Events

« February 10, 2007 - March 12, 2007 »

02 / 10 No Sweat Huddersfield Benefit (all day) Start: 05/02/2007 - 9:19pm End: 11/02/2007 - 11:19pm Benefit Featuring: Tracey Curtis / Bar the Shouting; Speakers; Information stalls... @ Bar 1 Twenty, Huddersfield. 120 New Street, Castlegate. Sunday 11th February 2007 Doors : 8pm Â£4 entry more info Solidarity with Migrants: shut these detention centres! Start: 11:30 End: 14:00 Protest to demand the closure of Harmondsworth and Colnbrook detention centres. Bus from London departs from ULU, Malet Street at 10 am. Tickets Â£6. Organised by No Borders 020 7247 0712 more info London benefit gig for Iraqi unions Start: 21:00 Start: 10/02/2007 - 9:00pm End: 11/02/2007 - 2:00am IRAQI FEDERATION OF OIL UNIONS BENEFIT GIG @ THE VORTEX OCCUPIED SOCIAL CENTRE CHURCH STREET, STOKE NEWINGTON 9pm - 2am Saturday 10th February Live bands on the night > > Known [superheavy power trio.. the sound of imminent dooom] > > Excentral the Tempest & New Cross Philharmonic [live instrumental hip hop spreadin' words of wisdom] > > Yellow Fish [you've never heard a guitar sound like this before] > > +DJ Dark with quality ragga more info
02 / 11 No Sweat Huddersfield Benefit End: 23:19 Start: 05/02/2007 - 9:19pm End: 11/02/2007 - 11:19pm Benefit Featuring: Tracey Curtis / Bar the Shouting; Speakers; Information stalls... @ Bar 1 Twenty, Huddersfield. 120 New Street, Castlegate. Sunday 11th February 2007 Doors : 8pm Â£4 entry more info London benefit gig for Iraqi unions End: 02:00 Start: 10/02/2007 - 9:00pm End: 11/02/2007 - 2:00am IRAQI FEDERATION OF OIL UNIONS BENEFIT GIG @ THE VORTEX OCCUPIED SOCIAL CENTRE CHURCH STREET, STOKE NEWINGTON 9pm - 2am Saturday 10th February Live bands on the night > > Known [superheavy power trio.. the sound of imminent dooom] > > Excentral the Tempest & New Cross Philharmonic [live instrumental hip hop spreadin' words of wisdom] > > Yellow Fish [you've never heard a guitar sound like this before] > > +DJ Dark with quality ragga more info
02 / 12
02 / 13
02 / 14 Burberry protest, central London Start: 17:00 End: 18:00 Valentine's Day protest against Burberry's plan to move production from a unionised plant in south Wales to Chinese sweatshops. Join us at Burberry's, 157 Regent Street (Oxford Circus tube) in central London. On 14 February protests will take place across the world against Burberry (see Home Page for main story). more info
02 / 15
02 / 16
02 / 17
02 / 18 Leafleting for Chinese workers' rights, London Start: 11:00 End: 13:00 Leafleting with No Sweat for Chinese workers' rights at the Chinese New Year celebrations in London. Meet 11am, on Sunday 18th February at Edith Cavell memorial, opposite National Portrait Gallery at the bottom of Charing Cross Road. more info
02 / 19
02 / 20 Oaxaca: No Sweat extra meeting Start: 19:30 End: 21:30 Last week, Mexican activist Andreas Aullet toured the country with No Sweat, with meetings in Brighton, Norwich, Cambridge, Nottingham, York, Manchester, Sheffield and London to dicuss the massive workers' and popular struggle which recently took place in Oaxaca. We are pleased to announce that Andreas is staying in the UK a few more days and will be speaking at Ruskin College in Oxford more info
02 / 21 Film show: BLUE COLLAR: south London Start: 19:30 End: 23:00 BLUE COLLAR, directed by Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver). Detroit autoworkers living at the mercy of a heartless corporation and a corrupt union, decide to rob the union safe and open a dangerous can of worms. Weds 21 Feb at 7.30 for food and 8pm for film. At the Cafe Crema 306 New Cross Road, SE15 more info
02 / 22
02 / 23 Alabama 3 Benefit for No Sweat. Start: 20:00 Start: 23/02/2007 - 8:00pm End: 24/02/2007 - 5:00am Alabama 3 benefit for No Sweat. Friday February 23, the Jamm, Brixton, London. 8pm-5am. Â£6. Buy your ticket, here, now! more info
02 / 24 Alabama 3 Benefit for No Sweat. End: 05:00 Start: 23/02/2007 - 8:00pm End: 24/02/2007 - 5:00am Alabama 3 benefit for No Sweat. Friday February 23, the Jamm, Brixton, London. 8pm-5am. Â£6. Buy your ticket, here, now! more info
02 / 25
02 / 26
02 / 27
02 / 28 Supersized supermarkets: a Global dilemma, London Start: 19:00 End: 21:30 Speakers: Tony Juniper (FoE), Mireya Rodriguez (Costa Rican banana workers' union), Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Stacey Mitchell (US WalMart campaigner) At the Emmanuel Centre, 9-23 Marsham Street, Westminster more info
03 / 1 Trade Union Freedom Bill, House of Commons Start: 19:00 End: 20:30 United Campaign rally for the Trade Union Freedom Bill sponsored by John McDonnell at the House of Commons on Thursday 1st March at 7pm. This is the evening before the Bill is due to be debated, though it is highly unlikely to be reached Speakers include John McDonnell, John Hendy, Tony Woodley, Billy Hayes, Bob Crow, Matt Wrack, Christine Blower, Roger Kline and Tony Benn more info
03 / 2
03 / 3
03 / 4
03 / 5
03 / 6 Book launch: Iran, war and workers' struggle Start: 18:30 End: 20:30 'Iran on the brink' (Pluto Press) by Andreas Malm and Shora Esmalian is launched in Housman's Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road (Kings X tube) more info
03 / 7
03 / 8 Nicaraguan anti-sweatshop activist, Manchester Start: 17:30 End: 19:30 The Central America Womenâ€™s Network (CAWN) has invited Nicaraguan womenâ€™s rights activists Gladys Urtecho Cuadra and NoemÃ Flores Rivas from the womenâ€™s organisation Movimiento de Mujeres Trabajadoras y Desempleadas â€˜Maria Elena Cuadraâ€™ (MEC) to the UK in March 2007. more info
03 / 9
03 / 10 BRISTOL LATIN AMERICAN FORUM 2007 Start: 11:00 End: 18:00 Themed around social and cultural changes in Latin America, the LAF is a vibrant day event with workshops, plenaries, discussion, music, film, and food by Kebele. It also includes a related evening event with Cuban hip hop artists and a 16 piece salsa band. more info Starbucks protest against union busting, London Start: 12:00 End: 14:00 Next Starbucks Picket Sat 10 March 12 noon at Cutty Sark Greenwich Here is text of the leaflet we have produced for this. SOLIDARITY WITH VICTIMISED STARBUCKS WORKERS FIVE STARBUCKS WORKERS SACKED FOR FORMING A UNION more info
03 / 11
03 / 12