Thu., April 11: Dan La Botz, Sweatshops & Solidarity (Mexico, Indonesia, USA)

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires

Global Sweatshops, Global Solidarity:
USA, Mexico, Indonesia

Speaker: Dan La Botz

Dan La Botz is a visiting professor of history at Miami University.
He is the author of _Rank-and-File Rebellion: Teamsters for a
Democratic Union_ (1990,
<http://www.versobooks.com/books/klm/labotz_tdu.shtml>), _Mask of
Democracy: Labor Suppression in Mexico Today_ (1992,
<http://www.southendpress.org/books/MaskofDem.htm>), _Democracy in
Mexico: Peasant Rebellion and Political Reform_ (1995,
<http://www.southendpress.org/books/DeminMex.htm>), and _Made in
Indonesia: Indonesian Workers Since Suharto_ (2001,
<http://www.southendpress.org/books/MadeinIndonesia.shtml>), as well
as the editor of _Mexican Labor News and Analysis_
<http://www.ueinternational.org/alert.html>.  His writing appears
regularly in _Against the Current_
<http://www.igc.org/solidarity/indexATC.html> and _Labor Notes_
<http://www.labornotes.org/>.

Thursday, April 11, 5 PM
CWA Local 4501 Union Hall
27 Euclid Ave. (between 8th & King Avenues, a little to the east of
High St.), Columbus, OH
Click on <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/CWA.gif> for a map.

Sponsors: the Student International Forum, Social Welfare Action
Alliance, Jobs with Justice (Columbus), Columbus Unites Students
Against Sweatshops, Graduate Employees and Students Organization -
OSU, & Columbus State Community College Contract Faculty Association.
Contact: Yoshie Furuhashi, <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>, 614-668-6554; &
Keith Kilty, <kilty.1@xxxxxxx>, 614-292-7181.

Please download the flyer for this event at
<http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/solidarity.doc> & help spread the
word.
The flyer for other upcoming events is available at
<http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar10.doc>.

--
Yoshie

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