From: a student (fsu_usas@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jul 01 2002 - 20:11:53 EDT
For 100 days now we, FSU's chapter of Students
Against Sweatshops, have been camped out in a 'tent
city' located in the middle of our univeristy. This,
in protest of FSU president Talbot 'Sandy'
D'Alemberte's refusal to join the Worker Rights
Consortium. The WRC monitors and investigates
factories around the world and at home producing
university apparel in order to ensure that basic
worker (human) rights are respected. Despite this
fact, the president still has not gotten the message
that FSU is responsible.
Act now and email our president on July 2, tell
him that our univeristy must take responsibility for
using sweatshop labor to make its products. Please
write an email to him. There is a sample email
following this letter. Or call him at the number
below. TELL OUR PRESIDENT TO LISTEN TO THE DEMANDS OF
HIS STUDENTS AND FACULTY AND JOIN THE WRC.
Dalember@mailer.fsu.edu
(or call) (850) 644-1085
Please, however, do not do this until July 2 (day one
hundred) as we are attempting to coordinate a mass
phone-in, e-mail-in, etc.
***PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL APPLICAPLE E-MAIL ADDRESSES,
(PROGRESSIVE) LISTSERVES, FRIENDLY EARS, ETC.***
FSU SAS
Our addresses:
fsu_sas@yahoo.com, www.westcott12.org
View us (web-cam of Landis Green) at:
www.fsu.edu/Webcam/Landis
Dear President D'alemberte,
Today marks the hundreth day that students at
your univeristy have been camping on Landis Green, one
of the two designated free speech zones on campus,
after being arrested for attempting to set up a
similar semi-permanent structure in front of the
administration building at Westcott. Mr. President,
respectfully, why do you continue to ignore your
students' pleas to join the Worker Rights Consortium,
an organization monitoring factories making university
apparel?
Florida State University's membership in the WRC
can aid thousands of workers involved in the
production of university products in factories not
only situated in the so-called 'third world' but in
our own country as well. Every factory that the WRC
has investigated makes products for your university.
Your claim that the Worker Rights Consortium is
an advocay group is without basis. The WRC is a
monitoring organization with a specific job: to
improve the conditions of factories where university
apparel is made by issuing reports to member schools
so that they may act accordingly. In addition,
previous emails you have sent make it seem that you
are under-educated on their methods of investigation.
Specifically, your claim that the WRC does not know
where factories are located, when in fact the
attainment of factory locations where licensed
products are made is the first step taken by the WRC
when a university becomes an affiliated member. For
more information on the issue please visit
www.workersrights.org.
Listen to your students President D'alemberte,
but do not forget the voices of the two governing
bodies of your instituion, the Faculty Senate and the
Student Senate, both of whom have passed resolutions
urging you to join the Worker Rights Consortium. And
do not forget Terry Coonan, the Director of the Center
for the Advancement of Human Rights, who has stood
beside FSU SAS in its attempt to convince you of the
neccesity of FSU's membership in the WRC.
Florida State University is responsible for
acknowledging and attempting to correct the conditions
under which its licensed products are made. Your
school must become a member of the Worker Rights
Consortium.
Thank you for your time,
(Your name and school (organization) here)
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