The supposed commitment of the Univ of Wisconsin last year to support worker and human rights has been all but forgotten. It is time for all people to take the lead in all issues of social justice at our corporate universities. If you are at the University of Wisconsin at Madison or elsewhere in the region and can make it to Madison, please support the students by joining he occupation immediately. If you are elsewhere in the world, call the administration letting them know that the physical and legal repression of the students is intolerable and must end now, and that you expect them to support the demands of the occupiers to pull out of the Fair Labor Association and become full participatory members of the Worker Rights Consortium. This is spreading folks.
Active solidarity is needed.
The climate is changing very quickly on college campuses, and you are needed now. The United Faculty and Academic Staff, American Federation of Teachers Local 223, strongly condemns the arrest of students, campus workers, and community members at Bascom Hall this morning. We stand in total solidarity with those struggling to cut UW's ties to sweatshop exploitation, and support their demands. Chancellor David Ward, after telling the participants of the sit-in he would meet with them on Monday, has broken all trust by sending in riot police in the middle of the night to clear Bascom Hall. We are outraged the administration would use force against non-violent protesters in an attempt to silence a movement for social justice.