NOW, NATIONAL RAINBOW COALITION, OPERATION PUSH ANNOUNCE ONGOING CAMPAIGN AGAINST MITSUBISHI

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NOW, NATIONAL RAINBOW COALITION, OPERATION PUSH ANNOUNCE ONGOING CAMPAIGN AGAINST MITSUBISHI

MONDAY, JULY 22, 1996

WHO:

NOW President Patricia Ireland
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, National Rainbow Coalition/Operation PUSH
June Brown, Operation PUSH director

WHAT: will hold a joint press conference

WHEN: Tuesday, July 23, 1996 at 11:00 am

WHERE: Operation PUSH, 930 East 50th Street, Chicago

WHY:

to announce continued strategy for ending sexual harassment and sex and race discrimination within Mitsubishi
to reveal results of recent trips to Japan by Rev. Jackson and by NOW Action Vice President Rosemary Dempsey
to address Mitsubishi's announcement of first steps for dealing with allegations of harassment and bias at its manufacturing plant and its dealershipsystem

"We will continue our public pressure campaign against Mitsubishi's management. They've said they will clean up their act in the future. But more than half of the women who filed harassment charges have been fired or forced off the job." Patricia Ireland said. "We won't stop until Mitsubishi stops retaliation and reaches just settlements with the 29 individual women and with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission."

Jackson met last week in Tokyo with representatives of Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, the parent corporation of the U.S. manufacturing and sales companies. Earlier, Dempsey, at the invitation of Japanese feminist and civil rights groups, led a demonstration against Mitsubishi at the company's annual shareholders meeting in Tokyo.

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