On the Line
On the Line Fair Trade Fashion No Sweat Apparel gives consumers an opportunity to buy clothes made by organized workers. The brand's clothes and shoes are manufactured at union shops-both here and...
...My generation goes to the Occupied Territories and comes back with new moral norms...
...And if you want social justice in the marketplace, you have to shop for it...
...No Sweat shoemakers are represented by the Confederation of Indonesian Employees Unions, Textile, Clothing, & Leather, an independent trade union...
...Tzameret says their public refusal was intended "to shake Israeli society up, to make people see how we look from the outside, to make people see what we are doing to ourselves and to the Palestinians...
...Noam Bahat, age twenty-one, and Shimri Tzameret, age twenty, citizens of Israel, thought about it constantly as teenagers...
...The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), which represents 30,000 workers in the Bay Area, is in the middle of contract negotiations with the grocers...
...com., or send e-mail to info@NoSweatApparel.com...
...Shoeboxes include a disclosure form listing the wages and benefits of workers at its shop in Jakarta...
...For more information, contact the UFCW at www.ufcw.org...
...Willoughby along with four other activists, chose to serve a week in jail rather than pay a $250 fine...
...The brand's clothes and shoes are manufactured at union shops-both here and abroad...
...Anti-war Protests Ninety-year-old Quaker peace activist Lillian Willoughby went to jail to protest the Iraq War...
...The Fight for Health Care San Francisco Grocery workers and their supporters protest attempts by Safeway and other major grocers to limit health care coverage...
...As a man of conscience, I could not take part in the army of oppression...
...Then I started asking myself questions: What am I, an eighteen-year-old kid with no ability to influence the system, supposed to do when the state of Israel, my homeland, destroys the lives and rights of three million Palestinians...
...Tzameret came to the same conclusion...
...The five refuseniks spent more time in jail than any other conscientious objectors in Israeli history...
...For more information, go to www.NoSweatShop...
...Wendy E. Smith...
...They told about beating 'insolent Arabs.' They told about shooting people for fun...
...If you want justice on the job, you need a union to fight for it," said Adam Neiman, co-founder and chief executive of No Sweat Apparel, in a press release...
...On the day she went to jail, Willoughby told The Philadelphia Inquirer, "It will be worth it if it gets the message out and people start working for peace...
...Three years of full time military service is mandatory for Israeli youth...
...Bahat and Tzameret, along with three other young men, were recently released from prison after twenty-one months for refusing to serve in the Israeli Defense Forces...
...Willoughby pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge for blocking the entrance to a federal building in Philadelphia the day the war began...
...Refusing t Serve What would you do if you were drafted into an army occupying another people's land...
...Bahat initially believed "in the white knight concept of the army," he says...
...I have met many soldiers who served in the Occupied Territories," he says...
Vol. 69 • January 2005 • No. 1
