We would rather buy a cheap, inferior, ill-gotten, product of imprisoned slave labor, and replace it over and over again, rather than pay a bit more for higher quality product manufactured by workers making a fair wage. In some cases, the children starved to death.So our answer cannot be to simply boycott every product from 3rd world nations, but to make sure that our activism actually promotes a living wage and pushes for fair trade. Our activism must be intelligent and well thought out.We must ask ourselves, âIs this product something I really need?â[8] The vast majority of the products of slavery are cheap, low quality extras. Imprisoned Chinese pastors often have to make cigarette lighters, mine coal, make bricks, or assemble textiles while subject to electric shocks, beatings and sleep deprivation.In todayâs global society where multinational corporations and their shell companies buy and sell each other at dizzying rates, itâs difficult to know the origin of the products we buy. However, once it becomes known to us that a particular product is enriching abusive people at the expense of the poor and oppressed, then we are obligated to not only boycott that product but do what we can to change those conditions.[1] Punishment Battalion Does Suicide Work;
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Happy Friday!Please check out the posts below and vote either here or at the sidebar. The poll will stay open until noon on Monday. Vote early and often, and have a great weekend!Best of the MOB, 3/21 - 3/27/08Grandma Got Run Over by Obama, Psycmeistr's Ice Palace, March 21. Nominated for a clever lyrical parody of the Christmas classic.Warning
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YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW.is going to a museum supposed to be fun?well, if it's not, sue me - because i actually had fun.i would have had more fun it i went to the wax museum or something like that.*I like a SPLASH of color in everything.
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