HOUSTON: Sweatshops 101 Tour -- NOV 14

USAS Presents: Sweatshops 101 Tour-

The tour will be stopping in Houston, Tx on Wednesday, November 14th, 2007. The discussion will take place starting at 6:30 @ Bohemeos Cafe (708 Telephone Road in the East End about 5 minutes from UofH-Central)

http://www.bohemeos.com

This tour will be a great opportunity to learn more about United Students Against Sweatshops. People already involved and other people interested in learning about USAS's goals are all invited. It is an open event. The talks and focus of the tour include:

• how we can develop valuable organizing skills to take back to our respective campuses
• how we can use our power as students to affect an industry that thrives in secrecy, exploitation, and the power relations of a flawed system
• brainstorming/ strategizing around campus campaigns
• learning about how workers are organizing to make change on the ground

and, most importantly,

• meeting other activists and organizers!

These are links to the flyers:
( there is space on the kids shirt and underneath "sweatshops 101" for you to write whatever you want)

quarter page flyer:
http://www.box.net/shared/ri43ro0ni2

half page:
http://www.box.net/shared/fbougsa75e

jpeg file for emails/web:
http://www.box.net/shared/epym5flabl

Questions/Comment? Please contact Gabriel M. (USAS-San Antonio) 210-254-4757

Thanks to:
Deniz Lopez
queenstrawberry782@yahoo.com

In Defense of the Morton West Antiwar Students

If you don't stand for something, you'll stand for anything, so these kids stand for peace....and now face criminal charges for peaceful demonstration against the occupation of Iraq.

In Defense of the Morton West Antiwar Students

We are writing in defense of the students who now face excessive disciplinary actions at the hands of various Morton West school administrators. Our sympathies lie with the courageous and moral struggle that the students have taken up, and with their parents who still support them. The struggle for a peaceful and just society absent of war should not be met with punishment, but should be supported by the community as a whole, especially from within the educational setting. Furthermore, It is our firm belief that an injury to freedom for students anywhere is an injury to freedom for students everywhere. This is why we urge all Morton West administrators to drop all disciplinary action against the said students, and to remove any indications of said events from their permanent records. We urge you to respect these students right to free expression now and in the future.

(Written by Columbia College Chicago Students for a Democratic Society)


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