RETURN SWEATSHOP MAKE POVERTY HISTORY WRISTBANDS
giveearthbacktothepeople | 09.04.2006 21:15 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles
This is a request for anyone who bought a white wristband to return it to Make Poverty History charities as an act of protest for being made by Chinese sweatshop workers contrary to even Chinese law and the Ethical Trading Initiative. Return your wristbands to cronies at the charities and donate money to campaigns such as Campesina and demand real change.
People working for the Tat Shing Rubber Manufacturing Company in Shenzhen, near Hong Kong had little health and safety, long hours, seven day working and employess were ripped off from pay with insufficient insurance, no holidays or freedom of association. Some are even subject to forced labour.
Last year’s Make Poverty History event was taken over by the very people who are contributing to the plight of the poor across the world. Among those wearing the white wrist bands were Blair and Bono, both calling for selected aid rather than the privatisation of essential resources such as water and removal of land.
I call upon people not to give any money or aid to charities without investigation. This includes what exactly are they doing for poverty? who gives them money? Are they facilitating or dictating? who are they affiliate to?
Until there is money for an independent audit of charities - Please give no money to charities like Oxfam, Christian Aid and Cafod who have rightly been accused of "rank hypocrisy".
I am personally only going to give money or help to organisations like Campesina and Medicins Sans Frontiere or ethical organisations like Corporate Watch and Human Rights Watch.
giveearthbacktothepeople
Last year’s Make Poverty History event was taken over by the very people who are contributing to the plight of the poor across the world. Among those wearing the white wrist bands were Blair and Bono, both calling for selected aid rather than the privatisation of essential resources such as water and removal of land.
I call upon people not to give any money or aid to charities without investigation. This includes what exactly are they doing for poverty? who gives them money? Are they facilitating or dictating? who are they affiliate to?
Until there is money for an independent audit of charities - Please give no money to charities like Oxfam, Christian Aid and Cafod who have rightly been accused of "rank hypocrisy".
I am personally only going to give money or help to organisations like Campesina and Medicins Sans Frontiere or ethical organisations like Corporate Watch and Human Rights Watch.
giveearthbacktothepeople
giveearthbacktothepeople