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Jim Keady & Leslie Kretzu: Wednesday March 27, 7:30pm, McConomy Auditorium, CMU
Educating for Justice is coming to the CMU Campus. Here is a map showing the UC and morewood parking lots, for offcampus visitors.
Check out Jim and Leslie's website at nikewages.org. Special thanks to Pete Milder, AB Lectures, Indira Nair, the University Lecture Series, and your Student Activities fee.
main flyer, 11x17 flyer, adam's flyer ; flyer 1, flyer 2

A Workshop on the Living Wage, followed by:
Occupation: A film about the Harvard Living Wage Campaign's 21-day sit-in.
Tuesday, April 9, 2002. 6:30pm, Porter Hall 100, CMU
The inspiring story of the Living Wage campaign at Harvard should be told to the whole country, so it is a wonderful gift to have it on film, in a way that brings alive the remarkable solidarity of students, workers, and the community.
-Howard Zinn
PWR's CMU Living Wage Campaign and the Pittsburgh Living Wage Campaign will lead a workshop on Living Wage issues, and this will be followed by the excellent film "Occupation". click here for a map to Porter Hall 100. (flyer)
Tartan coverage.

Globalizing Solidarity
April 23, 8pm, Connan Room, UC (film at 10pm in McConomy)
Dr. John Soluri, CMU History Department
Robin Alexander, UE Director of International Labor Affairs
"Globalize Solidarity" workers from Mexico's Authentic Worker's Front (FAT)

Panelists bring their stories of labor rights struggles to union halls, churches, universities and other venues throughout the nation. Trained in both Latin American history and environmental policy, Soluri's work focuses on the relationship between social and ecological change.
Location: Connan Room, University Center, CMU
also, the same night...
Life and Debt, a film by Stephanie Black

With excerpts from the award-winning non-fiction text "A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid, Life and Debt tells the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas. Traditional documentary and stylized narrative exhibit the complexities of international lending, structural adjustment policies, and free trade in the context of the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact.
also visit: http://www.lifeanddebt.org.
Location: McConomy Auditorium, University Center, CMU
flyers: full page, quarter page.

WITNESS: Behind the Labels
April 30, 6:30pm, Porter Hall 100
Behind the Labels: Garment Workers on U.S. Saipan (2001)
Lured by false promises and driven by desperation, thousands of Chinese and Filipina women pay high fees to work in garment factories on the pacific island of Saipan - the only U.S. territory exempt from labor and immigration laws. The clothing they sew, bearing the "Made in the USA" label, is shipped duty and quota-free to the U.S for sale by The GAP, J. Crew, Polo and other retailers. Powerful hidden camera footage, along with the garment workers` personal stories, offers a rare and unforgettable glimpse into indentured labor and the workings of the global sweatshop-where 14 hour shifts, payless paydays and lock-downs are routine. BEHIND THE LABELS takes the story from the factory floor to the streets, where protesters worldwide wage an ongoing battle against globalization. Behind the Labels was produced and directed for WITNESS and Oxygen by two-time Emmy Award nominated producer Tia Lessin. http://www.witness.org. (Running Time: 45 minutes)

Code of Conduct
Carnegie Mellon may soon adopt a strong code of conduct, which will enact policy such that our University specifies that the companies it does business with will abide by certain standards in labor practices. Included in these standards are full public disclosure, the right to organize, protection for women and children workers, a living wage, and environmental responsibility.
Stay tuned for an update on this process. Hopefully soon the code of conduct and factory locations of CMU's licencees will be on the web.
The president's council is set to decide on the code of conduct on April 12. Stay tuned.

Meeting Schedules:  
All meetings are on Thursday, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm

  1/31/2002 Conan Room, 1st floor, UC
  2/ 7/2002 Class of 1987 Room, 2nd floor, UC
  2/14/2002 Caffee Conf. Room 2nd floor, UC
  2/21/2002 Class of 1987 Room, 2nd floor, UC (6pm)
  2/28/2002 Class of 1987 Room 2nd floor, UC
  ( week of 3/7/2002, mid-semester break )
  3/14/2002 Peter Room 2nd floor, UC
  3/21/2002 Peter Room 2nd floor, UC
  3/27/2002 Jim Keady and Leslie Kretzu, McConomy, 7:30pm
  3/28/2002 Peter Room 2nd floor, UC
  ( week of 4/4/2002, spring break )
  4/ 9/2002 Living Wage Workshop and Movie, 6:30pm
  4/11/2002 Caffee Conf. Room 2nd floor, UC
  4/23/2002 Globalizing Solidarity & Life and Debt. 8:00pm, UC Connan Room
  4/25/2002 Caffee Conf. Room 2nd floor, UC
  5/2/2002 Class of 1987 Room 2nd floor, UC

Check out the pamphlet on responsible shopping produced by PWR.