From: mtoups@andrew.cmu.edu
Date: Thu Mar 21 2002 - 10:50:59 EST
hey.
PWR has a big event next week.
We need lots of help with promotion. Please
stop by the Peter Room today at 5:30 pm and
pick up some flyers. Brad will have photocopies
and other stuff we need to get ready. The email and press
release are attached; you can get flyers from
the PWR website also.
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/org/usas/flyers/efj.pdf
the event is WEDNESDAY and there is much
planning to be done. make a brief stop by
and lend a hand.
thanks!
other stuff -- PLANTA meets today also, and
our own Professor John Soluri will be leading
the discussion on Venezuelan Oil, Politics and Labor.
We will also work on fair trade coffee and a speaking
tour of mexican workers.
the saturday screening of imp activism has been moved
to 6:30pm in PH 100, its still tonight at 8pm in
the same room though.
peace
matt
ps - please let people know about the speakers, forward the
email below
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Educating for Justice: Leslie Kretzu and Jim Keady
Wednesday, March 27, 2002
7:30 PM, McConomy Auditorium, CMU University Center
Leslie Kretzu and Jim Keady spent August 2000 living
in a factory worker's slum in Tangerang, Indonesia on
$1.25 a day, a typical wage paid to Nike's workers.
"Starving for the Swoosh," their one-hour and fifteen minute
interactive multimedia presentation, followed by a
forty five minute question and answer period, includes
slide shows, music, role-playing, and powerful new video
footage of Kretzu and Keady's chance encounter with
Nike CEO Phil Knight at Nike headquarters in Beaverton,
Oregon.
Jim Keady is a former soccer coach at St. John's
University. He was forced to resign for refusing to
wear Nike soccer equipment. Leslie Kretzu recently
made headlines when she carried the Olympic torch
through Philadelphia barefoot to call attention to
what she says are abusive labor practices overseas.
Sponsored by: People for Workers Rights (pwr@andrew.cmu.edu)
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/org/usas
co-sponsors: AB Lectures, the University Lecture Series,
the History Department, and the Student Activities Fee.
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