Garment Workers in Haiti Fight Exploitation Students Resist FAU Selling Out to Private Prison Exploitation in Fashion U.S. and Military Keynesianism in the Middle East Translating the Language of Imperialism Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline Stop Earning This Huge Profit on Blood The Solidarity Center: Labor Imperialism An Interview with a Batay Ouvriye Organizer Wage [...]
By Designer X Grab a shirt from your closet. Look at the tag inside the collar, and you’ll see where it was produced, listed right next to the size and material composition. Chances are that it was sewn in some other country that you’ve never been to, by someone who lives on the edge of [...]
By One Struggle One Struggle: Can you give me a brief description of what Batay Ouvriye* is and a little bit of the history of it? Batay Ouvriye: Batay Ouvriye is part of a whole current that had roots in Europe and the United States where many of the resistance, many of the leftist people, [...]
Minimum wage protest in Port au Prince - Oct, 2012 BO is agitating to demand justice for beaten & fired Premium Apparel worker, Leo Vedél, and asks for your continued solidarity! Workers have been leafleting at Premium Apparel, as well as, all the factories in the area. Gédéon, the manager who beat Leo, [...]
TELL GILDAN: STOP THE BEATING OF WORKERS WHO MAKE YOUR T-SHIRTS! Garment workers in Haiti are among the lowest paid and most oppressed in the world. The garments they produce are for export, for companies such as Walmart, Hanes, and Gildan. In October 2012, the minimum wage rose to 300 Goud ($7.06 US) per day. [...]
An Insider Exposes Garment Industry Practices by Designer X With barely a year or so under my belt as a clothing designer, after graduating from one of the most famous Fashion Design universities in the world, I said something like this to my dad: “Dad, I feel guilty. I’ve learned since graduation that the people [...]
Following is a conversation between Anu Muhammad (an organizer with the National Committee in Bangladesh, which works against resource extraction and imperialism), two members of One Struggle (Daniel and Stephanie McMillan), plus Irtishad Ahmad and Swapan Majhi. It took place at FIU (Miami), in October 2012. Anu Muhammad: Tell me about your organization. Stephanie McMillan: [...]