Solidarity with Food Processing and Distribution Workers!

The City's Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) is set to hand over your tax dollars in a new loan program that could fund food factories that violate workers' rights! Join Brandworkers to pack the room at the next NYCEDC executive board meeting. Your support is critical for getting a transparent process implemented in the food manufacturers fund which will help direct money towards employers who do comply with the law and respect workers' rights.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 20 at 8:30am

Dear Focus Friends,

Please join us for the Focus on the Food Chain June General Meeting, this Sunday June 10th. This month the Focus campaign will be pushing forward to continue winning dignity at Tom Cat Bakery, connecting with new workers and ensuring that labor standards are followed by companies who receive public funding. So do come out and see if there's an area of the campaign that you would like to get involved in.

The general meeting is our time to all come together, share ideas, and build solidarity for the fight in the month ahead.

Thursday, May 3, 2012, 6:00-7:30pm
Solidarity Across the Food Supply Chain

Meet Iris Munguia, the first woman to be elected leader of COLSIBA,
the coordinating body for Latin American farmworker unions

Where: Brandworkers International, 45-02 23rd St. 2nd Floor, Long Island City, Queens.
(Near the 7 & G train Court Sq. stops and the E & M 23rd St-Court Sq. stop.)

Come and hear Iris' inspiring story and her reflections on how workers in the South and North can build solidarity across the food-supply chain to win better wages, dignity, and job security.

en español abajo...

A NIGHT OF PERFORMANCES AND COMMEMORATION
BISHOP GERARDI, GUATEMALAN MARTYR FOR PEACE

Join us to celebrate and learn more about Monsignor Gerardi's legacy of work in solidarity with the most vulnerable.

Special guests will share their words, music will be performed, and refreshments served.

FREE ADMISSION

Saturday, April 21 at 5:30pm
International Action Center, Solidarity Center
55 W. 17 St., Suite 5C, New York, NY 10011

For more information, call 212.390.0323 or 646.220.2460

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Tomorrow, Feb. 10th 12pm
Flaum Consumer Education Leafleting:
Aron's Kissena Farms
72-15 Kissena Blvd.
Flushing, Queens
E Train to Jamaica Center - Parsons/Archer, Transfer to Q25 Bus to Aguilar Ave, Walk west on Kissena Blvd. to 72nd Rd.

Aron's Kissena Farms is one supermarket that has refused to respect workers' rights in its supply chain. Please join the workers and their allies to educate Aron's customers about the sweatshop conditions that Flaum products are made in.