The GAP

[Dreadnaht1]

On Saturday, December 1st it will be International GAP Protest Day. The website www.gapsucks.org has arranged to have as many people as possible protesting at GAP's worldwide. The goal is of course to have one protestor at aproximately 30,000 GAP, OLD NAVY, and BANANA REPUBLIC stores worldwide. The protesting would greatly increase awareness of the GAP and Fisher Companie's practices, which are the exploitation or workers and the deforestation of Redwood Forest in California. It is important to have as many people leafletting at GAP's so I thought I'd spread the word here and try and inform some people about the date and everything.

Go to www.gapsucks.org for more information and happy protesting!

[Nickademus]

what you don't like generic american people (aka the gap?)

thanks for the info

[El Commandante]

I just found out about that today, anybody that lives in London, assemble outside the GAP store in Oxford Street, at 2pm.

I was at a conference today about slave and child labour. I learnt a lot today, the workers in an average nike factory producing baseball caps will be paid 1/10 of one percent of a dollar for every hat they make. Some workers (most children but not all) with a years wage could not afford to buy one hat. Nike make on average a 3000% profit on every nike product. In the Indoneisian sweat shops, in a week the worker has only 20 minutes bathroom breaks and can be fined for talking. Unions are banned and anyone setting up one will be tortured and sacked. If there is anywhere that offers any cheaper labour (at the minute China) then they will end the contract that there other factories with no notice and move leaving thousands unemployed.


Nike, Just do 'em!

[El Commandante]

Ooops, forgot to put the date for the anti-gap protest, it's sunday 1st December.

[DaNatural]

thats interesting el commandante, i recently saw a video about the history of jamaican politics and they actually imported a free zone into the country, free zones for those who dont know are basically the factories that sweat shops operate in. they pay the government an up front fee and are able to operate outside of human rights. anyway this particular plant was a tommy hilfiger plant, nike, and a few others. the people working there made absolutely nothing and in the end most of them got fed up and demanded higher prices, so what did the company do? simple they fired all the jamaicans, and believe it or not imported a bunch of slave workers from asia. the asian workers slept in the workplace which they set up with nice portable beds, and after a few weeks of that, they packed it up and moved out of hte country, creating absolutely nothing positive for the economy. it was ridiculous, how things like this continue to operate is beyond me but they must be stopped, i love the effort our governments seem to be making to put an end to it :), peace

[El Commandante]

DaNatural, the practises of the large multinationals are disgraceful, they know that when they find the cheapest workforce they have also found the most desperate. This makes them think that they can exploit the workers to the best of their abilities with poor conditions, over work them and torture them.

I can completely belief that the big multinationals would import slaves to work there just to save some money. The slave trade is larger now then when it was outlawed in the American Constitution .

[DaNatural]

Commandante, like u said its just basically legalize slavery, unbelievable. peace