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Santa Cruz Students Strip for Sweat-Free UC
On Wed, March 1, students at UC Santa Cruz engaged in a creative "clothing-optional" protest against collegiate apparel produced by sweatshop labor. The protest was also against alleged comments by UCSC Chancellor Denice Denton that 'no one cares about sweatshops.' The students, associated with United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) and the Student and Worker Coalition for Justice (SWCJ), are part of a national campaign to urge colleges to sign on to a designated suppliers program that ensures dignified labor conditions.
The students had announced:
"Stripping down to their skivvies, students at UC schools will be protesting sweatshop-made UC collegiate apparel. Bearing the slogan: “We tried to find sweat-free clothes in our bookstore and this is what we came out with” (i.e. nothing), students hope to highlight the widespread practice of producing collegiate apparel in factories with poor labor standards, said Kate StormoGipson a UC San Diego student activist affiliated with the nation wide student organization United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS)..."
http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/03/1805519.php
The spirited UC Santa Cruz protest was one of six planned in the UC system - the others being Berkeley, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Davis, and Riverside.
"Stripping down to their skivvies, students at UC schools will be protesting sweatshop-made UC collegiate apparel. Bearing the slogan: “We tried to find sweat-free clothes in our bookstore and this is what we came out with” (i.e. nothing), students hope to highlight the widespread practice of producing collegiate apparel in factories with poor labor standards, said Kate StormoGipson a UC San Diego student activist affiliated with the nation wide student organization United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS)..."
http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/03/1805519.php
The spirited UC Santa Cruz protest was one of six planned in the UC system - the others being Berkeley, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Davis, and Riverside.
For more information:
http://www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org/c...
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To call for that as an alternative is terrible PR strategy.
How is a parent supposed to relate to that, for just one (very common) example?
How is a parent supposed to relate to that, for just one (very common) example?
Where do you think your underwear was made? Where do you think the trees that provided your cardboard were grown? Why does the current crop of protestors feel they need a political excuse to get naked in public? In the 60's, we got naked in public just to piss off the pigs.
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