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...rally began outside of the Science Center where HSAS members asked passersby to sign balloons urging Harvard to leave the FLA and improve the monitoring of the factories that produce Harvard apparel...
About 30 students protested Harvard's membership in the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a consortium founded by companies like Nike and L.L. Bean to monitor working conditions in foreign apparel factories...
With the Oct. 10 release of a report on its manufacturing conditions, Harvard finally admitted to what most of us already knew: Harvard apparel is produced in sweatshops. Sweatshops are manufacturing plants where workers are paid very little and human rights are regularly violated. In this particular report, monitors found that workers are routinely and unknowingly exposed to carcinogens, forced to work unpaid hours and often end up working 50 to 80 hours a week in order to feed themselves and their families. Child labor is common, as are forced abortions to keep women working. As in the United States...
Last Tuesday, the U.S. Army chief of staff announced that all troops will soon don black berets, replacing the current green hat which folds flat and is often termed an "envelope" cap. The apparel overhaul comes in response to declining recruit numbers and withering morale within the Army. Not only is this change ineffective and impractical, but also insane. They've looked for a solution and come up with berets. I'm still hoping that they haven't realized what berets actually look like...
Licensees participating in the process include Champion and Gear for Sports, the two largest suppliers of Harvard apparel, as well as Adidas-Salomon, Jansport, Nike and others...