Chie Abad This is Me

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1. 1. SFUHS: Health Outreach In Mombasa, Kenya

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   Published on: 5/24/2006   Last Visited: 11/19/2007

   Through the Rosenblatt Fellowship Alexandra visited local high schools with Chie Abad, a former sweatshop laborer, and created a guide for high school students about how to take part in the anti-sweatshop movement. Her interest in women's issues has continued after graduation from UHS. She is the representative for the northwest region on N.O.W.'s Young Feminist Task Force, and she is a student representative on Yale's Grievance Board for complaints of sexual harassment. She traveled to Kenya this past summer with a grant from Yale to study Swahili, to volunteer for Pathfinder International, an AIDS organization, and to work on a photography project. Here is an account from her experiences there.

2. 2. Saint Francis High School

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   Published on: 1/1/2007   Last Visited: 1/9/2008

   Chie encouraged students to become aware of their political power as consumers and urged them to join and promote Global Exchange's national ,Sweatfree' campaign. The campaign is an effort to ensure that the clothes, uniforms and other products bought by our cities and states are not made in sweatshops. The goal of the campaign is to guarantee that taxpayers are not complicit in factory abuses by allowing tax dollars to underwrite worker exploitation.
   
   About Chie Abad:
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   Chie spent six years as a garment worker on the Pacific island of Saipan, a U.S. territory. She endured wretched conditions, frequently working 14-hour shifts in order to meet arbitrary production quotas for her employer, the Sako Corporation, which made clothes for the Gap and other retailers. When she tried to organize a union, Chie was met by fierce resistance from management and eventually lost her job. She now lives in the U.S., where she educates Americans about the inhumane factory conditions occurring worldwide, including on U.S. soil. Chie was instrumental in forcing 26 major retailers to settle a lawsuit in September 2002 to improve conditions in Saipan. Her story is an inspiring example of how people can win if they stand up for their rights.

3. 3. Leader-Telegram Online

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   Last Visited: 9/8/2002

   Featured speakers are Chie Abad and Todd Tucker.
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   Abad endured sweatshop conditions working 14-hour shifts as a garment worker on the island of Saipan in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Marianas.
   
   When Abad attempted to organize a workers union, her work contract was not renewed by Sako Corp., which makes clothes for The Gap. She now is a spokeswoman for Saipan's garment industry workers.