US student Living Wage activists visit UK
David Broder | 16.05.2006 18:13 | Education | Workers' Movements | London | South Coast
Student activists in the USA, who have fought for a living wage for campus workers and other low-paid workers, are going to tour the UK at the end of the month.
Brie Phillips and Diane Foglizzo from the US student Living Wage Action Coalition are visiting the UK at the end of May and start of June. They will be touring UK campuses with No Sweat.
Diane was a student activist at Georgetown University, and was an organiser and hunger-striker during the Georgetown Living Wage campaign.
Brie was active in organising around farmworker rights with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the Student/Farmworker Alliance through the victorious Taco Bell Boycott. She was the US national co-ordinator for the Student/Farmworker Alliance
Saturday 27 May: Falmer House, Sussex University, at the Education Not for Sale conference (afternoon, from 12.00)
Monday 29 May: 7.30, Lower Lecture Rm, Lincoln College, Oxford University
Tuesday 30 May: 1.00, Council Chamber, Octagon, Sheffield University
Tuesday 30 May: 6.30, PL005, Physics Building, York Uni
Wednesday 31 May: 1.00 in the conference room, ARC, Leeds Uni Union
Wednesday 31 May: 6.00 Fylde Lecture Theatre, Lancaster Uni campus
Friday 2 June: 11.00, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 28 Russell Square, central London (Russell Sq tube) with speakers from the LSE and Queen Mary’s Living Wage campaigns
More details about this tour: email
admin@nosweat.org.uk
Diane was a student activist at Georgetown University, and was an organiser and hunger-striker during the Georgetown Living Wage campaign.
Brie was active in organising around farmworker rights with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the Student/Farmworker Alliance through the victorious Taco Bell Boycott. She was the US national co-ordinator for the Student/Farmworker Alliance
Saturday 27 May: Falmer House, Sussex University, at the Education Not for Sale conference (afternoon, from 12.00)
Monday 29 May: 7.30, Lower Lecture Rm, Lincoln College, Oxford University
Tuesday 30 May: 1.00, Council Chamber, Octagon, Sheffield University
Tuesday 30 May: 6.30, PL005, Physics Building, York Uni
Wednesday 31 May: 1.00 in the conference room, ARC, Leeds Uni Union
Wednesday 31 May: 6.00 Fylde Lecture Theatre, Lancaster Uni campus
Friday 2 June: 11.00, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 28 Russell Square, central London (Russell Sq tube) with speakers from the LSE and Queen Mary’s Living Wage campaigns
More details about this tour: email
admin@nosweat.org.uk
David Broder
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