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Who are the greedy ones (ode to Primark)?
Who are the greedy ones?
Is it the young shop-aholics,
Who go to Primark every Saturday to meet their friends,
Try on the clothes, have a laugh and buy some gear?
Only to discard them in their... 592 views | 24 recommendations | 5 comments
Sweat-shops: dream or curse?
"It may shock Americans to hear this, the challenge of poor countries is not that sweatshops exploit too many people; but that they don't exploit enough"...... Nicholas D. Kristof, New York... 608 views | 46 recommendations | 9 comments
Sweatshops: capitalism's demons!
"There’s no such thing as cheap clothing. Somebody has to pay. In this case it’s the workers in Manchester”…Neil Kearney, trade unionist.
The BBC has dug up a good story: sweatshops in... 1139 views | 103 recommendations | 24 comments
Primark linked to UK sweatshops
"Factory workers making clothes destined for fashion chain Primark work up to 12 hours a day for £3.50 an hour, an undercover BBC investigation has found. Supplier TNS Knitwear was also found to be employing...
created by generaldecay | 43 wks ago | updated 42 wks ago
593 views | 11 recommendations | 3 comments
593 views | 11 recommendations | 3 comments
Salmon for $5/lb.? Something's fishy about big-box retailers.
"If you were so inclined, you couldn't mail a pound of salmon back to Chile for $4.84. ... What exactly did Wal-Mart have to do to get salmon [from Chile] so cheaply? ... they ... don't want to have to explain...Santa's Sweatshop
" Of course while Ms. Claus gets exploited so do the elves,after all they represent a classic icon for child labour don't they. Santa's Sweatshop. Producing all those sweatshop toys for girls and boys, in the developed world. But you can now shop sweatfree."China's Art Factories: Van Gogh From the Sweatshop
Southern China is the world's leading center for mass-produced works of art. One village of artists exports about five million paintings every year -- most of them copies of famous masterpieces. The fastest workers can paint up to 30 paintings a day.Paradise lost: sweat shops and sex slavery on Saipan
The whir of hundreds of sewing machines reverberates in the thick, dusty air at the RIFU garment factory. Inside this large warehouse, behind a...Legalizing Human Trafficking
Current WTO negotiations threaten to worsen the already precarious lot of migrant workers around the globe.American Resistance News
This site believes the United States is being invaded by Illegal Aliens.NewsMax Immigration & Borders News
NewsMax believes that Immigration & Borders is a "hot topic". I think I'd agree. Americans in large numbers haven't stopped talking about this topic since April 2006. It must be important to them.States target employers of aliens
States are opening a new assault on illegal immigrants by passing laws targeting employers who hire undocumented workers.Soccer Inc.
"Sometimes the right wing gets it, well right. Cheap shots about anti-globalization protestors in Nikes, aside....Heres John Hayden from the Washington Times take on the World Cup; The World Cup is the perfect example of globalization. "Kielburger Wins Nobel
"Congratulations to Craig Kieburger the founder of Free the Children who mobilized a grassroots movement amongst Canadian youth to fight against Child labour and Sweatshops. That movement grew into an international campaign that is growing every day. Children's advocate...
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