At 6:30pm, members of the Brown Take Adidas Down coalition and others joined Yudo and Asmiati once again for a talk, “Voices from the Sweatshop Floor,” in Metcalf Auditorium. In spite of competing with complimentary dinner and inflatable castles on the Main Green in preparation for Spring Weekend, the event drew at least 40 people, including members … Continue reading »
Part I: The Morning Hidup buruh! Up with the workers! They’re here! -They being Asmiati Wandoyo and Yudo Sasmito, two former PT Kizone workers from who are touring colleges around the US speaking out about the hardships they continue to face as a consequence of Adidas’ disregard for workers’ rights. Yudo and Asmiati arrived Wednesday night with their … Continue reading »
On March 19, members of Student Labor Alliance, Queer Alliance, International Socialist Organization, EmPower, Brown Divest Coal, Brown Immigrant Rights Coalition, Students for Justice in Palestine, athletes, and the Brown University community came together to demand that President Paxson cut our contract with Adidas. This unity between groups is extremely important, both to show Paxson … Continue reading »
Last Wednesday Claudia Torres, indigenous rights activist and coordinator of the Network Against Repression and for Solidarity, spoke with us about her experiences and struggles. For decades Claudia has coordinated solidarity efforts with the Zapatistas and worked to end gender violence in Chiapas. Claudia spoke about the forced disappearance, imprisonment, assassination, and sexual torture that … Continue reading »
This past Tuesday, about 20 members of SLA and our allies got together on a snowy Main Green to work out for workers’ rights! In an action inspired by our friends at Cornell Organization for Labor Action, who have made “working out for workers’ rights” a bit of a signature, we gathered in a circle … Continue reading »
After making Valentines asking Wendy’s to sign the Fair Food Agreement throughout the week with members of Brown Christian Felowship, Brown MEChA, SLA, and other groups, about ten SLA members and friends visited each of the three Wendy’s in Providence on Friday, 2/15/13, to deliver the Valentines, speak with managers and customers, and perform a … Continue reading »
SLA Members are getting really excited to head down to Miami in a month to join the 16th Annual United Students Against Sweatshops conference — we’ll be learning tons of new organizing skills, strategizing with other students about the Cut Adidas campaign, and making tons of new friends from around the country. Watch out for … Continue reading »
On Tuesday December 4th we held a memorial vigil honoring workers killed in a factory fire in Bangladesh last week. On November 24th and 25th, a fire at the Tazreen textile factory in Dhaka killed more than 100 workers and injured many more, some of whom jumped several stories to escape. The factory had previously … Continue reading »
[Article from the Brown Daily Herald] “We can’t have justice at Brown’s leisure — we need it now,” said Student Labor Alliance member Stoni Tomson ’15 in a speech urging administrators to threaten to end the University’s contract with Adidas, which currently supplies apparel for varsity sports teams. Tomson addressed a crowd of about 15 … Continue reading »
On November 19 we held an action at two Providence Stop and Shop locations to put pressure on Stop and Shop to agree to the Fair Food Program, a program to guarantee basic working protections for tomato pickers in Immokalee, Florida. Acting in solidarity with the Coalition of Immokalee workers as part of the Thanksgiving … Continue reading »
