Rod Palmquist is the International Campaigns Coordinator for United Students Against Sweatshops, a campus network of students supporting the rights of workers locally and around the world. Already a seasoned social justice campaigner, Rod helped lead the biggest university boycott since the anti-apartheid movement, pressuring over 100 universities across the United States, Canada, and Britain to cut their contracts with a corporation called Russell Athletic. USAS won an unprecedented victory, forcing Russell Athletic to reopen a unionized factory they illegally closed in Honduras, pay a multi-million dollar settlement to workers in damages, and adopt a stance of union neutrality at all their Honduran plants. To learn more about USAS, visit www.usas.org.

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