Film - Beneath the Din of the Sewing Machines

bristol | globalisation | event notice Friday July 04, 2008 09:28 by viral

7pm @ Kebele, 14 Robertson Road, Easton, Bristol

Join us for the regular Sunday vegan cafe from 6pm, followed by film screening and talk from 7pm.

Film: Beneath the Din of the Sewing Machines is a 30 minute film about women workers in the Bangalore garment industry and their struggle for better conditions and lives. The film will be introduced by Suhasini Singh, a researcher for the Bangalore based NGO Cividep.

Suhasini has been researching working conditions at garment factories supply UK companies including Tesco, Asda and M&S. She is in the UK on a 10 day speaker tour with Labour Behind the Label, highlighting the exploitation of workers producing for Tesco, M&S and Asda.

For more information see:
www.labourbehindthelabel.org
www.cividep.org

For more info on Tesco report see:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23500368...Tesco+'slave+labour'+row/article.do