USC Students Sitting In Against Sweatshops

Student activism is alive and well. According to a phone call I just received from a USC student, 13 USC students are currently sitting-in at President Steve Sample's office to demand that USC join 30 others universities and colleges to the anti-sweatshop Designated Suppliers Program (DSP). Here is the DSP website with a description of the anti-sweatshop program and a list of the 30 universities that have joined DSP, including the UC system, Columbia, Cornell, Wisconsin, U/Conn, Colorado, Brandeis, Skidmore, Smith, Indiana, Miami, Syracuse and Iowa.   Here is a YouTube video about recent USC protests on this issue.  Here is an article I wrote in The Nation last year about the DSP.

Below is an email from United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) about the USC protest.