December 06, 2007 Clean Clothes Campaign
	The Clean Clothes Responds to G-Star's Withdrawal from FFI/JKPL -- Today G-Star announced its withdrawal from supplier FFI/JKPL. The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) and the India Committee Netherlands (ICN) are pleased that G-Star has finally taken this important first step toward socially responsible practices. Part and parcel of this decision should be G-Star's effort to maintain jobs for the workers of the FFI factory.
December 03, 2007 Clean Clothes Campaign
	Indian court issues international arrest warrants for Dutch labour activists -- NGOs, Unions outraged at attempt to imprison human rights defenders.
December 02, 2007 Bloomberg.com
	Wal-Mart Protesters Picket Mexico City Store to Demand Union -- ``Wal-Mart in Mexico is no different from Wal-Mart in the U.S.,'' said Maria Pantoja, a Mexico City representative of Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based group that is helping local workers organize. She said the company pays low wages and drives small shops out of business with its low prices.
November 16, 2007 commondreams.org
	Wal-Mart’s New Greenwashing Report -- Wal-Mart’s massive scale also undermines the independent businesses that form the fabric of healthy, sustainable communities. Global Exchange and the Mexican group CILAS look at how the company has hurt communities, jobs and the environment in Mexico, where it is also the leading retailer. Jobs with Justice and the American Independent Business Alliance share first-hand accounts of community impacts and resistance, while Good Jobs First documents how Wal-Mart has strained communities by pocketing massive subsidies - at least $1.2 billion to date.
October 29, 2007 NEW DELHI (AP)
	India Activists Decry Gap Child Labor -- With Gap Inc. under fire for selling clothes made by children in India, activists and police raided a sweatshop in New Delhi where 14 boys were embroidering women's garments Monday, illustrating the widespread problem of child labor in the South Asian country.
October 28, 2007 The Observer
	Child sweatshop shame threatens Gap's ethical image -- An Observer investigation into children making clothes has shocked the retail giant and may cause it to withdraw apparel ordered for Christmas
October 28, 2007 BBC News
	Gap pulls 'child labour' clothing -- Fashion chain Gap has withdrawn from sale children's clothing allegedly made using forced child labour in India.
August 31, 2007 Global Exchange
	Victory for Landmark Sweatfree Resolution -- At 9:30am on Wednesday the 29th, Portland’s Sweatfree Resolution was passed with X votes. Approximately 100 people crowded City Hall, including union representatives, former sweatshop workers, and community members to testify in support of the Resolution. Speakers included, Rev. Lynne Smouse Lopez (Ainsworth United Church of Christ), State Senator Brad Avakian, State Rep. Brad Witt, former GAP sweatshop worker Chie Abad, James Hester, President of the District Council of Trade Unions (DCTU), Carol Stahlke, President of AFSCME 189, Heidi Carlson, President of Foundation Garments, Inc., among others.
January 24, 2007 Women's Wear Daily
	Senators Push Law Banning Sale of 'Sweatshop' Imports -- WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation Tuesday that would ban the sale in the U.S. of imported products deemed to be made in "sweatshops" overseas.
November 14, 2006 Associated Press/Business Week Online
	Protesters storm Wal-Mart in Mexico City -- NOV. 14 9:57 P.M. ET Demonstrators stormed a Wal-Mart on the outskirts of Mexico City on Tuesday, accusing the U.S.-based retailer of selling low-cost goods at the expense of workers, farmers and public markets.
November 12, 2006 Associated Press/MSNBC.com
	U.S., Mexican activists to fight Wal-Mart -- MEXICO CITY - U.S. and local activists formed a common front on Sunday to fight the expansion of Wal-Mart stores in Mexico, saying small stores and the national culture are under threat from what is already the world’s biggest retailer.
October 16, 2006 Common Dreams
	Watch Out Wal-Mart! -- As we enter the final weeks leading up to the US mid-term elections, interested parties are pulling out all the stops to make sure their candidates win. One such interested party is the corporation Wal-Mart, which newspapers just revealed plans to hand out election materials about certain candidates to its more than one million US employees. But judging from what happened when Wal-Mart got involved in the recent presidential election in Mexico, the company may want to think twice.
June 29, 2006 Business Week
	Fixing Apple's "Sweatshop" Woes -- Otto von Bismarck, the first chancellor of the German empire, once smartly compared laws to sausages, observing that anyone fond of either should never see them being made. The same might be said for many consumer products such as clothing. Fancy new clothes may look nice, but if you were to drop in unannounced at the factory where they're made, more often than not you would be hard pressed to describe the working conditions as pleasant.
June 23, 2006 The San Francisco Sentinel
	Mayor Newsom swears in Sweatfree Procurement Advisory Group -- Mayor Gavin Newsom swore in eleven members of the Sweatfree Procurement Advisory Group at City Hall on Thursday, June 22nd, 2006.
June 12, 2006 The New York Times
	Sweatshops in Africa? Consider the Case of Jordan (1 Letter) -- U.S. Senator from North Dakota, Byron L. Dorgan, expresses his opinion against Nicholas D. Kristof's June 6 column -that argued sweatshops were beneficial in Africa- by comparing it to Jordanian sweatshops where cheap labor was imported from China and Bangladesh.
June 01, 2006 The Nation.
	Campus Breakthrough on Sweatshop Labor -- Student activists at the University of California have achieved a significant victory in restraining the forces of unregulated globalization. UC president Robert Dynes announced earlier this month that the ten-campus system had pledged its "full and enthusiastic engagement" with an antisweatshop policy advocated for the past year by United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), a national coalition.
May 09, 2006 CONTRA COSTA TIMES
	UC joins efforts against sweatshops -- After student protests and arrests, the University of California has agreed to participate in a program that aims to ensure that UC does not contract with companies using sweatshops to produce school logo apparel.
May 03, 2006 Women's Wear Daily
	Fair Trade Fashion Takes Off in Europe -- PARIS - Ethical fashion is broadening its scope as major European retailers respond to heightened consumer concerns about apparel manufacturing that damages the environment or violates human rights.
May 03, 2006 New York Times
	An Ugly Side of Free Trade: Sweatshops in Jordan -- Propelled by a free trade agreement with the United States, apparel manufacturing is booming in Jordan, its exports to America soaring twentyfold in the last five years. But some foreign workers in Jordanian factories that produce garments for Target, Wal-Mart and other American retailers are complaining of dismal conditions - of 20-hour days, of not being paid for months and of being hit by supervisors and jailed when they complain.
May 01, 2006 Ms. Magazine
	Paradise Lost -- That expensive blouse you’re wearing? It may have been sewn by a Filipina garment worker laboring in a factory owned by a Hong Kong mogul on a western Pacific island. The Northern Mariana Islands, a territory of the United States, offers the possibility of an American label — Made in Saipan (USA), Made in Northern Mariana Islands (USA), or simply Made in USA — to garment manufacturers, and throws in a unique exemption from U.S. minimum-wage and immigration laws.
April 19, 2006 The Daily Calfornia
	Council Agrees to Develop Anti-Sweatshop Measures -- City agencies may soon be barred from contracting with companies who use sweatshop labor after the Berkeley City Council unanimously approved the development of an anti-sweatshop ordinance at last night’s meeting.
April 11, 2006 SF Gate/ San Francisco Chronicle
	Students protesting UC apparel arrested -- Eighteen students demanding that University of California-logo apparel not be produced in "sweatshops" were arrested at a sit-in at the UC Berkeley chancellor's office Tuesday afternoon.
April 03, 2006 Sweatfree Communities
	Schools, Cities, States Unite to Fight for Historic Sweatshop Reforms -- On the heels of historic new sweatshop-free purchasing laws in San Francisco, Madison, and Milwaukee, and an unprecedented agreement among nine Catholic school boards in Ontario to pool resources for monitoring and inspecting factory suppliers of school uniforms, proponents of “sweatfree” procurement will gather in a new international landmark: the first international SweatFree Communities conference, to be held April 7-9, in Minneapolis, Minnesota
March 29, 2006 Peace through Interamerican Community Action
	LEGISLATURE PASSES ANTI-SWEATSHOP BILL -- Maine’s House of Representatives passed a strong measure today giving the State’s Division of Purchases better tools to ensure that the apparel, textiles, and footwear the state buys are made under safe and fair conditions. The bill passed the Senate earlier this week, and has the support of the Governor.
March 14, 2006 Z Net
	Maquilla Violence in Mexico -- On February 14, the day sub-comandante Marcos arrived in the city of Puebla as part of his six-month journey across the country to listen to the voices of the underdogs of the Mexican left, the national newspaper La Jornada carried on its front page the most convincing advertisement for the Zapatistas' Other Campaign to appear in print.
March 10, 2006 Labor Notes
	Mexican Garment Workers Poised to Win an Independent Union -- In the face of dismal working conditions and company and government repression, workers in a key Mexican clothing factory successfully organized an independent union over the past year, winning official labor board registration on February 10. The mostly women workers at Manufacturas Lajat (which makes jeans for Levi Strauss & Co.) won by using militant tactics and rallying support in the maquiladora area of north central Mexico.
March 03, 2006 Berkeley Daily Planet
	UC Berkeley Students Get Naked To Protest Sweatshop Labor Practices -- Students Organizing for Justice in the Americas (SOJA) staged a rally on the UC Berkeley campus Wednesday clad in “Sweat-free UC” signs—and little else.
March 02, 2006 Financial Times
	Rag Trade a Spectacular Prize for Ethical Movement -- The Fairtrade hallmark best known for coffee and chocolate has taken on an ambitious new challenge: the rag trade. The garment industry would be a spectacular and symbolic prize for the Fairtrade movement.
February 27, 2006 The Exponent
	Students Protest Sweatshop Hardships -- After listening to the plights of sweatshop workers, Purdue students subsequently taped petitions on Hovde Hall Monday night in an attempt to motivate Purdue President Martin Jischke to act on the issue.
February 17, 2006 New York Times
	On Private Web Site, Wal-Mart Chief Talks Tough -- In a confidential, internal Web site for Wal-Mart's managers, the company's chief executive, H. Lee Scott Jr., seemed to have a rare, unscripted moment when one manager asked him why "the largest company on the planet cannot offer some type of medical retirement benefits?"