Brown University, Providence,
RI
The living wage campaign at Brown University
has faded, and a city campaign set in Providence has taken its place.
Students and organizers reflect on the success and failures of the
Brown campaign, the importance (and difficulty) of working with
workers, and how city campaigns differs from campus campaigns.
Interviews:
Peter Asen
-- student activist
Matthew Jerzyk --
director of Rhode Island's Jobs With
Justice
Nick Rutter --
student activist
Anissa Weinraub
-- student activist
Campaign links:
The
Brown Student Labor Alliance -- the now defunct homepage of
the Brown living wage campaign.
Rhode Island's Jobs With Justice
-- lead the campaign for a municipal living wage and code of conduct
policy in Providence, RI.
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