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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.

SASL - Scholars Against Sweatshop Labor

  1. Main Site http://www.umass.edu/peri/sasl/ 

USAS resources

  1. Petition for a Sweat-free New Mexico State University Campus
  2. Academics Studying Nike - http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/nike.html 
  3. FASHION SHOWS - Script from Canada
  4. Planning a Sit-in
  5. Nike Tamara Figure 1  

  6. SWEATSHOP myths.

  7. United Students Against Sweatshops http://www.usasnet.org/ (Better option than FLA)

  8. USAS campus campaign Web Sites http://www.usasnet.org/org/chapters.shtml

  9. Vegan Products - No Sweat and No Animal Products (including Sneakers)
  10. Workers Rights Consortium (WRC) http://www.workersrights.org/  Currently has 82 member organizations - NMSU could be number 83

Anti-Sweatshop Movements - Please Get Involved

  1. Scholars Against Sweatshop Labor - http://www.umass.edu/peri/sasl/ 
  2. United Students Against Sweatshops http://www.usasnet.org/  International student movement fighting for sweatshop-free labor and workers' rights. Includes information on various campus chapters, media coverage, student actions and codes of conduct for apparel manufacturers.
  3. Sweatshop Watch http://www.sweatshopwatch.org/  A coalition of labor, community, civil rights, immigrant rights, women's, religious & student organizations, and individuals committed to eliminating sweatshop conditions in the global garment industry.
  4. Feminists Against Sweatshops http://www.feminist.org/other/sweatshops.html  By The Feminist Majority Foundation
  5. Maquila Solidarity Network http://www.maquilasolidarity.org/  A Canadian network promoting solidarity with groups in Mexico, Central America and Asia organizing in maquiladora factories and export processing zones to improve conditions and win a living wage.
  6. Mexico Solidarity Network http://www.mexicosolidarity.org/  A coalition of over 80 organizations struggling for human rights, economic justice and democracy in the United States and Mexico.
  7. "Nike Shareholders for Justice" campaign www.nikewages.org/shareholder.html  James and Leslie Keady travel frequently to Indonesia to study sweatshop conditions.
  8. Campaign for Labor Rights - http://www.summersault.com/~agj/clr/   Trim Bissell, National Co-Coordinator -  Campaign for Labor Rights is working on an exciting, innovative new project to build a national network of activists who are working in their own communities to pass anti-sweatshop or clean clothes initiatives.  Over the past several years, a number of groups have begun local campaigns aimed at persuading public school districts; parochial schools; municipalities, counties, and states; workplaces, local businesses, and congregations to adopt sweatfree/child labor free purchasing policies - roughly parallel to USAS's efforts directed at universities and colleges. GET INVOLVED.
  9. Why People are Boycotting Taco Bell - http://www.ciw-online.org/   February 11, 2002  Cornell’s MEChA, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán  a national Chicano student organization, is joining the national boycott against Taco Bell.  Cornell’s MEChA will join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) in the fight against one of the nation’s most shameful labor injustices.  The CIW have been fighting for nearly a year against the Six L’s Packing Company. Six L’s is one of the largest tomato producers in the United States and has annual sales of over $120 million, yet pay their tomato pickers 40 to 45 cents per 32 pound bucket (a piece rate that has remained unchanged for 20 years which provides each worker with a mere $7,500 of annual income).   Taco Bell is an important multi-billion dollar client with a great deal of influence on Six L’s decision-making process. If  Taco Bell were to voluntarily pay just 1 cent more per pound, and the growers would agree to pass that penny along to the picker, that one penny could almost double the picking piece rate overnight.

 

POSSIBLE NMSU RESOURCES

  1. Frontera NorteSur On-Line News Service http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/  The Center for Latin American Studies at NMSU is an excellent on-line news and analysis of current issues and events in the Paso del Norte region and the U.S. México border.  on-line available for free at frontera@nmsu.edu

Want more links see http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/nike/nike_pages/links.html