Workshop today!

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Hi everyone,

Despite the fact that it's finals week, I will be holding my workshop on sweatshop labor and its effect on women today! If you're free, PLEASE come through and bring some friends! Info is below! (And please forward this to any relevant listservs! I know it's last minute)

Ever noticed the different countries on the tags on your clothes? Who are the people responsible for making all of the clothes on your body? How much do you think an average sweatshop worker makes for t-shirts that cost $25 or jeans that cost $75? The (human) price is much lower than you think.

Join Krupa Patel from Prof. Anna Guevarra’s Asian American/Asian Women in the Global Economy Class and Alternative Spring Break for a fun and interactive workshop* on sweatshop labor called:

CAPITALISM, CLOTHES AND CONSUMERISM: The Story of Sweatshops

A brief description: This interaction workshop will go over the many issues facing women sweatshop workers across the world as they participate in an unfair system of production that privileges us over them. Methods of getting involved with activist movements on and off campus will also be presented to students.

WHEN: TODAY (Tuesday, Dec 7) from 4pm-5pm
WHERE: basement of the Honors College (Room B16)

Questions? Feel free to contact Krupa Patel at kpatel96@uic.edu

websites!

stop sweatshops

and on facebook asian and asian american women in the global economy

the organization started in class create chicago

Plan of Action; Many Voices, One Performance

A brief description of our performance:
A fusion of
spoken word/ play acting to convey the plight of sweatshop workers and the
ignorance of the problem for many of the people in the U.S. We hope to
highlight one issue as a means to be a gateway for people to start
thinking of the problems of globalization in the context of their own
lives and as apart of a world problem.

If you had one message for the world, what would it be?

We are an organization originated from Professor Guevarra’s SOC/ASAM/GWS
428 class, Asian/ Asian American Women in the Global Economy. We formed to
educate and inform people of issues concerning them in a global level that
they may not know about. Through the fusion of spoken word and a staged
performance, we hope that our message will get people more involved in
moving toward solutions. We want our performance to be an example to get
people to speak up and do something. There are different ways to tackle
problems such as the exploitative nature of sweatshop labor but it calls
for people to make a plan of action.