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"Just" Shopping ... SWEAT-FREE ME!
A compelling, liberating and thought-provoking presentation
for your group on how YOU can:
• STOP fueling the fashion giant fed by your desire for
new clothes
• STOP sweat shops from existing
• STOP being part of the problem; become part of the
solution!
• HONOR the people (mostly women) who make our clothing
• DRESS well and cheaply for life
Pat Plant Advocate, Speaker, Workshop Leader, Author
(408) 737-7370
Become “SWEAT-FREE” with just alternatives to
feeding the fashion giant (while dressing well) including:
• Learn to read labels to find union-made and sweat-free
“cleanÓ clothing in stores
• Learn to advocate for non-sweatshop made clothing in
your local stores.
• Learn to advocate for the rights of garment workers.
• Learn to shop for sweat-free clothing on the internet
• Learn about clothes-buying alternatives like Thrift
Shop “savvy”; starting a clothing cooperative for
you and your friends; hiring local seamstresses to sew for
you (paying them well; sewing your own clothing!)
In a light-hearted, entertaining and life-changing way. .
. LEARN
• That each of us who buy clothing contribute to the
problem of sweat-shop-made clothing
• Sweatshops will never end as long as we, the shoppers,
need a constant supply of new clothing
• That the garment industry is poorly regulated and often
oppresses their (mostly female and immigrant women) employees
• About things YOU can do to make a difference
• Become active in the sweat-free/clean clothes movement
• Think in a new way about clothing as a justice issue.
LEARN TO BE SWEAT-FREE!
Visit the Presbyterian
Church (USA) web pages on sweat-free T’s and the concept
of sweat-free clothing:
Organizations that promote and educate about sweat-free
of “clean” clothing:
The
Clean Clothes Connection
Sweat-Free
Communities
Sweatshop
Watch
The
NRF Foundation Stopping Sweatshops
Some companies that specialize in sweat-free and organic
cotton clothing:
Justice
Clothing Company - Wear Your Conscience
No
Sweat – Union-Made Sweatshop-Free Casual Apparel
SweatX Clothes
- Union Made Sweatshop Free Clothes
Maggie's
Functional Organics
Mama's
Earth's: organic cotton clothing & recycled products
Blue
Canoe Organic Bodywear
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice
everywhere.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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