Loyola Phoenix: 7 LU protesters arrested in anti-Nike effort
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Loyola Phoenix: 7 LU protesters arrested in anti-Nike effort
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An article in the Loyola Phoenix, featuring a photo of student protesters holding signs protesting sweatshop labor.
The article reports:
"Seven Loyola Students Against Sweatshops members were arrested at Niketown on North Michigan Avenue for disorderly conduct Saturday afternoon after protesting the Nike corporation's labor practices at its factories around the world.
Along with members from United Students Against Sweatshops chapters from Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and others, Loyola students protested Nike's treatment of workers at Kukdong, a Nike-contracted factory in Puebla, Mexico, according to Tom Strunk, a Loyola fourth-year classical studies graduate student arrested Saturday. Eighty-five percent of the factory's output is Nike apparel, according to sophomore Lindsay Wooster, an LSAS member who protested Saturday but was not arrested.
At 1 p.m. Saturday afternoon, about 50 USAS members, including 15 Loyola students, began the protest on the sidewalk outside Niketown. Seven Loyola students already inside the store began their part of the protest 20 minutes later, spreading out among Niketown's three leels. Two students dropped a few hundred small leaflets from the top floor, and two students unveiled a banner that read 'Kukdong Workers Demand JUSTice. DO IT NIKE!' Three students remained on the bottom floor as Nike security officers attempted to track the protesters down, Strunk said.
Strunk and the other LSAS members inside the building asked security officers to allow them to speak to the Niketown manager, but he repeatedly refused before calling the Chicago Police Department, Strunk said."
The protesters were told they could leave or be arrested, and they replied that they would stay until they spoke to a manager. The manager refused and rejected their prepared letter. Chicago police officers arrested some of the protesters.
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The article reports:
"Seven Loyola Students Against Sweatshops members were arrested at Niketown on North Michigan Avenue for disorderly conduct Saturday afternoon after protesting the Nike corporation's labor practices at its factories around the world.
Along with members from United Students Against Sweatshops chapters from Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and others, Loyola students protested Nike's treatment of workers at Kukdong, a Nike-contracted factory in Puebla, Mexico, according to Tom Strunk, a Loyola fourth-year classical studies graduate student arrested Saturday. Eighty-five percent of the factory's output is Nike apparel, according to sophomore Lindsay Wooster, an LSAS member who protested Saturday but was not arrested.
At 1 p.m. Saturday afternoon, about 50 USAS members, including 15 Loyola students, began the protest on the sidewalk outside Niketown. Seven Loyola students already inside the store began their part of the protest 20 minutes later, spreading out among Niketown's three leels. Two students dropped a few hundred small leaflets from the top floor, and two students unveiled a banner that read 'Kukdong Workers Demand JUSTice. DO IT NIKE!' Three students remained on the bottom floor as Nike security officers attempted to track the protesters down, Strunk said.
Strunk and the other LSAS members inside the building asked security officers to allow them to speak to the Niketown manager, but he repeatedly refused before calling the Chicago Police Department, Strunk said."
The protesters were told they could leave or be arrested, and they replied that they would stay until they spoke to a manager. The manager refused and rejected their prepared letter. Chicago police officers arrested some of the protesters.
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2001-01-31, occurred 2001-01-27
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Loyola Phoenix, 2001-01-31, page 1, 7 LU protesters arrested in anti-Nike effort
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University Archives and Special Collections
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University Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Phoenix, 2001-01-31, page 1, 7 LU protesters arrested in anti-Nike effort
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Loyola University Chicago
Student life organizations
Student life activism
Rights
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