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Labor Research, Worker Power, and Immigrant Justice: An Interview With the UCLA Labor Center Director
Saba Waheed is the director of the UCLA Labor Center. Prior to this role, she spent 11 years as the Labor Center’s research director. With nearly 20 years of experience developing community-led research projects for labor advocacy organizations, Waheed’s work is grounded in the “research justice” framework, which she co-developed to address structural inequities in…
Fighting For A More Just World: An Interview With The Ignatian Solidarity Network
By Sahid Fawaz Chris Kerr is the Executive Director of the Ignatian Solidarity Network, which is a US-based national social justice education and advocacy organization grounded in Catholic Social Teaching and the spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola. The organization, along with Ethix-Merch, co-founded the Catholic Ethical Purchasing Alliance to provide support to institutions seeking to…
The Buy Your Values UCLA coalition hosts its first in-person event
By Sahid Fawaz On Wednesday, May 21st, the Buy Your Values UCLA (BYV) coalition– a newly formed initiative under Environmental Justice Now, a facilities committee under the Undergraduate Students Association Council at UCLA– hosted its first in-person event. The event aimed to educate students from various garment-oriented organizations about the importance of joining the coalition. BYV seeks…
U.S. College Students Standing in Global Solidarity with Garment Workers
An interview with Gisselle Cervantes, National Organizer with Students for International Labor Solidarity Labor 411 editor, Sahid Fawaz, sat down with Gisselle Cervantes to talk about her ongoing work as a National Organizer for Students for International Labor Solidarity (“SILS”), which is a student-led movement championing for ethical garment manufacturing. The Buy Your Values UCLA…
How Good Food and Ethical Apparel Can Create Good Jobs
An Interview with Paula Daniels, Founding Chair of the Center for Good Food Purchasing Labor 411’s editor Sahid Fawaz sat down with noted expert Paula Daniels, head of the Center for Good Food Purchasing, an LA-based non-profit that brings locally grown, good, healthy food to our public schools and government institutions. Now the Good Food…
The National Consumers League: Fighting for Consumer and Worker Protections Since 1899
An Interview with Executive Director Sally Greenberg Labor 411 Editor and Social Media Director, Sahid Fawaz, sat down with National Consumers League (“NCL”) Executive Director and Labor 411 Foundation board member, Sally Greenberg, to talk about the NCLS’s mission, successes, and current initiatives. By Sahid Fawaz SF: Thank you for taking the time to share…
Building a Better L.A. Through the UCLA Community Scholars Program
An Interview with UCLA’s Gilda Haas Gilda Haas, co-founder and current faculty of UCLA Labor Studies’ Community Scholars Program, sat down with Labor 411’s Sahid Fawaz to talk about the program and its role in building a better Los Angeles. SF: Can you give our readers a bit of background on the Community Scholars Program…
When You Return Those Pants, There’s a Price You Don’t See
The following piece has been reprinted from The New York Times. January is a time to redo, revise and recommit. It is also the time to return things. We can click the return button first on the season’s passive-aggressive and otherwise unwanted gifts. An upgraded espresso machine, perhaps not so necessary. Farewell, too, to the…
Building a Bridge Between Ethical Garment Manufacturers and Purchasers
An Interview with Ethix Merch CEO Daniel Cardozo Daniel Cardozo, CEO of Ethix Merch and a member of the Buy Your Values UCLA Steering Committee, sat down with Labor 411’s Sahid Fawaz to talk about ethical manufacturing in the garment industry. SF: Thank you for taking the time to talk with us. Can you tell…