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So why is a man working to improve the lives of the people of El Salvador attacked by his own government and media as a traitor? If even the El Salvadoran government recognizes that a person receiving the legal minimum wage lives in "extreme poverty," why are sweatshops permitted to...
When corporations can shirk their responsibilities, and can cut and run to the cheapest workforce, nations become desperate to retain the jobs they can, whatever the social cost. For these workers, "free trade" is anything but that. They are denied their freedoms--freedoms of speech and of association--and denied...
Are these workers protectionists? Are they against trade? Of course not.
But they know the kind of trade advertised as "free trade" comes at a tremendous price. And it is not the corporations who will pay. For the past two years, the Progressive Student Labor Movement's (PSLM) anti-sweatshop campaign has fought to turn Harvard and its apparel licensing from...
Students cannot accept a world where people our age are denied an education because they must work for pennies, without clean air, without clean water and without their rights. No trade is worth that.