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Beating exploitation: No Sweat conference, Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 December

No Sweat! | 28.11.2007 15:47 | Globalisation | Workers' Movements | London | South Coast

The seventh annual No Sweat conference takes place this weekend in London.

"Beating big brand exploitation"
No Sweat Annual Gathering 2007

Two day conference with a social on Sunday night to raise money for No Sweat.
Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 December, Transport House (Transport and General Workers' Union HQ), Theobalds Road, Holborn, London WC1 (Holborn tube)

Weekend: £10/£5 concessions; one day £6/£3

Saturday

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
i) Trade union assassinations in Cambodia - the case of Chea Vichea; film & discussion with Kim Solberg, One World Action
ii) How corporations are killing the planet - Paul Hampton, Labour Research Department, and Aled Dilwyn Fisher, LSE Green students

3 High Street Campaigning street theater skills workshop for demo later in day with Mick Duncan, No Sweat, and Anna Wolmuth, People & Planet

3 - 4.15
i) Iraqi workers and 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
ii) China & the Olympics with Martn Hearson, Labour Behind the Label, and Neil Kearney, General Secretary, ITLGWF

4.15 - 5 Plenary - Working people fighting back - HIV/AIDS and the Drug Companies - Action Aid; Sister Yeukai Taruvinga, Free Zim Youth, Neil Kearney, General Secretary, ITLGWF

Saturday evening - Social: Babar Luck, Clayton Blizzard, Pj & Gaby, Neil
Sutherland, L Morgan. 7pm @ The Ivy House, Southampton Row, Entry - donations.


Sunday

11-11.15 Registration

11.15 - 12.30
i) Taking on water privatisation in India - Slides and talk with writer and activist Richard Whittle
ii) What's Wrong with our High Streets? With Martin Hearson, Labour Behind the Label & Anna Wolmuth, People & Planet

12.30 - 1.15 Lunch

1 2.45 - 2.30
i) Film - Black Gold; plus Adam Lincoln, Union Organiser and IWW activist on the campaign to organise Starbucks workers
ii) How our trade unions were formed - a Powerpoint history tour from Cathy Nugent

2.30 - 3.30
i) Student-worker solidarity - Claire Provost, Harvard Uni Living Wage activist; Liam Taylor, Oxford Living Wage Campaign; University of Sussex SU activists (invited)
ii) Using the No Sweat website
Plus - A guide to new users and an overhaul session for anyone with web skills

3.30-4pm Closing Plenary - Workers fighting Back - Fremantle careworkers striker and Axel, burger bar worker and student activist from Nanterre University, on the current student-worker struggles in France

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