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Fast fashion giant Shein’s valuation has dropped by about one-third, from $100 billion to $64 billion, according to reports last week, as the company raises funding and prepares to go public. That IPO, potentially coming this year, will ignite talk...
by Laura Clawson
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on Tue Jan 24, 2023 at 07:47 AM PST
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Of course, closing down factories in the USA left lots of Americans out of work, but you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs! In China, there is no minimum wage and no “time and a half” overtime pay. Nor are there any paid vacation days....
by Perlinator
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on Thu Nov 04, 2021 at 01:26 PM PDT
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Because of my 20+ years of battling Nike’s sweatshop abuses, I’ve been getting phone calls and texts about Nike’s latest move to feature Colin Kaepernick in their reboot of the “Just Do It” campaign.
I have supported Colin’s brave acts of civil...
by Jim Keady
43 comments
on Tue Sep 04, 2018 at 07:24 AM PDT
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For those of you who do not know, I did labor rights advocacy in Indonesia for 14 years until I was arrested, deported, and banned from the country on May Day 2014.
I am very proud of Syarifah Nur Aida, one of my Indonesian team members, who worked...
by Jim Keady
12 comments
on Tue Jun 13, 2017 at 07:32 AM PDT
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“Nevertheless, she persisted.”
These three words, uttered by Republican Senator Mitch McConnell on the silencing of Senator Elizabeth Warren, sum up the struggle women have faced around the world when seeking equality, justice and human rights and...
by Jim Keady
13 comments
on Sun Feb 12, 2017 at 07:32 AM PST
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Most people don’t give a lot of thought to where their clothes come from, or the conditions under which they’re made. Every so often, we’ll hear a horror story like a factory collapsing in ...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
24 comments
on Wed Jun 01, 2016 at 07:00 PM PDT
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The Hillary Clinton Building
What do the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Brunei, FedEx, Boeing, PepsiCo, Intel, Cisco, Bank of America, Caterpillar, Citigroup, eBay, General Electric, Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman & Pete...
by Alex Ocana
91 comments
on Fri May 13, 2016 at 09:39 PM PDT
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Good afternoon. Here is why I will support Bernie Sanders until the convention.
Latinos still living in Latin America and Caribbean people have long known that the USA has been destroying the lives of children for centuries through American...
by Alex Ocana
59 comments
on Thu May 05, 2016 at 04:29 PM PDT
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Hellraisers Journal: Get together & you will beat the Herzogs & help every toiler of the sweatshops.
The strike is serious.
Get together and you will beat the Herzogs
and help every toiler of the sweatshops.
-Mother Jones
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by JayRaye
5 comments
on Sun Aug 23, 2015 at 11:00 AM PDT
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Who Really Wins a Global Race to the Bottom?
American Workers who lose Jobs to the lowest International wage-earners? No.
Foreign Workers who gain American Jobs, under the constant threat that ...
by jamess
15 comments
on Sat May 09, 2015 at 05:39 PM PDT
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Should we invite her in, Wisdom proves a most dutiful senior partner.
Are you shocked at academics who’ve just discovered descendants of slave owners and the enslaved are still waging war, or ...
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Wed Apr 22, 2015 at 01:53 PM PDT
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When I recapture the buoyant sculpturing of humanitarian dreams of grandeur — nothing as miniscule as Reagan’s borrowed City of Light Upon a Hill, but rather a majestic, magical refuge, an ...
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Sun Apr 12, 2015 at 08:06 AM PDT
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You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
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by JayRaye
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on Sun Feb 22, 2015 at 11:00 AM PST
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You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
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by JayRaye
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on Wed Nov 19, 2014 at 11:00 AM PST
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You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
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by JayRaye
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on Tue Jul 15, 2014 at 11:00 AM PDT
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Today’s diary, a co-production of NY Brit Expat and myself, reposts the historical documents we used last year quoting the words and actions of the “founding mothers” of International Women’...
by Geminijen
34 comments
on Sun Mar 09, 2014 at 03:00 PM PDT
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I quit.
I've handed in my resignation --
This job is one continual aggravation;
I'm feeling uninspired.
It's time that I retired;
I've given it, yes, due consideration.
And on this all-too ...
by Eowyn9
2 comments
on Thu Dec 12, 2013 at 08:09 AM PST
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Because Obama is in Africa, the pundits on MSNBC were saying this morning that China has invested far more in Africa than the U.S., and that we should "catch up" (as in, a race to the bottom ). They ...
by Bud Meyers
7 comments
on Sun Jun 30, 2013 at 10:45 AM PDT
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by Beverly Bell, Alexis Erkert, and Deepa Panchang
May 23, 2013
Over the past few weeks in this article series, we’ve heard firsthand from Haitian garment workers about low wages, sexual ...
by Bev Bell
1 comments
on Thu May 23, 2013 at 07:59 AM PDT
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By Beverly Bell
May 8, 2013
Below, Haitian women workers tell of their experiences in sweatshops. These interviews, gathered over the past two years, are among many dozens that this writer has ...
by Bev Bell
8 comments
on Wed May 08, 2013 at 09:11 AM PDT
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