“Sweatshops, globalisation and international solidarity”
- a conference for activists

Saturday 23 November, 12.00 - 6.00
at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Thornaugh Street,
London
(Tubes: Russell Sq, Goodge Street, Euston)

Speakers include Mexican workers Josefina Hernandez Ponce and Gabriella
Cortes Cabrera from the Mexmode (formerly Kukdong) textile factory
unionisation battle.

The conference aims to bring together campaigns and campaigners from the
anti-sweatshop, protest and trade union movements to discuss, train and plan
activity using a mixture of speakers, films and practical workshops.

Other highlights include:
Activists speaking from the mass US campus campaign - United Students
Against Sweatshops, the GMB union, Simon Jones Campaign, Battersea and
Wandsworth Trades Council, Urban 75, Ethical Threads, Labour Behind The
Label, Corporate Watch, NUS President Mandy Telford, War on Want,
LabourStart...
Discussions on the politics of globalisation, strategy for anti-sweatshop
activists, Indonesia, beating the Chinese sweatshops, lessons of the No
Sweat-GMB drive against East End sweatshops, using the internet to
campaign....

Co-hosted with the Student Campaign Forum
Backed by SOAS Student Union

Tickets are £5 from No Sweat, PO Box 36707, London SW9 8YA

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Come to the European Social Forum with No Sweat
London-Florence

No Sweat coach tickets are £75 waged and £60 unwaged.
First come, first served.

The No Sweat coach leaves London at 8am on Wednesday 6 November, from
central London. We are returning from Florence on the morning of Sunday 10
November.
Buy your ticket by sending the correct money to: No Sweat, PO Box 36707,
London SW9 8YA. Cheques payable to "No Sweat"

More details: 07904 431 959

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No Sweat comedy benefit night, London

With Rob Newman, Jeremy Hardy and Andy Zaltzman
Hosted by Ivor Dembina
At the Red Rose Comedy Club
129 Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park, London

Doors open at 8.00, Tuesday 19 November

Tickets £10 and £7.50 in advance from:
No Sweat PO Box 36707, London SW9 8YA
Cheques to ‘No Sweat’

Proceeds to Indonesian union’s appeal and to the No Sweat Mexican workers
tour