Building a SweatFree World

We are planning to do a workshop to provide education about the global anti-sweatshop movement, and provide an example of one way the North and South (churches in particular) can work together on a global justice issue. Included in the goals are educating about how the current regime of globalization (neoliberal) harms workers in both the South and the North. We will also cover the global anti-sweatshop movement as one illustration of a way to address this problem. One goal is to bring together producers (South) and consumers (North) in building alternatives to the sweatshop economy.

Participants in workshop:

• People working on labor rights in the South (probably Bangladesh, Cambodia, Pakistan and Latin America, including Puerto Rico) – 2 people

• Church people from South who are (whose denominations are) working on these issues – hopefully already coming to the WARC General Council so we don’t have to pay their expenses – 2 people. Could be working on garment issues, or more generally on sweatshops or other global economic justice concerns.

• Church people (at least one) from US and/or Canada who are working on this

• Someone to give the big picture

So we are looking for church people/leaders you might know in Mexico, Honduras, Haiti, Bangladesh or Pakistan, ideally since these are places that our research has focused on (or if not, in other countries of Latin America) that could talk about how they are working with workers on these issues of workers rights, conditions and fair compensation?