[sas-announce] Day 18 of Perdue Student Hunger Strike!

[Heather Shaw]

Students at Perdue University are about to enter their 19th day of hunger strike! The 15 participants are continuing their fight for clothing carrying their university logo to be made according to the Designated Suppliers Program (DSP). 
   
  The DSP stipulates that university logoed clothing must be made in factories:
1) Where workers have a democratic union or are free to form one
2) Where workers can bargain toward a living wage
3) Where Purdue's already established Code of Conduct is followed
   
  You can see a picture of the occupied building here: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ahanna/hs/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/dsc04238.JPG 
   
  Mark, one of the participants in the hunger strike sent us this message this morning:
  
"We'd like to say that the support we're getting from everyone is amazing. It's the key reason that we've been able to keep it up"
   
  They will be meeting with the university admin tomorrow (december 6th) and taking along a rally of supporters in the hope of forcing the university to sign the DSP. 

For the most up to date info check out www.perduehungerstrike.org and sign the online petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/nosweat/petition.html  and for any Facebook users, join the group at http://leedsac.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2220276342.
   
  Please send messages of solidarity to purdue_ole at yahoo.com as they are very much appreciated!
   
  In Solidarity,
   
  Heather
  No Sweat
   
  
 
  
 


"Years ago I recognised my kinship with living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free" 
Eugene Debs, US Presidential Candidate 1920

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