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    :: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 ::

    Stained Uniforms - By Dave Zirin, ZNet
    "WILL Major League Baseball be more resistant to change than apartheid South Africa?"

    That's the question posed by Dennis Brutus, a former leading fighter against apartheid who is a founding member of the Pittsburgh Anti-Sweatshop Community Alliance. The group is pressuring the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team to lead a major league campaign to improve the working conditions of those who stitch and sew uniforms and caps.
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