Trip to Washington D.C. - Tuesday, March
30, 2004
Join fellow citizens of Robeson County – including
community leaders, agency representatives, business leaders,
local government officials, unemployed persons, students and
teachers – on a one-day trip to our nation’s Capitol
in order to:
- meet with members of Congress and their staff to discuss
our county's job loss and the need for jobs and business
development (Congressional
Briefing 2 pm, Press Conference 3 pm).
- meet with federal agency representatives and deliver proposals
and packages for funding recommendations for economic and
community development
- deliver a report on the impact of massive job loss on
the economy of Robeson County
- deliver federal policy recommendations to save U.S. jobs
and re-build Robeson County and the other counties in Rural
America that have been hit hardest by job loss due to federal
trade policies
- visit the Capitol, Smithsonian Institute, and other sites
in Washington, D.C.
Buses will leave from Lumberton at 12:30 AM and return at
11:30 PM
(Location To Be Announced)
Communities, Groups, Churches, Agencies, and Businesses are
encouraged
to send representatives, sponsor a bus, and take proposals/packages
To Sign Up, Help Plan, Publicize, or Receive More Information,
call:
Center For Community Action at 739-7851 or
email: cca@carolina.net
Contact:
Dr. Leslie Hossfeld
Department of Sociology
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
601 South College Road
Wilmington, NC 28403
910.231.6802
Hossfeldl@uncw.edu
Jobs For the Future is a Project of the Center For Community
Action
In Collaboration with Representatives From the Public and
Private Sector
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