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The Sweatshop Workers Speak Out! Tour Stops in Baltimore Thursday 4/29!
Apr 27, 2010
We're excited to be one of the sponsors for the Baltimore stop of Sweatshop Workers Speak Out! Tour at UMBC Thursday, April 29th from 6-8pm in the Gallery of the AOK Library.
The tour is organized by the International Labor Rights Forum and features Kalpona Akter, a former child factory worker from Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity, a ten year old organization established by garment workers striving for the empowerment of women, children's rights, and the security of working communities. The tour also features Zehra Bano, the general secretary of the home-based Women Workers' Federation of Pakistan. The talk will be centered around first-hand testimony about the exploitation that sweatshop workers face as well as sharing stories and strategies of resistance.
UMBC is a great stop for the tour, as Solidarity Coalition, a student-worker campus solidarity network, has recently succeeded with UMBC administration to affiliate UMBC with the Workers' Rights Consortium, an independent labor rights monitoring organization which conducts investigations of factories around the globe. UMBC recently signed a code of conduct, institutionalizing UMBC's commitment to ethical and socially responsible business practices.
The event is co-sponsored by the Industrial Workers of the World Baltimore Branch, Red Emma's, United Workers, and UMBC Solidarity Coalition. For information about carpooling and other general information, you can visit the event facebook site here. Please come out if you can and pay us a visit at this special event!
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800 St. Paul St. * Baltimore, MD 21202 * (410) 230-0450 * info@redemmas.org
Red Emma's is open Monday through Friday from 10AM-10PM, Saturday from 10AM-8PM, and Sunday from 10AM-6PM. Our weekly collective meetings are Sunday at 7PM, and are open to anyone interested in the project, except for the first Sunday of every month, which is closed to everyone except collective members.
