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Subject: NORTH AMERICAN WORKER-TO-WORKER NETWORK (Upcoming Events)
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Topic 200       FREE TRADE LABOR EVENTS/NEWS/RESOU
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                    NORTH AMERICAN WORKER-TO-WORKER NETWORK
                              FREE TRADE MAILING
                              7435 Michigan Ave.
                               Detroit, MI 48210
                                [phone]

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: [phone].

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 [phone].

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: [phone].

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: [phone].

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: [phone].

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: [phone].

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: [phone].

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: [phone].

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: [phone].

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:
[phone].

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: [phone]/ Fax: [phone]/
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: [phone].

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:  [phone].

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: [phone] 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: [phone] or Cathy Walker
at the Canadian Auto Workers Union in Toronto, Ontario,
[phone].