From: "Daniel Marley" <bixmarley-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Nike Is Wrong
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 04:07:05 +1100


Last year a shipment of 100.000 or so pairs of shoes with fake nike logos on 
them was stopped at Santos Harbour, in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo. The 
shoes were then incinerated, because Brazilian laws protecting trademarks 
gave their custody (not the suiting word here, Im sure) to the logo owner. 
Instead of donating the shoes to the poor (about 60 million in Brazil), they 
prefered to "protect customers from flawed products", which could "hurt 
people".

Thank God Nike´s ensuring people´s safety.


  Not the Ozz guy
      Daniel


>From: Jamal Hannah <jah-AT-iww.org>
>Reply-To: Jamal Hannah <jah-AT-iww.org>
>To: anarchy-list-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>CC: a-act-AT-yahoogroups.com, anarchism-AT-yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Nike Is Wrong
>Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:12:46 -0800 (PST)
>
>On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, M.A. Johnson wrote:
>
> > ~~for educational purposes only~~
> > [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107]
> >
> > Nike Is Right
> > by William Stepp
>(rest deleted)
>
>Very typical cheerleading for corporate fascism. This garbage has nothing
>to do with anarchism.  The idea that people who have no better options
>than to take sweatshop jobs are practicing "free choice" and that
>corporations like Nike are free from responsibility for paying people
>shit-wages is pretty pathetic. If corporations have a "right" to pay
>workers whatever little money they see fit based on some abstract concept
>of the "market value" of the labor, then it is equaly the right of the
>workers in that industry to organize to kick the corporations ass.
>Only some kind of action on the part of the workers will change their
>situation.. they cannot expect any benevolence from corporations like
>Nike.
>
>  - JH
>

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