Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy!


Major companies that we shop at, that we only look at what have and not how they got it. They are the ones that need to open sweatshops. Their demand for goods are high. Major companies such as Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy.
"• In October 2007, Indian authorities raided factories in New Dehli that produce clothing for the Gap and found children as young as 10 working there.
• Another Indian factory that manufactures for the Gap was the site of 3 deaths in 2007 because it refused to allow employees to leave when they became seriously ill at work.
• The Gap was part of a settlement from a lawsuit brought against 22 companies for using sweatshop labor in Saipan, a US territory in the South Pacific. The Gap has also been linked to sweatshops in at least six countries.
• You don’t have to wear clothing that exploits people and the planet. Visit Go Green to find out how you can be stylish and sustainable."
These stores are combine and manufactor in the same sweatshops, they get the job done cheap. And keep the price of the clothes high, to max their profit. Millions of people shop at these stores, all over the world. I wonder if anyone would if they knew how the got their clothes. That a child under 10 years old, was working a long day to make that shirt they have on.

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