Converse Chucks aren't cool - made in Nike Sweatshops

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mode_7 commented on “More artists to connect to this group?” December 2008

• paddypunx

  PROUD to be wiyh you. STOP this CRAP!!!

  February 2012

• blaztik

  Yes agree totally fuck converse fuck nike and I hasten to add fuck onitsuka tiger, all made in sweathouses for around a dollar each, then the fucks patch a $70 price tag on the pieces of shite, you infernal cunt companies

  February 2012

• agrhluckyone

  i don't have an idea why i snouldn't buy shoes just becouse some people in china have 5cents for made it. if he don't made a nike or conv shoe he haven't that 5cents for food for him and his family. why it is wrong? you know, i mean that you shouldn't think "i work foor 10$ and some peoples work for 5cent it's bad and i will not buy this shoe" every country has other gov and you wouldn't change it by not buying nike shoe. my opinion, thanks

  December 2011

• Jepe666

  Tennis shoes aren't cool.

  February 2011

• NeroAsTheLife

  I think this is one of the best groups i've found here on lastfm! total support!

  March 2010

• Yikko

  ps fuck nike

  February 2010

• Yikko

  vv clearly new to this "internet" thing

  February 2010

• g0r177az

  Last.fm Isn't a place to spew morals.

  February 2010

• c4t2007

  Also, subsidies to European cotton, meat, and other produce prevent Africans from competing fairly.

  December 2009

• c4t2007

  Good idea. Import tariffs should also go away. That money can be spent on improving worker conditions.

  December 2009

• mode_7

  Or we could just give the poor people in Africa good work conditions with worker unions, a decent payment and legit contracts. That was my idea. Since we're not in position to decide this, because we are the customers, we should use the powers of customers. Like informing about this situation, consuming sweatshop free products and thinking about boycotts for products that are still produced under such aweful conditions. Even a customer letter to a local company can change small things. That's what I have experienced.

  December 2009

• c4t2007

  Alternatively, we could keep shoes expensive to pay for dead-end jobs here, and let the useless poor people in Africa die.

  December 2009

• c4t2007

  So old factories are better than new ones? Why throw away money?

  December 2009

• mode_7

  c4t2007: Doesn't make it better that companies from western countries establish new factories in Third World countries and close the old ones - and release the old employees. Also, it's hypocritic for Nike / Converse to promote Chucks within the Hardcore / Punk scene. Have you thought about those three points? Because workers in Third World contries don't have as much opportunities as in western countries dosn't legitimate the actions of western Sweatshop companies in Third World contries.

  December 2009

• mode_7

  Skemmer: Do you have any facts or was that even suppost to funny? I'm not into all this internet humor you know...

  December 2009

• c4t2007

  Surely they can do other work that pays better. How about not working at all and just going to school? That costs money... Free education then? Books, water, and sunlight are cheap. Grandpa can help teach them to read as he's too old to do manual labor.

  October 2009

• ImDaneCook

  Cool group

  October 2009

• Skemmer

  I hear last.fm was programmed in a sweatshop in Myanmar

  October 2009

• forXhelvete

  Converse is way too expensive to wear anyway. I always buy thos echeap copies with funny labels ^^

  October 2009

• acid_sound

  "Blackspotsneakers.org: Sweatshop free and ethical Chucks alternative - looks like shit" I think they're cool. especially much cooler than forced labour.

  September 2009