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...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...
...needs to change...it's not just a matter of little country versus big country or environmentalists versus capitalists--it's about democracy," said Harvard Law student and PSLM member Aaron D. Bartley...
...While PSLM spearheaded Harvard participation, students affiliated with the Environmental Action Committee and other activist groups also joined the protest...
...PSLM members said they saw the event as an important rallying point for the anti-sweatshop movement...
...directly relates to the sweatshop campaign, because the WTO doesn't take workers into account, with the general tendency to push the global economy to the lowest common denominator," said PSLM member Aron R. Fischer...