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Abused, Exploited and Threatened: Women Making NFL T-Shirts

This Sunday 4 in 5 Americans will sit down on their couch, hop on a bar stool or pop open their laptop to watch the Super Bowl. But 1400 miles away in El Salvador, women are being abused, threatened and exploited as they sew Super Bowl T-Shirts sold for more than 300 times their wages.

 

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Success! All Clothing Brands Associated with Bangladesh Fires Agree to Worker Demands

In mid-December, more than two dozen people either burned, fell or suffocated to death when a preventable preventable fire broke out in an unsafe, multi-story clothing sweatshop in Bangladesh. Today, six weeks after the fire, we are pleased to announce that after 65,000 Change.org members from more than 70 countries called on all international companies sourcing from factory to take responsibility, every last one of them have finally pledged to do the right thing.

 

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Target Responds to Bangladesh Fires Campaign

Yesterday we wrote that two companies – Target and Abercrombie & Fitch – have refused to compensate the families of 28 workers killed in a fire while making their clothes. Last night a senior manager at Target called Change.org. Here’s what she had to say.

 

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Victory! Gap Pledges to Do the Right Thing After Bangladesh Factory Fire

One month ago today, 28 workers were burned to death and hundreds more injured at a tragic fire in an unsafe clothing factory in Bangladesh. After 25,000 Change.org members called on all international companies sourcing from factory to take responsibility, the GAP has given in! One down, six more to go…

 

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China’s First Ever ‘Twitter Prisoner’ Left Out to Dry by Twitter Inc.

Twitter tries to move mountains to allow Iranian dissidents to express themselves, but when a Chinese woman is sent to a labor camp for a three-word tweet, Twitter doesn’t seem to have much to say. Now Chinese activists are calling on the company to take up the cause of China’s first citizen to be imprisoned on the basis of a single tweet.

 

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Has the US Abandoned the Gaza Steel Wall?

Reports and rumors abound that the US has decided to give up on the underground anti-tunnel smuggling wall after welders succeeded in breaching it and border restrictions were eased.

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Flotilla Delays Iran Sanctions

Israel said to release foreign activists in exchange for Turkish support on the Security Council to take action against Iran’s nuclear program.

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Boycott Dance

From COLORS 78 | Dance – blogging about dance around the world.

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Firefighter Dance

From COLORS 78 | Dance – blogging about dance around the world.

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Evolution of Dance

From COLORS 78 | Dance – blogging about dance around the world.

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Dancin Kids

From COLORS 78 | Dance – blogging about dance around the world.

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