> >From "Andy Burns" <burnsandy at hotmail.com>
> Date Mon, 5 Jun 2000 17:22:35 -0400
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> HELLO!!! Please come to this:
>
> 180/Movement for Democracy and Education
> and
> United Students Against Sweatshops
> Together for a joint organizing conference
> August 16-21
> University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
>
> Over the past two years, the amount of activity at campuses around the US
> has risen sharply. Many students are taking action to counter the power and
> influence that corporations have on our universities and society in general.
> Students are protesting the use of sweatshop labor at home and in abroad.
> Campus workers are standing up and with students for higher wages, union
> recognition and job security. Students are protesting steps toward the
> privatization and "corporatization" of their education and for democracy in
> education. Most impressively students have played a major part in the
> demonstrations against the globalization of corporate power and its effects
> on education, the working class, consumers, and the environment.
>
> The 180/Movement for Democracy and Education has been active on all of these
> issues and is growing and moving in a direction toward a principled and
> healthy student movement to stand up for a quality and corporate-free
> education for all. Growing out of the Democracy Teach-In project, they've
> built strong multi-issue chapters on several US campuses. 180/MDE, through
> the 4th round of Democracy Teach-Ins on campuses nationwide, mobilized
> hundreds of students to come to the Seattle WTO protests in November of
> 1999. Chapters have begun to move towards fighting the unaccountable power
> of corporate administrators on their own campuses.
>
> United Students Against Sweatshops has seen a major amount of growth since
> their 1999 conference. They've led the fight against labor exploitation in
> the apparel industry, and is making alliances with organized labor globally.
> Many campaigns have employed sit-ins as a tactic to pressure their schools
> to adopt the Worker Rights Consortium plan. USAS has been vehement in its
> denunciation of the Fair Labor Association, a plan initiated by apparel
> corporations and the Clinton administration to let the companies have a
> great deal of control over who monitors their factories.
>
> Now, these two groups are joining forces to host a joint conference designed
> to take a hard look at the current system of corporate power and
> exploitation that has led to the current squalor that pervades * of the
> globe's people. They will begin to organize to take the next step in
> fighting that power. All we need is you!
>
> How to get involved and find out more:
>
> 180/Movement for Democracy and Education:
> (608) 262-9036
> http://www.corporations.org/democracy
>
> United Students Against Sweatshops
> (202) NO-SWEAT
> http://www.umich.edu/~sole/usas
>
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