CLEANING UP FASHION, OPEN MEETING

THE GREENHOUSE // ST. ANDREW STREET // DUBLIN 2

MAY 25TH 2010 8PM - 9.30 PM

The Clean Clothes Campaign is an alliance of organisations in 13 European countries who are dedicated to improving working conditions and supporting workers in the global garment industry.The CLEANING UP FASHION open meeting is the next step in the establishment of an Irish CCC.
 
The event will introduce the work of the Clean Clothes Campaign while paying tribute on the evening to Neil Kearney (General Secretary of the International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers Federation) a tireless campaigner for labour rights in the textile industry, who unexpectedly died while on mission in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Race to the Bottom, a documentary which Neil starred in and which reveals the scandals at the heart of the global textile industry will be played on the evening preceeded by words from Sam Maher of the CCC international , Sally Anne Kinahan of ICTU and Silvanan Cappucio of the ITGLWF.

For more information on the Clean Clothes Campaign see here -  http://www.cleanclothes.org/