Starting Date: 05-06-2005
Ending Date: 05-08-2005
Auraria Campus
Tivoli Student Union
Denver, Colorado
United States
413-586-0974SweatFree Communities - A Network for Local Action Against Sweatshops
This is a great opportunity to network, build nuts and bolts
organizing skills, and discuss movement strategy with a wide variety of activists and local campaign organizers, including students, union organizers, and factory monitors. This conference is for both new and experienced sweatfree organizers. We very much encourage youth activists to come.
REGISTER BY APRIL 15 - DOWNLOAD THE FORM at http://www.sweatfree.org
Logistics details and the conference agenda are also available online.
Financial assistance for travel, registration, and lodging is
available on first-come basis.
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Presentations will include:
--Opening Plenary: Movement Successes and Strategy for the Future with
Scott Nova, Worker Rights Consortium; Maquila Solidarity Network;
SweatFree Communities; United Students Against Sweatshops
--Building Power and Winning Local Campaigns - hear about current
campaigns and the latest victories
--A public event featuring Chie Abad, a former Saipan garment worker;
Gilberto Garcia, Just Garments Union organizer; Maritza Paredes,
Honduran Independent Monitoring Team
Facilitated roundtable discussions will include:
--Building a Sweatfree Marketplace as a Movement Building Tool:
--Using Sweatfree Policies to Support Worker Organizing- Lessons from
the Gildan Campaign
Workshops will include:
--Sweatfree City and State Campaigns
--Sweatfree Schools Campaigns
--What's in a Sweatfree Purchasing Policy? What are exciting new
additions to policies?
--Next Steps in Implementation and Enforcement
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REGISTER INFORMATION at http://www.sweatfree.org
Logistics details and the conference agenda are also available online.
Financial assistance for travel, registration, and lodging is
available on first-come basis.
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