Footage from the United Workers "B'More Fair" and Human Rights Zone March in Baltimore, MD, April 18, 2009. (www.unitedworkers.org)

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Kenneth Miller, an organizer for the Pittsburgh Anti-Sweatshop Community Alliance (PASCA) and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) speaks at the United Workers Association Human Rights Zone march in downtown Baltimore (April 18, 2009). The topic of his speech is building an alliance between baseball stadium workers in the USA and garment workers who make MLB apparel in countries such as Bangladesh.

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Chi Abad (sp?), a former sweatshop worker from Saipan (a U.S. Territory near Guam) and now an organizer for Global Exchange, speaks about working conditions and non-enforcement of U.S. labor laws at a July 12 workers rights board hearing in Philadelphia.

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Today the United Workers announced the three worst employers at the Inner Harbor, based on the results of a survey of 147 workers taken since announcing the Human Rights Zone on October 25, 2008. Workers put Phillips, Cheesecake Factory and M&S Grill on notice for failing to respect the economic human rights of workers. After announcing the three worst employers, workers planned to delivers poster-sized notices to the businesses but were told by police that they'd be arrested for entering the Harborplace development. Even Rev. Brown, a faith ally of the United Workers, was not allowed to enter the Inner Harbor and deliver the notices to Cheesecake Factory, Phillips and M&S Grill.

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The Confederation of Haitian Workers (CTH) invited an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) delegation to Haiti to learn about their fight against "le plan neoliberal" and recruit help in the form of material aid and solidarity. The delegation was in Haiti April 24 to May 5 2008, two weeks after the country erupted in mass protest at burgeoning food prices. This video shares the stories and experiences. To read more, visit http://iwwinhaiti.blogspot.com .

See PART 2 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =EZ5YPlYk23o

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