Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Zack De la Rocha, lead singer for the rock-hop band Rage Against the Machine, walks into Ca'Brea, a small Italian restaurant in Los Angeles, with revolution on his mind. Dressed in a hooded red sweat top, his dreads tucked into a knit cap, he takes a seat at a corner table and exchanges what, for him, passes as small talk--how money is corrupting politics, the effect of advertising on the editorial content of magazines--before getting down to important issues. He thinks Subcomandante Marcos, leader of Mexico's Zapatista rebels, should be TIME...
McKean said No Sweat could have picked any of 20 companies to parody but chose Nike and the Gap because of their popularity on campus and the high visibility of their advertising...
During this protest fashion show, while music blared and models preened onstage, members of No Sweat--PSLM's anti-sweatshop campaign--passed out leaflets to the crowd...
...Sweat originally scheduled the show for last week but postponed it due to rain. Organizers say they hope to use this format again in the future...
...objective information, as the present FLA plan stands, each factory would be inspected once every ten years--ten lifetimes in today's economy. And, since inspections are pre-announced, factories owners will rest easy, knowing they can abuse women workers and bust unions for years and still enjoy valuable "sweat-free" certification from the U.S. government--and Harvard...