TUESDAY: Raise New Jersey Coalition to re-launch Fight for $15 Campaign at Historic Paterson Church

Evening of Solidarity and Justice and Fight for $15 re-launch at church where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. encouraged activists to fight for economic justice

PATERSON, NJ– On Tuesday, Sept 4th, activists, community organizations, and progressive leaders will gather at the historic First Bethel AME Church in Paterson, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at for the Poor People’s Campaign, to re-launch New Jersey’s Fight for $15 Campaign.

As the NJ Legislature is poised to adopt a statewide $15 minimum wage by end of the year, activists seek to push for a $15 minimum wage bill for all workers and continue Dr. King’s fight for economic and racial justice.

Faith leaders, community leaders, and workers will stand united to call on legislators to raise the wage for all New Jerseyans.

WHAT: Night of Solidarity and Justice; Re-launch of Fight for $15 Campaign

WHERE: First Bethel AME Church, 2 Auburn Street, Paterson, NJ 07501

WHEN: Tuesday, September 4, 2018, 6:00PM

WHO: Raise NJ Coalition, New Jersey Working Families Alliance, First Bethel AME Church, 32BJ SEIU, Action Together NJ, Anti-Poverty Network, BlueWaveNJ, CATA Farmworkers, CWA, Indivisible Central NJ, Indivisible Rahway, Indivisible NJ 5th District, LUPE PAC, Make the Road New Jersey, NJ7 Forward, NJ State Industrial Union Council, NJ Work Environment Council, Our Revolution Essex, Paterson NAACP, Progressive Hunterdon Democrats, SOMA Action, STAND Central NJ, Wind of the Spirit

Speakers:

Rev. Allan Boyer of First Bethel AME Church

Paterson NAACP

Impacted Workers

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