[sas-announce] No Sweat conference - only 5 days to go!

David Broder david_communist at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Nov 20 17:51:22 GMT 2006


Hi everyone...

For those of you who haven't got round to booking your tickets to No Sweat
conference yet (naughty, naughty), there's only 5 days left to do so.

It's being held at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), off
Russell Square, just south of Euston and Kings Cross, London, from 12.00 –
6.00 on Saturday 25 November.

Book online at www.nosweat.org.uk. It costs just £4 for all of this...

* WalMart + film + discussion about the behaviour of the supermarket chains.
With War On Want
* Debate on workers and Cuba, with the Cuba Solidarity Campaign and Paul
Hampton from No Sweat
* Jean production in China + film, 'China Blue'
* 'Homeworkers: The hidden workforce in global supply chains', plus film,
'Homework in China'. With National Group on Homeworking and HomeWorkers
Worldwide
* The Corporations and climate change with the Climate Change Campaign and
others
* WTO and the Doha suspension with the Bretton Woods Project and others
* Running urgent appeals over the web, email with Labour Behind the Label
and Eric Lee from LabourStart
* The new Iraqi unions + film clips
* Migrant workers in UK, rights and unionisation with activists from the RMT
and TGWU
* Living wage and ethical campaigning on UK campuses with speakers from
People and Planet, the Queen Mary L.W. campaign and Sofie Buckland from NUS
Plus John McDonnell MP and others in plenary sessions
* Creche (you need to register in advance); stalls
* Social on Saturday evening 7-midnight
* Activists' training day (11-3:30 at the T&G offices on Theobalds Road, nr
Holborn) on Sunday 26 November
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