Say 'No!' to Nike!
Saturday, October 18 will see an international mobilisation in support of the rights of Nike production workers. Labour, human rights and community activists in Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Holland, Italy, Switzerland and the USA will leaflet at stores selling Nike products. US activists will target Niketowns— the company's new multi-floor superstores. Dianne Feeley Haiti: blaming the left
On July 8, America's National Public Radio (NPR) broadcast a story by correspondent David Welna in which he argued that it was the misguided efforts of human rights advocates in the United States that were driving multinational investors to pull out of Haiti. For Welna, companies like Disney, Wal-Mart, Kmart, and H.H. Cutler/VF-have no other choice but to flee Haiti and move to China in the face of pressure to respect worker rights and to pay a wage that comes close to meeting basic subsistence needs.
National Public Radio has refused to give the National Labor Committee (NLC)-or, more importantly, any Haitian popular organisations-the opportunity to respond. According to the NLC, "The question of jobs in Haiti is a deadly serious one, never to be taken lightly. There is massive unemployment. [We] spoke with Batay Ouvriye and other Haitian organisations about the possible threat that Disney and other contractors