99% Spring: April 14 Speakers

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Featured speakers at the Iowa Summit to Confront Corporate Power Saturday, April 14

We're taking the national 99% Spring curriculum and giving it a bit of Iowa CCI energy. And, we've invited these rock star organizers from Iowa and the Midwest to lead a session. Don't miss out.

  • Javier Morillo, president of SEIU Local 26 out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, which has been a big part of SEIU’s national “Fight for a Fair Economy” campaign. He is also recognized in Minnesota as a political strategist and appears regularly on local political talk shows as a progressive commentator.

  • Stephen Fletcher, executive director of Neighborhoods Organizing for Change out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, which has been involved in the national “Occupy Our Homes” campaign to fight foreclosures. Fletcher was named 2011 "Organizer of the Year" by Grassroots Solutions.

  • Jennifer Sherer, executive director of the University of Iowa Labor Center in Iowa City. She has served as president and in various other elected offices in UE union and has been a key ally of our in the fight to stop wage theft.

  • Cathy Glasson, president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 199 out of Coralville, Iowa

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