UNC-CH Behind the Scenes: Still Refusing to Discuss Human Rights in Good Faith

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 [...]

UNC, take notice: you can arrest us, but neither we nor the workers will end the campaign for human rights

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, [...]

Letter from Congressman Raul Grijalva, Statement from Progressive Faculty Network in support of arrested students

Check out our endorsement page for the full text

16 Day Sit-In Ends with Student Arrests

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 [...]

Chancellor Moeser: We meant it when we said you’d see us every day

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 [...]

Back to the old days of sit-ins before webcams and wireless internet…

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 [...]

Tent City and Pancake Breakfast for Thursday night

Our friends from outside are inviting you to a picnic, rally and campout on May 1st at 7:00 pm to support the student sit-in currently underway in the South Building. The tent city and rally will mark the SECOND week of the anniversary and will coincide with International May Day events.
What to bring: yourself, a [...]

More Signs that Moeser’s Feeling the Pressure

We’ve pulled out some banners that are unfortunately still relevant after three years to this university : “UNC: Clean up your act” and “UNC: Sweatshops and Slavery since 1789″. As you can see above, we duct-taped those banners across the poles on South Building three years ago when fighting in solidarity with UNC housekeepers on [...]

day 13 of the south building sit-in…

And day 1 of our virtual sit-in in UNC’s virtual South Building in Second Life!

live from Chancellor Moeser’s (virtual) office
Side note: UNC spends $5560 a year on this virtual property, and yet cannot ensure that the human rights of workers are respected in its supply chain?

CHANCELLOR MOESER REVERSED HIS PREVIOUS DECISION TO TAKE THE DSP OFF THE TABLE BECAUSE OF OUR SIT-IN!

After the video broadcast yall saw of the administration forcing us to remove the minifridge that Duke SAS people brought us last Wednesday, we had a brief meeting with Dean Winston Crisp.
The administration is feeling the pressure, and has already caved by reversing Chancellor Moeser’s August 2007 decision to take the DSP off of the [...]