<![CDATA[Human Rights Activists Protest NBA-Linked Sweatshops]]>

1.0 link 215326 <![CDATA[Human Rights Activists Protest NBA-Linked Sweatshops]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/human-rights-activists-pr_b_215326.html Many celebrities will be in the stands to watch the Los Angeles Lakers play the Orlando Magic in the NBA finals at Amway Arena tonight, and even more Hollywood stars and political types will be at Staples Center Tuesday night if a 6th game is necessary. But outside both arenas, human rights, labor, and student activists will be picketing to protest the NBA's links with a global corporation that violates workers' rights and subjects them to sweatshop conditions.

The protesters want...

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