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...thought I'd narrow the scope a bit: What would we put in a Harvard time capsule? Provided the University still exists in 1000 years--although there is a good chance that it won't--what kind of snapshot can we offer about undergraduate life at one of America's premiere educational institutions...
...answer is this: The kind of trade promoted by the World Trade Organization (WTO) locks these workers into sweatshops. Fifty thousand people protested the WTO meeting in Seattle because the WTO is an astonishing consolidation of corporate power. It has the power to override and do away with any labor, human rights and environmental standards with any democratic notions and with any transparency or responsibility that interferes with corporate profits. The rise of global sweatshops is just one effect of the rise of corporate power and of its globalizing reach. The WTO's kind of trade--trade that pretends...
...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 an appendage of corporate America into a weapon against globalization without representation--the WTO's brand of trade. Because the sweatshirts, baseball caps and T-shirts that bear our schools' names are made in sweatshops across the globe, we can fight international injustice where we live, and bring attention...
...fulfilled that campaign promise when he co-sponsored the Massachusetts Low Income Housing Credit and helped get it included into the state budget--the first credit of its kind in 10 years...
...kind of thought, 'Hey, there's some education to be had here,' and TAP paid for it," Fernald says...