Uni Protests Against Prison-Industrial complex

[kelley]

are there any other moves underfoot.  marriot is a huge foodservice 
operator, catering especially to unis.  not in the loop on this one right 
now, so curious....

For those who want to get involved............

PLEASE POST FAR AND WIDE!!!!!!

             Seven Ithaca College students are currently engaging

             themselves in
sit-in at the college's admissions office. There have but one demand:

 >that Ithaca Collge terminate its contract with the infamous food
service provider, Sodexho-Marriott. The reasons for this demand are
numbered (one of these is SOdexho's horrendous labor record) but the
main reason students are sitting in is to voice protest Sodexho's
links to the PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AND PRIVATE PRISONS.

 >            Here is how sodexho is linked to to private prisons. 48% of

Sodexho-Marriott is owned by the French multinational Sodexho
ALliance. In turn,   Sodexho Alliance is the single largest investor
in Corrections Corporation of America, a private prisons corporation.

 >We find this morally reprehensible, for a host of reasons. And we do
not want to support, no matter how indirectly.  For one thing, in
recent years expenditures on prisons has been going up while
expenditures on schools has been going down. It is quite obvious that
people dreprived of a good education are more likely to end up in
prison, and this policy of building prisons instead of schools is
self-perpetuatimng.  The United States currently has 25% percent of
the world's priosn population, and does not have anywhere near that
percentage of the total population.Also, in recent years as violent
crime is going down, incarceration rates are going up.

             There is something wrong here. The prison industry is the

             fastest
growing sector in the economy, all this amidst unprecedented American
prosperity. We are throwing more and more people into jail, and most
of them are going to jail for nonviolent offences.

             Despite claims by Sodexho-Marriott that it is an

             independent
entity, Sodexho Alliance considers Sodexho-Marriott to be its
subsidairy; quite the direct link if you ask me.

              If you are interested helping us out, please send Peggy

              Williams, President
of Ithaca College an email announcing your support and solidarity with
those participating in the sit-in.  President at ithaca.edu

Thank you so much for your assistance,
Joey Cronen, Ithaca College