Community | October 27, 2010 | 25 comments

The Child Labor Photographs Gymboree Doesn't Want You to See

source: http://Change.org

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"Children's clothing store Gymboree has lots of cute Halloween costumes for sale this week, but the cotton in those costumes may be harvested under conditions worthy of a horror movie.

Almost 2,000 Change.org readers have already taken action to tell Gymboree and Abercrombie & Fitch to join the many other major clothing companies that have spoken out against the widespread forced labor of children in Uzbekistan's cotton industry. Abercombie & Fitch has since responded stating they have a policy not to source cotton from Uzbekistan because of these egregious human rights abuses.
But Gymboree remains scarily unmoved.

Even as many of you joined a national call-in day to Gymboree two weeks ago, the company remained silent on this critical issue. Many of you have also used Twitter to spread the word and communicated your concern on Gymboree's Facebook page.

Recently, the International Labor Rights Forum posted photographs of children working in Uzbekistan's cotton fields during the current cotton harvest on Gymboree's Facebook wall, so that the company could actually see some of the faces of the millions of children forced to leave school and work in the fields. Unfortunately, Gymboree swiftly removed the photographs and swept the reality faced by these children under the rug, while continuing its silence on the abuse. The photograph featured in this post is among those removed by Gymboree, and you can view more of them online here: http://laborrightsblog.typepad.com/international_labor_right/2010/10/the-photogr... "


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25 comments // The Child Labor Photographs Gymboree Doesn't Want You to See

  • barbie_chola89
  • ayipis
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      ayipis  
    • Image

    • http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-venezuela-nationalize-201010...

      (you guys really want to save somebody??) well save them from socialist chavez

      Reporting from Caracas, Venezuela, and Bogota, — Charging U.S. bottle manufacturer Owens- Illinois with worker exploitation and environmental damage, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced plans to confiscate the local unit of the company, the 200th nationalization of a private firm this year.

      The seizure comes as Venezuela suffers through a sinking economy and the continent's highest inflation rate. Some experts blame the conditions in part on the inefficiency caused by Chavez's takeovers of private industry, an element of his so-called 21st century socialism program.

      *****************

      I wonder if pro-socialist KENNYMOTOWN would be an assest or a liablity in chavez's dream world..LOL

    • 1 year ago
  • ayipis
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      ayipis  

    • its bleeding heart liberals saving the world again...RUN..

      they are the new christians..coming to save anything that they dont understand and not agree with their perception of reality

    • 1 year ago
  • QuinlanT
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  
    • QuinlanT:

      It isn't part of anyone's culture to sacrifice someone's childhood to be underpaid and barely fed while some company sells the product for 400 times what it cost to make.

      Even if they did justify it with their "culture," that doesn't somehow make it acceptable.

      They're doing what they have to do, not what they want to do.

    • 1 year ago
  • QuinlanT
  • Eddie_Miller
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      Eddie_Miller  
    • QuinlanT:

      i agree. we had child laborers when our nation was developing. who are we to say that a currently developing nation can not? as long as their working conditions are good and they're treated fairly they should be able to help support their family. its not like they have amazing educational opportunities

    • 1 year ago
  • LAJOLLAMUSIC
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      LAJOLLAMUSIC  
    • QuinlanT:

      Good thinking but do not forget .... cotton fields is full of pesticides! In long term they will have a cancer! Then, now... what is the best for the kids? A said School! Don'f you agree?

    • 1 year ago
  • ayipis
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      ayipis  
    • Saladin:

      underpaid and barely fed??? LOL what are you? running for union boss?

      who said they are underpaid and barely fed...these people are earning equal or at some instances more what most local business would give. India and several Asian countries are booming because jobs are being outsourced there and those people are earning a lot less than american minimum wage BUT compared to what they earn there..its a gold mine..

      in reality if you would ask those kids to stop working they might end up giving you the fat finger LOL.

      .they dont think like your socialist friends who wants hand outs

    • 1 year ago
  • keepthinkingboo
  • RastusJr
  • donkeyfly69
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      donkeyfly69  
    • RastusJr:

      of course but why are they living in those conditions to begin with? i'm sure the people lived off of the land until it was destroyed to make way for cash crops and factories

    • 1 year ago
  • RastusJr
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  
    • RastusJr:

      Because that's the basic history of how all industrial societies start.

      Either mechanized agriculture and targeted efforts drive subsistence farmers out of existence or they are forced by gunpoint out of their farms and into factories.

      And really? You can't think of a better way of life than for kids to fucking kill themselves in fields just so they can eat?

      How about as basic cost of operating in the country, the corporation has to pay some simple taxes to ensure that shit like this never happens?

      Oh, but how horrible that would be right? That would be "force." As if exploitation wasn't.

    • 1 year ago
  • RastusJr
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      RastusJr  
    • Saladin:

      Put down the caffeine, lay off the mercury.
      "Forced by gunpoint out of their farms and into factories." That would be by whom? The government to man state owned factories? Or is this the "corporation" that is supposed to be paying taxes? Taxes that make sure less employees are hired and lower wages are paid.
      I have a better idea. Boycott the lot. Ruin their economy so they can't afford food or care, just like in America.

    • 1 year ago
  • ayipis
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      ayipis  

    • RUN!!! here comes the bleeding heart liberals..

      a few people need to understand that in a lot of cultures, children working is normal. It brings in income to a family...its part of life..

      are they being abused?? are they being whipped?? NO..I would not be surprised if there is a waiting list of children and adults WANTING to work..so in the end..all the companies move out of Uzbekistan..no job..no money...

      so the idea of children should be trying to emulate justin beiber and top priority would his or her confused sexuality as normal is only common in this country

      ..devoid of what real life is all about..

    • 1 year ago
  • Swisher
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  
    • ayipis:

      You have no idea whether they're being abused or whipped, you just said that to defend your own idiotic self-righteousness.

      Congratulations, you are less compassionate than people that lived 70 years ago, which is how long it's been universally accepted that child labor is fucked up and evil.

    • 1 year ago
  • oppressed1
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      oppressed1  
    • ayipis:

      so the idea of children should be trying to emulate justin beiber and top priority would his or her confused sexuality as normal is only common in this country.

      fucking priceless lol.

      Fuck justin beiber imo.

    • 1 year ago
  • bailey78
  • Saladin
  • grandavi
  • ayipis
  • Saladin
    • +1
      Saladin  
    • ayipis:

      And is it somehow ridiculous to expect that they don't use child slaves to get us those products?

      Are we wrong to demand open accountability of how this shit is acquired?

      You're such a tool, clinging onto these meaningless little sound bytes that you think justify your own intellectual incompetence.

      Think a little more, speak a little less.

      And when you think, if you can think, criticize yourself before speaking next time.

    • 1 year ago
  • Jpwhoregan
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