Events

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

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

'Iran on the brink' (Pluto Press) by Andreas Malm and Shora Esmalian is launched in Housman's Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road (Kings X tube)

The Central America Women’s Network (CAWN) has invited Nicaraguan women’s rights activists Gladys Urtecho Cuadra and Noemí Flores Rivas from the women’s organisation Movimiento de Mujeres Trabajadoras y Desempleadas ‘Maria Elena Cuadra’ (MEC) to the UK in March 2007.

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.

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

Union Chapel, Compton Ave, London N1 2XD
Tube: Highbury and Islington

With:
* Greg Muttitt from PLATFORM (author 'Crude Designs: The rip-off of Iraq's oil wealth')
* Ewa Jasiewicz from Naftana (UK Support Committee for the General Union of Oil Employees)

Supported by: Iraq Occupation Focus, Jubilee Iraq, Naftana, Platform, Voices UK and War on Want.

Solidarity without borders:
Asylum, immigration controls and migrant workers' rights

1-2pm Wednesday 28 March
Winter Gardens, Blackpool

National Uunion of Students conference fringe meeting, sponsored by: Education Not for Sale, No One is Illegal, No Sweat, Sukula Family Must Stay campaign

Speakers:
Alphonsus Uche Okafor-Mefor, asylum-seeker and activist recently rescued from deportation by trade union action
Flores Sukula, Sukula Family Must Stay campaign
Sam Azad, International Federation of Iranian refugees and Nottingham Refugee Rights centre