[the follow information was provided by Alain Dang at the University of California—Irvine.]

Update: After meeting with our Athletic Department Director, Dan Guererro, the UCI Womens Basketball team is not signing with Nike again this year, switching to Converse. He will be seeking alternatives when the other teams’ sponsorship contracts come up for renewal in the coming years. We may be taking our skit on the road to a few schools in the Santa Ana area in the fall. UCLA, UC San Diego, and UC Davis are all either kicking off or organizing their NIKE campaigns as well. It’s expected the University of California Student Association (UCSA) and the United States Student Association (USSA) will join UC Irvine in this campaign.

thanks to all who supported uci’s nike awareness day! it was a big success. over 500 flyers were distributed, 300 buttons were given out and over 200 letters to nike ceo phil knight have been collected so far. the skit provided the conservative campus powerful images of workers facing an endless workday, dramatizations of documented cases of physical abuse, and the inner thoughts of one worker, trying to make sense of her life among the chaos and oppression she faces. we got a lot of positive feedback from the uci community, and even helped at least 5 people with their research papers. if uci didn’t know what was going on in nike-producing factories in southeast asia, they do now. i want to especially thank the members of the Vietnamese American Coalition for their hard work and total commitment to this project. the fire is spreading over nike and phil knight is feeling the heat. let’s keep the pressure on!

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