Word: sweatshops
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...that they “make their own costumes, sewn together with appliqués from the Garment District.” “There’s a dance aspect, and there’s a small business aspect,” Laskowska says.“Sweatshop element,” Chang interjects, giggling. Pringle recalls an incident at nationals, at which dancers from New York University who had $40 per day stipends from their school, actually bought food for the Harvard dancers. “We looked hungry, I guess,” Pringle says...
Labor activists staged a “teach-in” targeting Harvard’s ties to the Coca-Cola Company at Boylston Hall last night, with an anti-sweatshop organizer leading dozens of students and workers in a chant proclaiming, “Cherry, Diet, or Vanilla, Coca-Cola is a killa.” Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) sponsored the event as part of its spring “Right To Organize” campaign, which—in addition to its anti-Coke component—also targets AlliedBarton Security Services...
...There are dangers here for Democrats. There is the temptation of demagoguery. Foreigners are the fattest of targets-Dubai sheiks, robotic Chinese sweatshop workers, illegal immigrants from Mexico-and many Americans want to kiss them all goodbye. There is also the possibility of severe economic consequences if foreign-owned companies are suddenly made unwelcome in key sectors of the U.S. market. Asians and Arabs hold an awful lot of U.S. dollars, and if they can't spend them on property in the U.S., they will surely make their investments elsewhere, taking with them jobs and opportunities that would have come...
From 1998 to 2003, students also lobbied the University to ensure that Harvard apparel wasn’t manufactured under sweatshop conditions...
...always forget you're Japanese." But once at Oregon's Reed College, where more than 10% of the students were Asian American, she began to embrace her heritage. She started the Asian student union with two classmates. Its members discussed what it meant to be Asian American, organized anti-sweatshop protests and supplied books on diversity issues, which they felt were lacking from Reed's library. Heshiki even dropped the English name her parents had given her?May?in favor of her middle name, which is Japanese for bright. "I started using it because I wanted people meeting...