MEDIA ALERT: Danny Glover to Join Immigrant Garment Workers in NYC on May 1

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http://www.unitehere.org/presscenter/release.php?ID=3098

Press Center

For Immediate Release
April 26, 2007
Amanda Cooper
917-533-4050
Anna Oman
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MEDIA ALERT: Fashioning The American Dream
Danny Glover to Join Immigrant Garment Workers in NYC on May 1

WHAT: Rally to support immigrant garment workers

WHO: Danny Glover, Actor and Activist
Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President
William Thompson, New York City Comptroller
Bruce Raynor, General President, UNITE HERE
Edgar Romney, Executive Vice President, UNITE HERE
Petra Velez, Mary Sandoval and Cindy Ho, UNITE HERE members
Bud Kondheim, CEO, Nicole Miller
Samantha Cortes, CEO Fashion Design Concepts
Ed Ott, Executive Director, New York City Central Labor Council

WHEN: Tuesday, May 1, 2007 at NOON

WHERE: The Fashion Kiosk (39th Street & Seventh Avenue) in Manhattan

WHY: Event speakers will pay tribute to the city’s fashion district that has been home through the years to famous design houses, apparel factories, and sample shops that have placed New York on the map as an international center of high fashion.

Along with this, the event will draw attention to the invaluable contributions of immigrant workers to the apparel industry and to our nation’s heritage and future more broadly. Speakers will join the chorus of voices calling for humane immigration reform that will help today’s immigrant workers fashion their own American Dream.