We advocate only non-violent actions
GOAL: End sweatshops in the $30 billion apparel, and the $2.5 billion collegiate garment industries, by promoting awareness, taking non-violent (peaceful) action, distributing info and flyers, and moving beyond the FLA (corporate-controlled PR) to the Workers Right Consortium methodology for sweatshop monitoring at New Mexico State University.
How?
USAS of NMSU GAP event held Nov 20, 2003 at 2:45PM at the Las Cruces mall. See letter to GAP employees and photos of the event
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Read about LEVI
MEAN JEANS - What the workers say! Boje, D. M., Grace Ann Rosile & J. Dámaso Miguel Alcantara Carrillo (2001) The Kuk Dong Story: When the Fox Guards the Hen House. |
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Action
- GAP Boycott in New Mexico State -We are invited people
to attend and protest the GAP Annual shareholders meeting in Albuquerque,
to be held Friday, May 10 2002.
PRESS
FOR MORE INFO on GAP and SWEATSHOPS
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Action - You do not need to be an activist, to sign a letter of support for a SWEAT-FREE NMSU campus, stricter monitoring of campus apparel factories sewing NMSU on to garments we buy in the bookstore, and making the campus less ignorant about sweatshops and the global economy. To sign, email Professor Boje at dboje@nmsu.edu (Subject: I support USAS at NMSU). Or become a model, an Anti-SWEATSHOP Fashion Show Exposes Trade/Sweatshop Link, NMSU bookstore clothing = SWEATSHOP
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Action - All actions by us are a non-violent confrontation with suffering: "Consumers inhumanity to Women Workers." We seek in activate people's awareness by acts (e.g. chants, banner and posters-making, walks, teach-ins, and fashion shows) that are informative and where necessary non-violently disobedient to unjust social conventions, fashion fetish, and laws that oppress. However, we do not damage property that does not belong to us.
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Action - We are inviting students, faculty, and staff to Join USAS of NMSU for our 1st Annual Sweat Shop Fashion Show. This Fashion Show will feature some of the newest items made in Sweatshops from around the world that people are materially-attached to in order to have cultural identity. |
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Action - We advocate non-violent action - See NAKED FEET campaign. We can take off the shoes and socks in our classroom, to show reverence for all life. We can choose a simple foot-nakedness lifestyle change that sends a message: Stop the Sweatshop Violence!
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Action - The Fair Labor Association (FLA) is paid for by Nike, Reebok, Adidas, Gap and other sweatshop contracting firms. It is like asking the Fox to guard the henhouse. We encourage NMSU to join the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC), and organization founded by students, who have chapters in all ethical universities. Currently NMSU is a member of FLA, but not the WRC. WRC has dispatched fact finding missions of faculty and students to places like Atlixco, Mexico where Nike, Reebok, and the Korean-owned Kukdong factory were the seen of mass beatings of young female workers making the campus apparel of many universities. In sum, WRC has a system, so students and faculty can verify and inspect conditions in factories that produce our college apparel.
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Action - organizing a code of conduct for New Mexico State University, encouraging the Collegiate Licensing Company to adopt a strong code of conduct, and recruiting new people to help take action. You can read our news page for late-breaking information. Please sign a statement of support for a SWEAT-FREE campus, and invite "NO SWEAT Professors" to also sign. EMAIL your name to dboje@nmsu.edu or go to JOIN NMSU USAS. | ||||||
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Action - In an investigation by Dr. David Boje, he outlines a NEW, more rigorous, code of conduct, to be adopted by NMSU. The paper titled "Are New Mexico State garments made in sweatshops?", discusses some the findings about the apparel found in campus stores and a new code of conduct. Main Finding: NMSU is not being careful enough about checking up on the factories selling apparel in our campus bookstore. Some are using the most light-weight monitoring methodologies. | ||||||
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Action - Advocate for Living Wage, Full Factory Disclosure of location of all factories selling products and clothing on our campus. Find out the workers' wage in a college cap. Find out who gets more, from each garment you buy in the NMSU bookstore. What is higher, worker wages or NMSU licensing fee in an NMSU logo sweatshirt? View the facts. | ||||||
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Action
- WAL-MART - Continues
to have subpar monitoring of its sweatshop contracting
practices and has been dropped from responsible social
investment firms, such as Domini 400. When will shoppers begin
to hold Wal-Mart accountable, and ask that they take the lead
to elevate the standards of the subcontractors that send items
here to Las Cruces, New Mexico - E.G. - April
17, 2001 Wal-Mart Booted Out of the Domini 400 KLD
cites lack of leadership on labor controversies among reasons
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| Action - SARA LEE - HANES - CHAMPION (Full List of Sara Lee Sweatshop Connectivity). Sara Lee is the Chicago-based owner of Hanes, Leggs, and other clothing brands. Sara Lee Branded Apparel Companies produces university-licensed Champion and Hanes sweatshop-clothing that is being sold in the New Mexico State University Bookstore. Sara Lee is one of the most notorious sweatshop contractors in the world. Sara Lee uses subpar monitoring activities to keep track of the oppression of mostly women working in its subcontract sweatshops, that sew university logos, including the NMSU logo on to garments sold on university campuses. ACTION: Can New Mexico State University use its purchasing power to demand that Sara Lee and its Champion/Hanes sweatshops upgrade the quality of their monitoring activities to include full disclosure of all factory locations, a living wage for sweatshop workers, and allow workers the right to organize so that these workers have a voice and some local control over their working conditions? If Sara Lee refuses to upgrade monitoring and conditions, then perhaps it is time to look for an alternate supplier. |
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Action
- Women Workers From Bangladesh
National Speaking Tour
What: Two young women garment workers from
Bangladesh, the General Secretary of the National
Garment Workers Federation, and a representative
of the NGO community in Bangladesh will join the
National Labor Committee on a speaking
tour/campaign across the U.S.
When: October 25- through- November 8 (with the
potential to extend the campaign an additional
week)
If you can host this tour at your university,
union, religious
congregation, or solidarity center contact us
immediately at:
National Labor Committee
Phone: (212) 242- 3002
E-mail: nlc@nlcnet.org
(put TOUR in the subject)
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The New Mexico State Chapter of USAS is working hard to educate and inform students and the public about harmful working conditions throughout the world.
USAS also examines the monitoring
practices performed by companies and industries selling (sweatshop)
products and clothing on the NMSU campus. For more information on
monitoring see Monitoring
By Dr. David Boje.
Uof
Wisconsin USAS
distribute and sign a letter of support NMSU USAS
THESE
JEANS WERE Made in a SWEATSHOP
