Word: niketown
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dozen members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) joined representatives from about 20 schools, braving intermittent freezing rain to demonstrate for nearly four hours in front of the Gap and Niketown--stores which PSLM members said sell clothing produced under poor labor conditions...
...antiglobalization activists who came of age at the World Trade Organization conference in Seattle see government as neither the problem nor the solution. They carried signs saying END CORPORATE RULE. And the masked hoodlums who turned the city into a battleground didn't trash government offices; they went after Niketown, Starbucks and the Gap. The labor-environmental coalition that stymied the WTO wants powerful global organizations that will punish companies that exploit workers and pollute the countryside. Ask them what they want Congress to do, and you'll get a puzzled look. For them, Congress is pretty much beside...