Last year, OAG joined the Kick Out Sodexo coalition, originally formed by the UW chapter of United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS). The goal of this coalition was to demonstrate support and solidarity for the termination of the UW’s contract with food service company Sodexo International. Today, we won. The UW has chosen to not renew [...]
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Sick of Sodexo rally
Event Title & Host Sick of Sodexo rally Website http://kickoutsodexo.org When? Tuesday, Nov 22, 2:30 Where? Quad at the University of Washington Why? KICK OUT SODEXO, global human rights abuser, FROM UW! Description The UW has a $3.4 million dollar contract with Sodexo, a corporation cited with international uman rights abuses like paying poverty wages, [...]
Letter From UW President Michael Young to OAG on Sodexo Contract
Recently, a constituency of youth from OAG drafted and personally delivered a letter to UW’s fresh Prez, Michael Young. The letter was a statement declaring the principles on which many OAG members engaged in civil disobedience last year, in symbolic opposition to the UW’s contracts with Sodexo Intl. Follow the whole Kick Out Sodexo Campaign [...]
University of London Union Votes to Block Sodexo Contracts
This post follows the previous Kick Out Sodexo Coalition Sit-In’s at the University of Washington. For OAG’s summary of Sodexo labor rights abuses, read this article. Visit the website for the international Kick Out Sodexo campaign here. On Tuesday June 21st, provoked by news of the 71 college students who were arrested across the U.S. [...]
Take 3! Sit-In Photo Gallery
You(th) heard us chant “If this is how it’s gonna be, we are set for sit-in 3!” as we left the athletics building on May 19th. Wise has yet to cut our contract, so the Kick Out Sodexo Coalition promptly joined forces with the Diversity Coalition and extended our attention to Eric Godfrey, VP for [...]
Sit In #3: Amplifying Student Voice
Today the Kick Out Sodexo coalition allied with the Diversity coalition and came together to demand that the University of Washington administration respect student voice. Staging the third direct action of the Kick Out Sodexo campaign, 75 students performed a sit-in at the UW Admissions building, saying “No to Sodexo” and “Yes to Diversity.” OAG [...]
Why We Staged The Sit-Ins
This post originally appeared on Change.org -> many thanks to Jess Kutch, director of Organizing at Change.org, for all her tremendous support of the Kick Out Sodexo Coalition After 7 months of polite letter-deliveries, postponed meetings with the UW administration, and general disinterest in their message to “Kick Out Sodexo,” the UW chapter of the [...]
Photos of the Sit-In, Round 2
Hey You(th)! The battle to kick out Sodexo continued May 19th with a massive rally and a second sit-in, this time in the office of Scott Woodward. Check out these photos of the sit-in, the rally outside the building, and of students post-arrest.
Students Stage Sit In #2
On Thursday May 19th, over 80 students from the UW Kick Out Sodexo Coalition, along with a number of unafilliated UW students met in the school’s Red Square at the UW Seattle to deliver a powerful message: we will not tolerate contracts with human rights abusers. The students marched to the Athletics administration building, where [...]
