Hi
At work we have all (3 0f us) stopped, with some pain, buying Nike nad Gap after the other two saw the Panorama doc on TV. I have been interested in ethical consumerism for over 10 yrs and my main way to do this is by buying LESS, you dont need to recycle it if you dont buy it.!

I hate labels but I have worn Nike for over 5 years cos Im a size 13 Vegan and they hAVE big no leather trainers. Also cos they have real big clothes Ive been buying GAP last year. Now I will stop I hope being on the superWEB will help in my search for big veganny stuff that looks good

Mike

you don't have to stop wearing nike or gap - that doesn't help the workers, but it does do them out of a job. Thanks to global capitalisms devastation of the third world, the imf and the trillion dollar debt, etc, the sickening truth is that it is better to be exploited in a sweatshop than to lose your job and live in a shantytown scavenging in heaps, in a tiny plot of land that can't sustain your family, or in prostitution, etc. The workers want to fight for better wages not leave, and to win control over their own lives by being able to organise against NIke & co. We can help them. At a Liz Claiborne factory in Nicaragua managers engaged in mass sackings 5 times to put a stop to union organising- the last time they did it the workers were supported by student occupations in the US. This tore down the wall of invisibility and media silence that allows such practices to take place and forced them to negotiate with the workers. e can build a campaign that can do that here.

So on that note...are you a
SLAVE TO FASHION?
nope it's not another junk-mail offer its the

NO SWEAT NIKETOWN JANUARY SALE:

CHILD LABOUR AT ROCKBOTTOM PRICES!!!

Niketown, Jan 7th 2pm
meet outside Niketown, Oxford Circus, corner of Oxford St and Regent st.
nearest tube Oxford Circus (central line or bakerloo line)


you always knew you were a fashion slave, but you never thought you would actually have the chance to sell yourself body AND soul to Nike. Now the antisweatshop campaign No Sweat is giving you the chance - come along to the January sales outside Niketown and we'll auction you off to a lifetime of sweatshop slave labour. How low can you go - Nike pays its workers in Chinese factories 13 p an hour - you're worth every penny of it!

We're going to let thousands of shoppers know that while everything else they buy at Nike is really expensive, there's one thing that's really cheap...their third world workers. We just had an action outside Niketown on Dec 17th and it was brilliant: nobody likes sweatshops and child labour, and lots of people are getting involved.

So come along, there's something everyone can do to help. And we'll cross over to a nearby GAP and hit them because they're just as bad.

More info phone 020 7793 1468 or email revolution at  revo@workerspower.com.

Afterwards Revolution, the socialist youth organisation, is having our usual meeting. For those new to it all, it will be half planning activity, such as no sweat, and half discussing ideas. On the 7th we’ll have a discussion on "can we have capitalism without sweatshops?" Come with your ideas, for action and for the discussion.

See you soon!

Slave no. 3


AND
THAT WAS
JUST THE BEGINNING!
Niketown, Gap be afraid, be very afraid...

To the person who was talking about it being better to be exploited in sweatshops than to starve in shanty towns, I'd like to point out that if we all stop buying Nike and Gap clothes (I haven't bought an item of Gap clothing in years and I never buy Nike) and make it very clear why we don't want their clothes, they will have no choice but to improve conditions in their factories.

On another note, have you ever noticed that the only time someone's shoe falls apart is in huge sporting events? You never see anyone running down the street and their shoe explode. That means that 12 year old kids put shoes together better than Nike do for their star athletes...

AK Press (USA) have a very cool "Nike Child Labour" t-shirt that rips of the famed Nike "swoosh".

Wouldn't leave home without mine.