The Tarrant Apparal Group (TAG) is being targeted by Sweatshop Watch for violations of Mexican labor laws. The Tarrant worker justice campaign began in June 2003 when 800 workers from Tarrant's Ajalpan denim factory
in Mexico held a work stoppage to demand payment of their legally-entitled benefits, improved health and safety conditions, and an end to forced overtime. When they formed an independent union, SUITTAR, to address these problems, 8 union leaders and over 250 supporters were fired.
The local demonstraton is at the shareholder's meeting at the Westin South Coast Plaza, 686 Anton Blvd, on May 27th at 10am.
The stock is doing lousy, so there will be pressure on the company to allow worker abuse to continue.
April 23, 2004
Reverend Billy and
”The Church of Stop Shopping" were in
Los Angeles last weekend. What transpired was performance activism both in theatre and on the streets. Specifically, two “Retail Interventions” took place one at WalMart (4/18) the other at
Starbucks (4/19), afterwards stage performances were held at the campuses of
Cal State L. A. and Cal State Northridge. The Reverend’s potent persona easily made converts in the struggle to end corporate dominance and restore “indy” businesses with a people over things society.
Indymedia Coverage: Billy in Santa Cruz and From the IMC Archives - Buy Nothing Day 2003
Activists in Huntington Beach are initiating a campaign to break the Coca Cola soda monopoly on the beaches in HB. Coca Cola has been accused of hiring goons to assassinate seven union organizers in Colombia, and numerous other human and labor rights violations. Coke and Pepsi aggressively court municipalities and schools, strapped for cash due to budget shortfalls and cuts, to sign exclusive monopoly deals to vend their sugar water on public property. A typical vending machine is like a robotic fortress with several hundreds of dollars of "product" within, lit with advertising on the outside, no paid staff, save the vending machine operator and contract repair person, and open all the time.
Get Coke Off HB Beaches
Campaign to Stop Killer Coke