Active Anti-Sweatshop Protests

Humboldt United Students Against Sweatshops (HUSAS) is an active organization designed specially to stop sweatshops. It was founded Spring of 2007, and their motive is to educate themselves and the public about sweatshops, the workers that are employed by them, and what we can do to help stop sweatshops. They wanted the University to endorse the Designated Supplier's Proposal. After several attempts and discussion with the director, HUSAS and the director decided to advise the Designed Supplier’s Proposal in a public letter. There were many attempts to get the letter a success, but they were always sent back for revisions. Aside from the letter, to help stop sweatshops, HUSAS held an anti-sweat rally. Here they spread the word about sweatshops to many hopefully activist. They plan to hold more major events and inform the public about sweatshops. These students’ main intentions are to inform other students about the subject, and to gain the support of their University’s participation in a program that will hopefully end sweatshops. These individuals feel that even after several attempts and efforts, from major apparel corporations, to end sweatshops, sweatshops still continue to be operated and more are springing up all over the world. So they feel that they clearly need a new solution to this problem. Their main purpose to work with the Designated Supplier’s Proposal is because this proposal has been designed to provide a new system of supervising and monitoring factories and provide power in the hands of the university, the students and the workers. This is a blog post by stopsweatshops.blogspot.com
I feel that this group has a great start. As you can see by reading the above post, stopping the usage of sweatshops is not easy and requires a lot of time, focus, and ambitious. Sweatshops are not stopped over night and it is a long process to even stop one. I feel that all the organizations and people against sweatshops should come together and unite as one. We all have the same motive and that is to stop all sweatshops, and so if we are united as one and out all of over solutions together then we will have a higher chance of stopping sweatshops, because we are actively working together. Of course there will be some difference in the outcome of sweatshops. Say for instance some people, in the big united organization, may just want to stop the use of sweatshops and not help the workers that are working for below poverty wages, and others may want to help them .The people that want to help them, including myself, can continue to do so. It doesn’t matter how much or little work an individual puts into the help to stop sweatshops, what matters is that we are all working together as a whole to stop active sweatshops and ones that may be in the process of forming in the near future.