The show also included digs at the Harvard administration. Last semester the University committed to full disclosure of the locations and names of all overseas factories making Harvard apparel.
So far, the University has not released any names.
"We'd love to tell you all about the factories that make [Harvard] clothes, but Harvard doesn't think it's important enough to ask [manufacturers] about," Monteleoni said.
McKean said No Sweat could have picked any of 20 companies to parody but chose Nike and the Gap because of their popularity on campus and the high visibility of their advertising.
"They are more dependent than most on their image," McKean said.
This is not the first time that PSLM has targeted Nike. Earlier this month PLSM hosted a forum with a former Nike worker from Indonesia named Haryanto.
The show's announcers charged that one percent of Nike's annual advertising budget is enough to pay all of the company's workers in Indonesia a living wage.
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