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SUMMARY:RALLY FOR A SWEATSHOP FREE PORTLAND
DTSTART:20070219T120000Z
DTEND:20070219T160000Z
DESCRIPTION:Tell City Council to Make Portland Sweatshop Free:

*Support a meaningful ordinance that celebrates labor and human rights on city contacts.

*Join Portland with cities and states nationwide in a worker rights consortium to monitor labor conditions. *Hear first hand from sweatshop workers:

*From Columbia: Beatriz (Betty) Fuentes, President of Sintrasplendor union at Splendor Flowers, a Dole-owned cut flower plantation,

*From India: Kotagarahalli Jayaram, Organizer for the Garment and Textile Workers’ Union (GATWU) and from Oregon’s Labor Commissioner, Dan Gardner.  Plus, Portland-area working people and concerned community members.
LOCATION:In front of City Hall (1221 SW 4th Ave, between Madison & Jefferson streets)
CATEGORIES:Action
CLASS:PUBLIC
PRIORITY:3
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