US LIVING WAGE ACTIVISTS VISIT THE UK
No Sweat | 26.05.2006 10:33 | Education | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | London | South Coast
Brie Phillips and Diane Foglizzo from the US student Living Wage Action Coalition and the United Students Against Sweatshops campaign 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 noon).
Monday 29 May: 7.30pm, Lower Lecture Rm, Lincoln College, Oxford University.
Tuesday 30 May: 1pm, Council Chamber, Octagon, Sheffield University.
Tuesday 30 May: 6.30pm, PL005, Physics Building, York University.
Wednesday 31 May: 1pm in the Conference Room, ARC, Leeds University Union.
Wednesday 31 May: 6pm Fylde Lecture Theatre, Lancaster University campus.
Friday 2 June: 11am, 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
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 noon).
Monday 29 May: 7.30pm, Lower Lecture Rm, Lincoln College, Oxford University.
Tuesday 30 May: 1pm, Council Chamber, Octagon, Sheffield University.
Tuesday 30 May: 6.30pm, PL005, Physics Building, York University.
Wednesday 31 May: 1pm in the Conference Room, ARC, Leeds University Union.
Wednesday 31 May: 6pm Fylde Lecture Theatre, Lancaster University campus.
Friday 2 June: 11am, 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
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