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« Thursday March 13, 2008 »
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Farmworkers Kickoff Campaign on Capitol Hill! Start: 10:30 am End: 11:30 am Meet 9:15am, front gates to take the bus downtown! Email Ashwini (aj94) for more info. http://www.ciw-online.org ----- CIW petition signing ceremony in Washington DC DC friends and allies, Join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and allies for a kick off signing ceremony of the national petition campaign to end sweatshops and modern-day slavery in the fields! On March 13th at 10:30am, at the Senate Swamp (in the Capitol Hill Park across from the Senate Russell Office Building on Constitution and Delaware), the CIW will be accompanied by Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Dennis Kucinich, the Robert F. Kennedy Center, United Students Against Sweatshops, Organic Consumers Association, and many others to publicly sign the petition and speak TOS Workers' Protest Hanes Boardmember Jessica Matthews Start: 12:00 pm End: 1:00 pm Meet 11:30am at the GUTS Dupont bus stop Join Manuel and Julio, two workers organizing against sweatshop conditions at Hanes' factory in the Dominican Republic, for this action: Activists from around DC will be meeting to tell Jessica Matthews that "Sweatshops are a peace issue!" Come join the United Students Against Sweatsips and others from the area at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Jessica Matthews, president of the Carnegie Endowment, has refused to use her leverage as a member of the board of directors of Hanes to improve factory conditions in the Dominican Republic so we are going to be giving her some extra encouragement. Meet at 11:30 at the Dupont GUTS Bus stop. For more info, contact Joe Tso at skafan12@gmail.com. TOS Dominicana Workers Coming to Campus! Start: 6:00 pm End: 7:00 pm TOS Dominicana Workers coming to campus! Thursday, March 13, 6:00 pm Leavey Club Room #338. FREE PIZZA too! Georgetown Solidarity Committee is hosting two workers from the TOS Dominicana factory in the Dominican Republic where serious worker rights abuses have been exposed. The two workers will be talking about the fight for better conditions and wages they have been waging at the factory. Workers have experienced intimidation, verbal abuse, forced and unpaid overtime, while Hanes management refuses to address the problems in the factory. Dean's Beans, Fair Trade and Responsible Business?? Start: 7:00 pm End: 8:00 pm GU Students for Fair Trade will be hosting the founder of Fair Trade coffee company Dean's Beans at 7 PM in the Mortara Center (near Wisemiller's and Walsh). Come discuss about how companies can operate ethically in a global economy (actual ethics, not in the style of Nike or Wal-Mart!). Contact Ashwini (aj94) for more information.

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