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No Sweat Gathering 2004

Mick | 04.11.2004 19:29 | Globalisation | Social Struggles

The agenda will be available online shortly but the sessions will include: Alice Nutter from Chumbawamba; The makers of the film The Corporation; Morris from the McLibel Two and The Maria Elena Cuadra Women's Movement (MEC), that organises women in the garments, informal, unemployed and other sectors in Nicaragua...

No Sweat Gathering 2004

Sat 4- Dec 5, Uni of London Union.

Saturday 4 December

Alice Nutter from Chumbawamba;
The makers of the film The Corporation discuss Corporate power and responsibility;
Dave Morris from the McLibel Two and Abdel Mabrouki from Stop Precarite (France) on taking on McWorld;
Houzan Mahmood from the Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq on solidarity with Iraqi workers and women;
Colombia Solidarity Campaign on the Trans National Corporations and the death squads in Latin America;
The Maria Elena Cuadra Women's Movement (MEC), that organises women in the garments, informal, unemployed and other sectors in Nicaragua;
Jabez Lam from Min Quan and immigrant worker activists from Canary Wharf and London's fast food sector on organising migrant workers;
US anti-sweatshop activist Lew Church on the USAS experience;
James Lloyd, Secretary of the National Union of Students;
Films...

Saturday night comedy fundraiser.

Sunday 5 training sessions will include:

Prop making;
Successful street theatre;
Cyber campaigning;
Campaigning on campus;
Direct action techniques;
Getting a local group going...

We will use the skills learned to plan campaigning activity for the coming year, with others, including GMB London, Labour Behind the Label and the National Group on Homeworking.

Please get in touch if you could use more leaflets / posters or other publicity.

Mick
- e-mail: admin@nosweat.org.uk
- Homepage: http://www.nosweat.org.uk