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Birmingham: Primark Protest Today!

Steven | 10.03.2007 09:54 | Ecology | Globalisation | Birmingham

People & Planet student groups from around the Midlands will be demonstrating outside the New Street branch of Primark today from 11AM.

Birmingham, Aston and Warwick Uni People & Planet groups will be demonstrating outside the New Street branch of Primark today from 11AM onwards. The protest is against unethical labour practices in Primark's supply chain - yes, sweatshops still exist. Primark's demand for the latest fashions at the cheapest prices creates a race to the bottom in which factory owners have to reduce costs in order to keep lucrative contracts - this leads to ridiculously low wages, child labour, the crushing of trade union activity, and a complete lack of adherance to health and safety regulations.

Further back in the chain, these production processes require incredibly cheap cotton, leading to the use of some truly toxic industrial chemicals, including pesticides so strong that a teaspoon can kill an adult human. The vast use of water, particularly around the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan, creates ecological problems too - droughts, increasing salinity of water, and pollution of drinking supplies.

More info can be found at  http://peopleandplanet.org/tradejustice/highcost

To repeat: today (Saturday 10th March), 11AM onwards, New Street branch of Primark. Dress in your finest hippy rags, 'cause ITV News might be coming down...

Steven

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Familier pattern

10.03.2007 10:13

Well there's a surprise of all the high street retailers to choose they went for the one owned by a JEW.

It's almost like there is a pattern here of protest when we look at who is chosen

Hundreds of coffee shops worldwide - Starbucks owned by a JEW
Lots of Fast Food chains in the world - McDonalds founded by and run by a JEW
Many supermarket chains in UK - Tesco run by a JEW
Loads of European clothes retailers - Marks and Spencer, biggest shareholder a JEW
Many countries abuse human rights -Israel full of JEWS


Your bigotry, racism and hatred is disgusting.

It's still racism if you call them Zionist

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Fuck off Nazi

10.03.2007 10:17

Not a single protest against this company EVER until one week after they announce a new CEO who is Jewish we see a quickly organised protest.

Do you really think we are that thick ?

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Sudden interest in Primark, ask why

10.03.2007 10:24

 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/7a5d23b4-4187-11db-b4ab-0000779e2340,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F7a5d23b4-4187-11db-b4ab-0000779e2340.html&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co.uk%2Fsearch%3Fhl%3Den

Just after a Jewish businessman is announced as the new boss of this company a protest is organised against it !

Suddenly a group discovers allegations of 'sweat shops' !

Funny how nobody mentioned these sweat shops when the company was being run by a boring Irishman isn't it ?

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Not important

10.03.2007 10:31

The new Jewish (maybe Zionist) CEO of Primark is just a coincidence and not related to our protest. Although of course it does make the company worse.



To repeat: today (Saturday 10th March), 11AM onwards, New Street branch of Primark.

Steven
- Homepage: http://peopleandplanet.org/tradejustice/highcost

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