Not One More Fire: Finding Solutions to Today's Sweatshops

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Events starts: March 23, 2011 – 5:00 pm
Event ends: March 23, 2011 – 7:30 pm
Location: Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) - John E. Reeves Great Hall, 227 West 27 Street, New York, NY, United States, 10001

 

Featured speaker JOHN LIU, New York City Comptroller will join panelists Kalpona Akter, Mitch Cahn, and Judy Gearhart to discuss challenges facing the global garment industry, and present concrete solutions from the perspectives of workers, manufacturers, and legislators. Each panelist is on the cutting edge of initiatives that will make the garment industry more humane globally, and more competitive in the United States.

-JOHN LIU, New York City Comptroller
-KALPONA AKTER, former child garment worker and Executive Director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity
-MITCH CAHN, President of Unionwear
-JUDY GEARHART, Executive Director, International Labor Rights Forum

A runway show will illustrate historical and contemporary challenges for the garment industry and showcase solutions that focus on the “sweatshop-free” government purchasing strategy. Participants will be invited to join local campaigns to end sweatshops and child labor.

Free food at 5:00 pm. The program will run from 5:30 to 7:30pm.

The event is sponsored by SweatFree Communities, International Labor Rights Forum, and the Fashion Institute of Technology. For more information, see the event page on the website of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition or check out the flyer.