Child Labor/Maquiladoras/Exploited Labor/ Save Our Unions

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This performance, by Antioch University Los Angeles professor and vocalist Stephanie Glass Solomon, is from an educational concert, Jazz, Gender, and Justice, first performed at the Visual and Performing Arts Center, California State University Northridge, September 14 and 16, 2000.
This piece focuses on the worldwide exploitation of children and young women in factories, particularly in maquiladoras. The spoken-word introduction tells about a mother who, while preparing a Disney theme party for her son, is reminded of the children in maquiladoras who have lost their childhoods to making clothing, shoes, and toys for children like her own. How can one child's party be built upon the back of another child's exploited labor? How can there be free trade when there is not fair trade--trade that fairly regulates the nature of work? This performance piece was integrated into classroom studies to provoke critical thinking about globalism and the far-reaching consequences of mindless consumerism. It argues for a need for global unionization and the preservation of US unions.
Music : Heigh Ho by Franke Churchill & Larry Morey
Whistle While You Work by Franke Churchill & Larry Morey
Arrangement: Gary Nesteruk
Musicians: Gary Nesteruk, Ernie Nunez, Ben Wendel, Tony Austin, Tom Bethke
Graphic Designer: Ana Osling, Juxaweb
Photographs: Permission: National Labor Committee/People of Faith Network

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