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The Labor Fund
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In an era of international outsourcing, your investments in
this fund--which focuses on labor practices and workers' rights--will
accrue exponential returns. The worker is the core of our system, so
the board takes a keen interest in quality assurance for this fund.
To discuss or help with a project, click on its NAME button.
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FUNDS
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DESCRIPTION (click here for help)
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labor
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US$120
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workers
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"Insert realistic collector cards into cereal boxes, each with a photo and description of one of the many workers that has been killed or maimed at the cereal manufacturer's factory."
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labor
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US$300
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workers
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"Place 'Sally Struthers'-style leaflets, detailing the poor working conditions that exist for those who assemble athletic footwear, in major-brand athletic shoes, their shoeboxes, or the shoppings bags containing them, before or as they are being sold. Workers in many cities are being sought to plant the leaflets on an agreed-upon day, especially in 'flagship' stores. A press release will be issued by RTMARK to call attention to the event."
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labor
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US$500
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workers
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"Get rich white guys in sports bars to pick oranges and pay for it by inventing a video game that activates telepresent robotic labor. Disguise the fact that game players are engaging in labor by camouflaging the game as a first person shoot-em-up. Donate video game profits to the UFW. This project could be accomplished by staging it for the media, but in that case the investment capital goes directly to the UFW."
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magx
labor
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workers
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"A urinalysis lab worker should save and return as 'corporate property' all tested urine of new hires in a mass mailing to the CEO of a major corporation. The return of urine to its 'rightful owners' should be made into a highly visible press event."
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health
labor
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workers
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"Produce a documentary linking the increasingly harsh realities of the American workplace and economy to the rise in mental illness within the American population. Perhaps compare with European rates; perhaps also discuss 'official' corporate solutions--Prozac etc.--within this context. Film must be scheduled as part of a major regional film festival."
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