Some of them are bigger, like the city resolutions that are popping up all over the country to lay out conditions for government purchasing. J Some are more glamorous, like leafleting GAP stores or demonstrating in front of Niketowns. But it can only work if it has supporters, and the work of each and every participant matters. In the movement-wide effort to eradicate sweatshops, via building transnational alliances and a cooperative plan of action with activists and workers all over the world, we are in a viscous period. Sarah Lawrence needs to join the WRC if it wants to have a voice in the structuring of the enforcement system, and ultimately, in the restructuring of the global economy.
Many schools have codes of conducts, which ask for living wage and independent monitoring.
A whole host of other colleges are gearing up to get on the WRC this spring. Sarah Lawrence will soon be joining them, and so as many of us as possible should get ready, get set, and . It's still being produced, even if it just lays on the rack and rots. Also, our athletic teams will continue, and thus will buy more clothes in the future. We also do work that is not related to the code of conduct, including supporting the local struggle against sweatshops in Manhattan and backing local unions in their fights.