The Week of Forestry Workers

During the The Week of Forestry Workers we want to attract public attention to the fraudulent practices present in the employment of migrant workers in Czech forests; express our support for the forestry workers' struggle to receive their unpaid wages; plead for faster investigations into allegations of fraud; and help to stop further exploitation of workers in Czech forests, workers who have been exploited by their employers for years and face further exploitation this year. The week is organised by the Initiative for the Rights of Migrant Workers and Initiative against Racism!

The Week of Forestry Workers takes place from March 21 to 27, 2011 and includes:

• The March for Forestry Workers (the week's main event)
  Sunday March 27 at 15:00
  In front of the Ministry of Agriculture
  Těšnov 17, Prague (closest metro Florenc)
• Debate and Screening
  A debate on the issue of forestry workers including a projection of a short video on the recruitment process (in Czech)
  Monday March 21 at 19:30
  Cross Club café, 2nd floor
  Plynární 23, Prague 7 (closest metro Nádraží Holešovice)
• Infopanels/exhibition
  Opening on Wednesday March 23 at 18:30; the exhibition closes on March 30
  In the National Technical Library (near the entry to the night study room)
  Technická 6, Prague 6

  For more information please go to: www.nerasismu.cz, and www.migraceonline.cz

  Selected pieces of news on the case in English:

  Czech State Forestry and Exploitation of Migrant Workers (originally published in the Czech bi-weekly Nový Prostor in January 2011)
  The Prague Post, Foreign workers exploited on state land

  Other pieces of news from Czech, Slovak, Romanian and other media available at: http://zapravamigrantu.cz/index.php/napsaliostromkarich