Alex Bores
speaker
694 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 21 Apr
Alex Bores’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So he did graphics and videotape and instant replay.
He worked in the trucks.
Eventually became a technical director, but
He was one of the people that's actually sending out the signal before it hits your TV.
Well, they sound very different, but every day it seems to be more and more intertwined at Cornell.
The School of Industrial and Labor Relations, I learned economic theory.
I learned collective bargaining.
I learned how to run campaigns and organizations in ways that actually can change power and win things.
And I learned to stand up for working people and to view a lot of interactions in the world through that lens.
Be specific about that.
My freshman year, we ran a campaign against Nike.
Cornell was sponsored by Nike, our athletic team sponsored by Nike.
So I was part of a group called Cornell Students Against Sweatshops.
It was affiliated with USAS, United Students Against Sweatshops.
And they taught us how to build a campaign over time.
We learned how to be strategic.
So you start with a clear demand.
In this case, it was Nike had laid off 1,800 workers in Honduras without giving them legally mandated severance pay.
And we argue that the Cornell Code of Conduct required that Nike be responsible for their subcontractors' actions so that they make the workers whole.
So we put that into demand.
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