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Bread & Roses film screening: Food Chains

Date: 

Tuesday, December 8, 2015 - 6:00pm to Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 1:44am

Free and open to all!

There is more interest in food these days than ever, yet there is very little interest in the hands that pick it. Farmworkers, the foundation of our fresh food industry, are routinely abused and robbed of wages. In extreme cases they can be beaten, sexually harassed or even enslaved – all within the borders of the United States.

Black Friday Walmart Protests

Photo from OUR Walmart

Date: 

Friday, November 27, 2015 - 12:00am to Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 1:44am

Stand with Walmart workers on Black Friday fasting for $15/hour & full-time. While the Waltons own more wealth than the bottom 42% of our country, Walmart workers are struggling every day to put food on the table. This year, OUR Walmart members are calling on the community to join them in the #FastFor15.

#FastFor15 is fifteen days of action led by Walmart workers fasting at Walton homes, Board of Directors homes and Walmart stores and offices culminating in another national day of action this Black Friday.

Walmart Action in Solidarity with Tazreen Fire Victims

Date: 

Tuesday, November 24, 2015 - 12:00am to Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 1:44am

On November 24, 2012, a preventable fire at Tazreen Fashions, a factory in Ashulia, in the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, claimed the lives of at least 112 garment workers who were trapped inside. At the time of the fire, the majority of the clothing made at Tazreen was Walmart's. However, three years later, Walmart still hasn't paid even a single penny of compensation owed to the injured workers and families of the deceased.

National Day of Action: Fight for 15

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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 - 12:00am to Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 1:44am

On November 10, join the U.S. national day of action to support $15 an hour and union rights. As fast-food workers across the country go on STRIKE on November 10, people across the country will be coming together to stand with them, with child care workers and with all 64 million underpaid workers making less than $15 an hour. 

Together we’re turning the tide in favor of working people and our families. And we’ll need everyone’s help – including yours – to make this a reality.

Bread & Roses: “Cotton Road”

Date: 

Tuesday, August 11, 2015 - 6:00pm to Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 1:44am

Americans consume nearly 20 billion new items of clothing each year. Yet few of us know how our clothes are made, much less who produces them. Cotton Road http://www.cottonroadmovie.com/about/ follows the commodity of cotton from South Carolina farms to Chinese factories to illuminate the work and industrial processes in a global supply chain. See the trailer at: https://vimeo.com/105490261.

Worker Justice in the Global Apparel Industry

Date: 

Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - 12:15pm to 1:15pm
 
Join us for a brown bag lunch!
 
Around the world, workers in the apparel industry are raising their voices and organizing for safe jobs, a living wage, and the right to form unions and collectively bargain without retaliation. Hear about the advances and challenges in the Bangladeshi garment industry two years after the Rana Plaza building collapse, and learn about the unionized Alta Gracia factory in the Dominican Republic, which pays a living wage.
 
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Meet-Up for Childhood Freedom with 2014 Nobel Peace Price laureate Kailash Satyarthi

Date: 

Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - 4:00pm to Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 1:44am

2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Kailash Satyarthi, is joining supporters to celebrate freedom for the world’s children — freedom from slavery, labor, childhood hunger, trafficking and illiteracy. This peaceful gathering will honor the collective work being accomplished combined with a reminder of the significant work ahead to make childhood freedom a priority on both national and international agendas.