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Backbone Campaign brings you to Bainport, IL
Live Interactive National Podcast with Sensata Workers
Sunday November 4th begining at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific
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Backbone Campaign
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Join this special
interactive live podcast with the Sensata workers of
Bainport. They
have been striving for an economy that works for
everyone, not just "Vulture Capitalists."
This
is your opportunity to hear from, ask questions
with, and bolster the spirits of some of these
courageous workers/warriors.
On Halloween, Vulture Capitalists once again
descended upon Bainport to harvest away more jobs.
Learn how artful activism by Backbone Campaign,
Overpass Light Brigade and others helped amplify the
terrific work already being done.
Story of
Bainport: Their labor gave Sensata $500 million
in profits in the second quarter of 2012. This wasn't
enough profit for Bain Capital who bought them and is
moving their factory to China. The closing of their
factory and the off-shoring of their jobs is an
inevitable result of "vulture capitalists'" insatiable
hunger for profits without regard for the well-being
of others. These workers have rallied with their
community with supporters stretching across national
borders. They have steadfastly encamped across from
what once was their place of work withstanding
torrential rains, freezing temperatures, and now no
running water. Saturday they could be evicted.
Their fight
is for justice, fairness, dignity, and respect for
their coworkers and workers of the world. Let's honor their courage to stand up for
justice by organizing for it in our own communities.
How
To Participate this Sunday November 4th 8pm
Eastern 5pm Pacific:
- Watch the
podcast on Backbone's Ustream
Channel.
- There will
be time for Questions & Answers so have them
ready.
- Conference
Call Phone Number: 1-218-339-4300 Access code
is 1037729#
- If you
have a question or want to share your support,
mention so in the chat box on Ustream so we know
to call on you.
- Call into
our conference line and please stay muted
until we call on you to speak.
The story of
Bainport has broken international news with extensive
coverage on Democracy Now!, CNN, MSNBC's The Ed Show,
and has been covered by The New York Times, The
Guardian, Up With Chris Hayes, and visits by Jesse
Jackson, Senator Dick Durbin and others.
Amy Goodman from Democracy
Now! with Backbone Board Member Kyle Tanner and a
Vulture Capitalist puppet in freezing
temperatures. This Vulture made during Backbone's
weekly imagery building gatherings at our HQ.
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The
heroes in Bainport are the workers. Sensata
workers pictured here with no prior activism
experience practiced non-violent civil disobedience
by blocking the
trucks hauling away the machinery they worked on
for as many as 40 years. They were handcuffed and arrested at
their own plant just so
greedy Vulture Capitalists like
Bain Capital can line
their pockets by exploiting
Chinese workers paying them less than a
$1 per hour.
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Vulture masks for children
on Bainport's Halloween "Night of the Vultures"
made by Backbone allies Liz & Jeff Lucas and collaborators. We need
businesses invested in our communities not a race
to the bottom, or Vultures preying on them.
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