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In an era of international outsourcing, your investments in
this fund--which focuses on labor practices and workers' rights--will
accrue exponential returns. The worker is the core of our system, so
the board takes a keen interest in quality assurance for this fund.
To discuss or help with a project, click on its NAME button.
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labor
quick
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workers
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"On Buy Nothing Day, the day after Thanksgiving, well dressed people across the nation go into Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic. Plaster dressing rooms with info sheets on Gap's sweatshop practices, then bring $100's, even $1000's worth of merchandise to counter. Participants may choose to purchase all items, returning an hour later yelling 'Oh my god, I just found out these things were made in SWEATSHOPS!! I want my money back NOW!' Those who cannot purchase items can simply bring items to counter and slap their heads, yelling loudly 'Oops, I forgot all this stuff was made in SWEATSHOPS! I can't POSSIBLY buy this crap!' Theater types especially encouraged to participate!"
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labor
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US$500
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workers
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"Get rich white guys in sports bars to pick oranges and pay for it by inventing a video game that activates telepresent robotic labor. Disguise the fact that game players are engaging in labor by camouflaging the game as a first person shoot-em-up. Donate video game profits to the UFW. This project could be accomplished by staging it for the media, but in that case the investment capital goes directly to the UFW."
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labor
front
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US$300
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workers
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"Place 'Sally Struthers'-style leaflets, detailing the poor working conditions that exist for those who assemble athletic footwear, in major-brand athletic shoes, their shoeboxes, or the shoppings bags containing them, before or as they are being sold. Workers in many cities are being sought to plant the leaflets on an agreed-upon day, especially in 'flagship' stores. Media must report on it."
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health
labor
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workers
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"Produce a documentary linking the increasingly harsh realities of the American workplace and economy to the rise in mental illness within the American population. Perhaps compare with European rates; perhaps also discuss 'official' corporate solutions--Prozac etc.--within this context. Film must be scheduled as part of a major regional film festival."
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media
labor
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workers
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"Remake the story of Pinocchio so that he goes to Disney Land, and rather than being transformed into a pack animal, he becomes a real, live boy... who just happens to be from a Third-World country. He and several other kids are then taken to factually accurate animated representations of Disney's Third- World sweatshops. In the end Pinocchio is beaten to death by the guards for attempting to take one of the shirts he was forced to manufacture."
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labor
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US$120
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workers
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"Insert realistic collector cards into cereal boxes, each with a photo and description of one of the many workers that has been killed or maimed at the cereal manufacturer's factory."
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labor
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workers
funds
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"A urinalysis lab worker should save and return as 'corporate property' all tested urine of new hires in a mass mailing to the CEO of a major corporation. The return of urine to its 'rightful owners' should be made into a highly visible press event."
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