Damn it, when I delay making posts then all these thoughts build up and I want to express them in words but it's hard to do it without forgetting
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"Sweatshops, they're not good. They shouldn't be legal here. However, now people are bitching about sweatshops in China and such. Here is my opinion. Would you rather have a sweatshop, or the people who would be working there dying of starvation because of a poor Chinese government we can't control?"
Go to www.educatingforjustice.com.
Order a DVD of the short film "Behind the Swoosh." Or borrow it from me when I'm home.
And if possible, see if you can get the leaders of Educating for Justice, Jim Keady and Leslie Kretzu, to come speak at Pace, like they did at Riv and countless other schools.
Consider it becoming more informed about the other side's opinion.
Outsourcing is good for the world. One by one, you improve the status of the poor in certain countries, while keeping the economy strong and clothes affordable for the average American. If you ask me, it's almost like a humanitarian aid program. Now I sure as hell wouldn't want to be in a Chinese or Indonesian sweatshop, but if it can pay for my meals, I'd prefer it to malnuitrition. I think this is a progressive process, as the gap between rich and poor gets smaller we'll want this less and less until it is phased out
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If you watched that short film, you'd learn that the wages sweatshop workers earn aren't enough to survive on. Maybe enough for one simple meal a day, maybe two if you really scrimp, but if you have to buy even the most basic of necessities, like a little bit of soap to keep yourself and your few pieces of clothing clean, that means giving up food for an entire day, maybe two. And forget about being able to afford medicine, let alone even the most basic health care. Nike and Adidas and other sweatshop-using companies will tell you they have free clinics for workers in their manufacturing buildings, which is true--but to get to the clinics you must be REALLY sick and have to go through every single official in the facility, and sometimes might not even get permission to go, or get beaten on the way. And because they have no way to fight disease, sickness is common--and you can't take the day off. Ever. Again, companies will tell you that, for example, women in their sweatshop are guaranteed a couple days off a month for menstrual leave
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You bring up good points. I suppose it would be good then to support the "cleaning up" of sweatshops as a first endeavor, and then work from there. I wouldn't be so quick to want to destroy them completely though until I'm sure there are better alternatives that can be provided for the people who work there
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True Feminisim is the right to chose what one wants to with ones life. It doesn't mean we have to be in the kitcher, or in the office, or popping out kids. The true feminist could still be a housewife.
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Go to www.educatingforjustice.com.
Order a DVD of the short film "Behind the Swoosh." Or borrow it from me when I'm home.
And if possible, see if you can get the leaders of Educating for Justice, Jim Keady and Leslie Kretzu, to come speak at Pace, like they did at Riv and countless other schools.
Consider it becoming more informed about the other side's opinion.
Then see what you think.
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only topic i felt need to comment on.
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damn that love of cute baby things. i had mine removed.
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i think theyre disgusting.
so i guess that makes me anti....people? or anti something. yea.
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