Tune in tonight (7-8:30 p.m. EDT) to join a live webcast of the AFL-CIO National Teach-In on jobs and the economy. Click here for the live webcast. The Teach-In is part of the AFL-CIO’s National Week of Action demanding Congress promote a real jobs agenda.

The Students Rising for Jobs and Economic Justice  Teach-In also will be broadcast to dozens of college campuses around the country and will be followed by local discussions. Click here to find a Teach-In event near you. You also can follow the Teach-In on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/jobsteachin.

The Teach-In will focus on the jobs crisis and how student activists are fighting for workers’ rights, equal access to education, equitable taxation and economic and social justice.

MoveOn.org’s Lenore Palladino will moderate the Teach-In that will feature Frances Fox Piven, professor of sociology and political science at the City University of New York (CUNY); Victor Sanchez, president of the United States Student Association (USSA); and representatives from the United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), the Student Labor Action Project (SLAP) and the Maryland DREAM Youth Committee. The teach-In also will feature a taped appearance by former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, currently professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley.

Click here to download a program for tonight’s teach-in.

The National Week of Action runs through Oct 16. Click here to find an America Wants to Work action near you. You also can sign an America Wants to Work petition to Congress here. Follow the action on Twitter with the hashtag #want2work. Find an Occupy Wall Street event near you here. You can share Occupy Wall Street events on Facebook here.