AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY

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Friday, July 19, 2019

Wayfair Workers Speak Out: a Forum with the Walkout Organizers Massachusetts Peace Action Brian Garvey

Massachusetts Peace Action Brian Garvey<info@masspeaceaction.org>

7/18/2019 2:04 PM

To Al Johnson

Dear Al,

On June 26th employees of Wayfair, the Boston-based online furniture store, walked out of work to protest the company's sale of $200,000 in furniture to federal detention facilities for child migrants. Less than 2 days after the initial call, 500 Wayfair workers joined the action in Copley Square, supported by thousands of allied activists. Organizers of the walkout, will talk about how the action was planned and the next steps in a corporate campaign to demand justice from Wayfair. The forum will be held Wednesday, July 24 7pm at Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church, 1555 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge. Sponsored by Boston DSA, the Tech Workers Coalition, and Massachusetts Peace Action.

Speakers will include:

Josh Behrens, Boston DSA: Shut down the concentration camps!

Rachel Dougherty, Wayfair: How we organized

Alexis Goodfellow, Wayfair: The evolution of our movement

Tom Brown, Wayfair: Repercussions and post walkout culture

Maddie Howard, Boston DSA and Wayfair: The lessons for opposing Trump

Sponsors: Cambridge DSA, Massachusetts Peace Action, DSA Immigration working group, DSA Labor working group, Tech Workers Coalition

Massachusetts Peace Action has formed a Latin America/ Immigrant Rights Working Group. We seek to foreground the constant U.S. interventions, sanctions, the drug war, and arms sales in Latin America which are main causes of the refugee crisis. Can you help? The group had its first meeting this past Monday, June 15th and will hold another soon. To join us, please reply at info@masspeaceaction.org or call 617-354-2169.