{"id":405,"date":"2006-05-09T08:27:03","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T16:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=405"},"modified":"2006-05-09T08:27:10","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T16:27:10","slug":"students-win-victory-against-sweatshop-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/05\/09\/students-win-victory-against-sweatshop-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Win Victory Against Sweatshop Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_05_09_usas.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_05_09_uprising.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"http:\/\/www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org\/images\/logo.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><em>GUESTS: Jessica Rutter, National Organizer and Zack Knorr, Southern California Regional Organizer, members of United Students Against Sweatshops. Zack is also a graduate student at UCRiverside<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on May 5th, the University of California announced its plan to implement the <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org\/docs\/designatedsuppliers.doc\">Designated Suppliers Program<\/a> proposed by United Students Against Sweatshops. The program sets fair workplace standards for garment factories. All ten campuses of the UC system will join 18 other already committed universities in implementing it. The decision comes nearly a month after a series of sit-in protests by UC students. On the UC Berkeley campus, 18 anti-sweatshop protestors were arrested during a sit-in in April for trespassing. Ten demonstrators were also arrested at UC Riverside in April.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org\">www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Sonali\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Subversive Thought for the Day: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gloria Steinem once said, &#8220;Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren&#8217;t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUESTS: Jessica Rutter, National Organizer and Zack Knorr, Southern California Regional Organizer, members of United Students Against Sweatshops. Zack is also a graduate student at UCRiverside In a statement released on May 5th, the University of California announced its plan to implement the Designated Suppliers Program proposed by United Students Against Sweatshops. The program sets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}