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MEDIA ALERT:
WHO: University of Houston Students Against Sweatshops (UH SAS)
WHAT: Press Conference
WHERE: In front of the M.D. Anderson library on the main campus of the University of Houston, 3400 Calhoun, use entrance 1.
WHEN: April 2, 2009 @ noon.
WHY: Students Against Sweatshops are filing a state lawsuit against UH Chancellor and President Renu Khator, Richard Alderman, the associate dean of the UH Law Center, and four other UH professors and a UH staffer alleging fraud, negligent misrepresentation and defamation for their involvement and press releases related to the “Apparel Task Force” set up by Dr. Khator last spring.
Richard Alderman, also known as the “People’s Lawyer” and for his twice a week appearances on KTRK Channel 13 and his weekly Houston Chronicle column, drafted the “Apparel Task Force” final report and offered a $250 bribe, in writing to the UH Students Against Sweatshops to delay filing the lawsuit.
Categories: WRC · media · press conference · professors
Tagged: apparel task force, designated supplier's program, DSP, lawsuit, Richard Alderman
A public information request we recently filed revealed that the UH campus police have been secretly videotaping us. On July 15 we held a press conference in front of the library on campus. In reply to our request the UH general counsel provided us with a DVD showing that police officers were hiding in bushes and videotaping us. Apparently these low rent Steven Spielberg wannabes could not actually figure out how to record sound so their nine minute video just shows us standing around in front of the library getting ready for our press conference.
Our press conference addressed President Khator’s phony apparel task force “report” and Khator’s press release which ignored its recommendation to join the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC). Several corporate media outlets were in attendance. We also videotaped our press conference and posted it on youtube. See Press conference part 1, Press conference part 2
Maybe these low rent UH goons could just watch our video and learn something about the sweatshop issue.
It’s also important to note that the Khator and her administrators always tell us not to video them mainly because they don’t want a record of their lies and also because they have a bad habit of fabricating false disciplinary charges against us. But Khator has no problem with her junior G-Men clandestinely taping us without our permission.
Categories: crooked adminstrators · media · police · press conference · report · spying · surveillance
Tagged: police, public information, Renu Khator, spying, UH general counsel, video surveillance
This morning UH SAS asked UH General Counsel Dona Cornell for the status of the Texas Attorney General’s legal opinion about the University task force recommendation that the University affiliate with the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC). Even though the UH task force recommended joining the WRC like 182 universities and colleges all across the country have already done (see WRC affiliated schools) UH Chancellor Renu Khator claimed in her press release Monday July 7 that “I have asked our General Counsel to consult with the Texas Attorney General to determine if there is a barrier or legal reason UH should not join this group.” Khator’s statements suggest a stall tactic and today we have the evidence that proves Khator is stalling and failing to follow her own task force recommendation to affiliate with the WRC, a third party independent labor monitoring organization.
UH Counsel Cornell’s email admitted that she had already had these conversations and had written correspondence with the attorney general about this. However when SAS asked when she would be making her recommendation to Chancellor Khator, Cornell clammed up and claimed that “It would not be appropriate for me to have this type of discourse with you.”
Cornell also admitted that she had not even asked the Texas Attorney General (TAG) for an opinion letter. An opinion letter from the TAG would state whether or not he thought it would be legal to take a particular course of action. An opinion letter from the TAG is not an actual legal ruling. That could only come from a judge, however the UH General Counsel’s office regularly relies on opinion letters. For example, Cornell’s office routinely attempts to hide contracts between the University and its food service providers Aramark, bookstore contractor Barnes and Nobles, apparel manufacturers Adidas, beverage contractor Coca Cola and more. In each of those cases the TAG has ordered the UH general counsel to release the contracts in their entirety to Students Against Sweatshops.
Read Cornell’s devastating admission to her cover up for Dr. Khator and the use of sweatshop labor by UH to manufacture UH logo clothes: cornell-cover-up
Stay tuned for our press conference. We will release the location, date and time later today.
Categories: crooked adminstrators · press conference · report
Tagged: Dona Cornell, general counsel, Texas attorney general
“The UH Students Against Sweatshops (SAS) goal is for the University to sign on to the Designated Suppliers Program (DSP). For a university to sign on to the DSP it must be affiliated with the Worker Rights Consortium. Therefore we also want the University to affiliate with the WRC.
Students Against Sweatshops will be conducting a press conference in the near future to address the apparel task force report and Dr. Khator’s statement to faculty and staff regarding that report.”
Please consult our power point presentation for background information on this issue. Click on the dsp and wrc link below to access power point.
dsp-and-wrc
Categories: crooked adminstrators · press conference · report · study
Tagged: Daily Cougar, DSP, press statement, WRC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
PRESS CONFERENCE
WHEN: Saturday December 8 @ 11:30 a.m.
WHERE: The Wortham House, 1505 South Boulevard, Houston.
This is the UH President’s mansion.
SUBJECT: University of Houston Interim President & Chancellor Dr. John Rudley involved in handing out a $2.5 MILLION DOLLAR NO BID CONTRACT, barring African Americans from meetings on UH campus and much, much more.
Dr. John Rudley will be in attendance, hold him accountable to the taxpayer.
WHO: Timothy J. O’Brien, Ph.D student, African American history, University of Houston, History Department.
Founder, UH Students for Fair Trade (http://uhfairtrade.org/)
Founder, UH Students Against Sweatshops (http://uhstudentsagainstsweatshops.wordpress.com/)
For more information contact: Tim O’Brien @ 832.771.7263
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