Ken's Anti-Sweatshop TV show #2, March Madness 2011

March Madness Against Sweatshops ,[object Object],[object Object]

Dennis Brutus and Howard Zinn Tribute – April 18, 2010

Pittsburgh City Council Post Agenda April 27, 2010

Sweatshop Media Problems ,[object Object],[object Object]

THANK YOU PITT Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild

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What is a sweatshop? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Electricity Transportation ,[object Object],[object Object]

Export Processing Zones (EPZs) and Free Trade Zones (FTZs) are aimed at changing agrarian societies into industrial societies. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

www.FIELDOFSCHEMES.org What are the Pittsburgh Pirates selling? Roberto Clemente – this is what Solidarity looks like MAZ – this is the shot heard around the world What do the Pittsburgh Pirates and U PITT’s logos have in common? Why are we targeting the Pittsburgh Pirates rather than Walmart or Nike?

Public Works Administration VS Today’s Economic Stimulus Package ,[object Object],[object Object]

DOMESTIC VS EXPORT ,[object Object]

In 1964 Dennis Brutus’s campaign to expel Apartheid South Africa from the Olympic Games was successful. ,[object Object]

It’s all about the cotton and who spins it. It’s about MLK’s triple evils of racism, imperialism and poverty.

Multi Fiber Arrangement 1973 - 2003 - a US govt. policy to stop peasant demands for land reform ,[object Object],[object Object]

What do we know about university logos? ,[object Object],[object Object]

United Students Against Sweatshops and the Workers Rights Consoritum ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

MLK Day Bangladesh 2010 Thank you Senators Specter and Casey Amin/War on Want - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlO9u-wPNEY

WRC investigator yells FIRE FIRE ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The $3 Fruit of the Loom PITT logo t-shirts are worth NOTHING! ,[object Object],[object Object]

FIRE! FIRE! Use you “sweatfree” policy now, please. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

October 2007 – Jan 1020 Negotiations are not a dance! ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Why didn’t Chancellor Nordenberg hear? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Workable VS Bogus Anti Sweatshop Policies ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

WORKABLE Anti Sweatshop Policies in Western PA ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Invitations to Anti Sweatshop Policy Meeting on April 27 – 2 PM We are no longer implementing policies proactively – we are responding to worker testimony. We are remediating sweatshop factory conditions now.

What is so hard about implementing these policies? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What is the cost to Pittsburgh interest groups of demanding that the Pirates protect the rights of workers sewing our team apparel? What is it is worth? What is the value – to people in Western PA – of a global apparel union organizing drive? How do we make this demand and DELIVER SOLIDARITY? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

How to WIN a WRC affiliation campaign… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

There is a CONSTELATION of anti sweatshop organizations that each need to be scrutinized and judged: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What is the connection between sweatshop working conditions in Bangladesh and police brutality in Pittsburgh? HUMAN RIGHTS The Pittsburgh Anti Sweatshop Community Alliance is a Human Rights organization. The need for Independent Monitoring of garment factories is similar to the need for Citizen Police Oversight. You cannot have the fox guarding the hen house.

Black and White Runion Summit Against Racism 2010 Jonny Gammage Scholarship Questions ,[object Object],[object Object]

,[object Object],PASCA is one of several organizations preparing for a tribute to Dennis Brutus and Howard Zinn on Sunday, April 18 from 1 -3 PM in the PITT Graduate School for Public Health’s Auditorium.

How are Dennis Brutus, Roberto Clemente and Mohammad Ali connected?

Did you know B-PEP is a Human Rights organization? Buy your tickets for B-PEP JAZZ here/TONIGHT!

Workers from Bangladesh will testify at the August Wilson Center on Tuesday April 27 at 7 PM . We need your help to make this event a success! Help us find co-sponsors. Meet with anti sweatshop policy implementation people to prepare for this event. Empower the people you know with this testimony. Own it. THANK YOU EARLY BIRD Co-sponsors! Pittsburgh IWW, Black Political Empowerment Project, State Senator Jim Ferlo, William Robinson Consulting, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, National Labor Committee, Western PA Jobs with Justice, Freedom Unlimited, Steel Valley Printers/USW Local 3403

Celebrate AND Protest on the International Workers Holiday EXAMPLE: Baltimore’s United Workers Our Harbor Day Pittsburgh IWW May Day Committee – Meet Alex and Evan! NOTE: May Day this year is on a Saturday and coincides with PITT graduation! Ummm

Members of the Pittsburgh Anti Sweatshop Community Alliance talk talk talk to baseball fans about sweatshops at PNC Park. We petition, leaflet, perform, commandeer, protest the Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Club, not the fans. PNC Park is our CIVIL RIGHTS BRIDGE to the floor of the global sweatshop. We try to represent PITTSBURGH history and values and labor. ,[object Object],[object Object]

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