by DC Jobs with Justice | Dec 3, 2008 | Projects, Student Labor Outreach Project
Students from American, Georgetown, and UMD traveled down to Ft. Benning in Georgia to attend the annual rally to close the SOA-WHINSEC. Every year, groups from around the country arrive in Georgia to protest the US government’s continued support of the SOA –...
by DC Jobs with Justice | Apr 3, 2008 | Projects, Student Labor Outreach Project
Students from universities across DC picketed in solidarity with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ campaign for better wages and working conditions outside the K St NW Burger King Wednesday. rnrnThe students chanted “Down, down with exploitation! Up, up with...
by DC Jobs with Justice | Dec 21, 2007 | Projects, Student Labor Outreach Project
Wearing bright yellow t-shirts reading “Burger King exploits farmworkers,” over 1,500 members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW)and their allies – including DC-based leaders and activists — marched through Miami last Friday, November...
by DC Jobs with Justice | Nov 1, 2007 | Projects, Student Labor Outreach Project
Order up: burgers and hot dogs, hold the coke. The George Washington (GW) Progressive Student Union held a cook-out and petition drive Tuesday to demand that GW dump Coca-Cola and switch to local vendors who respect worker and environmental rights. Over 100 students...
by DC Jobs with Justice | Apr 1, 2007 | Projects, Student Labor Outreach Project
As part of the National Student Labor Week of Action, more than 100 student, community, and labor activists led a March for Fair Food to demand respect for workers’ rights. The March 31st event kicked off with a rally at the Ballston Metro in Northern Virgina,...
