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Nine Activists Arrested at OSU Sodexo Protest « Student Activism

Nine Activists Arrested at OSU Sodexo Protest « Student Activism

Nine Activists Arrested at OSU Sodexo Protest

Nine activists, seven of them students, were arrested at Ohio State University yesterday afternoon at the offices of university president Gordon Gee. The nine were part of a group of more than a hundred who had gathered to protest OSU’s relationship with campus contractor Sodexo.

The activists were affiliated with the OSU chapter of United Students Against Sweatshops, a national organization whose members have mounted nearly a dozen major campus protests across the country in recent weeks. USAS was spurred to action by reports of Sodexo worker rights abuses in at least five countries, as well