embargo for Palestine.

There are weapons, military equipment, and dangerous explosives being exported to Israel out of JFK airport and Port Elizabeth in New Jersey. These materials are directly being used to execute the Palestinian genocide, and we need to tell the Port Authority of NY/ NJ that its facilitation of these exports is unacceptable.

The Labor for an Arms Embargo campaign, locally called Break the Chain, is hosting a labor organizer training series for members of unions in the NY/ NJ area interested in organizing their workplace for Palestine. We will be joined by members of the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee who will facilitate the discussion and provide workers with the skills and knowledge to talk to their coworkers about Palestine.

Over the course of these trainings, workers will be guided through the process of building their organizing committee, having organizing conversations, and eventually passing anti-war resolutions in their unions. Join us to learn more!