BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:12576-c7b2e5900c57a9d7e361ce3c189326c6@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260610T051111Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T160000 SUMMARY:“Recycling without Waste Pickers is Garbage!” Organizing for Workers’ Ri ghts and Environmental Justice” DESCRIPTION:\n \n\nFirst picture:\n\nLeft to right: Abena Afriyie\, Dorc as Owusua\, Paul Macharia\, Jiayi Yao\, Alejandra Flores Mejia\, Silvio Ruiz\, Mercy Nabwire\, Manuel Rosaldo\, Luis Mendoza\, Haoju Lu\, and Mu zammal Afzal.\n\nSecond picture:\n\nLeft to right: Freyca Calderon-Berum en\, Silvio Ruiz\, and Manuel Rosaldo\n\n4:00 P.M. | Foster Auditorium ( 102 Paterno Library)\n\nDiscussion with Silvio Ruiz Grisalez\, a Colombi an waste picker and a trailblazing leader in the global movement for was te picker rights. The took place on Wednesday\, January 31 at 4:00 P.M. in Foster Auditorium (102 Paterno Library).\n\nAround the world\, fiftee n million people eke out a living by salvaging recyclable and reusable m aterials from dumps\, streets\, and buildings. Since the 1980s\, waste p ickers in Colombia and other countries have collectively organized on th e local\, national\, and transnational levels to demand policies that im prove both the quality of their work and of recycling services. Such pol icies represent paradigm shifts for countries that historically treated waste pickers as criminals\, and treated trash merely as a sanitary prob lem\, rather than as a social\, environmental\, and cultural one.\n\nThi s event was co-hosted by the Sustainability Institute and the Center for Global Workers' Rights.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/ event/organizing-for-workers-rights-and-environmental-justice/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

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First pi cture:
Left to right: Abena Afriyie, Dorcas Owusua, Paul Macharia, Jiayi Yao, Alejandra Flores Mejia, Silvio Ruiz, Mercy Nabwire, Manuel Ro saldo, Luis Mendoza, Haoju Lu, and Muzammal Afzal.

Second picture:
Left to right: Freyca Calderon-Berumen, Silvio Ruiz, and Manuel Ro saldo

4:00 P.M. | Foster Auditorium (102 Paterno Library)< /strong>

Discussion with Silvio Ruiz Grisalez, a Colombian was te picker and a trailblazing leader in the global movement for waste pic ker rights. The took place on Wednesday, January 31 at 4:00 P.M. in Fost er Auditorium (102 Paterno Library).

Around the world, fifteen mil lion people eke out a living by salvaging recyclable and reusable materi als from dumps, streets, and buildings. Since the 1980s, waste pickers in Colombi a and other countries have collectively organized on the local, nation al, and transnational levels to demand policies that improve both th e quality of their work and of recycling services. Such policies represe nt paradigm shifts for countries that historically treated waste pickers as criminals, and treated trash merely as a sanitary problem, rather th an as a social, environmental, and cultural one.

This event was co -hosted by the Sustainability Institute and the Center for Global Worker s' Rights.

For more details: https://ev ents.la.psu.edu/event/organizing-for-workers-rights-and-environmental-ju stice/

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