Word: coops
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Harvard Students Against Sweatshops (HSAS) protested Harvard’s labor-monitoring policies yesterday afternoon in front of The Coop, with eight students and one member’s brother raising a banner and passing out flyers...
Students attached the handmade banner, reading “Where’s the VERITAS in slave labor?” and depicting a crossed-out Nike swoosh, to a lantern and the Coop sign. One member held the sign in place while others gave 100 “Harvard-Nike: Just don’t do it” leaflets to passersby, urging them to call University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...Coop staff members came outside, and a Cambridge traffic police officer passed by without comment. The protesters decided not to wear “Harvard Living Wage Now” buttons, which many had brought with them...
Rather than shopping at the Coop, or Wordsworth Gifts, he turned to a more unconventional source—President Lawrence H. Summers...
...Nike submitted artwork designs as well as a list of products as part of its application process last summer, and the trademark office reserves the right to review and refuse designs they deem to be inappropriate for the trademark name. Nike will be selling its products directly to the Coop...