NO SWEAT LONDON CONFERENCE

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1 Saturday Agenda

2 Social Saturday Night

3 Sunday Agenda

4 Tickets & More Info

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1 Saturday Agenda

11.30-11.45 Registration

11.45 - 12.15 *Film: Underground Londoners* - a year in the lives and struggles of cleaners on the London Underground introduced by director Dagmar Diesner

12.15-12.45 Plenary - *Organising Migrant Workers* - panel discussion with Joana Lucyszyn from the GMB & a city of London Justice for Cleaners / Unite activist

12.45 - 1.30 Lunch

1.30 - 2.45:

1 *Trade Union Assassinations in Cambodia* - the case of Chea Vichea; Film & Discussion with:Kim Solberg, One World Action

2 *How Corporations are Killing the planet* - Paul Hampton, Labour Research Dept & Aled Dilwyn Fisher, LSE3 *High Street Campaigning *- skills workshop for demo later in day with Mick Duncan and Anna Wolmuth, People & Planet2.45-3

Break3 - 4.15:

1 *Iraqi Workers & the Corporate Invasion* - Film the Shock Doctrine by Alfonso Guaron plus Question Time with John Sack, author of A Beginner's Guide to Iraqi Oil & Dashti Jamal, Federation of Workers Councils & Unions in Iraq

2 *China & the Olympics* - with Martin Hearson, Labour Behind the Label & Neil Kearney, General Secretary, ITGLWF4.15 - 5 Plenary - *Working People Fighting Back* - HIV/AIDS and the Drug Companies - Action Aid (tbc); Zimbabwe - Sister Yeukai Taruvinga, Free Zim Youth; Neil Kearney, General Secretary, ITGLWF.**

2 Social Saturday Night*Babar Luck*, Clayton Blizzard, *Pj & Gaby*, Neil Sutherland, *L Morgan*. 7pm @ The Ivy House, Southampton Row, Holborn. Entry - Donations.The Ivy House is 2 minutes walk from the Gathering.**

3 Sunday Agenda

11-11.15 Registration11.15 - 12.30: 1 *Taking on Water Privatisation in India* - Slides and talk with writer & activist Richard Whittle2 *What's Wrong with our High Streets?* With Martin Hearson, Labour Behind the Label & Anna Wolmuth, People & Planet

12.30 - 1.15 Lunch

1.15- 2.30:

1 *Film - Black Gold*; plus Adam, union organiser and IWW activist on the campaign to organise Starbucks workers (NB: this session will run into the break)

2 *How Our Trade Unions Were Formed* - a Powerpoint history tour from Cathy Nugent

2.30 - 3.30

1 EXTRA SESSION - *Students & Solidarity* - Claire Provost, Harvard Uni Living Wage Hunger Striker; Liam Taylor, Oxford Living Wage Campaign

2 Plus - *Using the No Sweat website* - A guide to new users and an overhaul session for anyone with web skills

3.30-4pm Closing Plenary - *Fighting Back* - Freemantle striker (tbc) and Axel, burger bar worker & student activist from Nanterre University, France

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*4 Tickets & More Info

** Buy your tickets now* at http://www.nosweat.org.uk/product - £10 both days (£5 concessions) or £6 for one day (£3 concessions). Tickets are available on the door.

** To download a flier* visit:http://www.nosweat.org.uk/node/607

** Leaflets available* now. Get in touch if you want a bundle.

* *The Gathering takes place THIS WEEKEND, at Unite the Union, Theobalds Rd, Holborn, London WC1X 8TN*.

Map at: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&channel=s&tab=wl&q= <http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&channel=s&tab=wl&q=>* *Stalls* - there will be stalls from No Sweat, Kiptik, War on Want, Labour Behind the Label, Black Gold, Education Not For Sale; Food....* *Crash accommodation* is available. bring a sleeping bag.* *Crèche - Urgent Information* - the crèche worker has fallen ill. If you need a crèche place please call immediately so we can make new arrangements.

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GAP using Child labour - email them now!

From Plot Tracer

Again the capitalist system is shown to use the most vulnerable people in order to squeeze as much profits as possible for the few -

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7066019.stm )

Register your disgust at the use of child labour - and GAP's decided solution - the destruction of the clothing in question. With millions of children living in poverty - and over 35000 children in the relatively small city of Glasgow receiving school uniform grants (google YOUR area for poverty statistics).

This is what I sent to GAP and other organisations involved with the company, and the BBC and UK paper, the Observer (who have broken the story).

SLLU ACTION!

EMAIL GAP - THEIR EMAIL ADDRESSES ARE HERE:
http://www.gap.com/customerService/

and these people are an org they are heavily involved with (forward your email to them as well) -

http://www.sa-intl.org/


Main agencies in UK running the story -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/feedback/default.stm
letters@observer.co.uk

Look up others in your area.

Statistics about poverty in your area should be easy enough to find on the net.

This is my email, if you want to use it, go ahead, but reword it.

Sir,

Although disgusted at the breakdown of the manufacturing chain that has led to the news that Gap had inadvertently been using child labour, I fear that GAP are about to do something even worse. In today's BBC news the report ended saying GAP were going to destroy the clothing involved. This, in a country were there are millions of children growing up in poverty (in Glasgow alone there are over 35000 children who get school uniform grants every year and 1/4 of Scotlands children are being brought up in what the European community term as poverty conditions - and this figure is roughly the same throughout the UK rising to 1/3 in cities like Glasgow).

A better use of the clothing that has been proven to have included children in the manufacturing process would be for GAP to give the pieces over to as charity like the Child Poverty Action Group (http://www.cpag.org.uk/) to distribute. This would not only give much needed clothing to the people who need it most, but it would go some way to show that GAP is serious about its commitment to Community Investment (http://www.gapinc.com/public/SocialResponsibility/sr_community.shtml ).


Yours etc

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