According to Diamond, this was the third semester in which students brought concerns about Disney sweatshops to recruiting sessions. They were denied the opportunity to put out information, and thereby unable to engage students in dialogue or present a picture of Disney that is decidedly vacant from public discourse and view. Student groups, including the campus-based Amnesty International chapter, are pressuring the University to drop all charges. They are planning a follow-up program on Disney sweatshops and freedom of speech, to be held at UNH April 15. Updated and additional materials will be mailed automatically during the year to everyone who orders the initial installment.
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References from article available on request. Arnie Alpert is New Hampshire Program Coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee. The village of Dame Marie sits at the tip of the broad peninsula that makes up the southwestern part of Haiti, the poorest nation in the western hemisphere. Half the children under age 5 are malnourished. Dame Marie has several thousand residents, and is the commercial center of an area with a population of ten or twenty thousand.