Moonwalk Mafia
7th August 2007, 21:09
Hello All,
I'm new to this site, and I must say that I'm fascinated with all the information and excellent discussions I've found in here. I'm doing a boring internship right now which has given me time to browse the site during the day. I came onto LiveChat last weekend, but I was being a drunk idiot - sorry, I won't that again. I'm not a drunk idiot all the time :)
I tried searching for "designated supplier program" in the search engine and nothing came up. If you are in an American Univsersity, it is something definately worth checking out. The goal is to get university to purchase apparrell from factories that allow workers to organize, pay workers living wages, and to stop relying on theiving distributers such as Nike.
This is not completely revolutionary, since it does not promote complete communal ownership of the factories by the workers, but by promoting worker organization as a basic tenent, hopefully that will be the first step to weakening the corporate web on production in the third-world.
If anyone has any questions, or knows of any information about the DSP, please respond! I don't know absolutely everything about it, and I'm always searching for new information. I helped organize a few rallies and actions for it at my university last year, and so far the administration has been frusturatingly stubborn.
Also, if anyone knows of any potential weaknesses or scams in the DSP movement, I would love to hear them so I can investigate it.
Thanks!
I'm new to this site, and I must say that I'm fascinated with all the information and excellent discussions I've found in here. I'm doing a boring internship right now which has given me time to browse the site during the day. I came onto LiveChat last weekend, but I was being a drunk idiot - sorry, I won't that again. I'm not a drunk idiot all the time :)
I tried searching for "designated supplier program" in the search engine and nothing came up. If you are in an American Univsersity, it is something definately worth checking out. The goal is to get university to purchase apparrell from factories that allow workers to organize, pay workers living wages, and to stop relying on theiving distributers such as Nike.
This is not completely revolutionary, since it does not promote complete communal ownership of the factories by the workers, but by promoting worker organization as a basic tenent, hopefully that will be the first step to weakening the corporate web on production in the third-world.
If anyone has any questions, or knows of any information about the DSP, please respond! I don't know absolutely everything about it, and I'm always searching for new information. I helped organize a few rallies and actions for it at my university last year, and so far the administration has been frusturatingly stubborn.
Also, if anyone knows of any potential weaknesses or scams in the DSP movement, I would love to hear them so I can investigate it.
Thanks!