Today, students throughout the University of California system began sit-ins at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Riverside, to demand that the University of California adopt a policy requiring that the brands producing clothes and uniforms bearing the university name source these goods from factories in which workers are represented by a democratic union and earn a living wage.
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United Students Against Sweatshops sitting at Riverside and Berkeley Univesities by Fernando Sanchez
As of 9:30 tonite, 12 students still are staging a SIT IN at ucr chancelor's office at UC Riverside, with about 75 demonstrators still outside in support. Demands are for UC to go SWEAT FREE!
UC Riverside has the potential to set a new standard that could potentially spread and force large, greedy public establishments like the University of California system to buy ONLY SWEAT FREE clothing for their workers.
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Students Take Over Chancelor's Office at UCR!!!
by phuk minutemen
Update:
Police arrested TEN students at the University of California-Riverside
by Maria Hernandez
United Students Against Sweatshops Take Over Chancelor's Office at UC Riverside