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> > > Flower and Emily, you DO support slavery, sweatshops and all that nastiness. > FP: I am not normally emotional, but this makes me sad. It hurts me to see Wal-mart on that link. I hope it does not mean they participate in it. > > You do it through your banks primarily. > What is the alternative? > > All the major financial institutions support this evil stuff, and they do it with your money. > Are you sure you want to say ALL? Do you have any website links that tells more about this? > > There is a much more effective way to end that kind of thing than consumer, retail boycotts. > FP: Okay, I am listening. > > (Remember, when you refuse to buy sweatshop products from a retailer, you hurt the retailer but NOT the sweatshop. The sweatshop has already got its money by selling its product to the wholesaler. If the boycott is successful, it might trickle down to the sweatshop eventually, but these boycotts have never succeeded so far). > FP: I appreciate the logic of your reasoning. Thanks. Maybe, if we work together in large numbers, it will be more successful. Isn't this a bad time in our economy to deal with this stuff? > > "What can I, as an individual, do about that!" you might say. The question is rhetorical, because, *as individuals* you can do nothing. That doesn't absolve you of responsibility, in my opinion. We can choose to stop being lone individuals, in a financial sense. > FP: You are right, I am asking that question. So, what does that mean? > > In the USA alone there are about 20 million people who are strongly anti-sweatshop, a similar number in the EU. > FP: So, is there any organizations? What is EU? Why are you keeping me in suspense? > > If those 40 million people would only transfer their banking business to an ethical financial house, the whole sweatshop racket would suffer badly. They'd be forced to adopt ethical labor practices. > FP: What does that mean? Ethical Financial House? How do we know who is and who isn't? > > But people want to be individuals, even on something as petty as banking, so sweatshops continue, financed by people who hate sweatshops. > FP: Forget the individual thing, please get to the point and tell me what organizations to contact, and how do I know what institution is an ethical financial house. > > I don't absolve myself from this, though I promise that my money will go directly to such an body as soon as the activists decide to take a break from marching and make a real difference by creating one. > FP: Well, you probably can address the protestors with the logic of your reasoning and hopefully they will hear you. Appeal to organizations. Maybe, there are already these institutions already around and you just don't know it yet, who knows? I believe individuals can make a difference in groups. > FP: Emily gave me a fantastic link and I leave you the link to where they say answer the question what we can do about it? Check out and tell us what you think. > > > > > FP: That is good about them not buying food from sweat shops. I hope that silk company goes out of business or lost a lot of customers after Dateline aired that segment about children who were close to being slaves for the sake of captialists to profit on silk that they suffer over. I think the name of the company is called Nelli. Will you tell me how could I find out where to shop and where to not shop because I don't want to support slavery. > > > Oh man I saw that too...that was horrible. I don't purchase silk or leather or wear them either.

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