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11/16 2021 ~Protestors~

    Not many people know how GAP is one of the most detrimental sweatshops. Their manual workers are employed at very low wages, with poor environment, and most importantly they are children. Protestors would go up to GAP stores and demonstrate until they became more creative and started to approach from different ways. People would go up to cashier counters as "customers" and ask questions like "were these made by children?" and by continuously doing so, they were able to keep the cash corner out of business for an hour. They were able to do this with only 10 people, and without breaking any laws. Moreover, a group of people also succeeded in passing a law to stop food chains to sell unhealthy products. Although their wish to get rid of already existing chains did not supersede, they were still able to bring about change. 

    I was astonished to find out about the copyrights once put on neem plants, and basmati rice. Both of them were produced and traditionally used by Indians, but texas corporations decided to buy them and the locals had to pay the companies in order to obtain them. The two sides had to go through a long court case, which to me was nonsense. Why would they have to start paying for what their people produced and have used for decades? Fortunely, the indians were able to win back their neem plants and basmati rice. 

notes: 

people pow can work against corporations. in the USSR, rock music was banned. because they thought deterimantel to communism  1.7 million 

milton friedman 

who killed the electric car? documentary 

if too much attention focuses on one country, the corporations then find other countries and do the exact same thing. (race to the bottom ) 

GAP: child labor

protesters: continuously keep the cash corner out of business, by working smart, and creative. a small group of people was able to bring about change, without breaking any laws.  

  

if you don't like products just don't use it. 

chain restaurants selling unhealthy foods, one community decided to get rid of them, but managed to pass a law to stop making new chain restaurants. 


neem plant: indian medicine, doe health. texas viral tech company and decided to make medicine and put copyright on it so that even the indian people were not able to use it. Indians and the texas company had a long court, and the indians won.  " we won because ewe worked together" 

basmati rice, indian subcontinent, really cheap. texas buyers did the same thing. 



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