I.W.W Fundraiser Update

An Evening of Solidarity
Support Immigrant Workers Struggling for Justice and Dignity

Friday, January 11th 2008
1199 King-Davis Center
77 Huyshope Avenue,
Hartford
5:30 PM Doors Open
6:00 PM Dinner Served

Snow date 1/25/08

New York City’s food industry, from the warehouses to the restaurants, are notorious for their sweatshop-like conditions. Sub-minimum wages, extremely long hours without overtime, and abusive, openly racist employers are all-too-common.

But the IWW Food and Allied Workers Industrial Union has been waging a campaign to build power in these shops, force employers to obey labor laws, and create a dignified work environment for this mainly immigrant, largely undocumented workforce. In response, management has fired organizers, locked workers out and black-listed them from the industry. And despite the ever-present threat of deportation, the campaign has spread to a dozen shops around the city, with nearly a hundred members and industry-wide influence. Many fired workers have been re-hired, won back-pay, raises, overtime and humane hours.

But the union is at a critical point in its campaign, and its members are in dire need of financial assistance. Please come show your support, learn more about this struggle, and enjoy an evening of food, music and solidarity. The program will include rank and file workers and organizers speaking about this struggle, music with Evan Greer and Ryan Harvey from the Riot Folk Collective, as well as local musicians.For more information please contact Matt at 860.416.4575 or circleamatt@gmail.com.

Initial Sponsors: Hartford Area Students for a Democratic Society and the Socialist Party of CT

Registration:

Name: Phone:

Email: Sponsoring Organization’s Name, if any:

Payment:

[ ] $50 Group Sponsorship (1 ticket + an info. table)
[ ] $25 General Admission, $40 for a pair in advance
[ ] $15 Low-income/unemployed
[ ] Check here if you would like a receipt

Buy an ad in the program booklet:

[ ] $50 Full Page 5.5”x8.5”
[ ] $30 Half Page 5.5”x4.25”
[ ] $20 Quarter Page 4.25”x2.75 “

Make your tax-deductible checks out to IWW NYC GMB. Mail check and registration info to

, JAF Station,
New York, NY
10116
or send your paypal payment and the above information to iww-nyc@iww.org.
OR
Get in touch to simply pay in cash.