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Students, parents, educators and all people of Southeastern Wisconsin are invited to meet workers from Nicaragua and Bangladesh October 6 and 8. Archbishop Dolan, in his Labor Day 2004 message, encouraged all of us to express our allegiance to Church teaching that the laborer deserves dignity, respect, and fair wages. These two October days provide us an opportunity to do this by participating in one or more of the events described below.
On October 6, Ruth Mena and Yadira Vallejos from the worker owned Nueva Vida Women's Sewing Cooperative in Nicaragua will share the stories and struggles involved in creating a “sweat-free” T-shirt factory. They now compete successfully against nearby sweatshops where some of them used to work.
Their tour, From Sweatshops to Coops, is schedule for October 6:
Noon, Marquette University, Union Ballroom A, 15th & Wells,
2:30 p.m., Mt. Mary College, Notre Dame Hall, 92nd & Locust
5:15 p.m., Outpost NF Co-op, 100 E Capitol Dr.
7:15 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Church West, 13001 W. North Av., Brookfield
For more information about the tour call Alice at 414-871-4081.
On October 8: in another tour, The Human Face Behind the Global Economy, three workers from Bangladesh will meet with the Wisconsin Institute of Peace and Conflict Resolution:
10:45 to Noon at the Marquette University Union (1400 block of W Wisconsin Av.)
For more information about their Milwaukee visit, contact Michael Duffey at Marquette 414-288-3748 or Michael.Duffey@Marquette.edu.
To access more details about both tours in either English or Spanish click on one of the links:
English
Spanish
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