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Nike Campaign Coming to Carnegie Mellon University
Speakers lived as Nike workers for one month in Indonesia

       Asbury Park, NJ,
       March 18, 2002

  Educating for Justice (http://www.nikewages.org) announced today that
its Directors, Leslie Kretzu and Jim Keady will speak at  Carnegie Mellon
as part of their 2001-2002 Nike Campaign - National Speaking Tour.
They will speak Wednesday, March 27th from 7:30 to 9:30 pm in McConomy
Auditorium on Carnegie Mellon's Campus.  Kretzu and Keady
spent August 2000 living in a factory worker's slum in Tangerang,
Indonesia on $1.25 a day, a typical wage paid to Nike's workers. "Starving
for the Swoosh," their one-hour and fifteen minute interactive multi-media
presentation, followed by a forty-five minute question and answer period,
includes slide shows, music, role-playing, and powerful new video footage
of Kretzu and Keady's chance encounter with Nike CEO-Phil Knight at Nike
headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon.
      Kretzu and Keady spent the last year and a half traveling the
country speaking at near 80 Universities to over 13,000 students sharing
their presentation and encouraging students to take action on behalf of
Nike's workers.  Last April they were invited to brief members of congress
about Nike's labor abuses.  They have most recently begun production on a
full-length, independent documentary film that will detail their
experiences in Indonesia with Nike's workers.  They are also currently
laying the groundwork with Indonesian-based non-governmental organizations
to establish a Worker Education and Resource Center in Tangerang,
Indonesia.
      Both Keady and Kretzu are excited about the opportunity to come to
CMU.  "We are encouraged by the amount of interest members of the
Carnegie Mellon community have shown so far," Keady said.  "The students
and community members seem really open to learning more about the issues Nike
workers face and we hope they will be equally energized to take action to
help the workers in their struggle for justice."