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23
Nov
2009
Global Responsibility: Loving Our Neighbor???

9 hours ago by Lionel Woods

“You shall love your neighbor as yourself” These are the words of the Christ to His disciples and this is the second in the two greatest commandments, as the “entire law” hinge on these. I often wonder am I loving enough or from what aspect am I loving? I once heard someone say “Jesus cares for the ...

A Better Covenant - lionelwoods.net · Rank: 177,942 · 4 references

22
Nov
2009
John Pilger-The New Rulers Of The World

1 day ago by Johnito

Onderzoeksjournalist John Pilger doet in deze documentaire een boekje open over de neoliberale globalisering, de vèrgaande invloed van instellingen als de IMF en Wereldbank, en de gevolgen voor miljoenen working poor. Pilger laat onder meer zien hoe merken als Nike, Adidas en Gap profiteren van bijn ...

Johnito Magazine - johnito.blogspot.com · Rank: 30,002 · 14 references

21
Nov
2009
American and Chinese Students Fight for Rights of Workers

2 days ago by paulgarver

by Paul Garver American student anti-sweatshop activists have won their first major victory in a decade-long campaign against sweatshop conditions and repression of labor unions in Central America. Russell Athletic, largest supplier of campus team uniforms and logo-wear, fired 145 union supporters a ...

Talking Union - talkingunion.wordpress.com · Rank: 79,214 · 48 references

20
Nov
2009
Untitled

3 days ago by Beatrix Potts

SweatFree Communities: 2010 Shop with a Conscience Consumer Guide Cafe Talk Winnipeg

Cafe Talk Winnipeg - cafetalkwinnipeg.blogspot.com · Rank: 95,930 · 1 reference

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3 days ago by Beatrix Potts

Shop with a Conscience Consumer Guide Check out this year's Sweatshop Hall of Shame We have worked hard to pull together the good, bad and the ugly of the apparel industry. The Shop with a Conscience Consumer Guide sponsored by the International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) and SweatFree Communities (S ...

Cafe Talk Winnipeg - cafetalkwinnipeg.blogspot.com · Rank: 95,930 · 1 reference

Honduran Workers Win Major Victory with the help of Students and Activists ...

3 days ago by Labor Rights

By Jeremy Silva and Eva Seidelman, International Labor Rights Forum Over the weekend was a time for of celebration and relief for many Honduran workers and their families: 1,200 workers who were fired from Russell's Jerzees de Honduras (a sports apparel company owned by Fruit of Loom which is ow ...

Labor is Not a Commodity - laborrightsblog.typepad.com/international_labor_right · Rank: 52,588 · 50 references

The profit motive

3 days ago by Benjamin Seghers

Video second video Bhopal gas tragedy

In my global marketing strategy class the other day, instructor David Thomsen showed two pretty shocking videos in discussing public relations. One was on the Bhopal disaster of 1984. The Bhopal gas tragedy is the worst industrial disaster in human history, leaving 8,000 dead within hours of the gas ...

SCSU Intellectuals - scsuintellectuals.wordpress.com

19
Nov
2009
Primark – the high cost of cheap fashion

4 days ago by keithpp

A trade fee zone outside Primark in Cambridge Primark is at the opposite end of the fashion spectrum to Mango, Prada and Gucci. The clothes are cheap, dirt cheap. So cheap you can pick up a pair of jeans for less than a fiver. So cheap they are undercutting the charity shops selling secondhand cloth ...

Keithpp's Blog - keithpp.wordpress.com · 1 reference

Wanna know where NOT to buy your Christmas gifts?

4 days ago by Justin Fung

Check out the ILRF’s 2010 Sweatshop Hall of Shame.

Gershom's Journal - jbarnabas.wordpress.com · Rank: 157,469 · 1 reference

Good Shirts Doing Good: The Four Corners of Skreened’s Ethical Foundation

4 days ago by Jim

Yesterday afternoon, the print-on-demand t-shirt outfit called Skreened renewed its commitment to ethical practice, issuing this statement: 1. Ethically made – inside and out. We start with only American Made garments. That’s our baseline for treating workers at the beginning of the process with res ...

Irregular Times: News ... - irregulartimes.com · Rank: 3,413 · 357 references

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