Wednesday Night 4/13 Team Sweat at Boston College!

On Wednesday night (tomorrow) at 7:00 PM, John Ellis and I will attend a two hour interactive multi-media presentation by “Team Sweat” in the Vanderslice Cabaret Room at Boston College.  The presentation is titled "Behind the Swoosh: Sweatshops and Social Justice", includes slide shows, role-playing, powerful video footage, and a Question-Answer period. The presentation details the month EFJ Directors, Leslie Kretzu and Jim Keady spent in an Indonesian factory workers' slum living on $1.25 a day, a typical wage paid to Nike's subcontracted workers.

Along with personal accounts of lived solidarity, the presentation includes the latest information on Nike's labor and environmental practices that EFJ-sponsored teams researched in Indonesia from 2000 to the present. With "Behind the Swoosh", Kretzu and Keady attempt to de-commodify "labor" and as such, challenge their audience to deal in human terms with the women, men and sometimes children, who are the foundation of global manufacturing.

If you’re in and around the Boston area on Wednesday night, I highly recommend that you check out this thought provoking and informational presentation; and be sure to visit http://www.teamsweat.org/ to see when Jim is going to be in your town!