USC Students Present University with 'College With(out) a Conscience Award' (tags)
USC Students to Put on Mock Award Show in Protest of Sweatshop Conditions in USC Apparel Factories
USC Student Activists Step up Pressure, Administration Responds In-Kind (tags)
Harsh response to anti-sweatshop sit-in threatens to obscure campaign details at a critical time: Breaking with a norm of accommodation of student protesters, the University of Southern California last week dramatized their willingness to evade responsibility for the repercussions of their business practices.
M20: Chicago Mobilizes Against the War (tags)
In January, representatives of over 90 antiwar and community organizations gathered to begin organizing the Chicago area's response to the 4th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq - a mass march on Michigan Ave. As the scene of the largest mass false arrest in Chicago history and an on-going free speech battle with the city, organizing for the right to march on Michigan Avenue was seen as a symbol of the ongoing battle to defend civil liberties in Chicago, and in the nation at large. This year's march will be preceded by walkouts and feeder marches from area high school and college campuses.
7/28-30 Washington, DC: National Grassroots Immigrant Strategy Conference (tags)
Together, We Build A New National, Broad-Based, Immigrant Rights / Civil Rights Movement!
UCLA Students Demand sweatfree Collegiate Apparel (tags)
Students march to demand that the UCs adopt a program to ensure that collegiate apparel is made in sweatfree conditions.
United Students Against Sweatshops sitting at Riverside and Berkeley Univesities (tags)
Students Are Sitting-In in California!
Wet Seal Stockholder Meeting in Costa Mesa (tags)
Come out and tell The Wet Seal it's time to respect Mexican worker rights in Costa Mesa!
Updates on Los Angeles Supermarket Workers' Strike! (tags)
The Role of Women & Asian Pacific Islanders In This Important Labor Struggle By: Lee Siu Hin October 25, 2003 Photo: Diana Truong-Davis Picket capitan from Vons supermarket, with CA assembly women Judy Chu during the Ahmabra Von's Supermarket rally, organized by APALA and CA assembly women Judy Chu on Oct 23.
FRESNO PEACE GROUP INFILTRATED BY GOVERNMENT AGENT (tags)
Peace Fresno was infiltrated by an agent working for the Fresno Sheriff’s Department.
10,000 marchers back Yale strikers (tags)
New Haven police arrest 100 NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Downtown New Haven came to a standstill Sept. 13 as the nation’s labor movement turned out more than 10,000 union members from the Northeast and as far away as Nevada and Florida in support of striking university and hospital workers at Yale University.
Hunger Strike Commences outside Taco Bell World Headquarters (tags)
Report from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) on the progress of their struggle to win decent wages for the workers who pick tomatoes for Taco Bell.
Thousands rally in capital against war and greed (tags)
WASHINGTON – For four days last week, the capital echoed with marching feet and chants of “corporate greed has got to go” and “No war for oil!”
Big Turnout and Big Support for Forever 21 Picket (tags)
Over 150 people turned out to support a boycott against Forever 21 for garment worker abuses.
Mexican Workers Want Independent Union at Nike/Reebok Contractor (tags)
The January walkout sparked an international solidarity campaign
Chris from United Students Against Sweatshops talks about their truth tour