From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
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Subject: NORTH AMERICAN WORKER-TO-WORKER NETWORK (Upcoming Events)
Date: 30 Aug 92 04:55:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: mont.1992Aug30.045507.20470
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Topic 200       FREE TRADE LABOR EVENTS/NEWS/RESOU 
labornotes      apc.labour       9:13 am  Aug 28, 1992 
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                    NORTH AMERICAN WORKER-TO-WORKER NETWORK 
                              FREE TRADE MAILING 
                              7435 Michigan Ave. 
                               Detroit, MI 48210 
                                (313) 842-6262 

UPCOMING EVENTS 

September. "Leaving Home," a Labor Day Special on Free Trade by We 
Do the Work will be shown on PBS. Contact your local station for 
air time. 

September 9 AFL-CIO Trade Conference to focus on issues of NAFTA 
and the GATT. Organized by the AFL, Sierra, Friends of the Earth, 
Public Citizen, National Farmers Union. For more info, call: (202) 
637-5225. 

September 11  Press Conference and Rally 12:00 noon on front steps 
of Massachusetts State House organized by the Fair Trade Campaign, 
Jobs with Justice, The Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras, 
and the National Toxics Campaign. A hearing at the State House 
with U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills will be held at 9:30am. 


September 10-13  Rural Coalition 1992 Annual Assembly, "Fair Trade 
and Rural Communities: Our Land, Our Health, Our Environment, Our 
Jobs." Juarez, Mexico/El Paso, Texas. Explore free trade with 
Mexican farmers, professionals and representatives of social and 
political organizations. Sessions on issues of immigration and 
organizing. Full package $90. Contact Rural Coalition, PO Box 
53202, Washington, D.C. 20009. Tel: (202) 483-1500. 

September 15 "Free Trade, Economic Restructuring and Women" 
meeting with the Minnesota Fair Trade Coalition to give a brief on 
NAFTA and its impact on women; information on current women's 
trinational organizing efforts. 7pm at the Resource Center of the 
Americas, 317-17th Avenue SE, Minneapolis, MN or call Rebecca 
Roberts (612)644-5683. 

September 19-26 Fact-finding delegation to U.S.-Mexico border to 
meet with refugees, community and maquiladora organizers, human 
rights observers, environmentalists, and religious. Organized by 
the St. Louis Inter-Faith Committee on Latin America and the 
Washington University Gallery of Art. Registration by August 28. 
For more info, write or call: Border Delegation-IFCLA, 438 N. 
Skinker, St. Louis, MO  63130, tel: (314) 721-2977. 

September 24-27 the Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network is 
holding a conference "Building Just Relationships for the Next 500 
Years", including a plenary on the effect of free trade on culture 
and the economy in Suwanee, Georgia. The purpose of the conference 
is to strengthen already active regional networks. Participation 
is limited to southeast regional organizations. For more info: 
REJN, PO Box 240, Durham, NC  27702. Tel: (919) 683-1361. 

September 29 La Mujer Obrera/Woman Worker is organizing an 
International Day of Protest to demand workers' rights to stable, 
decent jobs; healthy communities and workplaces; and to be treated 
with dignity and respect. Theme of protest- FTA: A Disaster 
Waiting to Happen. Sponsor a protest action on that day in your 
community.  Please sign and return the enclosed petition. For 
educational materials contact La Mujer Obrera, c/o Centro Obrero, 
Inc., PO Box 3975, El Paso, TX 79923. Tel: (915) 533-9710. 

September-October California Fair Trade Caravan to mobilize 
support for broad fair trade resolutions. Teamsters, the Fair 
Trade Campaign, and the AFL-CIO are organizing protest actions and 
press statements in cities where U.S. workers were displaced when 
their jobs moved to Mexico. Rallies in San Francisco, L.A., and 
San Diego. For more info. contact: Matt Witt, IBT, 25 Louisiana 
Ave., NW, Washington, DC, 20001. Tel: (202) 624-6911. 

September/October La Fuerza Unida/United Force of displaced Levis 
workers from San Antonio is organizing a tour to Albuquerque, San 
Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz/Watsonville, San 
Francisco, Madison, Chicago, New York, Providence (RI), Boston, 
Washington D.C., St. Paul, and Detroit. Sponsored by Fuerza Unida, 
U.S. Student Association, and Unity newspaper. Contact: La Fuerza 
Unida, PO Box 830083, San Antonio, TX  78283-0083. Tel: (512) 299- 
2666. 

October 3 Debriefing: What the NAFTA agreement means for labor, 
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Seattle. 
Contact: Edward L. Pecotte, IBEW Local 46, 2700 First Avenue, 
Seattle, WA  98121. Tel: (206) 876-6444. 

October Conference on Free Trade in Ithaca, New York. Contact Jim 
Rundle, 607-255-1505 for info. 

October 15-18  Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras Meeting 
and workshop in Matamoros/Brownsville. Contact: CJM, 3120 W. 
Ashby, San Antonio, TX  78228. Tel: (512) 732-8957. 

November North American Worker-to-Worker Network (NAWWN) Tour to 
Irapuato, Mexico. Join displaced Green Giant workers of 
Watsonville, CA, other unionists, and community-labor activists in 
showing your support for worker-to-worker alliances with the Green 
Giant workers of Irapuato, Mexico. Tour will focus on making GG 
keep its promise to build a water treatment facility in Irapuato, 
and provide laid off U.S. workers retraining. Contact: NAWWN c/o 
IBT 912, 163 West Lake Avenue, Watsonville, CA  95076. 

November 5-7 Tour of Bay Area sweatshop and low-wage assembly 
plants sites organized by the Bay Area/Border Exchange Project. 
Also Winter '93 Border to Bay delegation: Women from US/Mex border 
will visit Bay Area industries, meet and strategize with area 
workers, organizers, churches and community groups. Spring '94 Bay 
to Border delegation to visit maquiladora zone around El Paso and 
Nogales. Meetings to reflect and strategize with local labor, 
church and community groups. Contact Sydney Brown, NCIC, 464 19th, 
Oakland, CA 94612. Tel: (510) 835-9631/(415) 857-0870. 

November 13-15 Garment Homeworkers Conference to be held in 
Toronto, Canada with participants from the U.S., Mexico, Canada, 
Guatemala, and the Caribbean. Organized by the ILGWU-Canada and 
the Public Service Alliance of Canada. Will look at the changing 
role of womens' garment work, rise in homework, and need to 
develop on- going research and action. For more info, contact 
Lynda Yanz, 606 Shaw St., Toronto, Ontario, M6G 3L6, CANADA. Tel: 
(416) 532-8584. 

November 12-15 Tri-national Youth Conference: Impact of free trade 
on youth and the economy. High school and college students from 
Canada, U.S. and Mexico are invited to discuss free trade and 
actions. Guadalajara, Mexico. Contact J. Burger/ Amie Weinburg, 
INSTEAD, PO Box 13208, Minneapolis, MN 55414. Tel: (612) 
379-3905. 

November/December Regional student conferences of INSTEAD 
(International Student Trade, Environment and Development 
Program).  November conference in San Francisco; December-Chicago. 
Focus on building alliances among regional student organizations 
and organizing around international development issues such as the 
GATT, NAFTA, and the Enterprise of the Americas Initiative. 
Contact J. Burger, INSTEAD, PO Box 13208, Dinkytown Station, 
Minneapolis, MN  55414. Tel: (612) 379-3905/ Fax: (612) 379-5982/ 
E-Mail via EcoNet: instead. 

December 4-6  Labortech 92 Conference to address international 
communication by computer (electronic mail) among labor. 
Registration by November 1, $85. Scholarships available. For more 
info. contact: LABORTECH, PO Box 425584, San Francisco, CA 94142. 
Tel: (415) 442-0220. 

January/Feb/or March 1993, Tri-national Auto Parts Workers 
Conference organized by Transnationals Information Exchange in 
conjunction with Canadian, U.S., and Mexican auto workers. For 
more info, contact TIE, 7435 Michigan Ave., Detroit, MI  48210. 
Tel:  (313) 842-6262. 

January 29-31, 1993 Tri-national conference on effects of NAFTA on 
public education. Organized by The Evergreen State College Labor 
Center in conjunction with the B.C. Federation of Teachers, SNTE, 
CILAS (Mexico), Washington Education Association, among others. 
For more info, contact Dan Leahy, TESC Labor Center, Olympia, WA 
98505. Tel: (206) 866-6000 Ext. 6525. 

May 27-29, 1993 Tri-national Health and Safety Conference 
organized by Women and Work in Burnaby, Vancouver, B.C. The 
conference will focus on health and safety issues in the workplace 
and community with representatives from Mexico, U.S., and Canada. 
For further information, contact Women and Work, 4340 Carson St., 
Burnaby, B.C.  V5J 2X9 CANADA. Tel: (604) 430-0458 or Cathy Walker 
at the Canadian Auto Workers Union in Toronto, Ontario, 
(416)495-6558. 
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