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Moi @ 39 weeks

  • May 19, 2009 at 10:02 pm

Moi @ 39 weeks
Originally uploaded by minjungkim.

I don’t think my Hello Kitty pj’s have ever looked so awkward.

Healthy!

  • May 7, 2009 at 7:51 pm

Healthy!

Originally uploaded by minjungkim.

With a bare bones kitchen (while waiting for our stuff to get shipped) and a rice cooker, I’m managing decently well to cook and eat healthy during the last few weeks before Giggle makes her arrival.

Click through to Flickr to see what I’m eating.

PS: <3 Kukje market for some of the prepared seasoned korean nosh to eat with rice.

The explanation.

  • March 16, 2009 at 3:49 am

A friend recently commented that there were remarkably few photos on my blog of late. This is true for a number of reasons.

#1. I packed my camera somewhere about 4 months ago and haven’t been able to find it yet.

#2. Jason’s camera is something that I just haven’t played around with enough to feel comfortable messing with his precious Leica.

#3. I feel generally extremely frumpy and not particularly photogenic during this period of gestation.

#4. Jason says the only photo that would be appropriate of me during my pregnancy is me with chocolate cake spilled and smeared down the front of my shirt and huge belly while I’m in a miserable state of puffy faced tears.

So…
For no other reason than I’m hungry, here’s a picture of bacon.
Bacon - Foodporn

 

If you wanna contribute to my baby’s diaper fund, feel free.

 

Beach Citizenry

  • March 23, 2008 at 1:42 am

Today seemed pretty normal for a Saturday.
Sunny and gorgeous.

I woke up (missing my honey who was out of town) and rallied to shower.

Checked the weather and decided the day was too glorious to wait indoors.

So of course I logged on to warcraft.

Not, with the intention of getting sucked in to play indoors all day but rather to rally and see if Jason S. and Jackson might want to get some sunshine too and head out to the beach.

Of course, they were in game. With Ernie. And rallying to finally hit the Outlands. (Huzzah!)

By late afternoon we were ready to head out and I picked up both Jason and Jackson and mozied down to Ocean Beach. (After a stop off in Jtown for snacks first, of course).

The beach was CROWDED as clearly our idea of sunshine, fresh air, and playfulness is not an original one on a gorgeous day as was today.

Corrientes Peligrosas

Originally uploaded by Moncrief Speaks.


As we walked along getting sand under our toes we saw a guy standing about armpit deep in the rough waves waving his arm about.

Inner Monologue: “Is he saying Help? Alf? Al? Hemp? Is he just waving to friends? Is he joking?” I pointed yon at the guy.

Then we saw him collapse and fall.

Jackson and Jason immediately set forth to go help him up.

As they helped him to his feet a passerby walking his dog (herein the rest of the story called Citizen Dogwalker) rushed to me.

Citizen Dogwalker “Is he ok?Has anyone called the 911?”

Me: “No. Call 911.”

Jackson and Jason had helped Swimmer 1. to his feet and closer to shore where he promptly collapsed again, coughing.

Swimmer 1’s friend came to see how he was doing and was told by Swimmer 1 “How come you didn’t come when I was yelling HELP?!” She looked stunned and shocked.

Citizen Dogwalker had at this point flagged down the beach police patrol.

Beach Police patrol guy was questioning Swimmer 1 re: if he needed an ambulance and if anyone else was in the water with him.

Swimmer 1 responded “No, I’m alone. Charlie’s already come in, right?”

The Friend of Swimmer 1 said “No, he’s not in. Where is he?”

At that point, Jackson went out back towards the water (knee deep) to start looking for another head bobbing in the water. He was joined by 3 other Citizens who went as far out as they safely could in the rough waves to look and see if they could spot anyone.

At that point 3 very crucial things happened.

Beach Patrol called Surf and Rescue and the Citizen Dogwalker had run down the beach to see if anyone in a wetsuit or a surfer could possibly rally in the desperately shrinking window of time where someone could be dragged further out into the oceans by the riptide. The 3 Citizens and Jackson were out aligned along the water to spot.

Citizen Surfer arrived and was promptly pointed towards where a bobbing head was exhaustedly flailing and swam out to Charlie, reaching him, having him grasp his surfboard and stay afloat.

For a desperate few minutes as the sirens from Fire Engines, Surf and Patrol, and an Ambulance came to our location, the Citizen Surfer and Charlie were dragged back out by the riptide and eventually, exhaustedly made it to where the 3 Citizens were. The 3 Citizens promptly hoisted Charlie over their shoulders and brought him in towards dry land.

Charlie’s lips were blue and he looked exhausted and stunned. Absolutely silent and nominally responsive but breathing.

Charlie and Swimmer 1 were taken by Ambulances and treated for hypothermia and taken to the hospital. I imagine that they are now better, safe, and most importantly alive.

This was, most certainly, not what I’d anticipated from a leisurely sojourn and trip to the beach.

I’d say absolutely that were it not for the quick response and reaction of the Citizens in this tale, that the ending to this story might be quite different. While I have huge respect for the Beach Patrol, Surf and Rescue, and EMTs that came to the scene after the boys were on the beach and drier land, there were many crucial minutes prior to that where everyday folks wound up taking great personal concern to a stranger’s welfare to make sure that this day didn’t end up in tragedy.

Thank you to the Citizen Surfer, Citizen Dogwalker, 3 Citizens, Jackson, Jason, and all else on the beach that day that stepped up.

My faith in humanity is buttressed. (It doesn’t need restoration, just a boost).
As an after note. After all was said and done and Jackson, Jason, and I had gotten to settle our nerves and adrenaline rush from the episode, we’d gotten a bite to eat at Louie’s and walked back towards our car parked in the Ocean Beach lot.

Jackson started gazing out at the ocean as if to search for more potential vulnerable souls in need for rescue.

And I had an odd flash of a visual in my head that, well, I kind of never want to have again.

And that is of Jackson West in a bright red swimsuit a la Baywatch running in slow motion across the beach and having his man boobies heave with every breath.

The Annual Breakup Post

  • December 31, 2007 at 8:09 pm

(In the tradition of past breakup posts – See 2006 2005, 2004, 2003)

Dear 2007,

Well. We both knew this was coming. It’s our thing.

This was your year. The year of the pig. The year of wealth and prosperity and good things. There’s been a lot of that together that we’ve shared. Particularly in memories and in laughter.

To do things together to the fullest and to know at the end of it all that we have lots of ridiculously rich memories to share with each other and to say goodbye to each other without regrets and without hesitation.

We’re both old and mature enough now to know that about both ourselves and each other.

And really, my what a year we’ve had.

We’ve traveled to Texas, Michigan, Seattle, Berlin, Heidelberg, and Paris.

We’ve said hello and farewell to good friends and family. It’s been a year where I’ve felt fury and frustration, whimsy and delight. Snarky giggles and sometimes whimpery nights of needing simple comforts.

We’ve maintained love and seen it grow and bloom into something gorgeous that has outshone any doubt that’s managed to burrow itself into a corner of self doubt or worry in my psyche.

Dear 2007, you’ve even been there for me for some of the happiest days of my life. I mean, getting engaged, getting married(Flashmob version in the livingroom). Getting married again. (In the church and all that good stuff.)

And you’ve given me the opportunity for tremendous hope and joy when Jason and I found out that we were pregnant. And then to lose that pregnancy so soon after we’d grown to glow with the idea of having a physical manifestation of our joy and love for each other come into our lives. It’s been rough, losing that hope, though we both know that it’s only temporary and that hope, well, like our spirits, it too will rise. And that in grief, there is still the opportunity to see and to know true love and to understand its greatest significance in providing strength and comfort during those moments of weakness and tenderness.

To learn that so early in a marriage is, at the very least, an important blessing to recognize and stay focused on.

Dearest 2007, I want to thank you for being such an important year in my life. It’s been a year full of challenges and growth, beauty and some grief, tenderness and laughter, song and heart written personal scripture. You’ve been a year that I’ve learned to love in jagged and sharp moments as well as those glowy and full of firecrackers under my skin.

So thank you, 2007. You’ve been as good to me as you could. And I hope I’ve done right by you as well.

Wish me well with 2008,

Min Jung

Things I remind myself.

  • January 11, 2007 at 3:07 pm
  • We are a country still at war.  And the rest of the world doesn’t really like us too much right now.
  • People die every day.  You will too. Memento Mori. (Which by the way, is also the title of an awesome korean lesbian horror flick. I kid you not.
  • You did, in fact, turn the stove off. Seriously.
  • At one point, I used to actually sent birthday cards.  I miss having real in your hands kind of mail too. Letters. Postcards. Etc.  The last letter, and the only one I’d received in perhaps a year that wasn’t transfered by pixels, was from Josh Wolf.  I’m really lucky. I get regular postcards from one of my best friends living in Wisconsin.  She’s been sending me cute postcards off and on over the last 11 years that I’ve ben in SF. Sometimes once a week. Sometimes once a month. I have boxes full of whimsically hand written missives with pictures of her daughter, illustrations styled from Griffin and Sabine, cows, cute dogs, her daughter who’s a cute little blonde gal with sass and wants to learn Chinese,  I’ve sent her … maybe 2.  I suck.
  • Personal housecleaning stuff – just do it and then go play warcraft.  Procrastinating is wildly inefficient and ruins the quality of lazy time which is what you’re actually all about.  If you’re distressed or worried about procrasinating about something, it totally busts on the lazy time experience.
  • Call the parents.  Oh they love you.  And the more you talk to them, the less likely they’ll try to google you or find your myspace page and find something more incriminating.
  • Take the camera everywhere.  What’s the holdup, mofo?
  • Just write.

All sorts of photo <3

  • November 10, 2006 at 2:16 pm

Me @ Photobucket, Stewart @ Flickr and Kristopher @ Zooomr – holding a mag of Jpg!

Citizen Journalism at work…

  • April 19, 2006 at 2:31 am

So I’ve been recruited to participate in citizen media coverage of the SFIFF. Good times. The kickoff was last night with a movie gathering at Casa Arguello with old friends & new to watch Street Fight along with several dozens of other sf folks to share in the kickoff of the Film Festival. Hurray for everyone who came! Kevin Smokler who coordinated the eventJason Schultz who brought brownies (plain), Ted Rheingold, who I made take off his shoes because who knows what kind of dog stuff he stepped inSteve Rhodes, who ate my sloppy quesadillas, Nicole Lee who performed at Lap-Pop!, Josh Wolf who says I make funny faces when I say things like “Group Picture”. Enric who’s tainted my household with bringing a pc into the home. (Just kidding Enric!). Jonathan, the exroommate also came and brought good news about the other exroommate (non consynchronous) Jason who is happily outta the hospital and recovering well. Smooches Jason!

It was fun; looking forwards to checking out more films at the festival…

The online listing of the entire program are available before you figure out which theatre to park your ass at all day.

The Kabuki Theatre is totally my choice.
How excited am I to spend about 30 hours sitting on my ass.

I mean, seriously!

There are a number of films that I’m going to be doing my best to cover during the film festival. They are listed below and if you’re interested in syncing it up to your ical, google calendar, or whatnot, I’ve listed my movie choices from the Kabuki theater up and subscribable on Upcoming.org and you can go ahead and sync it up or add your own film selections/options yon there.

All About Love
A dreamy doctor falls for the transplant recipient of his dead wife’s heart. Happens all the time, of course, but rarely with such stylistic panache or lovelorn romanticism as in this delirious Hong Kong hit that doubles the trouble and drowns in tears.

Al Franken: God Spoke
Documentary veterans Chris Hegedus and Nick Doob catch liberal political satirist Al Franken in frenzied action as he races around the country on his 2004 book tour for the bestselling Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.

Adam’s Apples
A pitch-black comedy/religious parable in which a truculent neo-Nazi ex-convict and a dementedly upbeat country priest square off amid Old Testament plagues centered on a parish apple tree.

Bashing
A controversial, fictionalized account of a young woman whose kidnapping and release in the Middle East has made her a town pariah back at home. Inspired by the experiences of several Japanese aid workers held hostage in Iraq in 2004.

Belle De Jour
In this subversive erotic fantasy cowritten by Jean-Claude Carrière and Buñuel, Catherine Deneuve plays a frigid housewife who indulges her masochistic desires by working in a Paris brothel. However, nothing is quite as it seems…

The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros
A gay pre-teen in a Manila slum causes his family of petty criminals grief when he falls in love with the handsome cop next door. This first feature transcends its indie low budget with its humor, gritty drama and charm.

The Bridge
The Bridge is a moving and unsettling exploration of the mythic beauty of the Golden Gate Bridge, the most popular suicide destination in the world, and the unfortunate souls drawn by its siren call.

Cock Byte: Masters of Machinima
Machine animation geniuses Rooster Teeth Productions, creators of the wildly popular online episodic parodies Red vs Blue and The Strangerhood, appear in person to present their greatest hits and new work, all made using the 3D graphics engines from videogames.

Domestic Dramas
This program of narrative shorts conveys the humor and tragedy that make up the most common spheres of our existence and the upheaval that results when the things we most desire refuse to come to fruition or are achieved in unexpected ways. Titles include The Light, Remain Upright!!, The Pretty Boy Project, Kitchen, Five Minutes, Mr. Welles, Love at 4 pm, and Dazed.

Drawing Lines
A dazzling collection of animated shorts guaranteed to stimulate the senses, fire up the imagination and push the boundaries of the genre. Home Delivery, The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello, 2/14, Never Live Above a Psychic, Luukkaankangas: Updated, Revisited, A Room Nearby, At the Quinte Hotel, Cosmetic Emergency, and Tales of Mere Existence.

Executive Koala
A dutiful employee with a giant koala head must contend with complex office politics while worrying that he may be responsible for his girlfriend’s death in this unforgettable genre hybrid from Japan’s leading director of meatball, off-the-wall comedies.

Friends—Lost And Found
Friends come in all shapes and sizes: orphans, Goth girls, even insects—but everyone has them and will do almost anything for them. Join us for this array of shorts selected to appeal to both young and old—and bring a friend. Recommended for ages seven and up. Titles include A Bag of Sweets, Rubber Soles, Roberto the Insect Architect, Cake, Sirah, Kylie Goldstein, All American, Emelia—The Five Year Old Goth Girl and Hide & Seek.

The Glamorous Life Of Sachiko Hanai
In this riotous amalgam of political satire, apocalyptic comedy and steamy erotica, an escort specializing in teacher-student scenarios acquires a mysterious cylinder that could cause nuclear havoc. A fervid example of the Japanese pinku eiga genre, for mature audiences only.

Gubra
This alternately comic and sad meditation on forgiveness follows the fortunes of several families, including Orked and her affluent Malay parents and the working-class Chinese family of Orked’s lost love, Jason, featured in director Ahmad’s previous film Sepet (SFIFF 2005).

The House Of Himiko
At a seaside rest home for gay men, a young woman confronts the father who once abandoned her to become proprietor of a transvestite bar. An offbeat comedy that offers a rare look at Japan’s older gay community.

Iraq in Fragments
Three tales from the new Iraq, from Sunni to Shiite to Kurd. Paying as much attention to color, light and landscape as to politics, this Sundance award-winner is like nothing we have ever seen or heard about Iraq before.

Jonestown: The Life And Death Of Peoples Temple
This chilling documentary explores the stunning rise and fall of Peoples Temple and its charismatic leader Jim Jones, who founded Jonestown in Guyana, South America, where more than 900 of his followers died in a mass “suicide” in 1978.

Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey
An intelligent, humorous and affectionate documentary about heavy metal music, its myriad forms and rabid fans. Featuring some of the genres most noted heroes, Metal attempts to dispel its stigma as the bastard stepchild of the airwaves.

Perpetual Motion
In this wry examination of adultery and history, four women meet on the eve of Chinese New Year for some mah-jongg and reminiscence, while the hostess hopes to determine which of her guests is having an affair with her husband.

Play
Heartbroken Tristán and isolated Cristina, two strangers, wander the streets of Santiago looking for love. This urban fairy tale is a lively, witty, atmospheric film about the human need to connect in the postmodern world.

A Prairie Home Companion
Garrison Keillor’s beloved radio show A Prairie Home Companion becomes a musical-comedy ensemble piece starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Lily Tomlin, Virginia Madsen, Woody Harrelson, John C. Reilly and Lindsay Lohan.

Princess Raccoon
“We are all raccoons!” Glory in the spectacular design and exuberant wackiness (plus the stunning Ziyi Zhang as the Princess) of this madcap anything-goes pop opera by Japan’s premiere film trickster.

Sa-Kwa
A deeply rewarding, delicately observant portrait of a modern young woman’s search for happiness and love, featuring an intensely physical performance by South Korea’s finest actress, Moon So-Ri.

Viva Cuba
Eleven-year-old Malú runs away from home with her best friend Jorgito on a quest to find her father in this charming, fairytale-like story that was Cuba’s candidate for the Oscars.

You Are My Sunshine
A farm worker’s ardor for a prostitute pays off when she falls in love with him, but their bliss may be short-lived when she is diagnosed with HIV in this touching, mildly erotic blend of melodrama and romantic comedy.

Travel Update

  • February 9, 2006 at 12:44 am

Location: Casa Huff & Cooper
Chicago,IL

I’m currently sitting on the couch with a lovely silver grey cat who is napping with her fat butt facing me.

Cinnamon & Andrew are geeking out seperatly on their own respective laptops, reviewing blogs, logs, and pictures online.

I am delighted by spending chill “regular time” with people that I don’t get to see or spend time with often enough. Simple things like listening to jazz, making fun of goofy emails, and sharing various silly blog content. We talk about scotch. And cats. And people we know. And bond films. And wikipedia. And etc.

This after an evening with Cinnamon and her lady pals playing “poker” where no shirts or panties were lost, but much wine was had, and many more giggles than that. My stomach is still full and happy from having some Surl Long Tang with my friend JB earlier today (waves hi to jb!) after he was kind enough to pick me up from the train station.

Thunks today:
Any stigma associated with train travel should be abolished. I was pleased to discover the convenience of the transportation did not exceedingly diminish or destroy the romance associated with this mode of travel that I’ve had from movies while growing up.

There’s a lovely leisure to it. Fairly relaxing. Tons of space to spread out. And a fairly reasonable a la carte selection of foodstuffs in the dining car including heinekin or coronas, hebrew national hotdogs, gardenburgers, and other sundries. A more diverse or healthy selection of food stuffs than available on planes including yogurt and fruit, juice, and milk. And did I mention how cheap the tickets were? $26 one way from Detroit to Chicago. With loads of flexibility re: changing the dates of departure or cancelling tickets with nominal penalties. Not a bad way to go when you have more time than dollars, and no manic schedule to be bound to. No wifi or powerplugs though. But that’s ok. I had enough media between naps with the ipod, and episodes of battlestar galactica.

I’m a little sleepy and it’s snowy outside. Chilly, but reasonably calm.
Snow blankets the ground making all things sparkle and clean, quiet, and still.
It’s real weather. Something that I’ve missed from spending too much time in SF where the weather goes from rainy to non rainy during the winter months.

Other things?
I think I’ve been predjudiced or unreasonably terrified to some degree of what those “next stages” in life might mean for me. Something that’s been resonated to some degree by conversations I’ve had with USG and other friends. I guess I’m not the only one who considers with some trepidation, going into that “great fade” once a person does adult things like … getting married, buying a house, having kids, etc. I’d like to believe that adulthood development does not include a lobotomy. I’m always delighted when i meet or read folks who encourage that vibe still as well.

Smoocheritos

On Housekeeping & What not..

  • January 30, 2006 at 6:27 am

Happy Lunar New Year folks!

May your heart, life and home be filled with peace, laughter, and many blessings. And yeah, though the year is of the dog, I’m pretty sure it isn’t going to be as much of a bitch as last year.

In a bit of housecleaning this year I figured I’d ping you with a bit of an update.

#1. The CD that I’ve mentioned before is officially up and available for sale now.
Expect Jane, the partner in crime, to comment something about this soon.

And yes, we’ve finally gotten around to resurecting the website for the lable.
Yes it’s bare bones. More good stuff to come as we get around to it.
At the very least the cd’s will be available wherever yon you see yours trully or Jane in the bay. I promise from here on out i won’t travel anywhere with less than 3 of these on my bodily person. $15/piece. A bit more with shipping and handling if you insist but that can be accommodated. Stuff should be available on CDBaby and various other places soon enough as I’ve zipped off the cd’s last week. Wee!

#2. I’m getting ready for my next batch of travels.
Heading into michigan with digital camera (yes.. new) and mittens and hats and cowbell. Then as I mentioned before, a stint in Toronto, Chicago, and NYC.
Ping me if you want to meet up at any juncture. Times/schedules are finally in the solidifying process.

#3. Job hunting… well i’m plugging away at it. And have other various housekeeping things to manage about that as well. Bills, etc.. and all that responsible stuff. Medical care is forefront on my mind. I can’t believe that Cobra coverage is nearly $400 a month. Un-fricking-believable. Anyone canadian wanna marry me? Come*on* now.

#4. Jason. Why! Why must you curse me with memes!

Four Jobs I’ve Had:

1. Door to Door art sales
2. Borders Books – Retail
3. Santa Photo Shoot Manager
4. Product Marketing Manager par excelence!

Four Movies I Can Watch Over and Over:

1. Say Anything
2. Big Trouble in Little China
3. Breakfast Club
4. The Incredibles

Four Places I’ve Lived:

1. Seoul, Korea
2. Livonia, MI
3. Ann Arbor, MI
4. San Francisco, CA

Four TV Shows I Love to Watch:

1. Good Eats
2. CSI
3. Flavor of Love (Flavor Flav!)
4. Drawn Together

Four Places I’ve Been on Vacation:

1. Austin, TX
2. Maui,HI
3. New York, NY
4. Las Vegas, NV (hated this. oh ew. so fricking hated this)

Four of My Favorite Dishes:

1. Kimchi & Spam Fried Rice
2. Sushi
3. My dad’s Kalbi-jjim
4. Bacon Cheeseburger with garlic fries.

Four Websites I Visit Daily:

1. Bloglines
2. Flickr
3. Monster.com (well that’s been recently)
4. we-Boggle

Four Places I Would Rather Be Right Now:

1. Seoul,Korea — but when my friends are there
2. At a kickass job that I love
3. Giverny, France
4. Well.. I think I’m getting the rest of the places I’d rather be outta the way in th enext month.

Four bloggers who I’m tagging as “it”:

1. The roommate
2. The gay cruise boy. (Kidding!)
3. The gal with more cowbell than all ya’all
4. Miss Xxxtine whom I’ll be seeing this upcoming weekend.

Smooches.

Sign of the Times

  • November 16, 2005 at 1:18 pm

You know you’re not at a shoe-string startup or an overweight/beaurocratic corporation when you’re on the can.

I mean two-ply *and* quilted?!

My asscheeks swoon at such luxury.

New car.

  • October 7, 2005 at 5:06 pm

New car.

Originally uploaded by minjungkim.


Et Voila.

My new baby.


It’s the 2006 Saturn Ion Coupe

Nothing bad happened to my old car, just couldn’t resist the trade-in option that I was given.

I shall call this car Black Betty.

Most delightful feature so far?
The stereo.
6 CD Disc loader in dash included which will play regular and MP3 CDs with a randomizing option between all songs on a disc or over all disks.

Auxilliary sound jack add in for my IPOD.

20 Options for favorite stations which automatically can toggle between AM, FM, and XM.

Holy Shit batman.

How is it that I’ve never had XM radio before. The meta data (artist/title) displays for stuff off the RADIO.

My car is nerd-core.

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“I’m a Bitch!”

  • August 15, 2005 at 11:34 am



MJ!

Originally uploaded by bmindful.


You know, sometimes the captions just write themselves.

Fight the Power – SF – PSA

  • April 12, 2005 at 2:33 am

Subject: SF Garment Workers need your help

Subject: NOVA Knits Action 4/12

***Justice for NOVA Knits Workers!***

Join over 100 Immigrant Chinese Garment Workers to
Protest Exploitation of “Disposable Workers” by
Transnational Corporations

WHAT: Immigrant Worker Rally and March

WHEN: Tuesday, April 12th, 2005

TIME: 2:00 pm

PLACE: Union Square (March Starting Point) – ending at
645 Harrison Street between 2nd and 3rd Streets (NOVA
Knits Inc. Headquarters)

BACKGROUND: On Tuesday, April 12th, over a hundred
Chinese immigrant garment workers will demand justice
from NOVA Knits and other transnational garment
corporations. Last month, NOVA Knits, Inc, a San
Francisco based garment manufacturing company,
laid-off over 80 Chinese immigrant workers with merely
an hour notice and no severance. Many of these
workers have worked for NOVA Knits for over 20 years.
To transnational corporations like NOVA Knits,
low-wage immigrant workers are treated as “disposable”
resources to be used and abandoned at the whim of
their corporate bosses.

NOVA Knits is a key manufacturer for major labels such
as: the Gap & Banana Republic, Abercrombie and Fitch,
Liz Claiborne, Sears, Ann Taylor, Talbots, Tse
Cashmere, Abeille Ligne, and Ellen Tracy. NOVA Knits
Inc. has violated the WARN Act, which offers nominal
protection to workers, their families and communities
by requiring employers to provide notice 60 days in
advance of plant closings and mass layoffs.
Historically, as one of the largest knitting factories
in the nation, NOVA Knits has outsourced to factories
in China, Hong Kong, Mexico and Africa to exploit
lower labor and production costs. Since October 2004
the corporation has laid off a total of over 120
immigrant Chinese workers in San Francisco with no
notice or severance.

For more info, contact the Chinese Progressive
Association at (415) 391-6986 ext. 308.

Wow.

  • March 15, 2005 at 12:39 pm

I’m definitely my own social networking application and tracking tool at SXSW this year.

People know exactly where I’ve been and who I’ve met in TOTAL transparency which seems to be an ongoing theme for this week.

My smooches are everywhere.

EVERYWHERE.

And the pix are proof.