PANEL DISCUSSION: Anannya Bhattacharjee (Asia Floor Wage)
Films about the Asia Floor Wage Campaign and the life of a garment worker, Mirza, in Delhi India can be viewed through the Fashioning an Ethical Industry YouTube page.
Biography: Anannya is Coordinator of Asia Floor Wage Campaign and President of Mazdoor Ekta Manch, an organization of manufacturing workers in Delhi, India. She is founder and Secretary of the Governing Board of Society for Labour and Development and Secretary of Hospital Employees Union. As International Organiser of Jobs with Justice, Anannya has helped build a grassroots labor-related collaboration between North America and India. Prior to this work, Anannya was an activist based in the US for over 15 years. Realizing the lack of progressive organizations in the new and fast growing South Asian immigrant community, Anannya helped to start some of the earliest social justice-oriented community organizations. Later she worked in larger Asian communities where she contributed to organizing of taxi drivers, domestic workers and retail workers. She was a Charles Revson Fellow for the Future of the City of New York in Columbia University and was Activist-in-Residence at the Asian Pacific American Studies Program and Institute at New York University. She is the co-editor of the book, Policing the National Body (South End Press, 2002).
