Click to buy your tickets now! $50 general, $20 students

Ten years ago, students started organizing to confront sweatshop abuses in factories around the world where the clothes on their campuses were made. At the time, major clothing brands insisted that they had no responsibility for the working conditions at the factories and that the very locations of the factories were trade secrets. With the support of unions, NGOs, and other allies, United Students Against Sweatshops was formed and the fight against campus-sponsored abusive working conditions was ON.

Fast-forward to 2007: USAS has helped win worker victories around the world. The Worker Rights Consortium was founded as a USAS initiative, and now has more than 175 member schools. Garment worker unions have won campaigns with USAS support. Major brands can no longer hide their relationships to factories and have disclosed their locations after USAS pressure. In 2005, USAS launched the Designated Suppliers Program to stop the brands from abandoning unionized factories.

But it doesn't stop there...since 2001, USAS has built student-worker solidarity with campus workers through struggles for living wages, the right to organize, and decent working conditions. USAS has held campus contractors responsible and has leveraged student power to support farm workers in North Carolina, Coca-Cola bottling and canning workers in Colombia, and the list goes on.

Join us in celebrating the last ten years and laying the foundation for future victories!

When: February 28th 2008, 6:00 pm

Where: Marvin Center, George Washington University, Washington DC

Buy your tickets now! $50 general admission, $20 for students.

(Can't make it? You can still join the celebration by making a donation!) 

In solidarity,

USAS Ten-Year Anniversary Organizing Committee: Hevily Ambriz Espinoza (UCLA '06), Victoria Cepeida-Mojarro (NYU '04), Zack Knorr (UC Riverside '06), Mike Wilson (Georgetown '05), Gladys Cisneros (Georgetown '04), Jess Champagne (Yale '01), Miranda Nelson (University of Chicago '07), Emma Roderick (Smith '07), Trina Tocco (Western Michigan '03), Allie Robbins (GW '04), Jess Rutter (Duke '04), Ben McKean (Harvard '02), Max Toth (Mills '00) and many more USAS alumni/allies.

P.S. Alumni and others who are interested in learning more about how to help out with the event, the ten-year commemorative book, or a USAS support event in your town, please email \n This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .