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Looking Back on Jesse Helms' Life
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:14:00 -0400
Sen. No, as he was often called, "was a real throwback," says Merle Black, a professor of southern politics at Emory University. One of a select group of politicians who helped solidify Republican control in the South, he had a loyal constituency of working-class whites in North Carolina.
Financial Aid Woes Make Community College More Appealing
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:05:00 -0400
Despite efforts by the Bush Administration and Congress to quell turmoil in the student loan market, some students are still struggling to find money for college. We examine the case of two recent high school graduates who have been promised financial aid, but don't know how much they can count on.
When Did Flag Pins Become So Important?
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:00:00 -0400
Sen. Barack Obama Obama was questioned about why he doesn't always wear a flag pin during a Democratic debate in April. His critics say his lack of pin casts doubt on Obama's patriotism, and recently the Democratic candidate has been wearing one.

The Talk of the Town

The Chill
Nick Paumgarten Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
If you had stumbled into Banjo Jim’s, in the East Village, on a recent Wednesday night and encountered a sixty-something guy leading a band through a fervent rendition of “Wild Thing,” for an audience of two dozen or so, you might have concluded, “This is lame,” and slipped back . . .
Oily Speculations
James Surowiecki Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
When bad things happen, it’s always nice to have a scapegoat. So, with Americans furious about soaring oil prices, Congress has gone in search of someone to blame. There are a number of usual suspects to choose from, depending on your politics--OPEC, greedy oil companies, lily-livered environmentalists opposed . . .
Obama’s Iraq Problem
George Packer Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
In February, 2007, when Barack Obama declared that he was running for President, violence in Iraq had reached apocalyptic levels, and he based his candidacy, in part, on a bold promise to begin a rapid withdrawal of American forces upon taking office. At the time, this pledge represented conventional thinking . . .

 

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Battling Sweatshops - Public Broadcasting Service on battling sweatshops (Real Audio, is available. Written April 14, 1997 but still of use today.

Behind the Label - A multimedia online news magazine focusing on the brand names responsible for the global sweatshop crisis, and reporting on the personal stories of sweatshop workers around the world. Behind the Label represents the efforts of a global alliance of clothing workers, religious leaders, and students who are demanding human rights for sweatshop workers.
Meta Description: [ BehindTheLabel.org is a multimedia online news magazine focusing on the brand names (Gap, Nike, etc.) responsible for the global sweatshop crisis, and reporting on the personal stories of sweatshop workers around the world. BehindTheLabel.org represents the efforts of a global alliance of clothi... ]

Big corpations scare museums: Sweatshop Exhibit Delayed. - U.S. history of sweatshops continues to date. An exhibit was shunned and delayed, until Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance accepted it in late 1999.

Center for Civil Society and Governance - Organization working to monitor and influence government policies and reform international markets. Campaigns focus on sweatshops and the conditions that create them.
Meta Description: [ AED's democracy-building and civil society development programs have helped citizens monitor and influence government activities, support market reforms, defend minority and women's rights, ferret out corruption, and protect the environment. ]

Child Slave Labor News - Immaculata High School students newspaper on line. This page is about Saipan sweatshops and U.S. firms profiting from that.
Meta Description: [ The online home of Immaculata High School's Child Slave Labor News. ]

CISPES Anti-Sweatshop Campaign - Compares historic U.S. sweatshops and exposes sweatshops in Central America, focusing on El Salvador
Meta Description: [ The Sweat Gear catalog: a satirical on-line clothing catalog that exposes sweatshops in Central America ]

Clean Clothes Campaign - Organization focused on improving working conditions in the garment and sportswear industry worldwide. Topics includes codes for manufacturers, working conditions, news, publications, and profiles of specific companies.
Meta Description: [ The Clean Clothes Campaigns aim at improving working conditions in the garment and sportswear industry worldwide! ]

CorpWatch - Sweatshops - Listing of anti-sweatshop campaigns and developments from the position of corporate accountability.

Fair Labor Association - Works with major corporations to improve human rights through agreements with clothing retailers to set minimum anti-sweatshop standards.
Meta Description: [ The Fair Labor Association is a non-profit organization combining the efforts of industry, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), colleges and universities to promote adherence to international labor standards and improve working conditions worldwide. ]

Garment Worker Center - Organization dedicated to organizing and empowering garment workers in Los Angeles.
Meta Description: [ homepage ]

404 Holiday Season of Conscience - National Labor Committee-sponsored project to inform holiday shoppers and socially responsible investors about sweatshop labor and other corporate abuses.
Meta Description: [ The National Labor Committee in Support of Human & Worker Rights ]

Maquila Solidarity Network - Activists organizing Maquiladora factories to improve conditions, win a living wage, and campaign against multi-national corporate abuse.

MicroRevolt - Promotes knitting as a form of anti-sweatshop protest. Offers an application that generates knitting patterns of corporate logos.

National Labor Committee - Organization focused on human rights abuses and sweatshops. Provides articles and news releases detailing developments in the anti-sweatshop community.

National Mobilization Against Sweatshops - NMASS is aimed at fundamentally transforming the sweatshop system according to the needs and human rights of working people.
Meta Description: [ NMASS (National Mobilization Against Sweatshops) is a grassroots educational campaign dedicated to ending sweatshop conditions for all working people. ]

No Sweat - Provides campaigns against sweatshops and child labor, in the UK and around the world.
Meta Description: [ No Sweat! organises and campaigns against sweatshop labour in the UK and worldwide. We campaign in solidarity with sweatshop workers globally. ]

404 Punk Rock Sweatshop - Anti-sweatshop resource dealing with t-shirt production and the punk music community. Links to sweat-free vendors, distros, and bands.

Salon News on sweatshops - Tom DeLay, is characterized as a defender of sweatshops. The GOP whip thinks that American companies using underpaid garment workers in distant Saipan is just fine. By Jeff Stein in Salon E Magazine, February, 1999.
Meta Description: [ Tom DeLay, defender of sweatshops; By Jeff Stein;The GOP whip thinks that American companies using underpaid garment workers in distant Saipan is just fine ]

Sweat Shop accountability - U.S. Retail trade group takes position against products of sweatshop labor being sold by member stores.
Meta Description: [ The National Retail Federation conducts programs and services in education, government affairs, research, information technology and training to protect and advance the retail industry. ]

SWEAT: A Story of Solidarity - Independent documentary film about the lives of Nike factory workers in Indonesia.

SweatFree Communities - Organization working to end sweatshop exploitation by inspiring responsible local purchasing and fostering solidarity between U.S. communities and workers worldwide.
Meta Description: [ Ending sweatshop exploitation by inspiring responsible local purchasing and fostering solidarity between U.S. communities and workers worldwide. ]

Sweatshop Reform - Hearts and Minds nonprofit site. Offers analysis and current links on how the harsh sweatshop conditions stimulate public reactions.
Meta Description: [ A brief look at causes of homelessness ... organizations that help ... and what you can do. ]

Sweatshop Journal - Minnie Roe conducted an undercover, investigation to report a U.S. firm's sweatshop practices.

Sweatshop Watch - A coalition to eliminate sweatshops in the garment industry. Includes FAQs, examples of abuse, action alerts, resources and current projects.
Meta Description: [ Sweatshop Watch ]

Sweatshops.org - Co-op America's Sweatshops.org aims to end sweatshops and child labor; supports fair trade, international human and labor rights.

Thai Labour Campaign - Covers labor disputes, worker rights campaigns, as well as labor law in Thailand. Provides original research on migrant workers and sweatshops in South East Asia.

United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) - An intervarsity coalition devoted to stopping sweatshop labor. Action alerts, discussion forums, and links to past advocacy campaigns provided.

Verité - Verité is an independent non-profit organization monitoring international labor rights abuses in off-shore production sites.

Worker Rights Consortium - Holds corporations accountable to supporting worker rights by enforcing codes of conduct.
Meta Description: [ The Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) is a non-profit organization created by college and university students and administrators and independent labor rights experts., The Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) is a non-profit organization created by college and university students and administrators and in... ]