[Marxism] FW: UPDATE: BANGLADESH WORKERS TOUR 2004: BEST WE'VE EVER HAD

["Charlie Parks" <jcparks5550@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: National.Labor.Committee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: john.c.parks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: UPDATE: BANGLADESH WORKERS TOUR 2004: BEST WE'VE EVER HAD
> Date: 07 Dec 2004 17:53:37 -0500
>
> **********************************************************
>                   NATIONAL LABOR COMMITTEE
>                 HUMAN & WORKER RIGHTS UPDATE
>                 ____________________________
>
> December 7, 2004
>
> 1.  EXCITEMENT CONTINUES TO BUILD FOR THE
> 8TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY SEASON OF CONSCIENCE!
>
> 2.  WAL-MART WORKERS' RIGHTS BOOK PARTY AT THE BRECHT FORUM
>
> ******************
>
> EXCITEMENT CONTINUES TO BUILD FOR THE
> 8TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY SEASON OF CONSCIENCE!
>
> http://www.nlcnet.org/hsc/
>
> Thursday, December 9 2004
> 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
> Washington Square Park
> (5th Avenue & Washington Square North)
> Greenwich Village
> New York City
>
> Please join concerned religious, labor and community
> activists, together with a marching band, hundreds of New
> York University Students, major media, and a huge 5 x 20
> foot banner. We'll be asking Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen -
> themselves NYU students and owners of a mega $1 billion
> private label for Wal-Mart - TO DO THE RIGHT THING!
>
> Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen each received $150 million on
> their 18th birthday, are presidents of a $1 billion company,
> had eight designers accompany them from the West Coast to
> NYU, and built themselves a $7 million condo in the West
> Village. Meanwhile, 18 year old women sewing Wal-Mart
> clothing in Bangladesh make pennies an hour while being
> denied their basic legal rights to Maternity Leave.
>
> We can do better than this! Join us this Thursday, December
> 9th, as we call upon the Olsen Twins to stand up for their
> sisters in Bangladesh and help the women who sew their
> clothing defend their most basic human rights.
>
> We will march around Washington Square and NYU to Broadway
> and then to the Asch Building on Greene and Washington, site
> of the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory fire.
>
> Afterwards, at 6:30 p.m., everyone is welcomed to join us at
> Judson Memorial Church on West 4th St for hot coffee, good
> conversation, and a free showing of the new 30-minute NLC
> video, "The Hidden Face of Globalization."
>
> Bring your musical instruments, posters, and singing voices.
>  This ought to be a colorful and festive event.
>
> We desperately need volunteers to help-please call us at
> 212-242-3002.
>
> ******************
>
> WAL-MART WORKERS' RIGHTS BOOK PARTY AT THE BRECHT FORUM
>
> We are also happy to also pass along this announcement about
> another important and very timely event:
>
> Wednesday, December 8
> 7:30 pm
> BOOK PARTY/FORUM
> The Brecht Forum
> 122 West 27th St. 10th Fl.
> NYC (Betw. 6th & 7th Aves.)
> 1,9,N,R to 28th St.
> F to 23rd
> St., PATH to 23rd St, C/E to 23rd St.
> 212.242.4201
> info@brechtforum.
>
> Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle For Workers' Rights
> At Wal-Mart
>
> (Liza Featherstone and moderated by Cleo Silvers)
>
> In 2000, Betty Dukes, a 52-year-old black woman in
> Pittsburg, California, became the lead plaintiff in Dukes v.
> Wal-Mart Stores, a class action representing 1.4 million
> women. In an explosive investigation of this historic
> lawsuit, journalist Liza Featherstone reveals how Wal-Mart,
> a self-styled "family-oriented," Christian company deprives
> women (but not men) of the training they need to advance,
> relegates women to lower-paying jobs, like selling baby
> clothes, reserving the more lucrative positions for men,
> inflicts punitive demotions on employees who object to
> discrimination and exploits Asian women in its sweatshops in
> Saipan, a U.S. commonwealth. Selling Women Short combines
> the personal stories of Wal-Mart employees with
> investigative journalism to show why women who work low-wage
> jobs are getting a raw deal, and what they are doing about
> it.
>
> Liza Featherstone is a freelance journalist and Brecht Forum
> board member whose work has been featured in the New York
> Times, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Rolling Stone, and
> the Washington Post, among other publications.
>
> Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15
>
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