by Lee Siu Hin
Friday, Mar. 08, 2002 at 10:54 AM siuhin@aol.com
*Living wage for immigrant workers! No immigrant bashing! Support farm
workers' rights!**
***Would you be willing to pay 1/4 of 1 penny more for your Taco Bell's
chalupa if it meant that Florida and California farmworkers who pick tomatoes
and other farm products for Taco Bell and other restaurants could earn a
living wage?**
errorHere's the Schedule for the March 10-11(sunday-Monday) Taco Bell Actions at LA/Irvine:
1) March 9: 7:00 PM - Welcome Receptions for Taco Bell Farm workers and Truth Tour Caravan from Florida, Kick of for 2-days LA/Irvine Taco Bell Actions! 2) March 10: 9:00 AM -3:30 PM - Rise Up 2002 Conference, UCLA, Los Angeles 3) March 10: 4:30 PM Forever21- Protest, Santa Monica 4) March 11: 9:00 AM-5:00 PM - Perceful protest at Taco bell Headquarters, Irvine, CA
***For more information, please call: (213)353-1333 (x244), of call ActionLA hotline: (626)695-3405, or e-mail: interfaitha@aol.com Or please visit webpage: www.ciw-online.org please join NoTacoBell listserv, please send e-mail to: mailto:NoTacoBell-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Here's the detail information: ============================================================= 1) March 9: 7:00 PM - Welcome Receptions for Taco Bell Farm workers and Truth Tour Caravan from Florida Contact: interfaitha@aol.com (Damara Luce) Tel: (941)839-3970
CARECEN (2845 W. 7th St, 1/2 block West of Hoover and 7th) this Saturday evening at 7:00 PM to... GIVE A WARM L.A. WELCOME TO THE 70 FLORIDA FARMWORKERS WHO WILL BE ARRIVING ON THE TACO BELL TRUTH TOUR CARAVAN!
We are due to arrive at 7:30 PM and it would be wonderful to have some of you there beforehand to put up some banners/art work and welcome the workers as they arrive for dinner.
We are still in the process of trying to get some live music (Mariachi) to add to the mix. ============================================================= 2)Sunday, March 10: Rise Up 2002 Conference, UCLA, Los Angeles Contact: mnuncio@sweatshopwatch.org (Marissa Nuncio) Tel: (213)748-5866 Conference Schedule (tentative)
Set Up for Workshop Leaders and Tabling (Perloff Quad/ Dickson Plaza) 8 -9am
Plenary (Perloff Quad/ Dickson Plaza) 10-11am * Welcome by conveners - UCLA Proyecto de los Jornaleros, UCLA Conciencia Libre, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, Korean Immigrant Worker Advocates, Garment Worker Center, Student/Farmworker Alliance, and Sweatshop Watch * CIW - Truth Tour Report and Campaign Update * Communities vs. Corporations, Recent Victories! o PCUN o French McDonald's workers o PETA
Break 11-11:15
ALL DAY Workshops 11:15 - 3:30 * Art and Revolution, Freedom Rising Dickson Plaza o Art and Image Making * Students Transforming and Resisting Corporations (STARC) o Anti-Racist Organizing
Workshop Session I (Royce and Rolfe Hall**) 11:15-12:15 * Worker Discussion o Content and Facilitator TBA * United for a Fair Economy (UFE) o "The Growing Divide" * Comite Zapatista de Los Angeles o Derechos, cultura y autonomia indigena en mexico: Ataques Neoliberales - El Plan Puebla Panama * Movimiento Sem Terra (MST) o Brazil's Landless Worker's Movement: Organizing Models, Strategies and International Projection * Onward Collective o Today's Media and the Struggle for Popular Power * Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU) / Women's Economic Agenda Project (WEAP) o Economic Human Rights * Miami Workers Center/ POWER o Organizing the Working Class under Imperialism * POWER (SO. Cal) o "The Connection between the Anti War and Human Rights Campaigns" * Action LA o US / Mexico Border organizing * Food + Social Justice Project/ PETA o "Recognizing the Unity of Oppressions: The racial, global, labor environmental, ecofeminist, sexual politics of meat" and o The Struggle is One: The Importance of Solidarity across Progressive Movements." * Campaign for Labor Rights o Labor Solidarity and Consumer Mobilizing
Lunch (Perloff Quad/ Dickson Plaza) 12:15-1:15 * Speakers, Music and Videos * STREET THEATER PAGEANT
Workshop Session II (Royce and Rolfe Hall**) 1:15-2:15 * United Farm Workers (UFW) o Pictsweet Campaign * United Church of Christ (UCC) o Organizing with Religious Congregations for Social Change. * Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras o "Claiming our space in the global workshop" * United Farm Workers (UFW) o "Creative Actions" * McDonalds Workers o Strike in France * International Socialist Organization (ISO) o Eyewitness from Argentina: Is Revolution on the Agenda in Latin America? * Humanrightstech o How to of Virtual Organizing * Midnight Special Law Collective/ Derechos Humanos o Know your Rights/Legal 101
TWO HOUR WORKSHOP SESSIONS 1:15 - 3:30 * Student/ Farmworker Alliance, United Students Against Sweatshops , Student Action with Farmworkers- facilitated by the Campaign for Labor Rights * Student Organizing 101 * Pineros y Campesinos Unidos (PCUN), CAUSA * Consumer mobilizing and the NORPAC Campaign * KIWA, CHIRLA, GWC, CIW, Miami Worker Center, and Make the Road by Walking, POWER * Community Based Worker Organizing * Arts in Action * Art Making and Skills Building * Theater of the Oppressed * Popular theater theory and practice * Lupita Patterson - Independent Artist * Speaking, Acting and Finding Alternatives
Break 2:15-2:30
Workshop Session III (Royce and Rolfe Hall**) 2:30-3:30 * Alianza Indigena, Maya Vision o The Migration of Indigenous Peoples * PETA o Social Justice and Corporate Responsibility * La IndyMedia o Indymedia * Juventud Anti-Autoritaria Revolucionaria o Pueblos Indigenos de Mexico * Mexico Solidarity Network o Free Trade Area of the Americas * International Socialist Organization (ISO) o Organizing for Global Justice Post 9-11 : How has the war changed our struggle? * Global Justice Bay Area Collective o TBA * Libros Revolución o L.A.-Sweatshop Town, and The War on Immigrants
** Rooms to be assigned
Directions to UCLA o I-10 W o 405 N o Exit Sunset, make a right o Right on Hilgard Ave. o Park at Structure 3 (paid parking - $6) o Disabled Parking along Dickson Court - Free Meters all day (After turning right on Hilgard, right on Wyton, quick left on Charles E. Young Drive to Dickson Court) ** Campus Map found at www.ucla.edu
============================================================= 3) Sunday March 10: 4:30 PM Forever21- Protest, Santa Monica Contact: mnuncio@sweatshopwatch.org (Marissa Nuncio) Tel: (213)748-5866
Gather for Forever 21 Demonstration!! (Perloff Quad/ Dickson Plaza) 3:30 PM Join the Forever 21 protest in Santa Monica 4:30 PM !!!
Directions to Forever 21 Protest at Santa Monica Place (mall) o I-10 W o Exit 5th St, make a right o Left on Broadway o Protest is at 3rd Street (Promenade) and Broadway, in front of mall entrance - but no parking available on Third St. o Parking can be found along 2nd St. or 4th St - paid parking =============================================================4) March 11: 9:00 AM-5:00 PM - Peaceful Protest at Taco bell Headquarters, Irvine, CA Contact: Contact: interfaitha@aol.com (Damara Luce) Tel: (941)839-3970 or (213)353-1333 (X244)
8:00 AM Taco Bell Truth Tour Bus depart from LA (sign up for a free seat from LA to Irvine, please call Darama for more info)
9:00 - 10:30 AM: gather at Snata Ana Memorial park (corner of Flower & Anahurst in Santa Ana)
10:30 AM: March to Taco Bell HQs -south on Bristol, east on Sunflower, south on Main
1:00 - 5:00 PM: Music, art, performance and real Mexican food at Taco Bell Heaquqarters! (17901 Von Karmana, Irvine)
PLEASE COME, LET'S KEEP STRUGGLE! NEVER GIVE FOR WORK'S RIGHTS, AND RESPECT!