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redqueen

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20. I don't think people are uninterested.

Reply to cali (Reply #4)

Fri Apr 26, 2013, 10:55 AM

Apr 2013

If they're like me they just feel hopeless.

The unions are dying here. Our own government is failing to regulate businesses here.

What hope do we have that another government will regulate businesses elsewhere?

This is about cheap clothes. People need clothes, and many of them can barely afford them.

We can't even get affluent people here to stop buying electronic shit they DON'T need every time a new bell or whistle comes out.

So yeah. Hopeless.

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Big brands rejected Bangladesh factory safety plan [View all] cali Apr 2013 OP

Why should corporations care about dispensable brown people malaise Apr 2013 #1

yes, it's fuck poor people cali Apr 2013 #2

Yep but they're the elites and they grease the palms of their cronies - the political malaise Apr 2013 #3

yes it is an international racket. thanks for responding to the op cali Apr 2013 #4

Not really - there hae been a few threads and some folks have responded malaise Apr 2013 #5

I am definitely interested and want this put in front of as many eyes as possible Cirque du So-What Apr 2013 #10

People are rarely interested in these kinds of tragedies, because it raises uncomfortable Brickbat Apr 2013 #15

I don't think people are uninterested. redqueen Apr 2013 #20

"Corporate social responsibility" is an oxymoron n/t Fumesucker Apr 2013 #6

no, it's not. it's tiny and it needs to grow, but it exists cali Apr 2013 #8

The very purpose of a corporation is to avoid personal responsibility Fumesucker Apr 2013 #12

there are socially responsible and sustainable corporations cali Apr 2013 #13

I have a picture of an actual Wolf licking my face Fumesucker Apr 2013 #14

This. redqueen Apr 2013 #21

How about some congressional hearings leftynyc Apr 2013 #7

I was thinking the same thing cali Apr 2013 #9

Yes, excellent leftynyc Apr 2013 #11

The numbers are damning. LiberalAndProud Apr 2013 #16

He's saying they won't do anything until they're forced to. redqueen Apr 2013 #18

Who said I was surprised? LiberalAndProud Apr 2013 #19

Corporations and owners are never held accountable. redqueen Apr 2013 #17

Is there any way to find out exactly which brands they were making? cbdo2007 Apr 2013 #22

One brand is for sure a Canadian brand laundry_queen Apr 2013 #23