Start off Pride weekend with a Panel Discussion on Labor and Solidarity! With support from Pride at Work Hawai`i, the event is presented by CLEAR (the Center for Labor Education and Research) at UH-West O`ahu.

Join us for hearty pupus and solidarity on Friday, October 16, 5:30 pm, at IBEW 1186 (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1186), in Kalihi.
Address: 1935 Hau Street, 5th Floor, Honolulu, HI 96819. Plenty parking
Register here: https://go.hawaii.edu/RDx
The event is free!

Panelists:
– Kim Cordova, President of UFCW Local 7 representing the LARGEST PRIVATE UNION in Colorado – more than 23,000 grocery, meatpacking, food processing, and health care workers. She will be speaking on the historic March 2026 JBS strike where 99% of 4,000 workers authorized the strike. Over 80% of the plant’s production floor is an immigrant workforce with over 50 languages spoken.
– Kieran Knutson, President of CWA, Local 7250. President Knutson assisted in organizing trade unionists participating in “worker assemblies” and neighborhood rapid response when roughly 3,000 ICE Agents were deployed to Minnesota. He will be speaking on that experience and about the “Minnesota 15” indicted and facing trial.
– Liza Ryan Gill, Director of the Hawai’i Coalition for Immigrant Rights.