Lecture series on sweatshops
to unveil Indonesian renort
■Two speakers will discuss
their interviews with factory
workers overseas and review
photographs and videotape
By Anna Seeley
Oregon Daily Emerald
Instead of taking vacations to the
coast, going on road trips or visit
ing relatives, two University grad
uates spent their summers in In
donesia visiting with factory
workers who make various Uni
versity products, including hats,
clothing and stuffed animals.
Now back from their trip, Chad
Sullivan and Agatha Schmaedick
will speak about their summer ex
periences in “Eating Our Own
Tears, Sweating in Indonesia,”
tonight in 110 Willamette. This is
the first presentation in a weekly
lecture series about worker rights
sponsored by the United Students
Against Sweatshops.
Sullivan and Schmaedick spent
three months in Indonesia inter
viewing factory workers and docu
menting their research with video
footage and photographs. Sullivan
said they will be sharing their re
search tonight with a PowerPoint
presentation and a short video fea
turing the workers they met . He
said they talked with workers at 12
factories who made products for
Adidas, Nike, Gap, Old Navy and
other companies.
“A lot of the workers were young
and mostly women,” he said.
“They were working in some of the
harshest conditions. A lot of times
it was their first job.”
Sullivan said many of the work
ers could speak for hours about
their jobs and were definitely not
happy with them. He said a lot of
the workers had to work overtime,
sometimes causing injuries.
Sullivan said he and Schmaedick
wanted to present the lives of the
workers accurately in the workers’
own words.
“It was a really amazing experi
ence,” he said. “It was very power
ful to see their courage.”
The duo hopes their presentation
will inspire people to take some ac
tions, Sullivan said. He added that
after Nike CEO Phil Knight’s mon
etary return to the University, they
want people to know Nike hasn’t
stopped exploiting its workers.
“There is no moral justification
in any kind of relationship with
Nike in my opinion,” Sullivan
said. “Not to say we should boy
cott their products, because that’s
not what the workers want, but we
shouldn’t be proud.”
Randy Newnham, co-director of
the Survival Center, said students
can look at Sulh van and Schmaedick
Eating Our Own Tears,
toe their experiences visiting
withworfcem
When: 6 p.m. today
Where: 110 Willamette
Soun»' Survival Center
and see they are students, just like
themselves, and realize they can also
bring social change.
“It’s important for students to
see the people out there making
change are people just like them
selves,” he said.
Greg Dusic, member of USAS,
said because students are a huge
consumer group, it is important for
them to see what the people mak
ing their clothes are like.
“This is an opportunity to go and
‘meet’ the people who make your
clothes and make the connection
with yourself, the clothes you are
buying and the people who make
them,” Sullivan said, “even though
it’s halfway around the world.
“It’s a very far-reaching problem
we’re talking about. ”
Anna Seeley is a student activities reporter
for the Oregon Daily Emerald. She can be
reached at annaseeley@dailyemerald.com.
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