Kalpona akter biography of christopher

When a friend invited me to a party with “some labour activists”  last fall, I did not imagine I would be spending my evening in the  company of a crew of supermodels at a swanky East Village penthouse.  Nor, for that matter, did I expect I’d be hanging out with Kalpona  Akter—one of Bangladesh’s leading garment worker organizers. Also  present were a handful of elderly New York Jews descended from the  survivors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, some members of the  International Labor Rights Forum and a vivacious hostess whose  connection to the event or anyone else there was unclear to me beyond  her repeated declarations that she simply loved both “good parties” and  “good causes”. This, however, was precisely the motley crew I discovered  as I stepped out of the elevator into one of the more bewildering  parties I’d been to in New York City.

Once all of the guests had been equipped with canapés and champagne, the lights were dimmed, the mingling subsided and a trailer for  a documentary directed by model and activist Sarah Ziff was screened.  Ziff had taken a trip to Bangladesh in 2013 to make a documentary about  the working conditions of garment labourers in the aftermath of the Rana Plaza disaster.  The trailer left unclear how much of the film was to be

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