> "Labor's Next Century: Alliances, Sweatshops and the Global South"
>
> An international conference at New York University on the future of
> post-Seattle alliances and organizing for social justice and workers'
> rights.
>
> SAVE THE DATE: April 7-8 at Judson Memorial Church, Washington Square
> South and Thompson Street
>
> Organized by the NYU Program in American Studies.
>
> Co-sponsors include: United Students against Sweatshops and the Workers
> Rights Consortium, the National Labor Committee, UNITE, UAW and the NYU
> Graduate Student Organizing Committee, People of Faith Network, United
> Steelworkers of America, Scholars, Artists and Writers for Social Justice,
> Local 3882-AFT, Global Exchange, the Harvard Trade Union Studies Program,
> New York State Labor-Religion Coalition, Massachusetts Interfaith
> Committee for Worker Justice, Direct Action Network at NYU, Students for
> Social Equality at NYU, DSA at NYU, Amnesty International at NYU, NYU
> Departments of History, Sociology, Anthropology, Institute for Law and
> Society, Africana Studies, Metropolitan Studies, Center for Gender and
> Sexuality, and Cinema Studies, Tamiment Library at NYU, Impact Visuals,
> and the Nation Institute
>
> PRE-CONFERENCE EVENTS, Thursday, April 6-Friday, April 7:
>
> Launch of the International "Worker Rights Consortium for the Enforcement
> of University Licensing Codes of Conduct"
>
> Meetings of United Students against Sweatshops (USAS)
>
> Northeast Regional Meeting of Students United for a Responsible Global
> Environment (SURGE)
>
> CONFERENCE PLENARIES:
>
> Friday, April 7, 4:00-8:00 p.m.--
>
> United Students against Sweatshops: Political Directions for the Student
> Movement
>
> Whose World Is It Anyway? A Nation Institute Roundtable with Economists,
> Environmentalists and Labor Leaders
>
> Saturday, April 8, 10:30 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
>
> Nike: A Case Study in International Strategies
>
> Hands Across/Off the Global South: Transnational Organizing, Fair Trade
> and the Living Wage
>
> A Domestic Front: The Shape of New Alliances and The Right to Organize
>
> WORKSHOPS:
>
> Policing the Sweatshop: Strategies for Achieving and Leveraging Disclosure
> Agreements
>
> Academic Labor and Campus Activism
>
> The Political Economy of Globalization: A Teach-In with Scholars, Artists
> and Writers for Social Justice
>
> Building a High School No Sweat Network
>
> For pre-registration: (212) 998-3721. Donations Suggested
> For more information, see NYU AmericanStudies
> website: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/program/amerstu/