Word: hsas
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...Harvard Islamic Society (HIS) and the Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Arab Students (HSAS) co-sponsored the protest, joining the Islamic Society of New England, the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB) and groups from throughout the region...
...Harvard Students Against Sweatshops (HSAS), a campaign of the Progressive Students Labor Movement, believes Harvard made a serious mistake when it signed with the attractively misnamed Fair Labor Association (FLA) rather than the Workers' Rights Consortium (WRC). The WRC is a third-party industry monitoring group with no ties to the industries it investigates while the FLA's governing board is dominated by these industries. Harvard's decision to sign with the FLA suggests that, while Harvard has formally committed in principle to fight sweatshop production of apparel and other insignia goods, it has not yet effectively embraced this commitment...
Last year, a Crimson poll showed that two-thirds of the students supported the HSAS's efforts, and just a few weeks ago, the Undergraduate Council passed a resolution recommending the administration switch from the FLA to the WRC by a huge majority. Clearly, as has been suggested in the past, the HSAS does not represent just a small fraction of students. The students deserve to be not only heard, but to have a vote when it comes to making sweatshop policy decisions. More to the point, Harvard should switch from...