Sentences with phrase «against sweatshops»

In college Schwarz had worked as a national organizer for United Students Against Sweatshops, where he realized the power consumers» dollars have to influence manufacturers to improve their business models.

And I've supported boycotts against sweatshops, abusive farming practices, and military occupations.

Jason Boughton (b. 1968, Spokane WA), has labored on an uncompensated or below minimum wage basis for: The Public Art Fund, VideoDUMBO, Spin Cycle Post, 911 Media Arts Center (Seattle), Toronto International Film Festival, Daniele Ugolini Contemporary, Franco Soffiantino Gallery (Turin), Volta NYC, Creative Time / Queens Museum, Columbia University School of the Arts, Ludlow 38, 6 - 9 Month Space, Moscow International Film and Video Festival, Martha Rosler, Vladivostok International Video Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Invagination I & II, Millennium Filmmaker Workshop, Lower Manhattan Community Council, Sidney International Film Festival, National Mobilization Against Sweatshops, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Fisher - Landau Center for Contemporary Art, Anthology Film Archives, The Filmmakers Cooperative, Scaramouche Gallery.

Arlen Austin (b. 1981, Winooski VT), has worked on an uncompensated or below minimum wage basis for: Columbia University School of the Arts, Scaramouche Gallery, Chinese Staff and Workers» Association, Brooklyn is Burning, Public Art Fund Development Grant, Daniele Ugolini Contemporary, National Mobilization Against Sweatshops, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Sweatshop Free Upper West Side, Volta NYC, Creative Time / Queens Museum, 6 - 9 Months Project Space, Fischer - Landau Center for Contemporary Art, Barefoot in the Head at Bruce High Quality Foundation, White Box and Frederich Petzel Galleries.

Fashioning themselves the «United Students Against Sweatshops» (it's okay to laugh at that), these kids have taken TFA to task for being «the man» — and for turning teaching into sweatshop - like work by allowing some selected recruits to enter the classroom without slogging through the entirety of traditional teacher prep.

According to the Harvard Crimson, «The effort is part of a larger national movement started by United Students Against Sweatshops that criticizes Teach For America, a nation - wide program that recruits college graduates to teach in low - income communities for at least two years, for undermining the quality of public education.»

As I wrote last week, the American Federation of Teachers has hopped into bed with the United Students Against Sweatshops.

What's more, a number of unions on college campuses are allying with non-governmental organizations, such as United Students against Sweatshops to hold corporations accountable for enforcing labor standards throughout their global supply chains.

No Sweat Apparel, on the other hand, can easily rail against sweatshops in developing countries.

Her documentary «Resilience» about her garment worker mother fighting against sweatshop conditions, screened at film festivals including the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival.

Not exact matches

Coming out against parental benefits would be like mourning sweatshops and sexual harassment.

Second, partnerships between big business, civil society, and national governments have scored victories against human trafficking, environmental degradation, and sweatshop labor.

That said, the cheapest manufactured goods often come from sweatshops with terrible labor conditions, so I try to weigh that against price and buy fewer but better - made things.

Motion is just one issue, although because these characters have found themselves consigned to sweatshop facilities over the past few years, the impression that Mickey, et al are struggling against zero - gravity is almost preferable to the choppiness of the «House of Mouse» TV and dtv ventures.

The riots waged against the WTO convention in Seattle in 1999 protested the use of corporate sweatshops, where low - wage laborers have literally worked their lives away while creating commodities for Western capitalist markets.

This holiday season, take a stand against cookie - cutter consumerism, sweatshop labor, and rampant environmental destruction by pledging to buy and receive handmade gifts at BuyHandmade.org.

Coming out against parental benefits would be like mourning sweatshops and sexual harassment (my emphasis).