Each day, more communities and campuses are letting us know about their plans for participation in the October 18 international mobilization in support of the rights of Nike's overseas workers. This event is being organized with minimal resources. People all around the world who care passionately about ending sweatshop abuses have given life to this campaign. We are thrilled to be able to report the following list of places whose plans we know about. (Our past experience tells us that there must be many other places where human rights advocates have organized events for the 18th but have not notified us. If your planned event is not on this list, PLEASE send us a report.) There are many other places where activists are interested in putting together an event but had not reported definite plans as of this writing.
Three items:
* Because of the tremendous response to this call to action, we are planning on doing another international Nike mobilization in 6 months, in April of 1998.
* If your organization is not already involved in other sweatshop campaigns besides the Nike struggle, Campaign for Labor Rights urges you to consider linking your Nike campaign work to the wider struggle to eradicate sweatshop abuses and exploitative child labor.
* Would your organization like to be listed in our newsletter and our labor alerts as a local contact for anti-sweatshop activity? If so, please let us know.
Status Report list of known planned activities on or near the 18th
UNITED STATES:
ARIZONA: Phoenix
CALIFORNIA: Redwood City, Riverside, Sacramento, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Terra Linda (Marin County)
COLORADO: University of Colorado; Boulder, Denver
CONNECTICUT: Waterford
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Washington, DC
FLORIDA: University of South Florida; Sarasota, Florida State University; Tallahassee
GEORGIA: University of Georgia; Atlanta
ILLINOIS: Chicago; Black Hawk College; Moline; University of Illinois; Urbana-Champaign
INDIANA: Kokomo
IOWA: University of Iowa; Iowa City
MASSACHUSETTS: Boston, College of the Holy Cross; Worcester
MARYLAND: Baltimore, University of Maryland; Catonsville
MICHIGAN: University of Michigan; Ann Arbor; Grand Rapids
MINNESOTA: Minneapolis, St. Cloud State University; St. Cloud
MISSOURI: Joplin
NEW JERSEY: New Brunswick
NEW MEXICO: Albuquerque
NEW YORK: New York City, Rochester
NORTH CAROLINA: Chapel Hill, Durham
OHIO: Oberlin College; Oberlin
OREGON: Eugene, Linfield College; McMinnville (sending a contingent to Portland), Portland
PENNSYLVANIA: Lehigh Valley, Penn State University; University Park
TEXAS: Austin
UTAH: Salt Lake City
WASHINGTON Everett, Olympia, Seattle
WISCONSIN: Madison
WYOMING: University of Wyoming; Laramie
AUSTRALIA: Brisbane, Lismore, Melbourne, Sydney,
CANADA: Edmonton, Alberta; Vancouver, British Columbia; Toronto, Ontario
ENGLAND
FINLAND: Helsinki, Kuopio
ITALY
MALAYSIA: Kuala Lumpur
THE NETHERLANDS: Amsterdam
NEW ZEALAND: Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton, Whangarei
SINGAPORE: secret distribution of leaflets (because of repression)
SWEDEN: Stockholm
SWITZERLAND: Zürich
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