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No Sweat week of action, 11-18 February

11-18 February 2008 will be the third annual No Sweat campus week of action, with an anti-sweatshop speaker tour and meetings, actions and events in towns, universities and colleges across the country. Whether you want to organise a mass meeting or a mini-picket, a film showing, fashion show or anything else, please get active in or around the week of action!

Supersize My Pay - No Sweat speaker tour with activists from New Zealand and France:

In New Zealand, since 2005, thousands of mainly young fast food workers have waged an innovative campaign called Supersize My Pay. As part of the campaign, low-paid Starbucks workers organised in the Unite union (http://www.unite.org.nz) walked off the job and formed a picket line. They were joined by workers from other low-paying fastfood restaurants including KFC and Pizza Hut. And they won!

During the week of action, Michael Treen, Super-size My Pay activist with Unite, will tour the UK to talk about how they did it. (Details of meetings soon.) Mike will be joined for some meetings by Axel Persson, a young fast food worker and CGT union activist from Paris.
Mike is pretty much booked up now, but Axel should be free to do some extra meetings between Saturday 16 and Wednesday February. If you would like him to speak at your university, college, workplace etc, get in touch.

Monday 11th February lunchtime: Oxford University
1pm, Lecture Room 23, Balliol College, Broad Street, Oxford
Sponsored by Oxford No Sweat, Oxford Uni Living Wage Campaign and
Oxford Uni Labour Club
For more information ring Mike on 07711 808 435 or email
daniel.rawnsley@keble.ox.ac.uk
Evening: Brighton
7pm, Conference room (top floor, South Wing) Community Base, North
Road, Brighton
Organised by Brighton No Sweat
Ring Mark on 07811 347 486 or email marksandell1@yahoo.co.uk

Tuesday 12th February lunch time, University of East Anglia, Norwich
12-2pm, UEA Room 131
Sponsored by UEA Socialist Society
Email patyarker@aol.com
Tuesday evening: Cambridge University
7.30pm, Gateshead Room, Clare College, Cambridge
Sponsored by Cambridge University Education Not for Sale
Ring Richard on 07905 060 469

Wednesday 13th February lunchtime: Hull University
1pm, Wilberforce Building, Hull University
Ring Stephen on 07791240733 or email wideload.wood@gmail.com
Wednesday early evening: Nottingham University
5:30pm, room LG11, Trent Building, University Park Campus
Sponsored by Nottingham Uni Environmental and Social Justice campaign
Email Teodora at lqzytat@nottingham.ac.uk
Evening: 7.30pm, International Community Centre, Mansfield Road, Nottingham
Ring Tom on 07779 328 418 or email thomas.unterrainer@talk21.com

Thursday 14th February lunchtime: Sheffield GMB union
12.30-2.30pm, Sheffield GMB HQ, Thorne House, 188/190 Norfolk Street,
Sheffield
Ring Daniel on 07961 040 618 or email skillz_999@hotmail.com
Evening: 7:00-9:30, Lecture Theatre 1, Arts Tower, Sheffield University
Ring Louise on 07746 759 773 or email lougified@hotmail.com

Friday 15th February lunchtime: LSE
Ring Aled on 07817 588 923 or email a.d.fisher@lse.ac.uk
Friday 15th February evening: London reception sponsored by Battersea
and Wandsworth Trades Council.
6pm, the Bread & Roses, 68a Clapham Manor Street, London (Clapham
Common tube or Clapham High Street rail)
Food and drink will be available!
Ring Paul on 07984 356 110 or email paul@hampton1968.freeserve.co.uk

Saturday 16th February: 2.00 at ULU, Malet Street, Euston, London

Plus a separate tour with Axel Persson about organising young unorganised fast-food workers
Sunday 17th February: Durham Uni
7.30pm, Durham Union debating chambers, Palace Green
For more information email katherine.obrien@durham.ac.uk

Monday 18th February: Leeds
7.30pm, Swarthmore Centre, Woodhouse Square, Leeds
Ring Mike on 07814 896 517 or email mjw501@york.ac.uk

Tuesday 19th February evening: Glasgow
Sponsored by Glasgow University Socialist Society and organised by
activists from groups including the SSP/SSY, IWW, Iraq Union
Solidarity and Workers' Liberty
Email darcyleigh@gmail.com
What else you can do

We will be targeting Starbucks and other companies during the week of
action. More information on this site soon.

- Organise a meeting with a No Sweat speaker and film. We have a
variety of DVDs and are happy to send speakers.
- Organise a local picket of a Starbucks or other anti-union shop or
company. We can send you model leaflets, stickers etc.
- Organise a fundraising event like a benefit or anti-sweatshop fashion show.

For more ideas, to find out what's happening in your area, or to let
us know what you're doing - get in touch: admin@nosweat.org.uk / 07811
347 486

Attached below as downloads are leaflets for Mike Treen's Brighton and London meetings and a blank leaflet for local activists to add details of their own supersize-my-pay meetings; PLUS leaflets for use in pickets and other actions at Starbucks.