Sign up to the organising and discussion list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Weekly protests are continuing in Melbourne against Nike's rotten record on working conditions for its workers - now up to the 12th week in a row. Solidarity protests are now starting up across the country too. Nike - like many multinational textile companies - uses sweatshop labour to manufacture its shoes. Workers are employed on as little as 10-20c an hour throughout Asia, and here in Australia, outworkers (homeworkers) are employed on as little as $2 an hour! When workers in Mexico tried to set up an independant trade union, troops were sent in to stop their organising. But activists and workers across the globe continue to fight back. In Melbourne we have faced the Melbourne City Council's attempt to fine activists $500 for handing out leaflets, and police arresting, beating, snatching megaphones from peaceful protestors, as well as charging retreating picketers with besetting (blocking free access to a building). This has simply angered those campaigning against Nike, with unions joining our campaign and hundreds joining the weekly demonstrations. We will continue our protests against a world where massive exploitation and repression of workers is completely legal, and yet trying to stop these atrocities apparently is not. Melbourne 5pm Cnr Bourke and Swanston Streets Every Friday Followed by a brief organising meeting, followed by the pub. Over the coming weeks we are planning: Mass leaflet of a Carlton Football match, to inform members about their sponsor Mass half day protest on 3 August All day mass protest on 11 September, anniversery of the protests against the WEF. Lisa Farrell Socialist Alliance http://www.socialist-alliance.org Sign up to the organising and discussion list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===== Lisa Farrell Now's a good time to fight! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.workerspower.com -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
