{"id":376840,"date":"2018-09-11T03:10:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T02:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nikes-bad-air\/"},"modified":"2018-09-11T03:10:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T02:10:45","slug":"nikes-bad-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nikes-bad-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Nike\u2019s Bad Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_105194\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105194\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/09\/13805091063_fca79ce0ae_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/09\/13805091063_fca79ce0ae_k.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/09\/13805091063_fca79ce0ae_k-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/09\/13805091063_fca79ce0ae_k-768x530.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source KylaBorg | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><i>Nike changes its brand more often than Madonna and more profitably. In the company\u2019s latest transformation, Nike has risked\u2013make that sought\u2013the ire of Donald Trump and his drones by making Colin Kaepernick the face of its latest campaign under the inspiring slogan: \u201cBelieve in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.\u201d Kaepernick\u2019s brief presence in an otherwise sentimental ad triggered a tweet from Trump and a boycott by the Deplorables, who took to burning their overpriced\u00a0footwear. It was precisely the\u00a0response Nike wanted and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/nikes-online-sales-jumped-31-after-company-unveiled-kaepernick-campaign-2018-09-07\">sales of Nike products have surged<\/a> over the last week. With social justice icon Kaepernick fronting the brand, no one will be thinking about Nike\u2019s wretched labor practices inside its sweatshops in Honduras, Indonesia and Vietnam. This is a proven formula for the company. When Nike was under intense public scrutiny in the 1990s, it recruited civil rights legend Andrew Young to whitewash the company\u2019s record. The image changed, but the cruel conditions didn\u2019t. Now, with the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/08\/business\/nike-harassment.html\">rocked by sexual harassment charges against some of its top executives<\/a>, Nike\u2019s betting that Kaepernick will\u00a0refrain from speaking out against the dismal practices of his employer. Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and LeBron James have all remained mute about the savage treatment of the workers who make the shoes and apparel that are sold under their image. So as a reminder who Nike really is under the&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/09\/10\/105150\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Source KylaBorg | CC BY 2.0 Nike changes its brand more often than Madonna and more profitably. In the company\u2019s latest transformation, Nike has risked\u2013make that sought\u2013the ire of Donald Trump and his drones by making Colin Kaepernick the face of its latest campaign under the inspiring slogan: \u201cBelieve in something. Even if it [&hellip;]<\/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-376840","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\/376840","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=376840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}