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Life-sized dolls with signs about Worthy
Wages are a great means of public education.
For Worthy Wage Day one year,
campaign members took their “babies” in
strollers to Rittenhouse Square. Others in the park
were intrigued, and someone notified Channel
10, which came and gave the event excellent
coverage in the evening news.
Not only was the outing simple to
arrange and fun to do, it was extremely
effective in getting information out, and
could be replicated with ease anywhere.
At the Early Childhood Conference, we were
amazed at the power of life-sized toddler
dolls to communicate our messages about the
need for improved wages and working
conditions.
(“What two things are itsy bitsy in
child care?
A spider and a paycheck”
“My teacher can’t afford to get sick.
She has no health insurance.”).
Every single person
who passed by either slowed down to look, or
stopped and read the signs, or stood there
and discussed the signs with a companion.
We had never seen such attention to
our message
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