International Day of Action! Localize the Movement for Global Justice! september 26, 2000

Action Ideas

¯ Do a demonstration at the worksite of a local employer who is violating workers' right to organize!

¯ Do a press conference to release the Center for Economic and Policy Research report about IMF/World Bank Lending outside of a Wal-Mart or other Multinational giant!

¯ Organize a teach-in that makes the global ö local links!

¯ Hold an accountability session with campus administration to get answers about apparel, food service and other procurement decisions affect workers in the global economy!

¯ Support healthcare workers organizing in a nearby hospital or nursing home and at the same time voice your outrage at World Bank and IMF imposed health care user fees!

¯ Target a local government official or local company who is supporting a plan to privatize basic public services!

 

Action Examples:

In NYC Jobs with Justice is working with HERE to support HEREâs struggle at the Metropolitan Opera. In late September when the Met opens it season with a Black Tie affair Jobs with Justice will be there with rice and beans in the park across the street to dramatize the contradictions of champagne and caviar meals and low-wage workers who canât make ends meet. Also, the action will highlight the wealth of a very few and the increasing poverty of millions around the world.

On S25 Activists in Washington DC are planning to take action against abuses in DC public schools, which, like those in developing countries, are chronically under-funded and controlled by a group of people who are unaccountable to the citizens who are most impacted by their decisions. DC activists are seeking to link the struggles of low-income Washington DC residents with those of the poor in developing countries, by sending a delegation of prominent leaders into a DC public school and to the World Bank headquarters in downtown Washington DC to erect a wall of shame showing the impacts of underfunding. On S26 activists will lend support to the mostly immigrant workforce in the parking industry who are organizing unions and bargaining for better wages and benefits.