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For Immediate Release
Contact: Lea Ann Scales
Assistant Vice President of
Public Relations and Marketing
Phone: 508-929-8018
March 28, 2011
(Worcester, Mass.) -- The Worcester State University Diversity Lecture Series will feature Jim Keady, theologian, activist, educator, who will deliver the lecture “Behind the Swoosh: Sweatshops and Social Justice,” Wednesday, March 30, at 11:30 a.m. in the Student Center Blue Lounge.
Keady is a founding director of Educating for Justice, Inc. In his multimedia presentation, Keady will detail the month he spent in an Indonesian factory workers' slum living on $1.25 a day, a typical wage paid to Nike's subcontracted workers. Along with personal accounts, he will include the latest information on Nike's labor and environmental practices and the women, men and sometimes children, who are the foundation of global manufacturing.
The lecture is free and open to the public. The series is sponsored by the student Center/Student Activities Office, Disability Services, Third World Alliance, WSU Pride Alliance and People’s United Bank.
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