RISING FROM OUR HARDSHIP:

HUNGER STRIKE FOR OUR HEALTH

a video documenting the daring, seven-day hunger strike led by injured workers in New York City

Order your copy today!
The documentary is 30-minutes long and is available on VHS.

1) You may reserve a copy over the phone if you would like to come and pick it up at our Brooklyn Workers' Center (718-625-9091) or our Lower East Side Workers' Center (212-358-0295).

2) You may send a request for the video by mail. Our mailing address is NMASS P.O.B. 130293 New York, NY 10013. Please include information about where and when you would like to show the video and your complete contact information, including phone or e-mail.

We are requesting a $5 donation to defray the costs of reproduction and mailing. Please make your check payable to "NMASS."

In May, 2003 fourteen workers in New York City rose from extreme hardship to embark on a daring, seven-day hunger strike outside of NYS Governor Pataki’s office. “Rising From Our Hardship: Hunger Strike for Our Health” is a glimpse into the seven day journey to challenge Governor Pataki’s policies that force injured workers to wait as long as 10 or more years for Workers’ Compensation benefits, and that ignore the health needs of working people. With their health already frail from years of injury, the hunger strikers were uncertain that they could last seven days sleeping in the cold rain without eating, but after suffering years of humiliation and poverty under NYS Governor Pataki’s administration, these injured workers were determined.

“My health right now is very poor, but I will strive to finish these seven days. We injured workers have lost our human rights. We have no choice but to hunger strike.” You Di Liao, hunger striker, Day 2

For more information, contact the It's About TIME! Campaign for Workers Health & Safety: c/o Nat'l Mobilization Against SweatShops, 718.625.9092 or nmass@yahoo.com.

It's About TIME! Campaign is sponsored by National Mobilization Against SweatShops, Chinese Staff & Workers' Association, & Workers Awaaz.

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