DFA Endorsed candidate Roy Carter supports sit-in over workers rights
by Mike Cooper [courtesy of Blog for America]
Roy Carter, candidate for U.S. Congress came to visit,the students who were staging a sit-in against Appalachian State Univeristy using sweatshops to produce their apparell.
Carter arrived as the students awoke on Friday morning and delivered them doughnuts, and stayed with them as long as he could.
Update: Realizing that Carter's presence and The Nation offering to do a story on it, the University threw the kids out, and had the six that peacefully remained arrested.
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