Event Title
Session 2E: Advocating for Worker Rights at Your University
Location
BCC 1st Floor
Start Date
13-6-2012 3:45 PM
End Date
13-6-2012 4:30 PM
Description
This roundtable discussion will bring awareness to the conditions of factory workers producing collegiate apparel for our Universities. It will call for critical reflection on the issue, particularly the contrast between our personal values/the Jesuit values of our universities and the implications on human rights resulting from the apparel industry’s labor practices and systematic injustices. The goal is to begin to advocate for use of our consumer power and to seek change in industry’s labor practices and begin to address the systematic problems underlying them. The session will include video outlining current working conditions in Indonesian clothing factories, a brief clip demonstrating an alternative to the typical apparel factory with a new business model, and group discussion including thought- and reflection-provoking questions.
Session 2E: Advocating for Worker Rights at Your University
BCC 1st Floor
This roundtable discussion will bring awareness to the conditions of factory workers producing collegiate apparel for our Universities. It will call for critical reflection on the issue, particularly the contrast between our personal values/the Jesuit values of our universities and the implications on human rights resulting from the apparel industry’s labor practices and systematic injustices. The goal is to begin to advocate for use of our consumer power and to seek change in industry’s labor practices and begin to address the systematic problems underlying them. The session will include video outlining current working conditions in Indonesian clothing factories, a brief clip demonstrating an alternative to the typical apparel factory with a new business model, and group discussion including thought- and reflection-provoking questions.
Comments
Facilitators:
Melissa Hannequin, class of 2013, is a sociology and international studies double major, minoring in peace and justice studies and anthropology. She is a member of Fairfield's Students for Social Justice, Community Service Alliance, and is an active participant in service immersion trips through Campus Ministry. Melissa recently spend a semester abroad in Tanzania, where she developed her passion for service and accompaniment by teaching an English class to community members.
Nicole Davidow is a rising sophomore who has not yet declared a major at Fairfield University. Some of her on campus involvement that she is most passionate about includes being a member of Students for Social Justice, a member of JUHAN, a New Student Leader, and a Eucharistic Minister.
Daniel Jones is a rising senior at Fairfield University with a major in politics and minors in Peace and Justice Studies as well as Anthropology. Daniel invests much of his energy and passion into the club Students for Social Justice where he along with his fellow students have pioneered new and innovative ways to advocate for worker rights and living wages around the world and within our very own Universities!