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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 09:04:55 -0500
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: M-G: Re: Next Steps for Holiday Season Of Conscience!


Below is the latest antics of the American LP! Talk about popular front, 
anti-communist protectionism connected to consumerism. Well here it, all is 
in a nut shell. These fakers are and obstacle to any kind of real party 
which fights in the interests of poor and working class people.

And to think about all those fake Trotskyists doing a deep entry into this 
stuff is just mind boggling. 

Any serious activist that buys this stuff might as well put a gun to his/her 
head and pull the trigger! Even better just go and join the Democratic 
Party, because this kind of shit even the democrats can do better...Besides 
this is what the "momemtum" of this whole "campaign" is. 

I wonder if Justin is in the LP? His latest anti-Bolshie stuff makes me 
think so..

If these people really wanted to do something useful they could perhaps 
direct this whole campaign towards the workfare/welfare program of their 
darling Bill Clinton.
But then again that certainly would not exactly be a good question to build 
a popular front on. Much better to pull the poor little third world act 
connected to the drive by the trade union bureacracy in building "festung" 
America in preperation for the next world war. 

Warm Regards
Bob Malecki

>Labor Alerts/Labor News
>a service of Campaign for Labor Rights
>1247 "E" Street SE, Washington, DC 20003
>clr-AT-igc.apc.org   (541) 344-5410   http://www.compugraph.com/clr
> 
> 
>Next Steps for Holiday Season Of Conscience!
> 
>[Information for this alert came from the National Labor Committee, 
>275 Seventh Avenue, 15th Fl., New York, NY 10001; Tel. (212) 242-3002; 
>Web-Site: www.nlcnet.org]
> 
>Update on the Day of Conscience:
> 
>There were major Day of Conscience events on October 4th in at least 
>40 U.S. cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, San 
>Francisco, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Milwaukee and 
>also in France, Italy, South Africa and Belgium.  There was 
>substantial coverage of the events in the mainstream media including 
>the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe as well as CNN 
>and NPR.  "Momentum is building," according to the National Labor 
>Committee (NLC), "and there is no reason that this social movement to 
>defend labor and human rights can't become as strong as the 
>environmental movement in influencing corporate policy.  In the same 
>way that companies want to be seen as being 'green' or environmentally 
>friendly, they will also want to be recognized for making products 
>under humane conditions."
> 
>Holiday Season of Conscience: What's Next? 
> 
>I CARE CARDS AND STICKERS
> 
>The National Labor Committee is currently printing hundreds of 
>thousands of copies of a small index-sized "I care" shopper's card to 
>be used whenever and wherever you shop.  Anytime you shop, leave this 
>card with the store manager or retail clerk, right at the check-out 
>counter.
> 
>The card states:
>
>
>To the Store Manager:
>I like shopping here, but I am very concerned that what I purchase was 
>not made by children or in sweatshops.  What is your company doing to 
>guarantee that the products you sell are made under humane conditions?
> 
>*  In which countries do you source production?
>*  Are human rights respected?
>*  What are the conditions and wages?
>*  Is this a living wage?
>*  Will you open these factories to independent human rights monitors?
>*  Will you join the White House Task Force to end sweatshop abuses?
> 
>I am anxious to hear your response.  Thank you.
> 
>Name:_____________________________________
>Address:__________________________________
> 
>Everyone can participate in this simple but powerful act.  By 
>inundating companies with a steady wave of "I Care" cards, consumers 
>can engage them in a dialogue that is impossible for them to win since 
>starvation wages and systematic human rights abuses can never by 
>justified.  It is as easy as dropping off a card when you make a 
>purchase.  If you do not want to fill in your own address, you can 
>write in the name of your local organization or of the National Labor 
>Committee.  Order plenty of the cards for use by members of your local 
>group and family and friends.
> 
>The National Labor Committee is also producing 'I Care -- No Child 
>Labor, No Sweatshops' stickers.  Shoppers can put them on their 
>jackets.  School children can put them on knapsacks.  In addition to 
>making companies take notice of consumers' refusal to accept child 
>labor and sweatshop conditions, these stickers will raise the 
>awareness of other shoppers and classmates to the conditions faced by 
>many of the world's poorest workers.  
> 
>NEEDIEST CASES LIST
> 
>In a return to its traditional method of exposing companies that 
>continue to use child labor and maintain sweatshop conditions in 
>offshore production sites, the National Labor Committee will issue a 
>"Neediest Cases List" in November.  Each week, a new concrete case 
>based on interviews with workers and visits to offshore production 
>sites will be released spotlighting ongoing human rights violations by 
>major retailers and manufacturers.  These companies and others will 
>appear on the list of "worst companies" to be released the day after 
>Thanksgiving.
> 
>PETITION CAMPAIGN CONTINUES
> 
>National Labor Committee staff report that petitions are pouring into 
>their office from towns and cities across the United States.  They 
>state that they have nearly 100,000 signatures at this point and that 
>a tremendous network is growing out of the effort to collect 
>signatures.  In your continued effort to reach a million signatures:
>*  get the petitions into religious services
>
>*  increase efforts to table at high schools and universities
>*  tell your friends about the campaign and the petition via the 
>internet
>*  sign the petition online or download it from the NLC website at 
>www.nlcnet.org
>*  have the petition endorsed and circulated at every meeting and 
>convention you attend.
> 
>CANDLELIGHT VIGILS FOR CONSCIENCE --DECEMBER 11
> 
>At the peak of the holiday season, and in the midst of International 
>Human Rights Week, let's declare Thursday, December 11th a day of 
>candlelight vigils, walks for conscience, caroling, and leafleting 
>across the country.  These vigils will call attention to child labor 
>and sweatshop abuses around the world.  In New York city, for example, 
>a candle-light procession of students, religious, community and labor 
>groups will start with caroling at St. Patrick's Cathedral and walk up 
>Fifth Avenue at peak shopping time with leaflets and petitions 
>highlighting sweatshop concerns.
> 
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