Days until the Living Wages Hunger Strike begins: 16
Days until the hunger strike ends: Strike ends when Camden Yards stops paying cleaners a poverty wage

Immediately afterWednesday's hunger strike announcementthe eleven workers who will strike started on the Step Up for Living Wages Tour.  The tour started at St. John's in Mt Pleasant with a lunch and planning session put on by the striker health and well being committtee.  We then headed to St Paul's by the Sea in Ocean City for retreat and planning.  Today we visited Harriet Tubman's region of birth and met with state leaders and policy makers.

Tomorrow workers will protest outside of the Maryland Stadium Authority convention center in Ocean City.

Strikers meet with health and well-being coordinator Iris to talk about health issues relating to hunger striking.

What's in a job title?  In the past week two reporters have written stories that included me as an example of Americans moving to Canada.  In both I am a 34-year old "labour organizer."  But that is not what I told either, and it is not what I wrote in my follow up brief to either and it is not my job description.  Sure, I organize labour, but I am first and foremost a "human rights organizer." I work with human rights organizations, that are part of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign. We focus on human rights for a reason, and call ourselves and our groups human rights organizations for the same reason. So what's in a name, and why does it matter so much that reporters get this right?

Today the Balitmore Sun reported on the struggle for living wages at Camden Yards:

For three years, the group representing workers who clean up plastic cups, peanut shells, spilled beer and hot dogs at Oriole Park at Camden Yards has been fighting for higher wages and better working conditions.