Student protest.In the summer of 2006, 14 college anti-sweatshop activists from United Students Against Sweatshops United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) is a student organization based in the United States with chapters at over 200 colleges and universities. In April of 2000 USAS helped to found the Worker Rights Consortium, an independent fair labor monitoring organization which exacts an (USAS USAS United Students Against Sweatshops USAS Uniform Statewide Accounting System USAS USA Shooting USAS Uniform School Accounting System USAS Undergraduate Student Academic Services (Ohio State University) ) went to 12 countries to gather evidence to convince universities to writing sweeping demands into the multimillion-dollar contracts they sign for college-logo apparel (http://www. inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/ 2731). Twenty years ago, a student group known as "The Fordham 9" conducted a successful blockade of a CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). recruiter at Forclham University's Bronx campus that stopped CIA recruitment for a year. To read how this historic action might relate to current antirecruitment actions on today's campuses, see "Challenging CIA and Military Recruiters on Campus: Lessons from the Fordham 9" (counterpunch.org, May 6, 2006). On April 23, 2006, the first regional conference was held by the new Students for a Democratic Society Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), in U.S. history, a radical student organization of the 1960s. In the influential Port Huron (Mich.) Statement (1962), the organization, founded in 1960, presented its vision for post–Vietnam War America and called for (SDS 1. (company) SDS - Scientific Data Systems. 2. (tool) SDS - Schema Definition Set. ) at Brown University. The reborn SDS has established 77 chapters nationwide. For information, contact Bert Garskof at 203-393-3213, 203-232-8455 (cell) or hgarskof@ adelphia.net. |
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