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H&M: End Cotton Crimes ACTION
Business  (tags: business, corporate, world, Uzbekistan, farmers, consumers, money, children, family, humanrights )

Nancy
- 172 days ago - action.laborrights.org
Every year the government of Uzbekistan forcibly mobilizes over a million children, teachers, public servants and private sector employees for the manual planting and harvesting of cotton.
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Esther Z. (83)
Monday November 26, 2012, 8:51 am
Noted and signed. Thanks, Nancy!
 

Roger M. (0)
Monday November 26, 2012, 9:00 am
No-brainer. Signed.
 

Shelly Peterson (214)
Monday November 26, 2012, 10:34 am
SO SIGNED!!
 

Jutta N. (168)
Monday November 26, 2012, 10:55 am
Signed
TY Nancy
 

Olivia S. (150)
Monday November 26, 2012, 10:57 am
signed and shared, thanks Nancy
 

Toni A. (189)
Monday November 26, 2012, 11:00 am
DONE
 

Jason Green (210)
Monday November 26, 2012, 11:16 am
Thanks for taking action.
 

Michela M. (2979)
Monday November 26, 2012, 11:20 am
S&N
 

Lisa Neste (525)
Monday November 26, 2012, 11:32 am
Signed, thanks Nancy!
 

Kath P. (18)
Monday November 26, 2012, 11:43 am
Sometimes I think the world is going in a forward direction and then I read something like this...definitely two steps back.
 

Lynne B. (0)
Monday November 26, 2012, 12:13 pm
Signed
 

Gloria picchetti (205)
Monday November 26, 2012, 12:32 pm
Signed.
 

Robert O. (13)
Monday November 26, 2012, 12:44 pm
Thanks for taking action. Now spread the word!

 

Elizabeth M. (40)
Monday November 26, 2012, 1:02 pm
Noted and signed gladly, Nancy.
 

Terry King (102)
Monday November 26, 2012, 1:16 pm
Done
 

Judy B. (93)
Monday November 26, 2012, 1:27 pm
Signed, thanks.
 

Melania Padilla (133)
Monday November 26, 2012, 1:54 pm
Signed
 

Lois Jordan (42)
Monday November 26, 2012, 2:12 pm
Signed, sent & noted. I'd seen an article on this recently and am very glad you posted this, Nancy, thank you.
 

Bartlomiej T. (243)
Monday November 26, 2012, 2:46 pm
Signed and noted. Thanks Nancy!
 

Gloria Morotti (14)
Monday November 26, 2012, 2:52 pm
Signed. Thanks.
 

Mary away T. (189)
Monday November 26, 2012, 3:23 pm
Thanks Nancy, Signed and noted.
 

Joseph G. Paquette (1)
Monday November 26, 2012, 3:51 pm
Noted, signed, & twitter entry made
 

Ann Breeden (48)
Monday November 26, 2012, 5:21 pm
Signed.
 

Tamara Hayes (171)
Monday November 26, 2012, 5:32 pm
Noted, signed, twittered, shared and googled. Thanks Nancy
 

Myraida Diaz (117)
Monday November 26, 2012, 6:09 pm
THANK YOU! Signed & noted
Sharing.

Interesting web & info.Check video -in the photo of a boy- They have a program that I tkink is called All for Children. There says it is a unique five-year project between H&M and UNICEF.
http://about.hm.com/content/hm/AboutSection/en/About/Sustainability/Commitments/Use-Resources-Responsibly/Raw-Materials/Cotton.html
This is painful, what would UNICEF say about this?

Related and interesting. As India is a major producer and exporter of cotton, a suppier, I am adding Tree Hugger Web . Inside you could find info related to GM and monsanto like, India to label GM products in 2013!!! And the recommended 10 year ban to gm crop there!
http://www.treehugger.com/environmental-policy/scientific-panel-recommends-10-year-ban-gm-crop-trials-india.html

In 2010 H&M Caught in Organic Cotton Fraud.
http://wwww.treehugger.com/style/hm-caught-in-organic-cotton-fraud.html
 

pam w. (185)
Monday November 26, 2012, 6:25 pm
Thanks...I signed.
 

Zee Kallah (23)
Monday November 26, 2012, 6:36 pm
I was speculating the other day...."What causes some of us to work so hard as activists?"

Of course, there are many reasons possible: A good question does not have only one answer.

Here's one of the answers I consider most probable.

Some of us are so empathetic we make the pain our own.
We just want the pain to stop.

Ok. I can accept that and what courage it does take to face the pain when we are so empathetic.

So, why do some people cause the pain? A study was done of serial killers. Each one researched had a nightmare of a childhood. The executioner was also researched. He also had a childhood of pain.

Therefore, is it possible that sadists want to be the givers of pain rather than the receivers? Are they trying to exteriorize the pain and it's continued effects with which they still live?

And then there are other activists who endured the unendurable as a child. We actively try to stop the pain.
What courage it takes to willingly deal with pain we feel in empathy which restimulates our own pain from which we have never fully recovered.

Perhaps we need to give greater protection to the children.

 

Joan Mcallister (220)
Monday November 26, 2012, 7:50 pm
Signed & Noted. Thanks Nancy
 

Suzanne L. (183)
Monday November 26, 2012, 8:07 pm
N&S. TY Nancy
 

Susanne R. (208)
Monday November 26, 2012, 9:10 pm
Signed and noted! Thanks for pointing out this injustice, Nancy!
 

Parvez Zuberi (7)
Monday November 26, 2012, 9:58 pm
Signed and noted thanks
 

Ludger W. (67)
Tuesday November 27, 2012, 12:22 am
done
 

Kathleen R. (20)
Tuesday November 27, 2012, 1:30 am
signed & noted
 

Colleen L. (2)
Tuesday November 27, 2012, 1:37 am
Petition sigend. Thanks Nancy
 

Silvia Gonzalez (26)
Tuesday November 27, 2012, 2:37 am
Noted and signed.
 

Vicynthia Tjahjadi (57)
Tuesday November 27, 2012, 2:52 am
Signed. Thanks.
 

Judy C. (106)
Tuesday November 27, 2012, 4:28 am
Signed. thanks Nancy.
 

Ajla C. (89)
Tuesday November 27, 2012, 5:34 am
Done
 

Herbert E. (7)
Tuesday November 27, 2012, 5:44 am
signed of course.
 

Karen R. (89)
Tuesday November 27, 2012, 6:20 am
signed
 

Rajee Seetharam (137)
Tuesday November 27, 2012, 7:03 am
Noted and signed with thanks
 

Les M. (92)
Tuesday November 27, 2012, 10:08 am
until buyers stop buying, not just signing petitions, corporations will continue business as usual.
 

Barry T. (746)
Tuesday November 27, 2012, 10:58 am
YUP, THANKS AND SIGNED!
 

Michael Kirkby (57)
Tuesday November 27, 2012, 6:45 pm
Signed & twittered. Grow hemp - it is a much more friendly crop that uses much less water, pesticides and fertillizers. The yield is prolific. Cotton is hard on the environment it grows in. It is a big contributor to water loss in any region it grows.
 

NICKY MELVILLE (93)
Tuesday November 27, 2012, 6:47 pm
How disgustting that governements can obtain such power for evil! Thankfully signed adn noted and I only HOPE and pray that it works. Doesn't it make your blood boil at the atrocious things that are going on world-wide ?
 

Sara W. (99)
Tuesday November 27, 2012, 9:40 pm
Signed.
 

Carolyn P. (54)
Wednesday November 28, 2012, 1:33 am
me2 S&N
 

Emma S. (133)
Wednesday November 28, 2012, 1:58 am
Done! Thanks, Nancy.
 

Pat A. (90)
Wednesday November 28, 2012, 2:27 am
Tried to send a green star to Nicky Melville - but the computer wouldn't let me yet, sorry! However I managed to send one to Zee K! Already signed - thanks Nancy!
 

Unnikrishnan Sasidharan (31)
Wednesday November 28, 2012, 2:32 am
S+N
 

Teresa Cowley (273)
Wednesday November 28, 2012, 3:07 am
Noted, signed and shared.
When will some groups of "people" wake up and realize that the most important natural resources are it's living beings? Humans, of course, but the animals too.
Of course money must be made (I like money too), but work doesn't need to be a slave/cruelty issue.
The world seems to be getting greedier and crueler, and at the same time dirtier and more poisoned--what a damned shame!
 

Ben Oscarsito (267)
Wednesday November 28, 2012, 6:02 am
Done!
 

Megan Beery (18)
Wednesday November 28, 2012, 8:47 am
Signed and noted.
 

Liliana D. (112)
Wednesday November 28, 2012, 12:09 pm
done, thanks
 

Marie Therese Hanulak (28)
Friday November 30, 2012, 6:24 am
Signed but worried. What if these children are no longer allowed to work and they starve? Is starvation better?
 

Gawel S. (3)
Friday November 30, 2012, 10:38 am
done
 

Joe R. (157)
Saturday December 1, 2012, 2:42 pm
Thanks Nancy. Signed and noted.
 

natalie n. (166)
Saturday December 8, 2012, 6:47 am
thanks, done.
 

alicia m. (95)
Monday April 1, 2013, 10:52 am
noted, signed, posted in Slavery today group, thanks
 

Rose NoFWDSPLZ (225)
Monday April 1, 2013, 9:41 pm
So Signed Nancy
 

David Lilja (43)
Tuesday April 2, 2013, 5:24 pm
Done Nancy Cheers
 

Vivien Green (147)
Wednesday April 3, 2013, 3:07 pm
Thank you Nancy and also Alicia for the "heads Up"

Signed and shared
 

Yvonne F. (91)
Thursday April 11, 2013, 4:16 am
So signed!!! Makes me ashamed of being Swedish. H&M si constantly denying that this is happening. It is about time they investigate themselves!!!
Thanks Nancy
 
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