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Play Fair Fashion News on Summer 2008 China Olympics

Sweatshops are still an issue in China but with concerned citizens both here and there, things are changing. For example, Eco Fashion World reports:

leading sports brands have responded to repeated pressure on supplier factory conditions from the PlayFair 2008 campaign. Together with trade unions and NGO’s they will explore how to promote trade unionism and collective bargaining as well as improving wages across the sector. Only last year, scandal erupted when four Chinese factories that were producing clothing and gadgets with the Olympic logo, were accused of underpaying and mistreating their workers. The joint effort for which PlayFair has been fighting for over five years is an important step in the right direction.

Campaigns like this that promote awareness are essential educational tools for change. Also, creative independent films like China Blue (about blue jean production) help spotlight the issues, exposing the working conditions and helping the factory workers gain rights and benefits. It is our responsibility to help expand future consumer consciousness to the many hands our garments are made by, protecting their rights. By understanding the conditions, our choices in the market will evolve to what is ethical.

Image One: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/chinablue/

Image Two: http://www.playfair2008.org/

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Written by Lucille Chi

Lucy Chi loves good green design, ethical fashion, environmental art and education, renewables, holistic healing and more. She has been dedicating her energies toward finding and drawing attention to all the ways in which products, companies, and industries are moving toward creating a more sustainable world on the global scale, as well as the way individuals are moving toward living sustainably, and healing at the personal level.

Sustainability studies: PresidioMBA.org &
B.S. Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, Dept. of Textiles and Fiber Science.

Contact: lucillechi (at) gmail.com

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