Events

« May 13, 2007 - June 12, 2007 »

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05 / 14 Women's rights in Iraq forum, London Start: 17:30 End: 20:00 Nadje Al-Ali anthropologist, women's rights activist and author of 'Iraqi Women' in conversation with Natasha Walter Author and Columnist, The Guardian Time/Date: 5:30-8pm, Monday 14 May 2007 Venue: SOAS, Khalili Theatre (nearest tube Russell Square) Introduction by Deniz Kandiyoti, SOAS more info
05 / 15 Hands Off Iraqi Oil: Shell AGM, London Start: 08:30 End: 12:00 Join the Hands Off Iraqi Oil Protest at Shell's Annual General Meeting Tuesday 15 May 2007 8.30am - 12 noon Novotel London-West Hotel and Convention Centre, 1 Shortlands, Hammersmith, London W6 8DR (Nearest tube - Hammersmith) more info Bolivian activist speaks, Bristol Start: 19:00 End: 21:30 Juan Carlos Condori, a representative from Achacachi Bolivia will be in the UK on Monday 14th, and leaves on Thursday 17th evening. Achacachi is the capital city of the Aymara world, in Omasuyos, La Paz, Bolivia. The legendary Q'alachaca Indigenous Headquarters is located in Omasuyos, where the Aymara receive military training and plan their mobilizations.The Aymara method of warfare is nothing new, but has existed for millennia. more info
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05 / 19 Regularisation for all migrant workers! London meeting Start: 11:00 End: 16:00 Saturday 19 May, 11.00 - 4.00 South Bank University more info
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05 / 21 The supermarket chains and sweatshop exploitation, London Sweat London forum Start: 19:30 End: 21:00 No Sweat London discussion forum: The supermarket chains and sweatshop exploitation Speaker: Jenny Ricks from ActionAid Other discussion: on the G8;the unionisation of Starbucks 7.30, Monday 21 May at the Plough pub. Museum Street, central London (tubes: Tottenham Ct Rd, Holborn) More info: admin@nosweat.org.uk Or: 07804 891082 No Sweat: campaigning against sweatshop and child labour www.nosweat.org.uk more info
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05 / 24 'How the working class went global', London Start: 13:00 HOW THE WORKING CLASS WENT GLOBAL Venue: RSA, 8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ Time: Thursday 24 May, 1-2pm Chinese factory workers, Bolivian miners and Somali office-cleaners in Canary Wharf – globalisation has created a whole new working class, and they are reliving stories that were first played out a century ago. What might the new working classes of the global age learn from organised labour movements of the first industrial revolution? In a world of multi-nationals, global capital and triumphant consumerism, can the bonds of worker solidarity survive? more info
05 / 25 Socialist feminist reading group, London Start: 19:00 End: 20:00 Our first meeting will at 7.30pm, on Friday 25th May, in the upstairs room of the Plough, on Museum Street, WC1A 1LH (nearest tube: Tottenham Court Road). We will be discussing the lessons that can be learnt from the German socialist women's movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The reading can be found at http://www.workersliberty.org/taxonomy/term/456 (the summarised version is entitled "German socialism and the 'women question'"). Future discussions will be on a wide variety of topics. more info
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05 / 29 Olympic sites: r+f building workers' meeting, London Start: 19:00 End: 21:00 UK Rank & File Building Workers Committee Can we trust union officials to get a good deal for us on Olympic sites? Why not get organised ourselves We demand: * 35 hour week * £20 per hour for all workers * Direct employment * Elected stewards and safety reps Organising meeting at Cock Tavern, Chalton Street, Euston 7pm, May 29 All building workers and rank and file trade unionists welcome Contact 07749 517074 more info
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06 / 4 Cambodian Worker Actvists Speak Start: 19:00 End: 20:30 Athit Kong, Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union & Pherak Ly, Womens Agenda for Change will be speaking at a meeting organised by Labour Behind the Label and No Sweat. Monday June 4 at Transport House (Unite / TGWU), Theobalds Rd, Holborn, Central London at 7pm. more info
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06 / 7 Starbucks workers' union, London Start: 19:30 End: 21:00 Two short films from New York IWW member Diane Krauthamer: - Together we win - Union busting in Starbucks Organised by the IWW 6.30 for food; 7.30 meeting starts at the Bread and Roses, 68 Clapham Manor Street, London SW4 Info: 07882 972754 www.starbucksunion.org more info
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06 / 12 Review of the G8 - their meeting, our protests. London Start: 19:30 End: 21:00 Speakers: No Sweat supporters report back from the protests; Paul Hampton (Labour Research, personal cap.) discusses what the G8 decided to do Crown Pub, New Oxford Street/Bloomsbury Way (Tubes: Holborn, Tottenham Ct Rd) A London No Sweat Forum more info