UK

No Sweat is supporting the strikes to defend public sector pensions in the UK on 30 November. Find an action near you: http://falseeconomy.org.uk/nov30/uk/all/t1

People & Planet are holding a protest today (Tuesday 1 Nov) outside the Greater London Authority, to support garment workers in their supply chains

Monday 19 September is the day set for Basildon council to evict Traveller families from Dale Farm. You can still help support the Travellers - go down to Dale Farm if you can - see advice below. Or donate money if you can't go...

The situation at Dale Farm is becoming desperate, if you can go to Dale Farm then please do. The electricity is being cut off on Monday and the bailiffs are starting to set up a perimeter around the site. Details: http://dalefarm.wordpress.com/tag/save-dale-farm/

If you can't go due to work or other commitments then please support this solidarity action in London on Thursday 15 September...

UPDATED: There are some pictures taken at the protest here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/11722019@N03/sets/72157627558475249/

Campaigners defending Dale Farm have learned that the date for eviction is probably Monday 19 September. Read on for more details of the next steps in the campaign...

Ethical Consumer magazine has published a report on some of the big companies bidding for contracts to run public services. It finds that companies including Capita, KPMG and Serco have subsidiaries in places usually used to minimise tax bills. Extracts reproduced below... (The Crapita logo used to accompany this story was No Sweat's choice.)

'Without ye, we are hopeless, ye are our power' - young Gypsy woman

Last weekend I visited the Camp Constant activists at Dale farm on the eve of their eviction from the site.

Dale Farm residents are calling on supporters to join them outside the Royal Courts of Justice, in the Strand, London, at 12 noon on Wednesday 31 August.

Evictions of traveller families living at Dale Farm near Basildon could begin as early as 31 August. Here are details of a long weekend of preparations by supporters to prevent the evictions...

Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis backs campaign for workers' rights, saying "The only sweat we want to see at the 2012 London Olympics should come from the athletes."

Basildon council in Essex is gearing up to spend £8 million evicting Traveller families from their homes at Dale Farm. Policing this operation will cost another £10 million. Campaigners are organising a march against the eviction on Saturday 10 September... or sooner if the evictions start sooner.

No Sweat attended the Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival 2011...

Minutes, No Sweat steering, Monday 6 June 2011

Attending: David, Neil, Karen, Vicki, Vino
Apologies: Aine

1. Comedy gig: half the tickets sold with a month to go so it looks good. We haven't paid a lot for advertising either. Discuss arrangements for the night at the next meeting.

2. Festivals:
London Green Fair was useful for networking and checking our stock, but it was wet and we made a small loss. The Saturday with nice weather was busier!

"The Fortnum and Mason arrests are a serious curtailment of the right to protest and must be challenged" - http://fortnum145.org/

I was in Hyde Park doing my usual run, just thinking about my cheap labour project and feeling frustrated about the lack of support. And then I saw Vivienne Westwood!

Following a large demonstration against the suspension of the Sussex 6, hundreds of students have staged a snap occupation in defiance of management and the state, following the granting of a High Court injunction banning ‘occupational protest.’

Dundee University students braved the cold today to strip off as part of an international campaign against sweatshops.
The students were taking part in the Buy Right Campaign, which proclaims, “We’d rather go naked than wear sweatshop clothes.”

http://defendsussex.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/occupation-statement-1/

We have occupied the top floor of Bramber House, University of Sussex, Brighton. There are 106 of us.

The decision to occupy has been taken after weeks of concerted campaigning during which the university management have repeatedly failed to take away the threat of compulsory redundancies and course cuts.

We recognise that an attack on education workers is an attack on us.

A Poem no less! By Daniel Henshaw:

Every Little Hurts

You set your sights on our small shops
And they become your prey.
You ate our local butcher whole
When you appeared that day.