{"id":376541,"date":"2018-09-08T08:58:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T07:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/burn-your-nikes-how-about-boycott-them-instead\/"},"modified":"2018-09-08T08:58:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T07:58:39","slug":"burn-your-nikes-how-about-boycott-them-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/burn-your-nikes-how-about-boycott-them-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Burn Your Nikes? How About Boycott Them Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cYou have to stand proudly for the National Anthem or you shouldn\u2019t be playing. You shouldn\u2019t be there. Maybe you shouldn\u2019t be in the country\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Donald Trump<\/p>\n

\u201cBelieve in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. #JustDoIt\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Colin Kaepernick<\/p>\n

\u201cA man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Malcolm X<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nike\u2019s catchphrase \u201cJust Do It\u201d was inspired by murderer Gary Gilmore\u2019s famous last\u00a0words<\/a>.\u00a0Nike has been a bloodbath ever since. In the 1990s, there was real pressure on Nike to change their nightmarish working conditions. Those were the days when we cared about\u00a0slavery<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Nike cleaned up its image and not much else. Since then they have been peddling apparel without consequence, save a few brave protestors.<\/p>\n

Nike appeared to have changed its course to some degree, but recent findings tell a different story. in 2016 Nike denied the Worker Rights Consortium access to 690 supplier factories\u00a0says\u00a0<\/a>labornotes.org<\/a>. The 2018 documentary\u00a0Behind The Swoosh<\/a>\u00a0details the sickening conditions. Piled together in cement boxes infested with rats, surrounded by sewers, workers tried to survive on 1.25$ a day. Jim Keady, former coach of St. John\u2019s soccer, says he lost 25 pounds working in Indonesia on Nike\u2019s wages.<\/p>\n

Workers end up working overtime to compensate, never seeing their children. These children soon go into sweatshops at a young age themselves. The full cycle hits in Behind The Swoosh when we see the piles of Nike shoes…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cYou have to stand proudly for the National Anthem or you shouldn\u2019t be playing. You shouldn\u2019t be there. Maybe you shouldn\u2019t be in the country\u201d \u2014 Donald Trump \u201cBelieve in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. #JustDoIt\u201d \u2014 Colin Kaepernick \u201cA man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. \u2014 Malcolm X Nike\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-376541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}