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Oggetto: [cutcokecontracts] Students Against Sweatshop Conference! March -3-4th @ Cornell U.

***** please forward this email to any high school or college students who may be interested!****

United Students Against Sweatshops is an international student network campaigning with workers to improve working conditions on our campuses and in the workplace at home and abroad.  Students campaign on living wage, campus-union, sweat-free and ethical contracting campaigns in solidarity with workers and students everywhere to collectively strengthen workers and human rights. Students are using our collective power on our campuses to make corporations accountable to workers' demands and to stop the global rapid 'race to the bottom.'

USAS has over 200 affiliates in the US: Join!


Northeast United Students Against Sweatshops Conference!
March 3-4th
Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Register Online!
http://www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org//index.php?option=com_mosforms&Itemid=118
Unfortunately NO TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS are available due to lack of funds.

Free housing!  Register as soon as possible so we can make sure there is housing and food for your!
This is a-- bring your own sleeping bag/pillows/towels/ travel mug, warm jacket and snowboots just in case - conference.  USAS does crash housing on floors.

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Laura and Sarah Bender, Starbucks Unionizers (NYC) with the IWW
will speak about their unprecedented union campaign with the ever expanding Starbucks. Sarah Bender has been a Barista for 7 years.  Hired at Starbucks in fall 2004, she was fired in May '05 for union organizing; rehired in March '06 as a result of community support, direct action and a settlement between the National Labor Relations Board and Starbucks. Sarah has been a critical organizer of the mayday coalition which includes groups like Make the Road by Walking and the Million Worker March. Prior to the USAS conference Sarah will be in Ethiopia engaging farm workers with a message of solidarity from the Starbucks Workers Union & will return fired up towards building a Justice from Bean to Cup campaign and holding Starbucks accountable for its exploitation of Baristas and Farmworkers.  USAS will explore the connection between an aggressive onslaught of Starbucks onto our campuses and its ties to slave-like coffee production and workers' rights

Amit Srivastava, Coordinator of India Resources Center, Director of Global Resistance
India Resource Center works to support movements against corporate globalization in India, and educates and mobilizes key constituencies in the US and other countries to take action in support of campaigns in India. India Resource Center is a project of Global Resistance. An IRC goal is to ensure that those most impacted by globalization are engaged in and at the forefront of the movement against corporate globalization. Amit worked for CorpWatch prior to IRC, and was a Community Organizer with the Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA) in California. IRC is campaigning against Coca Cola for Indian farmers' and consumer health rights, water, land and environmental issues.


Ray Rogers, Director of Corporate Campaign Inc;
has been called one of labors "most innovative strategists," has worked on numerous labor campaigns and is currently working on the Stop Killer Coke campaign. For 25 years, Corporate Campaign has championed union and community solidarity and membership and family involvement in campaigns for social and economic justice.

Hevily Ambriz Espinoza
Hevily graduated from University of California (UCLA) with a degree in Chicana/o Studies and a minor in Labor and Workplace Studies.
As an undergrad, she was involved with Movimiento Estrudiantil Chicana/o de Aztlan (MEChA) as Community and Labor Coordinator and Internal Vice Chair. As Community and Labor Coordinator, she worked on campaigns with the United Farm Workers, AFSCME Local 3299, and the local LA organization.  As Internal Vice Chair, she worked with the campus student initiated student run outreach and retention centers to work on access to higher education for students of color.  Hevily now works for United Students Against
Sweatshops as the Domestic Campaigns Coordinator in Washington, DC. She does campaign coordiantion as well as student leadrship development and outreach for the organization.


The rest of the conference is geared to develop student leadership and skills to bring back to their respective campuses.

Agenda for Conference:
Northeast United Students Against Sweatshops Spring Regional Conference

Saturday, March 3^rd  2007

• 9:00am – 9:45am Breakfast
  USAS Intro USAS Overview and Campaigns
• 9:45-11:15am  Anti-Oppression & Break out Discussion
  
• 11:15am-12:45pm  Coca Cola: India Resources / Stop Killer Coke campaign Ray Roger and Amrit Srivastava
   Coke & USAS
  
• 12:45pm- 1:30pm  Lunch & SUNY Break Out onSweatFree Schools Network
• 1:30m-2:45          v                  Track 1:

Intro to nuts and bolts of USAS's 3 campaigns for new students
·       Ethical Contracting & Kick Coke Campaign
·       Campus-Community Solidarity Campaign
·       Sweat Free

v                  Track 2:
·       Starbucks Campaign
·       McDonald's, SFA &  Immokalee Workers

2:45pm-4:00pm

      v                  Track 1: 
Escalation & Strategizing time for groups with existing USAS campaigns
·       Ethical Contracting & Kick Coke Campaign:  
·       Right to Organize
·       Sweat Free
v                  Track 2:
·       Starbucks Campaign –
·       McDonald's,  SFA &  Immokalee Workers: Charlene & Cornell 

 

• 4:05pm – 5:30pm: Skill building workshops:   Using the Media, Fundraising 
• 5:30pm- 6:30pm    Screening of Garment Workers' Center Documentary
  

SUNDAY March 4^th
SKILL BUILDING & VISIONING

• 9:00am- 9:30am Breakfast
• 9:30am – 10:45am: Fundraising Skill building
                                Building your campaign each semester: Grow Chart Exercise
• 10:45am - 12:15pm: Healthy Groups: Recruitment, Retention and Group Dynamics
• 12:15pm – 1:30:   Group Go Around & Discussion: Direct Actions and actions, what worked/didn't for groups.
• 1:30pm – 2:45pm Lunch & Visioning Strategy Session:

Conference is over, go home and organize!

Questions?
Please contact:

Sally Kim
United Students Against Sweatshops
Northeast Regional Organizer
518.451.9469 (h)
518.364.2968 (c)  --accepts text messages
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