Title:
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Garment Worker Center Anniversary Celebration
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START DATE:
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12/2/2006
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START TIME:
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6:00 PM
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Duration:
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4 Hours
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Location:
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downtown, central, hollywood, northeast
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Location Details:
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Artshare LA
801 East 4th Place
Los Angeles, California 90013
United States
Map
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Event Topic:
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labor
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Event Type:
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fundraiser party
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Contact Name:
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Stephen Miller
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Contact Email:
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smiller@garmentworkercenter.org
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Contact Phone:
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+12137485866
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DESCRIPTION:
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Join us to celebrate five years of organizing & defending the rights of Los Angeles garment workers.
Come early to shop at GWC’s annual Fair Trade Marketplace. Stay late to enjoy the music of East LA’s Quetzal.
6:00pm - 7:00pm Reception & Fair Trade Market
7:00pm - 8:00pm Program & Awards Ceremony with TOM HAYDEN, former CA Senator & long time peace activist
8:00pm - 10:00pm Special performance by QUETZAL
The Awards:
- Community Trendsetter Award - Progressive Christians United
- Solidarity Award - United Students Against Sweatshops
- Advocate Award - Forever 21 Campaign Legal Team: ACLU of Southern California; Asian Pacific American Legal Center; Robert Meyers, National Lawyers Guild; Douglas Mirell, Loeb & Loeb, LLC.; Carol Sobel, National Lawyers Guild
Spanish & Mandarin translation will be provided. Childcare available.
Buy your tickets early because space is limited! Please go to http://www.garmentworkercenter.org to pre-order your tickets!
About the Garment Worker Center
The Garment Worker Center was opened in 2001. Our mission is to empower garment workers in the Greater Los Angeles area and to work in solidarity with other low wage immigrant workers and disenfranchised communities in the struggle for social, economic and environmental justice.
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