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Disabled Workers Organize! Life and death at the Hanjin shipyard

August 13, 2012
Written by: siklab-on.

Transnational Narratives of Disability Speaker Series presents:

Disabled Workers Organize!
Life and death at the Hanjin shipyard

Wednesday August 15, 5-7pm
Vari Hall Room 1156
York University

Featuring
Pete Pinlac, Chairperson, MAKABAYAN/Workers for People’s Liberation, Philippines
Rachel Gorman, Assistant Professor, Critical Disability Studies, York University

Please join us for a panel presentation and discussion of:

Neoliberal policy and workplace disablement
The role of disabled workers in labour union organizing
Representations of disability in anti-imperialist campaigns
Disability identity and possibilities for transnational solidarity

For more information, contact:
Rachel Gorman gorman@yorku.ca
and see http://hanjinworkers.wordpress.com/

Graduate Program in Critical Disability Studies, York University
In partnership with
Philippine Women Centre of Ontario
The Centre for Women and Trans People at University of Toronto

Transit directions and campus map available at
http://www.yorku.ca/web/futurestudents/map/keele_map.html

This event is wheelchair accessible

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