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"The Grassroots Mobilizing Department
of the U.S. Anti-Sweatshop Movement" 1470 Irving Street, NW, Washington, DC 20010 202-232-5002, [email protected] |
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About CLR
Mission StatementIt is the mission of the Campaign for Labor Rights (CLR) to mobilize grassroots support throughout the United States to promote economic and social justice by campaigning to end labor rights violations around the world. CLR educates about, and advocates against, the underlying causes of the global sweatshop. Its campaign strategies are designed in collaboration with workers struggling to gain the right to organize, the right to earn a living wage in a clean, safe work environment, and the right to bargain collectively with their bosses. Through these campaigns CLR's goal is to empower workers. PhilosophyWe prioritize campaigns which have the goal of worker empowerment through union recognition and collectively bargained contracts. We operate on the solidarity model, taking our lead from the workers whose livelihood and lives are at stake. Our goal is to be a resource to local activists who are organizing in their communities in support of workers world wide. About CLRCampaign for Labor Rights (CLR) is an organization that works to inform and mobilize grassroots activists in solidarity with major, international anti-sweatshop struggles. CLR has been called the "grassroots mobilizing department" of the anti-sweatshop movement. Coordinating with over 500 communities in the U.S. as well as other local, national, and international anti-sweatshop groups, CLR attacks the root causes of poverty, oppression, and global economic disparity. Its campaigns and strategy are designed in solidarity and collaboration with workers struggling to gain the right to organize, the right to earn a living wage in a clean, safe work environment, and the right to bargain collectively with their bosses. CLR promotes a broad, contextual understanding of sweatshops by locating them within the current structure of economic globalization, and it promotes resistance to this structure in local communities. At a time when U.S. consumers are becoming more concerned and aware of the conditions under which their goods are produced, CLR pushes for disclosure and accountability within the current trend of economic globalization. CLR works to have the right to organize recognized as a fundamental human right.
BiosSeverina Rivera (Director) was in the leadership of the exile movement against the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines for 16 years. During that period, she worked as a lobbyist on Capitol Hill and as an activist speaking and demonstrating throughout the U.S. to popularize the principles of and adherence to international human rights. Severina is an international trade and human rights lawyer whose major focus is globalization and international human rights violations by corporations and dictators. She was part of the legal tem that litigated a slave labor case against Unocal corporation in Burma, a human rights case against Shell Oil Corporation for the hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 7, and most recently, a domestic servitude case in Gaithersburg, MD. She also headed an international legal team on behalf of the Philippine government to recover approximately $10 billion stolen by the Marcoses and their cronies. A litigator for 13 years, she has returned to political activism but still continues to do legal work in support of anti-globalization demonstrations. Severina coordinates the anti-Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) corporate campaigns for the Alliance for Responsible Trade (ART) and Peoples Consultation. ART is a coalition of U.S. organizations and is the US branch of the Hemispheric Social Alliance--social movements opposing corporate globalization in Latin America. This exciting new campaign that CLR coordinates will expose the corporate power behind trade agreements such as the FTAA by targeting specific transnational corporations. Trim Bissel (1942-2002) Trim died on June 15, 2002 in the home he shared with his wife, Ruth Evan. He was surrounded by his art, vividly colored paintings and sculpture that were his third passion in life following Ruth and the Campaign for Labor Rights.More >> Charles Warpehoski (Webmaster) At his day job, Charles serves as coordinator for the Interfaith Council
for Peace and Justice in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Board of DirectorsOur nine-member Board includes two staff members and seven individuals who are local or regional activists and who have organized and advised on CLR campaigns over the years. The committee reflects our racial, gender, generational and geographic diversity.
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