[ETAN-key] Fw: Globalization Seminar - 15 October - Anti-Sweatshop Movement (fwd)

[Jeff Ballinger]

Columbia University Seminar (#671) on Globalization, Labor and Popular
Struggles is pleased to announce our next meeting:

DATE:  Monday,October 15, 7:15 p.m. (Dinner at 6:00 p.m.)

TITLE:  "'Corporate Social Responsibility' is not working for 
workers... How can we 'anti-sweat' activists have so pathetically 
little to show for fifteen years of cross-border organizing?"

SPEAKER: Jeffrey Ballinger

PLACE:  Faculty House, Columbia University

Jeffrey Ballinger's labor activism began when he was still in his 
teens, doing voter registration work for the Retail Clerks union in 
Gary.  He was national student coordinator of the Clothing Workers 
union's "Farah pants" boycott; after college he went to work for the 
organizing department of the Textile Workers union during the J.P. 
Stevens campaign.  When the government of Poland banned the 
Solidarnosc trade union, Ballinger and two friends in New York 
founded the Committee in Support of Solidarnosc to relay information 
from the underground movement to New York-based media outlets.  Also 
in the early 80's, he ran the Youth Institute for Peace in the Middle 
East, coordinating programs for young Palestinian and Israeli 
unionists, among other activities.  He went to Asia for the AFL-CIO 
in 1984, returning to the U.S. in 1995. Most of his time was spent 
directing USAID- and union-funded programs in Indonesia, Turkey, 
Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.  He founded the NGO Press for Change to 
help Nike's contract workers in Indonesia to gain attention for their struggle.

Ballinger has appeared as an expert commentator on global political 
economy on NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS and CNN and in documentaries by Japan's 
NTK, UK's Channel Four and ARTE (French/German).  He has published in 
Harper's, NY Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, Dissent, Brown 
Economic Review and Los Angeles Times.

Please find attached a blog entry on the topic of the talk.

In connection with the October 15th meeting, please reply to Matt Winters
(msw22 at columbia.edu) whether you plan to join us for dinner before the
seminar.

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I will attend the dinner on October 15       Yes___  No___
I will attend the seminar on October 15      Yes___  No___

****RSVP by Friday, October 12****

Dinner will be at the Columbia University Faculty House at 6:00 p.m. 
Please pay for your dinner (around $22) at the desk in the lobby of 
Faculty House when you arrive for dinner.  For those having dinner, 
we will meet at 6:00 at the table reserved for the seminar on the 
fourth floor of Faculty House, which is located on Columbia's East 
Campus behind the School of International Affairs and the Law 
School.  The street address is 400 West 117th Street, but the easiest 
approach is through the gates on the north side of 116th Street 
between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive.

The seminar will be held from 7:15 to 9:00 p.m. in a room to be 
announced in Faculty House.  For those not having dinner, please look 
for a sign in the lobby and join us at 7:15 p.m.

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Thank you,

David Bensman
Hank Frundt
  Seminar Co-Chairs


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