Solidarity Factory

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Solidarity Factory

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Dignity Returns เมื่อคนงาน “กู้ศักดิ์ศรีความเป็ นคน” คืนมา

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This is the world that is still not quite a women world !

ASEAN

POWER GAME

MALE DOMINATED policy decisions

Capitalist CONTROL of development Exclusive corporate strategies Non-stop Human Right’s violations

Public intervention FORBIDDEN ZERO participation of poor people

SUPPRESSION of Freedom of Association Huge gap between RICH and poor

INDUSTRIALISATION by EXPLOITATION of people’s rights & cheap labour

A S E A N To da y

Patterns for Change: Labour Rights in the Garment Industry

Catch me if you can!

Horizontal approach – equality, respect, solidarity Mobilization

Going beyond dialogue

Local action

Global solidarity

Grass-root movements, trade unions, civic society, int’ NGOs, funding agencies, etc.

Diversity

Rights

self-determination

Natural resources

Environmental rights

Self subsistence

Eco-systems

Human rights

Food

Peoples & tribes

Labour rights

Land

Cultures

Women rights

Water

Political systems

Children’s rights

Forest

Life-styles

Participatory democracy

Coast

Beliefs Religions LGBT, etc.

 Social welfare and security etc.

 etc.

Asian -People

FOA, FOM Rights based approach

- unions -Movements -Effected people

Visions Strategies issues Asian - NGOs -Unions -Movement

demands Facilitating They said gov’t must do….

Inter gov’t ASEAN Gov’t

Subcontract

Lin Tech Textile

B Kennet A

Top line

Penny

Bed & Bath

  Sub Bangkok 

Sub Bangkok

Sub Mae Sod

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Sub Bangkok

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Sub Korat Sub Lam Pang

PRODUCTION CHAIN IN THE NEO-

Sub Bangkok

When cats become tigresses and tigers

Minister for Labour surrounded by

In order to have their voice heard! • 300 workers occupied Minister of Labour for 3 months. • A woman worker jump from the fence to stop Minister car, 200 surrounded the car in order to talk to the Minister to take care of their problem. • To earn an income for the fight, their start their subcontract and making clothes at the MOL ground. • 4 women 3 men shave their head to protest of inefficient of the MOL and announce hunger strike. • They win the case – changing the law, getting compensation, start their “Solidarity Group Factory” to produce ethical clothes, • But the Thai authority still cannot arrest the employer

Minister of Labour ground floor became their home for 3 months!

It is legitimate fight, though we

They receive d many visitors from local and internati onal

No one is forgotten, conducting spiritual ceremonies to hold everyone heart together!

Rally to ILO, UN, Brands office, Gov’t house

They walked many kilometers to make their problem heard!

Start factory in the MOL building, to earn money for the demonstr ation!

Solidarity Group Factory! • Factory by workers, for workers and of workers. • promote workers’ brand “Dignity Returns”

We are the union, no contract – no peace!

We have many other more choices

We can go back to farm, if we have to.

We can start our own factory, it is getting easier!

Workers’ brand is possible!

Solidarity Factory

Organic economy: lesson learned from Thailand

ORGANIC FOOD FOR THE WORLD BIODIVERSITY

PEOPLE’S DEMOCRACY GENDER EQUALITY

Land reforms

Pro-Poor policies Freedom of Assembly Social welfare ASEAN Cross-Cultural Institute

Cross-cultural education

SOLIDARITY

Subsidies for organic farming

Future ASEAN

ASEAN International Women’s Day 2011

Gender education

DEMOCRATISATION

Su Mai Su (Will we Fight? Su Su