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1/21 (Zoom) 7:30pm - Project 2025: Growth of Rightwing Authoritarianism as a Global Phenomenon with Bill Fletcher, Jr. (Veterans for Peace)

Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 Time: 7:30pm ET

Regional VFP hosted Zoom meeting

Topic: Project 2025:  Growth of Rightwing Authoritarianism as a Global Phenomenon - Speaker:  Bill Fletcher Jr.

Bill Fletcher Jr. has been an activist since his teen years. Upon graduating from college he went to work as a welder in a shipyard, thereby entering the labor movement. Over the years he has been active in workplace and community struggles as well as electoral campaigns. He has worked for several labor unions in addition to serving as a senior staffperson in the national AFL-CIO.

Fletcher is the former president of TransAfrica Forum; a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; and in the leadership of several other projects. Fletcher is the co-author (with Peter Agard) of “The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1934-1941”; the co-author (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin) of “Solidarity Divided: The crisis in organized labor and a new path toward social justice“; and the author of “‘They’re Bankrupting Us’ – And Twenty other myths about unions.” Fletcher is a syndicated columnist and a regular media commentator on television, radio and the Web.

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