News: Law school teachers, librarians and administrators join Hilton Workers and Boycott

Over 250 hotel workers and law school professors, librarians and staff marched together today, urging Association of American Law School (AALS) attendees to honor the Hilton Union Square boycott. Due to the efforts of many law professors, including members of the Society of American Law Teachers and the Ad hoc Committee of Law Professors to Support the Hilton Boycott, the AALS was "able to relocate approximately two-thirds of our programming out of the Hilton and into the other two hotels directly across the street " said H. Reese Hansen, President of AALS. "This will reduce the AALS presence at the San Francisco Hilton to about a third of our original plan."

During a brief rally, speakers such as former AALS President, Emma Coleman Jordan (Georgetown University Law Professor), Karl Klare (Northeastern University Law Professor), Julius Getman (University of Texas, Austin Law Professor), Rachel Arnow-Richman (University of Denver Law Professor), and Randy Shaw (local activist, attorney, journalist and Executive Director of Tenderloin Housing Clinic) urged their peers to stand in solidarity with hotel workers in their struggle for their share of Blackstone's economic recovery.

"This is what a movement looks like," said David Harlan, a 15-year cook at the Stanford Court Hotel. "Together, with each step we take, we are stronger and more able to defend our rights and stand for basic principles of social and economic justice. Together we can win. Together we can build a fairer and just workplace, a fairer and just community, and a better future for ourselves and our families."

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• Consumer Boycott
• Justice for Hotel Workers
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• Boycott Hilton
• Blackstone
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