From: Bhumika Muchhala (b_muchhala@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 30 2001 - 01:02:01 EST
>From: Bruce Gould <bcgould@enteract.com>
>To: nike-related@lists.caa.org.au
>Subject: [nike-related] organizing idea
>Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 16:32:47 -0800
>
>Fellow Activists:
>
>I'd like to put forth an idea which many will consider crackpot and/or
>impractical. I hesitate to do this; I don't want to waste peoples time.
>
>Why don't we raise a few million dollars $US to START a college clothing
>factory in Indonesia (or some suitable place), run it according to the
>principles that people not only deserve a "living wage" but also deserve
>a proportion of the profits that their worlplace generates, and sell the
>output to U.S. colleges? Such a "demonstration factory" would show that
>a workplace could function on fair economic principles, and would scare
>the bejesus out of Nike and others - and hopefully the idea would
>spread.
>
>I'm prepared to put up $1000 U.S., and if people with suitable expertise
>could be found, I feel that there will be several thousand others around
>the globe who could afford a similar contribution.
>
>Many good ideas were once judged crackpot!
>
>Bruce Gould
>Nicaragua Solidarity Committee
>Chicago, Ill
>
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