91. Amélie Nguyen and Mostafa Henaway on exploitative textile corporations, from Dhaka to Montréal
Free City Radio2 Feb 2022

91. Amélie Nguyen and Mostafa Henaway on exploitative textile corporations, from Dhaka to Montréal

Listen to the 91st edition of Free City Radio. On this program we hear from Amélie Nguyen of the Centre international de solidarité ouvrière (CISO) and Mostafa Henaway of the Immigrant Workers Centre, who were speaking at the Cinema Politica screening of the film "Made in Bangladesh" that took place in Dec. 2021 at Concordia University in Tiohti:áke / Montréal. The film is a drama that details the efforts of women in Dhaka, Bangladesh, who are organizing within the context of systemic injustice in the workplace, a textile factory, struggling to have a worker union recognized. Info on the film by Rubaiyat Hossain here : https://www.khonatalkies.com/mib.php In this presentation, Amélie and Mostafa speak about the international nature of the systemic exploitation that textile workers face and the global systems of injustice that many textile corporations sustain, including the Montréal based Lamour and Gilden, who have direct links to exploitation of textile workers in Bangladesh and Haiti. Info on CISO : https://www.ciso.qc.ca Info on the Immigrant Workers Centre : https://iwc-cti.ca Information on Cinema Politica which hosted this conversation here : https://www.cinemapolitica.org This edition includes music by Asian Dub Foundation. Audio recorded by Shengmei Rui. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff Graphic is from the flag of Bangladesh.

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