What Price Fashion? The Campaign Against Global Sweatshops

10 a.m.
How Do You Survive on 31¢ an Hour? Labor, Community, and the Global Sweatshop

• Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange
  
• Mary Tong, Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers
  
• Silant Chung, Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees
  
• Moderator: Mary Beth Pudup, UCSC

Noon
The Race to the Bottom: The Restructuring of Global Production

• Edna Bonacich, UC Riverside
  
• Richard Appelbaum, UC Santa Barbara
  
• Susanne Jonas, UCSC
  
• Moderator: Patricia Zavella, UCSC

2 p.m.
Sweatshop Campaigns and the New Activism

• Lora Jo Foo and Nikki Bas, Sweatshop Watch
  
• Stacy Kono, Asian Immigrant Women Advocates
  
• David Werlin, Service Employees International Union
  
• Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange
  
• Mary Tong, Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers
  
• Silant Chung, Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees
  
• Edna Bonacich, The Garment Workers Coalition in Southern California
  
• Moderator: Dana Frank, UCSC

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