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Mexican Workers among speakers at No Sweat Conference Sat Nov 23

Mick | 16.11.2002 17:33

The Conference will bring together campaigners for a mix of speakers, workshops, films, practical training... Come along, it's only a fiver (less if you are at school / really skint).

VAGUE AGENDA FOR NO SWEAT CONFERENCE:
Opening session
+ FIGHTING SWEATSHOPS AROUND THE WORLD - Josefina
Hernandez Ponce, a worker at the MexMode (formerly KukDong) factory, and a member of the independent union, SITEMEX, and Gabriela Cortés Cabrera from the local workers’ centre, CAT & Paul Kenny GMB London.
+ GATS AND EDUCATION - Ole Erdmann (Koln Univeristy – Education is ot for Sale Network); Glenn Rikowski (noted education campaigner), People and Planet(session organised by the Student Campaign Forum)

Sessions 2
+ AMERICA AGAINST SWEATSHOPS - Laura Muir USAS activist and Alan Johnson
+ LATIN AMERICA UPDATE - Mexican speakers plus Marta Hinestroza, the lawyer acting on behalf of the victims of the BP pipleine in Colombia.
+ ORGANISING IN THE UK - GMB London on the East end sweatshops campaign and Julia Bindman from the sex workers union.
+ GLOBALISATION AND OUR RESPONSE - Debate - Penny Kemp, Green Party; Martin Thomas, Socialist Alliance exec.
+ WOMEN & HOMEWORKERS - Labour Behind the Label and Homenet

Sessions 3
+ AFTER THE ESF - Simon Jones campaign, Benjamin Geer ATTAC, No Sweat, Corporate Watch
+ WAR IN IRAQ - Iranian and Iraqi socialists; Out Against the War; SOAS Stop the War Group(session organised by the Student Campaign Forum)
+ INDONESIA UPDATE - Celia Mather, War on Want / TAPOL; No Sweat & Indonesian Student
+ HOW TO BEAT THE SWEATSHOP BOSSES – discussion - Jane Turner from the Central American Women’s Network (CAWN) & No Sweat (covering union labour mark, boycotts, direct action, solidarity, consumer politics, Doc martens, union delegation to Mexico...)


Closing session
Faz Velmi, NUS exec, War on Want, No Sweat, Firefighter

Plus films, internet training & more...

Mick
- e-mail: mick@nosweat.org.uk
- Homepage: www.nosweat.org.uk