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Two Events on the Global Day of Action
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ImmigrantR-@afsc.org
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Jan 25, 2008 09:39 PST
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TWO EVENTS: RESPECT AND RECOGNIZE DOMESTIC WORK
ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE, ANOTHER US IS NECESSARY!
Saturday January 26, Global Day of Action - Screening and Campaign
Kick-off at the Brooklyn Museum - 2:00 - 3:30 pm
Brooklyn Museum - Free with suggested donation museum entrance, tickets
first-come, first serve. 200 Eastern Parkway (near Grand Army
Plaza), Brooklyn NY 11238-6052
DOMESTIC WORKERS JOIN GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION
Under the banner of "Another World is Possible" members of the National
Domestic Workers Alliance will take part in the Global Day of Action. On
January 26th, organizations and social movements will mobilize in their
local communities around the impact of neoliberal globalization. Member
organizations of the Alliance, in cities like
San Francisco, New York, the DC Metropolitan Area, and Los Angeles will
mobilize to bring attention to the plight of domestic workers in the
United States and all over the World. The National Domestic
Workers Alliance was founded at the first ever US Social Forum in
Atlanta, Georgia in 2007.
Domestic Workers United [DWU] in New York will join the global action,
in a screening of "Work and Respect," a short documentary about domestic
workers in New York produced by Third World Newsreel and DWU.
Following the screening, domestic workers will share their stories and
launch the 2008 campaign to establish labor standards for domestic
workers in New York, the campaign for the Domestic Workers Bill of
Rights. Participants will include domestic workers and organizers from
New York, Europe, Maryland and Indonesia.
At the same time, millions of people all over the world will march,
speak, celebrate, and dialogue in villages, rural zones, and urban
centers. They will mobilize on the date of the 26th of January to
coincide the Global Day of Mobilization and Action with the World
Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland to confront this important
neo-liberal gathering of the elites.
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DOMESTIC WORKERS SPEAK OUT AND STAND UP FOR LABOR STANDARDS!
Thursday January 31, Press Conference - 12:00 noon, Steps of City Hall
- New York City
Domestic workers and supporters will gather in numbers on the steps of
City Hall to call for justice for a nanny who was abused by her employer
in lower Manhattan. The nanny will speak about her story of suffering,
including physical abuse. A member of Domestic Workers United, the
worker will announce a lawsuit for unpaid wages and damages and add her
voice to the call for labor standards for domestic workers. The
conference will be followed by a hearing in City Hall Chambers on
domestic work in New York at 1:00 pm.
For more information, please contact DWU at
domesticwor-@gmail.com or (718) 220-7391 x 11
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