War on Want - Fight supermarket power
Saturday 27 February 2010, 11:00-17:00
Faraday House, 48-51 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N
3AE
Join War on Want for an inspiring day of debate, discussion and
practical workshops on building local alternatives; workers
fighting back; stopping the sale of Israeli settlement produce; and
who controls our food.
Speakers include:
- Jack Dromey - deputy general secretary, Unite
- Alex Y. Kawakami - Landless Workers' Movement [MST]
(Brazil)
- Anton Marcus - joint secretary, Free Trade Zone & General
Services Employees Union [FTZ-GSEU] (Sri Lanka)
- Taysir Arabasi - Olive farmer & project director of Zaytoun
(Palestine)
- Professor Tim Lang - Professor of Food Policy, City
University
- Gay Brown - Tescopoly
- Joanne Crouch - anti-Agrexco activist
- John Hilary - executive director, War on Want
Supermarkets wield unprecedented power in today's world. In the UK,
they undermine communities and destroy local businesses. From
Bangladesh to South Africa, they exploit workers in sweatshops and
on plantations, trash the environment and profit from human rights
abuse in their pursuit of profit at any cost.
People are fighting back. Across the world communities are
standing up to supermarket power. This conference brings together
activists, trade unionists and experts from the UK and the global
South who are on the front line of the resistance to supermarket
power. Be inspired by the alternative models they are building. Be
part of the movement to take back power from these corporate
giants. (Note: the conference will be preceded by the War on Want
AGM).
To register for this free event, email supermarkets@waronwant.org
Find out more from the
War on Want website.
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