First on the Durham Library Board of Trustees meeting - I heard that it is being moved to the Main Library's Auditorium. Hopefully public interest will justify the larger room.
Today is Human Rights Day, the anniversary (50th) of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, proclaimed by the General Assembly today in 1948. The text is online at www.un.org/overview/rights.html.
Some other Human Rights Day events:
This is a national action in support of workers' rights at the huge Smithfield hog processing plant in Tarheel, NC. Alliance! covered the United Food and Commercial Workers union campaign at Smithfield in articles online at www.allianceml.com/paper/2004/Carolinas.html and www.allianceml.com/paper/2006/Spring_March/SmithfieldFiring2.htm.
CALL PAULA DEEN TODAY
Today is International Human Rights Day, and Justice@Smithfield
supporters will to commemorate by drawing attention to human
rights abuses at Smithfield's Tar Heel Plant. Working conditions
at the plant, which have been profiled by the international
watchdog Human Rights Watch, are among the most brutal in the
United States.
As many of you know, television chef Paula Deen has become the
paid public spokeswoman for the company. This holiday season,
you'll be seeing her face turn up on pork products at your local
supermarket. With such high visibility and influence within the
company, we believe that Paula is in a unique position to steer
the company toward a more humane path. But we need your help!
Today, Monday, December 10
Contact Paula!
Ask Her to Be a Human Rights Leader for Smithfield!
Call Her Up at her Savannah Restaurant:
(912) 233-2600
Or Use the Email Contact Form on Her Website
http://ufcwaction.org/ct/-7NJa5p1ccoT/
For the past two weeks, Paula has been traveling the country to
promote her new recipe book. At every stop along the way, from
Washington to Chicago to Minneapolis to Portland, supporters of
Smithfield workers have been asking her, very publicly, to stand
up for the rights of the workers. And word is starting to
spread. Last week the Chicago Sun Times ran a column asking her
to "put reality on the menu." You can read it
here: http://ufcwaction.org/ct/J1NJa5p1ccoG/
And in an appearance on NPR?s Diane Rehm Show last Wendesday,
the final fifteen minutes were entirely dedicated to worker
abuses at Smithfield. Listen
here: http://ufcwaction.org/ct/FpNJa5p1ccoQ/
Today, supporters will be welcoming Paula back home, with a
Human Rights Day demonstration in Savannah, Georgia. If you?re
in the area, or you know folks in that neck of the woods, you
can join up with them at both 11:30 A.M. or 5:30 P.M. on the
corner of Whitaker and Congress Streets in Downtown Savannah.
For everybody that can't make it to Savannah, please take a
moment to call or Email Paula personally, and ask her to be a
leader for human rights at Smithfield!
For More Background Information on human rights problems at
Smithfield's Tar Heel plant, you can read the Human Rights Watch
Reports "Unfair Advantage" and "Blood Sweat and Fear."
Links:
http://ufcwaction.org/ct/-1NJa5p1ccoR/
http://ufcwaction.org/ct/-dNJa5p1ccoY/
--------------------------------------------------
Today is International Human Rights Day, and Justice@Smithfield
supporters will to commemorate by drawing attention to human
rights abuses at Smithfield's Tar Heel Plant. Working conditions
at the plant, which have been profiled by the international
watchdog Human Rights Watch, are among the most brutal in the
United States.
As many of you know, television chef Paula Deen has become the
paid public spokeswoman for the company. This holiday season,
you'll be seeing her face turn up on pork products at your local
supermarket. With such high visibility and influence within the
company, we believe that Paula is in a unique position to steer
the company toward a more humane path. But we need your help!
Today, Monday, December 10
Contact Paula!
Ask Her to Be a Human Rights Leader for Smithfield!
Call Her Up at her Savannah Restaurant:
(912) 233-2600
Or Use the Email Contact Form on Her Website
http://ufcwaction.org/ct/-7NJa5p1ccoT/
For the past two weeks, Paula has been traveling the country to
promote her new recipe book. At every stop along the way, from
Washington to Chicago to Minneapolis to Portland, supporters of
Smithfield workers have been asking her, very publicly, to stand
up for the rights of the workers. And word is starting to
spread. Last week the Chicago Sun Times ran a column asking her
to "put reality on the menu." You can read it
here: http://ufcwaction.org/ct/J1NJa5p1ccoG/
And in an appearance on NPR?s Diane Rehm Show last Wendesday,
the final fifteen minutes were entirely dedicated to worker
abuses at Smithfield. Listen
here: http://ufcwaction.org/ct/FpNJa5p1ccoQ/
Today, supporters will be welcoming Paula back home, with a
Human Rights Day demonstration in Savannah, Georgia. If you?re
in the area, or you know folks in that neck of the woods, you
can join up with them at both 11:30 A.M. or 5:30 P.M. on the
corner of Whitaker and Congress Streets in Downtown Savannah.
For everybody that can't make it to Savannah, please take a
moment to call or Email Paula personally, and ask her to be a
leader for human rights at Smithfield!
For More Background Information on human rights problems at
Smithfield's Tar Heel plant, you can read the Human Rights Watch
Reports "Unfair Advantage" and "Blood Sweat and Fear."
Links:
http://ufcwaction.org/ct/-1NJa5p1ccoR/
http://ufcwaction.org/ct/-dNJa5p1ccoY/
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Bill of Rights Day in Chapel Hill
The Orange County Board of Commissioners, Chapel Hill Town Council, and Carrboro Town Alderman will read the Bill of Rights and proclamations at noon on Saturday, the 15th, at Peace and Justice Plaza in downtown Chapel Hill (in front of the post office at the corner of East Franklin and Henderson streets, opposite UNC). State senator Ellie Kinnaird organized the event, in honor of Joe Herzenburg. For more information, call 929-1607.
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