From: Trina Tocco (talkalot83@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Apr 24 2002 - 09:32:32 EDT
>From: sjsudale@aol.com
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>To: u2babyboy@earthlink.net, usas-cc@yahoogroups.com,
>calsas@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [usas-cc] Re: [calsas] [Fwd: [usas] Eric Schlosser]
>Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:51:24 EDT
>
>I believe what my friend Saeed means is "it's too bad that Mr. Schlosser
>spent all that time locked in his room, eating Big Macs and then writing
>about how bad they were rather than doing some real research before he
>tried
>to impugn the student anti-sweat movement." If Mr. Schlosser had done a
>bit
>more research prior to "shooting from the hip" at his little book-signings,
>he might well have found that many of the students who are now doing
>farmworker activism, and who may well branch out into "fair trade meat"
>campaigns, have either come out of USAS or otherwisely been influenced or
>empowered by the USAS model. Of course, much of this model was learned
>from
>the mid-1980s anti-apartheid campus struggles, and so on, and so on...
>Anti-sweat work has arguably been called "the gateway drug of student
>activism" although, in all fairness, this has long been said about the
>environmental movement as well. Regardless, there is something about the
>plight of student-aged workers in the Global South, making the very
>garments
>that students want to proudly wear as representative of their schools, that
>resonates on some level with certain American students. The involvement of
>students, sparked by this incongruity and encouraged by an old line labor
>union progressively reaching out to the rest of the world has served over
>the
>past few years (and for the next several as well, I'd wager) as a
>springboard
>to a much deeper analysis of labor exploitation and a much wider definition
>of what we used to consider a "sweatshop." It's a shame that Mr Schlosser
>has not been kept apprised of these facts. But who knows, maybe he's
>getting
>some folks from the meat-cutter's union to bring in some student interns
>this
>summer...
>
>In Peace,
>Dale Weaver
>Students for Justice
>San Jose State University
>Working Class Caucus Representative
>National Coordinating Committee
>United Students Against Sweatshops
>408.504.5504
>
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Trina Tocco
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