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Registration Closes MARCH 1 for Session 3 & 4! By Jonathan Walton - Posted February 29, 2012

Hey Binghamton University students! Registration for Session 4 of NYCUP closes tomorrow! Cornell Students, if you’re still thinking about it, it’s time to make a decision! William Patterson, do you want to send one more person? Let’s get those applications in and commit to changing your life and the lives of others during Spring Break! [...]

Trader Joes Finally Caves to Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Signs Fair Food Agreement! By Jonathan Walton - Posted February 25, 2012 slaveryinthesupplychain

On Thursday, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers announced it had signed a Fair Food Agreement with Trader Joe’s, a significant step forward its efforts to bring fairness and accountability to the food industry. “We are truly happy today to welcome Trader Joe’s aboard the Fair Food Program,” CIW’s Gerardo Reyes said in a joint statement [...]

Rachel Lloyd @ Cooper Union on March 5! By Jonathan Walton - Posted February 22, 2012 RachelLloyd

Rachel Lloyd tells the moving story of her escape from the commercial sex trade in Europe, detailed in her memoir, Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not For Sale, at The Cooper Union’s Great Hall on Monday, March 5 at 6:30 PM. Jonathan Walton, NYCUP Director and poet will also perform “GEMS”. [...]

Lent: What Are You Giving Up? By Jonathan Walton - Posted relentlessactsofsacrifice

NYCUP is proud to be a part of World Vision Acts’ ReLENTless Acts of Sacrifice. Six creative activists are inviting you to “Sacrifice” this Lent for the “least of these”. If you’re up for it, click here!

NYCUP Artist Courtney Wong Featured by MTV! By Courtney Wong - Posted February 20, 2012

Thanks to her commitment to launch a monthly anti-human trafficking video series with NYCUP LoGOFF, Courtney has been featured by MTV! Check out the article here!

Fair Labor Association Funded by the Companies It’s Supposed to Audit… By Jonathan Walton - Posted February 19, 2012 bloodyapple

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook says the company “cares about every worker” in its factories and that “no one in (the) industry is doing more to improve working conditions than Apple.” Of course, when it comes to issues of corporate responsibility, talk is cheap. What matters is not what Apple says, but what it does. [...]

Fair Trade…Flowers? By Jonathan Walton - Posted February 14, 2012 fairtradeflowers

Before you grab that bouquet, take a moment to pray for the people that plant, pick, prune and pass those blossoms from South and Central America and Africa all the way to your local florist. Take a look at this article from the International Labor Rights Forum. ILRF’s Fairness in Flowers Campaign has [...]

Apple Opens Up to Investigations at FOXCONN! By Jonathan Walton - Posted February 13, 2012 ApplePhoto

Apple has heard the critics and is now ready to dig deeper into Foxconn’s working conditions. The iPhone maker announced today that it has asked the Fair Labor Association (FLA), an organization “dedicated to ending sweatshop conditions in factories worldwide,” to investigate Foxconn facilities in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China. The first inspections began this morning in the [...]