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The University of Wisconsin at Madison announced on Thursday that it was cutting its ties to Russell Athetic, the clothing manufacturer. RA has been accused of closing a factory in Honduras in retaliation for union organizing there.
In November the Worker Rights Consortium released a report finding “substantial credible evidence” of such retaliation, and in late January the Fair Labor Association found that RA had engaged in “inappropriate and unacceptable actions” in response to labor organizing.
In a statement, a UW representative said that RA had not “has not met our expectations” regarding workers’ rights.
May 1 Update: FIFTY-SEVEN campuses to date. Wow!
According to the London School of Economics Gaza protest blog, two new British university occupations in response to Israeli policy began on Wednesday, at the University of Strathclyde and Manchester University.
This brings to at least seventeen the number of such occupations since mid-January, all of which — with the exception of Manchester University — have ended. (Other sources say there have been as many as 22 actions.)
The activist group Stop the War is hosting a meeting of protest organizers from around Britain tomorrow in London.
An Irish student march against new tuition fees yesterday drew as many as 15,000 participants.
The march, sponsored by the Union of Students in Ireland, took place as government officials suggested that a tax on high-income university graduates might take the place of tuition charges going forward.
The Union of Students in Ireland is sponsoring a huge protest against new student fees at the nation’s colleges and universities.
The Dublin protest, underway at this hour, is expected to draw tens of thousands of students. Check back for more details.
A British student wonders what I’ve been wondering: Why aren’t the UK student protests over Israel’s Gaza policies getting more ink?
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