They're going to keep providing a source of accountability, to push us to be tough. This week at Berkeley, they will present an alternative monitoring plan. But time is running against them. In an exasperated response to student demands in late March, UC Senior Vice President V. Wayne Kennedy urged a more pragmatic approach. Among them are Richard Appelbaum, a sociology professor at UC Santa Barbara, who is helping students at that campus organize a plebiscite on the question of sweatshops.
Someone has to raise the issues in their pure form and push for a dream.
What results may be more progressive than what would have been otherwise.