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Women Workers in the Global Struggle for Labor Rights

Thursday, 29 April 2004
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Organizer: Reelwork Mayday Labor Film Festival

You are invited to take part in a night of film about the involvement of women workers in the global struggle for labor rights.

On Thursday, April 29th, at 7pm in Stevenson Dining Hall at UCSC, the Reelwork Mayday Labor Film Festival will be showing three movies which were picked to highlight the position of women in globalization and its opposition.

Internationally-acclaimed filmmaker Marta Rodriguez, traveling all the way from Bogota, Colombia, will present her film, Love, Women and Flowers about women workers’ organizing within the global flower industry.

The other two films, Made in Thailand and the Hidden Face of Globalization, address the struggles of women organizing within sweatshops in Thailand and Bangladesh.

The Reelwork Mayday Labor Film Festival happens the week prior to every May Day and shows films about the ongoing struggles workers worldwide have gone through, and the victories they have won.

Films are shown this year from Sunday, April 25th to Saturday, May 1st, at a variety of public venues. All films are by voluntary donation and no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

For more information, including volunteer opportunities, please contact Paul Ortiz at 459-5583 and portiz@ucsc.edu, or www.reelwork.org for a detailed schedule of the event

Location:
Stevenson Dining Hall/Event Center
UCSC

Cost: donation

URL: http://www.reelwork.org/schedule.html