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DATE: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 22:09:45
From: Herman de Tollenaere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
EVERGREEN CAMPUS "FOOD FIGHT" ENDS IN STUDENT VICTORY
COLLEGE'S NEGOTIATIONS WITH SODEXHO-MARRIOTT BREAK DOWN AMID PRISON
CONTROVERSY
For Immediate Release Friday, August 11, 2000
Contact: Kevin Pranis, Not With Our Money: Students Stop Prisons-for Profit
(646) 486-6715, (917) 860-4635, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Olympia, WA. Students from Evergreen State College declared victory today
in a two-month long struggle to keep a catering company tied to the
for-profit private prison industry from taking over the school's food
service contract. In July, administrators announced that the college was
in final negotiations with Sodexho-Marriott Services (NYSE: SDH) over a
7-10 year contract, however those negotiations broke down on Monday amid
growing controversy and threats of a campus-wide boycott.
Evergreen is just the latest in a series of confrontations between
Sodexho-Marriott and college students, who claim that the company's
violations of workers' rights and relationship with scandal-ridden
Corrections Corporation of America make it an unfit provider of campus
dining services. A May 30, 2000 analysis by Merrill Lynch identifies
Sodexho-Marriott as the 48%-owned subsidiary of Paris-based Sodexho
Alliance which is, in turn, the largest investor in prisons for profit
through its 17% stake in CCA and 9% stake in sister company Prison Realty
Trust (NYSE: PZN).
A national campaign launched on April 4 by a group calling itself Not With
Our Money has been followed by the resignation of CCA founder "Doc" Crantz
from the Sodexho Marriott board of directors, and loss of a
Sodexho-Marriott contract at the State University of New York at Albany,
where a coalition of labor and prison activist staged a sit-in to protest
mistreatment of workers, private prison investments and the schools use of
sweatshops. According to organizers, the campaign has received broad
support from students, and has recently been endorsed by the United States
Student Association and the Canadian Federation of Students.
Private prisons make up the fastest growing segment of the U.S. prison and
jail population, which will reach two million in the coming year according
to a report by Justice Policy Institute. Reports of widespread abuse in
facilities run by Corrections Corporation of America and Wackenhut
Corrections, including guard brutality, denial of medical care and
retention of prisoners beyond the time required by law, have led to calls
for a ban on private prisons.
Evergreen professor Peter Bohmer is convinced that student and faculty
objections to the Sodexho-prison connection killed the contract. "A large
part of the Evergreen faculty, students and staff at this college find it
morally reprehensible to buy food from a corporation so closely connected
to the use of prisoners for profit, and we made that clear in a major rally
last week. This victory is 100% due to student organizing, and to
administration and company fears of massive protests in the Fall."
Senior Malka Fenyvesi concurs, "Students at Evergreen have a long history
of standing up for social justice. We know it's people our age who are
getting locked up in record numbers. We're not going to stand by while
Sodexho tries to profit from their misery.
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