ALL STAR GAME PLAN with Dennis Brutus - No Sweatshop Bucco!

Dennis Brutus will be leading the Pittsburgh Anti Sweatshop Community Alliance in a discussion about effective non-violent direct action at PNC Park on July 11. 

Dennis Brutus is the person who organized the expulsion of apartheid South Africa from the Olympic Games.  Dennis now teaches at the University of Pittsburgh, serves on the Advisory Committee of the Thomas Merton Center, is a founder of Azania Heritage International and the Pittsburgh Anti Sweatshop Community Alliance.  There is no one, in the world perhaps, more qualified to help Pittsburghers use our baseball team to protect workers’ rights.  Dennis’s office is in Posvar Hall at the University of Pittsburgh.  It not a coincidence that Posvar Hall is located on the site of Forbes Field… one of the places where Pittsburgh became the City of Champions.  You are invited to join members of PASCA at the Friends Meeting House at 4836 Ellsworth Ave, close proximity to the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon and many faith groups, to be a part of the planning of a diverse, effective, and safe, GLOBAL ACTION at the 2006 All Star Game. 

Professor Brutus has chosen to discuss the writings of Martin Luther King, Mohandas Ghandi and several of the athletes he worked with during the apartheid era.  We will also be reviewing the testimony from workers in Haiti and Bangladesh and a letter to PASCA from Major League Baseball (4/21/06).

Attached here is the letter from Major League Baseball's Ethan G Orlinsky.  We'll have a draft response to this for discussion. 

Attached her is the event flier for both 5/17 and 5/24 with Dennis Brutus AND David Zirin at the Hill House.

A Dennis Brutus bio is here http://www.ustawi.org/dennis.htm