Alex Bores
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694 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 21 Apr
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Then you build up over a period of educating.
And so we'd have teach-ins, we'd have sort of ridiculous actions to grab attention.
We did a working out for workers' rights where we were in the quad and just like playing 80s music and getting people like, hey, what's going on?
Oh, well, let me talk to you about what's going on in Honduras.
And then you build up to more aggressive actions that require a reaction from the administration.
We ended up being successful in that campaign.
Cornell decided it was going to cut its contracts.
And I think something like three weeks after Cornell made that announcement, Nike about faced paid the workers all the money they were owed and gave them job training and health care for a year.
So you tell me about how you learned to do activism in college, which is interesting.
There's so much that's in contention between workers and capital.
but in the best worlds, how you're actually working together to grow the economy, that workers are not out there to bankrupt any company, that they want the company to grow.
And so there's fights over how you distribute the pie, but theoretically both want to grow that pie.
And then there's really interesting relationships internationally.
One of the things that I discovered was for so many of the countries where we thought labor conditions were awful,
The laws on the books were actually quite good.
The question was with enforcement.
And if the home countries actually tried to do enforcement, the factors would just up and leave and go somewhere else.
So the lever where maybe you can change that is in the countries that are buying most of the goods.
And so we would apply pressure in the U.S.
about holding countries to the standards they had already set up for their workers.
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