Sentences with phrase «sweatshops for»

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But in pioneering and perfecting the global hunt for ways to produce clothing more quickly and cheaply, Li & Fung, which had $ 20 billion in revenue last year, has been described by critics as the garment industry's «sweatshop locator.»

What's more, a number of unions on college campuses are allying with non-governmental organizations, such as United Students against Sweatshops to hold corporations accountable for enforcing labor standards throughout their global supply chains.

Players will come and go, mostly for their own personal needs (financial or football success wise) so why should I, accept the actions of an unambiguous and non caring business franchise that cares little for real fans as long as someone is buying sweatshop sh # t in the armoury.

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For seven years she worked with the district's summer children's arts camp, Sweatshop.

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It should be noted that if you include deaths from sweatshops, activities outlined in «confessions of an economic hitman», and a handful of wars... capitalism likely has quite the death toll behind it as well, but where do you draw the line between imperial ambitions and capitalism... and if we're willing to draw that line for capitalism, where does that line lay for the communists death toll?

Bill de Blasio certainly isn't at fault for how his grandmother made money running a dangerous sweatshop.

Similarly, the U.S. enjoys the fruits of cheap labor with very little regulations without having to work in sweatshops themselves, and the trade between the two is generally seen as a net benefit for both.

The one - percenters are ALWAYS looking for a place to recreate the era when U.S. citizens (many of them immigrants) worked like slaves on building railroads, when women were crammed like sardines into sweatshops in lower Manhattan, when mills and tanneries dumped toxic fluids into rivers and streams as they pleased.

Beneath a statue of Confucius in Chatham Square in Chinatown before a crowd of nearly 1,000 waving blue campaign banners for the comptroller candidate, Jamy Liu took the rostrum and said she, Liu and her other children all had worked in a sweatshop in the 1970s.

Our universities are places of learning, not academic sweatshops, and we need to get away from the idea that more can be delivered for less.»

«You don't want to lead the world in having development sweatshops where people grind out code for hours at low wages.

About Site - At Bead & Reel we believe that fashion and ethics aren't mutually exclusive, offering a carefully curated selection of eco-friendly, cruelty - free, sweatshop - free fashion for the conscientious woman.

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We are all familiar with the word «sweatshops» and how it doesn't refer to our favorite pair of cozy pants made for Sunday afternoon lounging.

With the misconduct problems, the company is now facing an internal crisis that some have compared to the 1990s sweatshop scandal, when it was heavily criticised for using Asian factories with poor working conditions.

Los Angeles About Blog At Bead & Reel we believe that fashion and ethics aren't mutually exclusive, offering a carefully curated selection of eco-friendly, cruelty - free, sweatshop - free fashion for the conscientious woman.

Additionally, the story has been fatally retooled into a good vs. evil morality play, resulting in the original's subplot of the doctor's skeptical wife charging in for a visit and disappearing in the bowels of the house being swapped with some nonsense about the souls of the children who expired in Crain's sweatshop manifesting themselves to Nell as wraiths under sheets and ornately carved wooden heads come to life.

Pamela Sue Martin kicked off the goody two shoes from her Nancy Drew image to play the feisty farmer's daughter (renamed Polly Franklin for the film) with Hollywood dreams who hopscotched from the sweatshop to the dance hall to prison and finally to the cathouse during the depression.

He and a cadre of fashion designers want to assassinate the leader of Malaysia for his desire to rid the country of sweatshops.

A Sacrifice for You, Molina's Web video on sweatshops, has been praised and used by participants at the Women's Human Rights Conference in Paris, by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, and by a teacher in India, among others.

A lesson focusing on sweatshops as part of INDA SOW for KS3.

A lesson on sweatshops, designed for KS3 as part of a SOW for India.

According to the Harvard Crimson, «The effort is part of a larger national movement started by United Students Against Sweatshops that criticizes Teach For America, a nation - wide program that recruits college graduates to teach in low - income communities for at least two years, for undermining the quality of public education.&raqFor America, a nation - wide program that recruits college graduates to teach in low - income communities for at least two years, for undermining the quality of public education.&raqfor at least two years, for undermining the quality of public education.&raqfor undermining the quality of public education.»

Fashioning themselves the «United Students Against Sweatshops» (it's okay to laugh at that), these kids have taken TFA to task for being «the man» — and for turning teaching into sweatshop - like work by allowing some selected recruits to enter the classroom without slogging through the entirety of traditional teacher prep.

Once a poster boy for the new economy, Bill Gates has become a global whipping boy.The Nike swoosh is quickly losing its cachet, equated now with sweatshop labor.

When Gopal's family is forced to leave their village, Gopal takes it upon himself to contribute financially by finding a job in Mumbai, only to find himself trapped in a sweatshop with other boys, forced to work for free in inhumane conditions.

Among the many reasons Stallman gives for boycotting Amazon are that the company sells ebooks and digital music that deprives customers of their rights through restrictive licensing, that the Amazon Kindle - or Swindle, as he calls it - uses proprietary software and contains backdoors through which Amazon can delete books and update software, that the company reportedly abuses its employees by making them work in sweatshops, and that it hurts independent bookstores, small publishers, and authors through its near - monopoly power.

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You might already know about the seedy sweatshops where an estimated 100,000 Chinese workers play for profit, but Chinese inmates are also being forced to mine for virtual gold according to a former political prisoner.

Arlen Austin (b. 1981, Winooski VT), has worked on an uncompensated or below minimum wage basis for: Columbia University School of the Arts, Scaramouche Gallery, Chinese Staff and Workers» Association, Brooklyn is Burning, Public Art Fund Development Grant, Daniele Ugolini Contemporary, National Mobilization Against Sweatshops, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Sweatshop Free Upper West Side, Volta NYC, Creative Time / Queens Museum, 6 - 9 Months Project Space, Fischer - Landau Center for Contemporary Art, Barefoot in the Head at Bruce High Quality Foundation, White Box and Frederich Petzel Galleries.

By the 1950s, these warehouses were mostly being used for storage or sweatshops, and the neighborhood, increasingly decrepit, earned the nickname Hell's Hundred Acres.

It didn't take long for the person behind the account to adopt a scorched earth policy in its takedown of key art world tropes: conceptual abstract painters showing at Bushwick outposts of Belgian galleries, pedestrian rabble - rousing headlines churned out by art blog sweatshops, people who ask «how the show was» only to hear about «how nice the space is,» Urs Fischer — et cetera.

Without today's increasingly active craft - oriented community, products that we take for granted, such as numerous utilitarian objects built from handmade tools, rather than via machine or sweatshop, would have disappeared.

Lum grew up the child of immigrant sweatshop workers and menial laborers in Vancouver, and the couches reflect the fliers for rental furniture he would collect as a child, imagining leisure and luxury in the form of overstuffed softness.

Jason Boughton (b. 1968, Spokane WA), has labored on an uncompensated or below minimum wage basis for: The Public Art Fund, VideoDUMBO, Spin Cycle Post, 911 Media Arts Center (Seattle), Toronto International Film Festival, Daniele Ugolini Contemporary, Franco Soffiantino Gallery (Turin), Volta NYC, Creative Time / Queens Museum, Columbia University School of the Arts, Ludlow 38, 6 - 9 Month Space, Moscow International Film and Video Festival, Martha Rosler, Vladivostok International Video Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Invagination I & II, Millennium Filmmaker Workshop, Lower Manhattan Community Council, Sidney International Film Festival, National Mobilization Against Sweatshops, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Fisher - Landau Center for Contemporary Art, Anthology Film Archives, The Filmmakers Cooperative, Scaramouche Gallery.

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.

Although they got a bad reputation with the use of sweatshops, these days Nike has been doing more for the planet than you might think.

Not just the sweatshop labour capital for our western consumerist clothing needs anymore, Bangladesh is soon to be famous for literally going under water.

Perhaps we can't change entire industries, or entire government systems, but every choice we make of where to shop, what to wear, what to purchase and what to eat has an absolutely direct and powerful impact upon life situations for children dying of starvation, pre-pubescent girls and boys working 18 or 20 hour days in toxic sweatshops, cotton pickers suffering from pesticide induced cancers, suicidal farmers, and upon the health and balance of Mother Earth.

In college Schwarz had worked as a national organizer for United Students Against Sweatshops, where he realized the power consumers» dollars have to influence manufacturers to improve their business models.

Considering that Target has been pilloried in the past for alleged sweatshop sourcing, we have to wonder.

They would come to Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, to work in the sweatshop factories producing clothes for western consumers as an act of emancipation.

We seek to connect with lovers of fellow beings, animals of all stripes, supporters of sweatshop - free, sustainable clothing with zero tolerance for toxins.

Whether asking for better laws to protect the environment, or for companies to stop using sweatshops, letters have always been a premiere form of advocacy that can be done for the cost of a piece of paper, pencil and a stamp.

I believe every person, even aliens (except in Ontario where aliens apparently aren't persons, even if corporations are) has the inalienable right right to work as an indentured wage slave for inadequate wages in sweatshop conditions in a store on a Rodeo Drive equivalent, so he or she can get a priceless autograph from a celebrity, or an Quebec NDP MP playing hookey from school... ah... Parliament.