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26 International Day of Action!
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City |
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AZ |
Tucson |
Chris Ford |
SAAEJ |
520-624-9321 |
9/26, 4:30 pm, National Law Center Building, downtown Tucson: Protest at this powerful law and research firm that helps promote and define trade policy in the Western hemisphere. |
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CA |
San Francisco |
Martha Hannan |
Economic Justice Now! |
415-824-8384 |
9/26, 12 noon: Rally at Citibank (1 Samson St.) to protest their involvement with World Bank Bonds. 4 pm: Rally at City Hall and March, while hand-billing and serving eviction notices for violations of human rights and crimes against ecology |
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CA |
Los Angeles |
Lee Siu Hin |
Los Angeles Coalition for Global and Local Justice |
213-389-5011 |
9/26, 2pm: Rally at Pershing Square and march to LA financial district and Citibank offices to protest their support of World Bank Bonds |
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CA |
Sacramento |
Arline and James Prigoff |
Alliance for Democracy, Sacramento |
916-925-8950 |
9/26, morning: Informational tabling on campus of Cal. State Sacramento 9/26, 4:40 ö 6 pm: Protest against IMF and World Bank at 16th and J Sts. |
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CA |
Bakersfield |
Brian Mullan |
661-863-3222 |
Contact local organizer for details. |
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CO |
Denver |
Felicia Hilton |
Colorado JwJ |
303-806-0818 |
9/26, 4 pm: Colorado Jobs with Justice, members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)âs Justice for Janitors campaign, and activists from the Denver Direct Action Network will protest at the Federal Reserve Bank to demand respect for workersâ rights in Denver and abroad |
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CT |
Hartford |
Justin Molito |
Connecticut Global Action Network |
860-355-4050 |
9/25: All-Day Teach-In on Workersâ and Human Rights in the Global Economy at University of Hartford 9/26: 2pm Rally at Bushnell Park and March to United Technologies Corporation, to join SEIU rally and civil disobedience supporting United Technology Corporationâs janitorsâ right to organize |
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CT |
New Haven |
Stephen Osserman |
Yale Students Against Sweatshops, Student Labor Action Coalition |
203-436-1289 |
9/26: Teach-In and Rally on Sweatshops and Yaleâs union-busting activities on campus. |
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DC |
Washington |
Nathan Wyeth Lewis Malizia Tracy Lingo
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Student Sierra Club
Teamsters HERE Local 27
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301-656-8773 202-624-8700 202-393-7939
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9/19, 4 pm: Rally at the World Bank to Protest the Chad-Cameroon pipeline project and other WB environmental disasters. 9/25, 4 pm: Demonstration at DC School Board to highlight abuses of privatization of education in the District and to support IBT local in its fight for a fair contract 9/26, 7:30 am: Demonstration with HERE Local 27 to support right of Parking Lot Attendants to a fair contract and a living wage |
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DE |
Wilmington |
Sally Milbury-Steen |
Witness for Peace |
302-656-2721 |
9/26: Vigil and leafletting on at Market Street Mall. |
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FL |
Miami |
Monica Russo |
South Florida JwJ |
305-623-3000 |
Contact local organizer for details of action. |
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FL |
West Palm Beach |
David Nichols |
Global Justice Group of South Florida |
561-547-6686 |
9/26, 6-8 pm: Tainted Twight Hour Two-mile scenic walking tour of West Palm Beachâs rich and infamous local/global corporate exploiters. Start at Jose Marti Park, ends on Clematis 9/28, 6:30-8:30pm: Video Screening of "Break the Bank: A Challenge to the IMF and World Bank" West Palm Beach Library |
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GA |
Atlanta |
Charlie Flemming
Ashly Simpson |
Atlanta JwJ
GA State U. |
404-525-3559
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9/26: Rally to support members of the Bakery, Confectioners, Tobacco, Grain Millers Union on strike at Earthgrains. 9/26: Teach-In at GA State U. |
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IA |
Iowa City |
Shireen Judeh |
UI Students Against Sweatshops |
319-354-1625 |
Contact local organizer for details of action. |
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IL |
Chicago |
Sarita Gupta |
Chicago JwJ |
312-787-5868, ext. 137 |
9/26: Action in financial district |
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IL |
Urbana |
Danielle Chyn |
217-278-3933 |
9/26: All-Day Teach-In and Theatrical Direct Action |
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IN |
Indianapolis |
Ed Ramthun Stefanie Miller |
Indianapolis JwJ Indiana Alliance for Democracy |
317-917-0723 317-872-3516 |
9/26, 11:30 am-1 pm, Office of Salomon Smith Barney (111 Monument Circle): Picketing and leafleting of this largest underwriter of World Bank Bonds. |
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KY |
Louisville |
Dawn Jenkins |
Lousville JwJ |
502-582-3508, ext 124 |
9/26: Action with USWA around a plant-closing in Providence, KY and the impact of globalization on KY. Plan to announce delegation of laid-off steelworkers to Nogales, Mexico to meet workers in the plant that now makes their product. |
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MA |
Boston |
Cassie Watters |
Boston JwJ/Boston Global Action Network |
617-524-8778 |
9/26, 5 pm: March from MIT Student Center along Memorial Drive to Pfizer, a global biotechnology firm based in Cambridge that has exploited the devastating effect of AIDS in Africa to reap profit. |
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MA |
Hadley |
Jon Weissman |
Western MA JwJ |
413-737-0640 |
9/26, 5:30 pm: Protest at Wal-Mart, Mountain Farms Mall, Route 9, Hadley, MA, to highlight the way that Wal-Mart both benefits from IMF/World Bank programs abroad by using sweatshops in developing countries to make the apparel they sell in stores here, and regularly suppresses their employeesâ right to organize here in the US. |
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MD |
Baltimore |
Chuck D'Adamo |
Coalition Against Global Exploitation |
410-243-2471 |
9/20, 7:30 pm: Teach-In "Globalization: Bankrupting Latino Communities" |
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MI |
Ann Arbor |
Gus Teschke |
Contact local organizer for details of action. |
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MI |
Detroit |
Barbara Ingalls |
Detroit JwJ |
248-547-7729 |
9/26, 5:30pm: Sweatshop tour of Southwest Detroit (meet at SEMCOSH/UNITE on Howard and Trumbull) |
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MI |
Kalamazoo |
Trina Tocco |
Western Michigan Students Against Sweatshops |
810-215-6484 |
9/26: Action to highlight the hidden costs of corporate globalization. |
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MN |
Duluth |
Ben Grosscup Mali Lorenz |
218-724-2054 218-728-3771 |
9/26, 4:30 pm, SW corner of Lake Ave. and Superior St.: Rally to Reclaim Power from Greedy Corporations! The S26 Duluth Coalition is going to have a demonstration in a busy intersection surrounded by many corporations. The effort will bring together groups that are working to hold corprotations like Minensota Power, United Health Care, MEI/GSI accountable for their actions. |
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MN |
Minneapolis |
Larry Weiss |
Minnesota Fair Trade Coalition |
612-276-0788, x. 19 |
9/25, 5:30 pm, Rosedale Kohlâs department store: Demonstration to demand justice for Kohlâs Nicaraguan sweatshop workers, followed by talk by some of those workers at 7:30 pm at Resource Center of the Americas |
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MO |
St. Louis |
contact Kevin Pranis, national PMP |
Prison Moratorium Project |
646-486-6715 |
Action against Sodexhoâs involvement in the prison-industrial complex and profiting from prison labor. |
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Montreal |
Concordia |
contact Kevin Pranis, national PMP |
Prison Moratorium Project |
646-486-6715 |
Action against Sodexhoâs involvement in the prison-industrial complex and profiting from prison labor. |
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NC |
Raleigh |
Gail Phares |
WfP: Southeast |
919-856-9468 |
9/26: Rally at Fayetteville Mall |
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NC |
Asheville |
Andy Summers |
WfP, Warren Wilson College |
828-298-3325, 828-298-5320 |
Contact local organizer for details of action. |
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NC |
Durham |
Theresa El-Amin |
Durham JwJ |
919-403-8229 |
9/26: 3 pm Press conference at Union Baptist Church about student nursesâ right to organize at Duke University. |
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NC |
Chapel Hill |
Dennis Markatos |
SURGE, Students United for a Responsible Global Environment |
919-914-0134 |
Contact local organizer for details of action. |
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NJ |
Trenton |
Diana Rogers |
Trenton JwJ |
9/26: Teach-In on globalization and unemployment in Trenton. Rev. James Orange will be speaking (contact local organizer for time and place. |
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NY |
New York |
Carol Pittman |
New York JwJ |
212-631-0886 |
9/25, 5 pm Metropolitan Opera: Action with HERE Local 100 at the Metropolitan Opera, highlighting the enormous gap in wealth between those being served $2000 per plate dinners and the employees of Restaurant Associates, who cannot afford health insurance. 9/26, 12:30 pm: Action with Metro NY Health Care for All at Citibank to protest their support for World Bank Bonds and their policies, such as imposing user-fees on health care and education. |
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NY |
Buffalo |
Mary Ellen Heimburger Maria Whyte |
Buffalo JwJ/CEJ
Western NY Coalition for Worldwide Economic Justice |
716-894-2013
716-881-7023 |
Carnival of Resistance, including street theater, music, tabling: culmination of two weeks of teach-ins at local colleges and high schools |
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NY |
Albany |
John Funiciello Mark Schafer |
Solidarity Comm. Of the Capital JwJ |
518-869-2245 518-463-5611 |
9/26, 4 pm, Corner of State and Pearl Sts.: Protest at Salomon Smith Barney, a subsidiary of Citigroup, the 9th largest purchaser of World Bank Bonds. |
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NY |
Ithaca |
Kelly Dietz |
Ithaca Coalition for Global Justice |
607-256-3219, 607-277-5863 |
Contact local organizer for details of action. |
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NY |
Binghamton |
contact Kevin Pranis, national PMP |
Prison Moratorium Project |
646-486-6715 |
Action against Sodexhoâs involvement in the prison-industrial complex and profiting from prison labor. |
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OH |
Oberlin |
Ty Moore |
Prison Moratorium Project |
Contact Kevin Pranis at 646-486-6715 |
Action against Sodexhoâs involvement in the prison-industrial complex and profiting from prison labor. |
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OH |
Cincinnati |
Steve Steel, Christiana |
Farm Labor Organizing Committee |
419-243-3456 |
9/26: Rally outside grocery store to demand that they honor boycott of Mt Olive Pickle, a union-busting employer. |
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OH |
Columbus |
Matt Timen |
Students for Economic and Racial Justice |
(contact Laura McSpedon at 202-434-1106 for Matt Timenâs contact info) |
10/4: Student activists from United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), the United Steelworkers of America (USWA), workers from the Chentex factory, a Nicaraguan sweatshop, and the National Labor Committee will take on Kohlâs Department Stores for their support of abusive sweatshop labor in developing countries. |
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OR |
Portland |
Margaret Butler |
Portland JwJ |
503-236-5573 |
9/26: Rally supporting workers rights here and abroad, and celebrating Powell Book Store victory |
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OR |
Eugene |
Sarah Jacobson |
Eugene Springfield Solidarity Network |
541-736-9041 |
9/26, 12 noon: Rally linking abuses of IMF/WB privatization schemes to Oregon ballot initiatives proposing devastating privatization of health care and public education. 9/28, 7 pm, University of Oregon: Multi-media forum with delegation returning from El Salvador about the effect of IMF/WB policies promoting privatization in El Salvador. |
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PA |
Lancaster |
Doug Burkholder |
Witness for Peace |
717-392-7023 |
Contact local organizer for details of action. |
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PA |
Philadelphia |
John Braxton/Jerry Cousins Michael Janson |
Philadelphia JwJ
Penn Students Against Sweatshops |
215-735-3615 |
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9/26: Students from U.Penn Students Against Sweatshops and Philadelphia Jobs with Justice will be sponsoring a Reality Tour with the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, of the effects of "domestic structural adjustment programs" in effect in West Philadelphia, and a Rally at the University of Pennsylvania in solidarity with protests in Prague. |
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RI |
Providence |
Matt Jerzyk |
Rhode Island JwJ |
401-454-4766 |
9/14: Teach-In on Globalization at UFCW 9/26: Rally with HERE in downtown Providence to protest tax breaks and sweet deals for corporate development without guarantees for living wage and right to organize for Providence working people. |
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TN |
Nashville |
Gene TeSelle |
Witness for Peace |
615-297-2629 |
Contact local organizer for details of action. |
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TX |
Dallas |
Elaine or Gene Lantz Farid Farahmand |
North Texas JwJ
Student Labor Coalition ö UTD |
214-264-7323
972-993-2029 x1792 |
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9/26, all day, University of Texas ö Dallas: Informational tabling on the abuses of the IMF and the World Bank |
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UT |
Salt Lake City |
Lorna Vogt |
Salt Lake City JwJ |
801-466-0955 |
Contact local organizer for details of action. |
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VA |
Roanoke |
Clark Webb Sherman Bamford |
Witness for Peace |
540-552-4848 540-982-0492 |
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9/27, downtown Roanoke: An environmental/justice table giving out information about the abuses of the IMF/World Bank. |
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VT |
Middlebury |
Cori Loew |
Middlbury College Students Againgst Sweatshops |
802-443-6551 |
9/26, all day, Middlebury College: "Global Village" information display, demonstrating disastrous results of various World Bank programs in developing countries, including sweatshops, mutant fruit, and examples of environmental degradation. |
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VT |
Burlington |
Jason Ford |
Witness for Peace |
802-863-1571 |
Contact local organizer for details of action. |
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WA |
Seattle |
Rosalinda Aguirre Bronwyn Mauldin |
Washington State JwJ Jubilee 2000 Northwest |
206-441-4649 |
9/24, 1:30 ö 5:30 pm: Rally, March, and Human Chain to Break the Chains of Debt, start Rally at St. Markâs Cathedral ö 1245 10th Ave, March downtown for Human Chain at Federal Building ö 915 2nd Ave 9/28: Worker Rights Board Hearing on Right to Organize at Starbucks (contact local organizer for time and place) |
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WA |
Tacoma |
Kamala Ellis |
University of Puget Sound Students Against Sweatshops |
253-861-7313 |
9/26: Leafleting at Target Store to protest Targetâs use of sweatshop labor in the production of their apparel. Protest is in support of Targetâs Nicaraguan sweatshop workers who are on strike. |
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WI |
Milwaukee |
Steve Watrous |
Wisconsin Fair Trade Campaign |
414-933-3033 |
9/26: Demonstration at Kohlâs department store to demand justice for Kohlâs Nicaraguan sweatshop workers who are on strike. |
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