OVERWORKED AND UNDERPAID IN THE SILICON VALLEY
(YOU’RE NOT THE ONLY ONE) - click here to RSVP

We’ve all experienced the severe pressures of work: the looming, high-pressure deadlines, the lack of respect for work by our managers, being expected to work late or through the weekend just to “get the job done,” the bitter taste of getting paid too little for what it takes to survive in the Valley. Unless you’re a highly educated, highly skilled, upper income worker, there is little upside to being a rat in the rat race. Yet what’s it like being a rat in the race when you do mostly invisible and unrespected work? Or when labor is back-breaking instead of paper pushing?

Please join us to learn about how the South Bay labor movement is helping working families in the service sector fight for economic justice and how you and your job in Corporate Cubicle Company can affect the implementation of progressive labor policies. Labor activism in the Silicon Valley looks very different then you think - our panelists will share real life stories about why and how they got involved in the labor movement and what difference it’s making in all of our lives. Their stories about standing up and fighting for respect will inspire you in the most unexpected ways.

Thursday, July 10, 2008
7pm - 9pm - (Registration opens at 6:30pm)
Ironworkers Hall- South Bay Labor Council
2102 Almaden Road, Room 110
San Jose CA 95125 view map

To RSVP, please visit our Evite

Donations support refreshments, room rental, misc costs, and fee waivers.
Recommended donation for program and food: $10 - $20
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

On any given day, 6,000 people are looking for a life-saving bone marrow donor. Only 3% of all Asian Americans are currently registered. Help us change that statistic today!

Meet Michelle Maykin.

She is a 26-year old acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patient who is battling life-threatening odds of finding a bone marrow donor match by June 21st. In light of Michelle’s diagnosis, Michelle’s family and friends have banned together to launch a nationwide recruitment campaign, Project Michelle, to raise awareness of the dire donor shortage specifically within the Asian American community. The goal is to enroll 15,000 donors into the national registry in hopes of finding acute myeloid leukemia patient Michelle Maykin a bone marrow match and improve the odds for patients like her. Only 3% of all Asian Americans are registered as bone marrow donors.

Hyphen magazine and Chinese for Affirmative Action have collaborated with Project Michelle and the Asian American Donor Program to bring a bone marrow drive to the heart of the Bay Area to increase the registration numbers of Asian Americans.

Please help us reach out to the 97% unregistered (roughly 14 million) to let them know how they can save Michelle or one of the other 6,000 patients currently looking for a match. Help save a life and get registered.

WHAT: In-n-Out: The Drive to Increase Asian American Registered Bone Marrow Donors

WHEN: Saturday | June 14, 2008 | 10 am - 3 pm

WHERE: Chinese for Affirmative Action, Community Room
The Kuo Building
17 Walter U. Lum Place
San Francisco, CA 94108
COST: Free for all partial and full ethnic minorities (Asian and Pacific Islander, Native American, Hispanic/Chicano, and African American) and $25 registration fee for all non-minorities.

To RSVP and to show your support, please visit our Facebook Event and/or our Evite.