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USAS SouthernMiss's Interests
General
Activism. Action. Alliances. Living Wage. Fair Trade. Fair Labor. Outreach. United Students Against Sweatshops. Student Farmworker Alliance. Coalition of Immokalee Workers. Living Wage Action Coalition. Workers Rights Consortium. Student Labor Action Week. The South/ Southeast. Awesome Southern Miss students.
About me: REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETINGS:
2:00 Every Friday in the WALKER SCIENCE BUILDING, ROOM 132
United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) is part of a national movement of student groups and individual students fighting in solidarity with workers for sweatshop-free labor conditions and workers' rights. We define "sweatshop" broadly and recognize that it is not limited to the apparel industry. Members of USAS use their power as students to help organize international solidarity campaigns and support U.S. workers in living wage fights, farm labor organizing, immigrant rights campaigns, and other struggles for justice. While USAS literally made its name fighting sweatshops in apparel industry, we are unambiguously committed to fighting labor exploitation of all kinds.
USAS' three cornerstone campaigns are the Sweat-Free Campus Campaign, the Ethical Contracting Campaign, and the Campus Living Wage Campaign. In addition to these campaigns, USAS was also heavily involved in the Immigrant Worker Freedom Ride of the fall of 2003, and in the implementation of the New American Freedom Summer in 2004, registering immigrant voters throughout Arizona and Florida. USAS also launched a civic participation program in the spring, summer, and fall, of 2004, focusing on non-partisan get out the vote work on college campuses. USAS coordinates an international summer internship program, sending students to intern with worker support organizations around the world, and holds a number of international delegations each year. In summer of 2005, USAS sent 16 interns to 13 countries to conduct research on wages and working conditions in the collegiate apparel industry, and to support ongoing organizing campaigns. USAS affiliates maintain local autonomy, and are able to strategize nationally and internationally in order to bring about concrete change on many levels.
www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org
Who I'd like to meet: Other students/activist/people at Southern Miss and the surrounding areas interested in fighting human and worker rights, dignity, and a living wage.
I miss you kids...and not showering...okay, not really on the showering thing...but I do miss that foxey lady we saw on the last day of the trip. Hottie. WHich one of you checks this?
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Children are sewing clothing for Hanes, J.C. Penney and Wal-Mart in Bangladesh. The children tell us they are 11-14 years old. The companies say they are "malnourished adults." Who do you believe?
Visit the NLC website and decide for yourself.
................SON DEL CENTRO: Mi Jarana es mi Fusil...
Son del Centro is a group of youth community activists that use the Jarana as their weapon of choice. The outcome is a NON-PROFIT musical group, where all the members are volunteers, and most importantly; 100% of the revenues from CD sales and performances sustain El Centro Cultural de Mexico and all of its community projects. Thank you for supporting alternative community projects.
[walkout to getout]: national walkout only one week away!
Demand Books Not Bombs this November 7th!
november 7, 2006: National youth walk out. Mobilize to show the opposition of young people to a war that is killing our peers. Be creative, help people get to the polls and speak out!
On November 7th, the day of the mid-term elections, young people across this country will Walk Out to Get Out of Iraq! Our month of education, organizing, and mobilizing will culminate on what will be a powerful display of the youth and student movement for peace and justice! We are calling for young people to walk out of their schools, their campuses, and their jobs, not only to go out and vote and to help others vote, but also to show the people in power that the youth and students of this country will not stand aside while they prioritize war and profit over our needs!
In 2003, over 450 schools participated in a walkout before the war even started! In the fourth year of this illegal war, let's double that number!
Be sure to go to www.nyspc.org and let us know if you are going to participate so we can publicize and get a sense of how many people are joining this historic day of resistance! Register your event!!
Put up flyers, use sidewalk chalk to get the word out all over your campus, community, work place, etc. You can use our stencil!
Write an op-ed or letter to the editor to your local and campus newspapers
Post it on your Myspace account, your blog, send emails to friends and all those who have signed the Books Not Bombs pledge, etc
Be sure to get as many people as you can to participate with you. This is a day for solidarity and collective action, each one of us is affected by the spending on this war. Ask your family, friends, co-workers, and classmates to join in on this day of resistance! Ttouch base on what plans are in the works, how many folks you have signed up, permits for rallies, rides to the polls, t-shirts, publicity, etc. You could also do some research on candidate's stance on the war and create some flyers to let folks know. Remember, not everyone (or anyone) has to walk out; there are other options for everyone who wants to get involved.
tell all of your friends/fake myspace friends to add nyspc!! keep an eye out for organizing toolkits by the end of the week.
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Demand Books Not Bombs this November 7th!
We Will Join Together for a Month of Education, Organizing, and Action!
* OCTOBER 10TH-OCTOBER 15TH BOOKS NOT BOMBS KICK-OFF TO KICK OUT:
Examine the US war budget and demand spending on education, job training, veterans’ benefits and health care. Kick out Congress people that don’t prioritize our needs! Sign the Books Not Bombs Petition! download the petition.
* OCTOBER 16TH-OCTOBER 22ND TEACH-INS & FILM SCREENINGS:
Organize Teach-Ins and Film Screenings on the Iraq War at your school or in your community.
* OCTOBER 23RD-OCTOBER 29TH STUDENT SOLIDARITY WITH IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR:
Invite Iraq Veterans Against the War members to speak on your campus and support their resistance! For more information, visit www.ivaw.org
* OCTOBER 30TH-NOVEMBER 3RD TURN UP THE HEAT WEEK:
Make yourself visible and your voices heard at public events, rallies and candidate engagements demanding "Books Not Bombs"!
* NOVEMBER 3RD-NOVEMBER 6TH PEACE PARTIES:
Be social with your actions! Celebrate cultural resistance through art, spoken word, hip-hop, and partying! Get together, devise strategies to end the war and build community!
* NOVEMBER 7TH WALK OUT TO GET OUT OF IRAQ!:
National youth walk out. Mobilize to show the opposition of young people to a war that is killing our peers. Be creative, help people get to the polls and speak out!
November 17-19, 2006: Converge at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia
Close the SOA and Change Oppressive U.S. Foreign Policy
November is just around the corner and the movement to close the SOA/WHINSEC is growing, organizing and as relevant as ever.
With former SOA graduates being unmasked in Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Paraguay, Honduras, and Peru for their crimes against humanity, and with the blatant similarities between the interrogation methods and torture methods used at Abu Ghraib and those described in human rights abuse cases in Latin America, the SOA/WHINSEC must be held accountable!
The SOA/WHINSEC does not represent the values of most Americans. Torture, deceit, political corruption, mass assas
