No Sweat news in brief
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- South West London No Sweat
- New video available from Banana Link
South West London No Sweat
- Meeting: Monday 2 August, 7.30pm, BWTUC centre, 898 Garratt Lane, Tooting, SW17. "Solidarity with Iraqi workers'.
'No Sweat' events
No Sweat news In brief
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Fair Trade Fashion
Comic book
Fair Trade Fashion
Over 100 people packed into Durham Town Hall on Friday 18 June for the latest Fair Trade Fashion Show. The event was organised by Durham University anti-sweat shop campaign, an activist group which works to raise awareness of the realities of sweatshops and support alternatives.
Meetings and events
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Steering group, public meetings and march coming up....
No Sweat's steering group meets on Saturday 15 May, 12-4, central London. 07904 431 959 for more details.
South East London: Play Fair in the Olympics! Sportswear and sweatshops
Teachers' union affiliates to No Sweat
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By Liam Conway and Pat Yarker
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has become the fifth national union to affiliate to No Sweat.
A motion passed at the union's annual conference, held in Harrogate, includes comprehensive policy against sweatshop labour and an action plan for campaigning.
Support for No Sweat grows
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Support for No Sweat continues to grow around the country...
Lecturers
The university lecturers' union, the AUT, passed policy on sweatshops and in support of the No Sweat campaign at its recent conference.
The emerging trade union movement in Iraq
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London 7.30 Tuesday 9 March
at The Dogstar, Brixton (corner of Coldharbour Lane and Atlantic Road)
Organised by No Sweat
North London 'No Sweat' launch
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A meeting on Thursday 18 March will launch a new North London 'No Sweat' campaigning group.
The meeting will hear Ewa Jasiewicz report on her nine-month visit to Iraq, and will decide on plans to step up local anti-sweatshop campaigning.
You can read more about it below, and you can view and download a PDF leaflet for the event here.
International women's day, 8 March. Don't take the Mickey!
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By Mick Duncan
Anti-sweatshop activists are targeting Disney to mark International Women' Day on 8 March. Women' Day is a chance to show solidarity with women workers across the world -and what better way than to highlight the plight of many tens of thousands of women workers who slave for Mickey Mouse?
Ban the brands from our schools!
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By Peter Burton, Edinburgh No Sweat
In the last year Edinburgh City Council has let the sweatshop manufacturer Adidas use our schools to promote their brand name.
Some of us don't appreciate our children being influenced in this way and we don't like sweatshop employers, guilty of routinely paying poverty wages (sometime to children), passing themselves off as people whose first concern is a person's welfare.
No Sweat actions
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- London Chinatown New Year celebrations
- Valentine's Day - Solidarity with Mexican workers
- Dayschool Leicester
London Chinatown New Year celebrations
Petitioning for the Liaoyang Two