Surf these sites: Able Preteenagers Alert us -- Craig Kielburger''s organization and book, "Free the Children," are worth reading and joining and understanding for anyone interested in socially responsible investing issues. Activism, Boycotts, End Sweatshops & Child Labor -- Co-op America''s Sweatshops.org aims to end sweatshops and child labor; supports fair trade, international human and labor rights. Battling Sweatshops -- Public Broadcasting Service archives past newshour specials. This one on battling sweatshops can provide a "Real Audio," in depth rendition as well as a text based summary of significant parts of program. Written April 14, 1997 but still of use today. Big corpations scare museums: Sweatshop Exhibit Delayed. -- U.S. history of sweatshops continues to date. An exhibit was shunned and delayed, until Simon Wiesenthal Center''s Museum of Tolerance accepted it in late 1999. CISPES Anti-Sweatshop Campaign -- Compares historic U.S. sweatshops and exposes sweatshops in Central America, focusing on El Salvador Campaign for Labor Rights at Duke -- March, 1998 Duke University''s "Sweatshop" standard is linked closely with the demand for factory disclosure plus a stipulation that the university has the right to send independent monitors to inspect conditions and labor practices in those factories. Caution: Children at Work -- Church World Service page with information about youthful activists, links to their library which has films about sweatshops where millions of children are imprisoned. Child Slave Labor News -- Immaculata High School students newspaper on line. This page is about Saipan sweatshops and U.S. firms profiting from that. Comité laboral de EUA impone controles ilegales a maquila -- En Espanol. Maquilladora sweatshop and labor activism article with picture of Anti-Sweatshop Activist, Charles Kernagan touring a factory in Honduras. Fair Labor Document -- U S Government site which proposes ways and means of textile industry self regulation. Activists consider self monitoring by clothing manufacturers to be of little value. Feminists Against Sweatshops -- This organization''s page on sweatshops gives the background of sweatshops with focus on repression of women and children in their use. Global March -- Global March Against Child Labour Site - Map has numerous links to actions and information concerning world wide exploitation of children in slavery or sub-poverty wages of pennies a day. Guess Boycott -- Guess Jeans? Yes. Nonprofit "to bring justice and improved working conditions for employees working at Guess? in Los Angeles, California." High Tech Sweatshops -- Corpwatch says, "...high tech industry (uses) thousands of low-paid, mostly immigrant women, who assemble the nuts and bolts of our computers using hundreds of toxic chemicals." Kathie Lee Gifford''s Lesson -- On April 29, 1996 Charles Kernaghan (labor movement''s mouse that roared) very badly dly embarrassed Kathie Lee Gifford by telling a Congressional committee about conditions at Global Fashions, a Honduran factory that made her sportswear, where 5 year old girls earn 31 cents an hour and work 75 hour weeks. (Sweatshop conditions) LaborNet -- IGC LaborNet has labor news and information for unions and activists wishing to share news and information on labor issues. Home page shows stunning photograph of a child working in a brick factory and links to Activists'' plans for confronting child sweatshops. Maquila Solidarity Network -- Activists organizing "Maquiladora" factories to improve conditions, win a living wage, and campaign against multi-national corporate abuse. NMASS -- National Mobilization Against Sweatshops (NMASS) - Site explains grassroots educational effort by and for working people and youth of all backgrounds and communities. Peace through Interamerican Community Action -- PICA is an activist organization to enable dignity and human rights for workers everywhere. Based in Bangor, Maine they have confronted Wal-Mart and offer specific alternative places to buy clothing. Salon News on sweatshops -- Tom DeLay, is characterized as a defender of sweatshops. "The GOP whip thinks that American companies using underpaid garment workers in distant Saipan is just fine." By Jeff Stein in Salon E Magazine, February, 1999. Smithonian sweatshop exhibit -- Graphics intensive historical review of sweatshops in America. Stop Sweats -- Nonprofit devoted to stopping Sweatshops Sections of site: (1) What is a Sweatshop? (2) What You Can Do?, (3) Teaching Resources, (4)Current Campaigns, (5) Students Against Sweatshops, and (6)Stop Sweatshop Links. Sweatshop Reform -- Hearts and Minds nonprofit site. Although this article is dated (9/97) it has logic, analysis and current links on how the harsh weatshop conditions stimulate public reactions. Sweatshop Journal -- MSNBC four page summary of 8 month under cover work by Reporter, Minnie Roh who posed as a garment worker. With hidden camera and daily journal she exposes a U.S. sweatshop. Sweatshop Watch -- Sweatshop Watch is a coalition to eliminate sweatshops in the garment industry. Sweatshops-retail -- Retail Industry positions on Sweatshop Activity Taking the Pledge -- Brown University alumni report shows Brown University groups taking a pledge to not support sweatshops in various goods that relate to the university in anyway. - December 1998 The Triangle Fire -- On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory in New York City caught fire. Nearly 150 workers, mostly young women, had been locked in the sweatshop and died in full view of their families and neighbors. Traveling Sweatshop -- Dramatic enactment of sweatshop issue intended to awaken the awareness of people. U.S. shoppers as of early 1999 responded 2 to 1 as not thinking about sweatshops when they bought clothing in television poll. US Dept of Labor -- Entitled, "No Sweat," site aims to help end sweatshop conditions for U.S. workers Unite - Fire Triangle -- March 25, 1911, the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City took the lives of 146 workers. These workers were mostly young, female immigrants who came to the United States seeking freedom and found poverty and horrifying working conditions instead. Rallies now held each year in N.Y. Contacts to rallies here. United Students Against Sweatshops -- USAS is a national student org for ending the use of sweatshop labor. Press releases, media links, a calendar, school updates, and more. United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) -- United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) is an coalition devoted to stopping sweatshop labor, on the personal web site Jeff and Kari. Not updated but they have several links not available elsewhere. Universities enable Sweatshops -- Students Blast University Labor Code as Too Weak "This Code is a sham," said Todd Pugatch, a member of the University of North Carolina chapter of USAS. "This Code will put a university stamp of approval on factories paying starvation wages," said Tico Almeida, a Duke student and USAS member. Released Dec 2, 1998 Wal-Mart Confronted -- Charles Kernaghan''s small organization was featured in The Providence Journal-Bulletin. Entitled: "Activist targets Wal-Mart factory conditions,"wants to make sure that foreign workers are treated and paid fairly." By Brian C Jones, Staff Writer Friday, June 19, 1998.
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