Check it out: Student Action with Workers has a new website! Click here to find out what we’re up to now in the campaign for global worker justice!
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Check it out: Student Action with Workers has a new website! Click here to find out what we’re up to now in the campaign for global worker justice!
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Press from the Independent Weekly: UNC protesters guilty, but sweat-free: UNC still fails to adequately address whether its apparel is made in sweatshops
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The No. 1 reason why UNC sucks (Duke Chronicle)
By James Tager, Issue Date: 8/27/08
The average Duke student has many reasons to feel poorly disposed towards his Tar Heel neighbors: their uncomfortably competitive basketball [...]
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Link to press release in plain text format, image below
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We requested a continuance for our trial, given that several of us are scattered across the globe during the summer. Our new trial date is August 18th at 9 am in the Chapel Hill Court House/Post Office. Thank you for all of your support! Please continue to keep in touch with us, as we will [...]
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As promised, the campaign is continuing. Our court date is set for June 23rd– we’ll keep you posted on the organizing for that. In the meantime, check out our press page for ongoing stories about the campaign.
We have filed a public records request with the University, as it has been demonstrated to us again and [...]
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University of Southern California becomes 45th school to sign onto the DSP!!!!!
From Teresa Cheng, whose LTE was published in the DTH in support of our actions
USC is now the 45th school to sign onto the DSP Working Group! After a 8 year campaign for WRC and DSP – which included 2 sit ins, rallies, protests, [...]
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Check out our endorsement page for the full text
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Take action in support of arrested students here!
Our statement on the arrests and why we chose to occupy Chancellor Moeser’s office at 11 am on May 2, 2008:
Chancellor Moeser explicitly stated at the May 2 Labor Licensing Code Advisory Committee meeting that he, after eight years of being UNC Chancellor, was just there to [...]
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Yesterday, Chancellor Moeser left South Building early to take a trip to DC. Some former UNC USAS people and some other lovely USASers (former and current national staff) discovered that there was a huge conference going on about higher education and global development at the Department of State and figured that’s probably where Chancellor Moeser [...]
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Mysteriously, the wireless internet cut out a few days ago as our website has been getting more and more views. We initially attributed it to the flakiness of the UNC-1 network in general, but we’ve been here two weeks and soon realized that some router must have been turned off or been having some [...]
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