As French students strike against jobs they don't have, their American counterparts get naked to protest against the manufacture of affordable clothing.
It may seem very radical and extreme, but conditions in sweatshops are extreme, too.
So said Theresa Haas (above), a Penn State biology major who marched around the campus dressed primarily in Saran Wrap, which is produced in an environmentally destructive petrochemical process that -- I have no doubt -- Ms. Haas will protest against at some future date.
Haas and her friends attracted a lot of attention, though some witnesses seemed confused what the naked students were protesting.
"It was random; I didn't understand it," Shatonya Perry (senior-nursing) said as she sat dining at the lower level of the HUB. "Their banner was blurry, and they walked too fast."
The students have a website where you can send a message to the president of Penn State, who apparently controls the worldwide clothing market. Here's the text of the message I sent to Penn State's president:
I've never been to Penn State but I'm glad you have naked students walking around the campus. Keep up the good work!
For the good of all mankind.
Great !!! Thanks for this info, there are many people in this world who are very conscious about their rights .....
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