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nike naked greed and other london anti-sweatshop stuff

No Sweat | 20.08.2002 13:08

We've produced some six foot by two foot posters on "nike: naked greed" to subvertise Nike's latest ad billboards, and done some stickers on the same theme. Also details of latest anti-sweatshop activity in London.

New campaign materials from No Sweat...

1. Sheets of stickers 'No to Nike naked greed'
2. Six foot by two foot posters on the same theme
3. A2 posters for college, trade union notice boards etc, with space
for your own meeting details

To order: email  admin@nosweat.org.uk or phone 07904 431 959

Or why not mail us and send a donation to cover our costs (to PO
Box 36707, London SW9 8YA; cheques to 'No Sweat' please)!

We can also send speakers to meetings to discuss how Nike (and
similar companies) operate...

Also: watch out for our actions at Nike's 'Fun Run', Sunday 22
September, Richmond Park, London (to get involved email  slondon@nosweat.org.uk )
The latest campaign details and debate etc. can always be found at  http://www.nosweat.org.uk

A few reports and a couple of things coming up plus a message from
Indonesian strikers:

Come Join the Nike 10k Fun Run:
If you live in the London, you may have noticed all the big yellow Nike
posters appearing all over the smoke challenging cab drivers and pizza
delivery boys to Just Do It - run int he Nike fun run (you may also have
noticed some giant No to Nike Naked Greed posters appearing on them).
Well we have a challenge of our own for Nike - pay decent wages, ensure
safe, healthy working conditions and insist on free trade unions being
organised in facotries you use - go on, Just Do It!
If you want to help us out, come along to Richmond Park on Sep 22. We
think it willl be a lot of fun. There wil be plenty of preparation work
going on so get in touch to volunteer.

SW London Games Day:
SW London No Sweat are running a games day on Sep 1 from 12 noon - 5pm
at Clapham Common, next to the Windmill pub. Give em a quid or more if
you can afford it and bring suitable games implements. There will be
football, softball etc plus cheap food and drinks available - all
proceeds to the Indonesian Workers Solidarity campaign.
More info from  slondon@nosweat.org.uk

Volunteers Days:
We want to make Thursdays volunteers days. basically we can't cope with
the amount of work we have - organising for our forthcoming conference
on Nov 23 in London, sorting out getting people to Florence and running
a meeting at the Europen Social Forum there, replying to enquiries,
organising protests.....
If you can make it to South London on a Thursday email
 admin@nosweat.org.uk and volunteer yourself.

No Sweat Football Pix available / Indonesia Campaign Latest:
Anyone who helped raise approximately 900 pounds for No Sweat and the
Indonesian FNPBI union at the 5 a side tournament at Fulham the other
week can see embarrassing photos of themselves at:
 http://4glengate.net/modules/Gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album09

We also have some other hard copies if you are that desperate.
Along with this, 80 quid was raised at the Active Slaughter, Left for
Dead... gig in Tottenham last week and nearly 400 raised after the
Commonwealth Games demo in Manchester. Helen raised a hundred odd by
running an unhealthy sounding distance and a couple of union branches in
London voted to send 50 pounds each recently. This takes the total to
over 4 thousand pounds now. An accurate fuigure will be up on the
website soon. There is also a messge that was pasted up there a few
weeks ago giving an idea of what this money can buy - it really is going
to make a huge difference to their ability to organise and publicise
their work.
Big thanks to all the bands, comedians, unions, football clubs,
activists who have given their time for free and got those cash tins
rattling.

Nike and Price Waterhouse Coopers Pickets:
No Sweat joined the GMB London Region and raided Niketown dressed as the
fashion police, complete with a judge who found the bastards guilty as
charged. Nike didn't like it much but we enjoyed ourselves. We even
cracked the bourgeois media with an interview on BBC London Radio and a
piccy in the Guardian. The New York Times even came to say howdy.
Just three days later we were outside PWC, who have been cutting staff
wages and handing out bosses bonuses - sound familiar? They also advise
the government and councils on privatisation schemes, always recomending
flogging the services off and often turning up on the consortia that get
the deal! When they're not doing that they are monitoring codes of
conduct for Nike and others. Doing such a fine job that workers
continue to be forced to work overtime, still get paid poverty wages,
are subject to sexual abuse and get attacked if they try to form a
union.
omplete with our very own Artful Dodger we sang "You've gotta pick a
pocket or two" and warned passers by that corporate pickpockets were
operating in the area. You can check the story out in publications
including the Morning Star and Accountancy Weekly!

Message from Indonesia:
Dear Friends........
We are employees of PT PINDO DELI PULP & PAPER MILLS,
Karawang, West Java Indonesia. The company is a subsidiary
of a pulp and paper producers owned by SINAR MAS GROUP
owned by Eka Tjipta Widjaja, one of the biggest
conglomerates in Indonesia who got a lot of incentives from
Soeharto regimes. The market of the products are around the
world (America, Australia, Europe, Middle East and Asia)
and it is coordinated by Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) Group. APP
is the fourth biggest pulp and paper producers in the world
in terms of its capacity. For further information of the
company, please refer to its website www.asiapulppaper.com.

We would like to take this opportunity to inform you of the
following:
1. The employees of the company did not get enough
protection of their rights and welfare during the life of
the company of almost 23 years. There were no labor union
which protect employees that the management exploited the
employee.

(the rest of this letter can be read at  http://www.nosweat.org.uk )
...
best wishes and happy campaigning
No Sweat, PO Box 36707, London SW9 8YA. 07904 431 959.
www.nosweat.org.uk  admin@nosweat.org.uk

No Sweat
- e-mail: admin@nosweat.org.uk
- Homepage: http://www.nosweat.org.uk

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