The riots waged against the WTO convention in Seattle in 1999 protested the use of
corporate sweatshops, where low - wage laborers have literally worked their lives away while creating commodities for Western capitalist markets.
Until the Federal Trade Commission reviews its green - marketing guidelines, which were last updated in 1998, well,
corporate giants can paint the town — and the
sweatshops they continue to operate — any shade of green they want.