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DESCRIPTION:Four Overseas Garment Workers Speak Out  This Valentine’s Day, wear your 
 heart on a sweatshop-free sleeve  Sara Williams  In Kenya, Branice Musavis 
 works and leads a union at the Protex factory. She produces for Wal-Mart, 
 JC Penny, and Steve and Berry’s University Sportswear.  In Indonesia, 
 Siti Malikhah works and leads a union at the PT Kolon Langgeng factory 
 which produces Nike merchandise.  In Thailand, Phannara Duangdet works and 
 leads a union at the Lian Thai factory.  This week, these three workers 
 will share their stories and open dialogue with UCSC students about their 
 work in the garment industry. Organized by New Students Against Sweatshops 
 Campaign (NSASC) the event “Real Voices, Real Lives,” will be held 
 Tuesday, Feb. 14 at 8 p.m. in Classroom Unit 2.  “These workers, getting 
 the chance to share their story is empowering for them,” NSASC 
 co-ordinator for the Santa Cruz division Jalal Haddad said. “Having us 
 western students as an audience to show them that we do care is good as 
 well. I’m pretty sure students don’t want people around the world to be 
 suffering at our expense.”  Organizers have tailored the event to people 
 of all backgrounds, so that those who “don’t know anything” about the 
 overseas garment industry and those “who have been organizing or know a 
 lot” can take something useful away, said Sara Bloomberg, event 
 co-organizer and co-coordinator of Santa Cruz’s NSASC division.  National 
 organizer of United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) Jessica Rutter hopes 
 the event will update people on present-day struggles in the garment 
 industry. “In the last few years, as conditions in the factories have 
 changed [for the better], a lot of brands have been pulling out,   which 
 weakens the factories and the unions.”  Piloted by USAS, NSASC “calls 
 on universities to adopt a new policy to make all college apparel in 
 factories where there’s a union. Also, that the brands like Nike, 
 Champion, and Adidas pay more to those factories so that workers can make a 
 living wage,” Rutter said.  The event will bring three unique voices from 
 across the globe.  They will provide insight and experience and emphasize 
 the reasons the NSASC needs support.  “Real Voices, Real Lives,” is a 
 unique opportunity for a reality-check on the issue of product and 
 production.  Real live producers will be present, telling their story and 
 ready to answer questions and concerns. Come, because really, as Bloomberg 
 put it, “How often do you get to talk to the people who make your 
 clothes?”\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/02/13/87813.php
SUMMARY:Four Overseas Garment Workers Speak Out
LOCATION:Classroom Unit 2 - UC Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/02/13/87813.php
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