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They’re about a year late, but it’s nice to know that our “friends” down in Palo Alto also share the same views we have about having sweatshop-free clothes.
The Mercury-News is reporting that 11 Stanfurd students have been arrested for storming the office of the president and staging a five-hour sit-in. While those students sat in the president’s office, a group of students—some naked—rallied outside of the building.
Sound familiar? That’s because it happened right here (pictured above), at UC Berkeley, last year. It’s just the Stanfurd kids are a bit late with their protests.
Last year, protests ravaged (kind of, not really) the Cal campus as nude protesters stood outside the chancellor’s office trying to get the university to be “sweatshop free.”
The Bwog, the blog of Columbia’s undergraduate newspaper, pokes fun at the timing of the Stanfurd protests. Their headline runs “Wait, Isn’t it the Left Coast?,” and they put themselves on a pedestal, espousing how Columbia has gone away from using sweatshops for their university apparel.
Whoop-dee-fucking-do. Our university, Cal, after the protests here, adopted those policies way before the Stanfurdites. When did Columbia adopt those policies?
Eleven students arrested at sit-in [Mercury-News]
Wait, isn’t this the Left Coast? [The Bwog]
Comments:
May 25, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Cal rules, stanfurd drools