Sweaty Consciousness: The Students Against Sweatshop Movement By Lisa Hollingshead SAS not SDS is a new acronym for a new generation of student activists. “Students Against Sweatshops” may not have yet received the same attention as their “Students for a Democratic Society” predecessors, but they have been noticed: “While in the sixties the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War infused the student movement with a keen awareness of racial oppression and the excesses of …showed first 75 words of 2751 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2751 total…years, makes us feel like certain products are extensions of our inner selves”. The logo is a new form of power that circulates through our very being. The student against sweatshop movements can give us vocabulary to deconstruct the systems of oppression that global capitalism is currently transforming. The student, the unionist, and the women working in sweatshops, are all involved in this network of power. We can together transform the limitations opposed on us.