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RR 2, Box 7162
Carmel, ME 04419
P: 207-848-2433
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Pine Tree Folk School - Pine Tree Folk School is a progressive, non-profit organization founded by Maine activists who are committed to providing education for social change. We bring to our work many years of experience in economic empowerment, labor, peace, and women's issues, as well as skills in group facilitation and adult learning. Pine Tree Folk School works with Maine people, supporting their efforts to take collective action to shape their own destiny. We seek to create educational experiences that empower people to take democratic leadership towards fundamental change. |
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PICA
170 Park St.
Bangor, ME 04401
P: 207-947-4203
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Clean Clothes Connection - Were your clothes made by teenage girls and children, working long hours under harsh conditions for poverty wages? Or were they made by workers who have a voice on the job, and who enjoy living wages and benefits?
Most of the time we don’t know. By working together — as consumers, workers, manufacturers, retailers, institutional purchasers — we can change corporate behavior and improve conditions for sweatshop workers worldwide. |
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170 Park Street
Bangor, ME 04401
P: 207-947-4203
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Peace through Interamerican Community Action (PICA) - Peace through Interamerican Community Action - is a Bangor, Maine-based grassroots organization. Our principal programs are:
The Bangor Clean Clothes Campaign, the country's first community-based anti-sweatshop campaignSponsoring Bangor's Sister City relationship with Carasque, El Salvador.Youth Adelantando, our dynamic youth organization. |
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Sweat Free Communities - Most clothing and footwear sold in this country are made under highly abusive conditions - in factories that can only be described as "sweatshops." Workers in these factories earn poverty wages for long hours of work while being denied the right to freely form or join unions. Apparel workers in the U.S. also face sweatshop conditions, as do workers in an increasing number of manufacturing and service industries and farm fields. We are an anti-sweatshop group working to persuade local retailers, religious congregations, cities, counties, states and school districts to adopt sweatfree purchasing policies - an approach similar to United Students Against Sweatshops' work on college campuses. |
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