anti-sweatshop latest
No Sweat | 22.10.2002 13:09
Pickets, conference, speaker tour, comedy benefit:
the latest from the anti-sweatshop campaign No Sweat
the latest from the anti-sweatshop campaign No Sweat
“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
- 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
++
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
No Sweat
e-mail:
admin@nosweat.org.uk
Homepage:
http://www.nosweat.org.uk
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and i forgot this: east END sweatshops campai
22.10.2002 13:15
that No Sweat and the GMB have identified in Tower Hamlets.
The plan is to picket either Star Tailor on New Road or Ambidex on Mile End Road. The reason we have a choice is because the GMB
is in communication with Arcadia, the company that owns retailers Top Shop and sources goods for its Top Shop stores from Star
Tailor. Other recent communication between the union and Arcadia has resulted in a significant improvement in conditions at another
Tower Hamlets sweatshop.
If positive news re Star Tailor reaches the union before Friday then the picket will focus on Ambidex, whose manager has already said
to me on a previous picket, "They join the union, they get the sack." Nice bloke!
matt
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