Argentina

No Chains, a collaborative project undertaken by the two worker cooperatives “20th of December” (La Alameda) in Argentina and “Dignity Returns” in Thailand, seeks artists, designers, and activists to assist in creating images for a global “sweat-free” brand of t-shirts to be launched on 1st of May, 2010. Five submissions will be chosen by the joint vote of both cooperatives in mid-March 2010 and produced as t-shirts that will be marketed to ethical consumers and distributed among unions, NGOs, labor activists as part of an international campaign to promote non-exploitative garment production, international labor solidarity, and sustainable workers’ self-management.

No Sweat supporters will remember the solidarity work our campaign has carried out in support of the workers at the occupied Zanon ceramics factory. Four years ago we ran a UK speaker tour with a worker from the factory. Now the workers have won a major fight over the legal status of their worker-run factory...

An urgent appeal for help from a Brazilian anti-sweatshop campaigners...

Zanon briefing: in their own words