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Apr 27
2008

Students sit in against sweatshops

Posted by Kai Schwandes in Student Action with WorkersNikeLiving WageChapel HillAdidas

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Published Apr 25, 2008 9:38 PM

April 22—Several students and workers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are entering the sixth day of a sit-in in Chancellor James Moeser’s lobby, the longest sit-in at UNC since 1993. About 25 students and workers entered the administration building on April 17 and have been occupying it ever since.

 FI ST members Ben Carroll (center) and Salma Mirza (right) at student sit-in.WW photo: Peter Gilbet These students and workers are affiliated with Student Action with Workers (SAW), a UNC group affiliated with United Students against Sweatshops, as well as several other campus groups that are part of the Sweatfree Coalition and the community-based youth group FIST—Fight Imperialism, Stand Together.

Brand names such as Nike and Adidas are currently partnered with UNC to make apparel bearing the “Carolina” name. These brands source the apparel from factories all over the world and have been paying increasingly lower prices for the apparel.




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