I’ve learnt this year that your hands can never be cleaned of the blood and sweat of others who didn’t deserve to be where they are.
No , don’t run away, It’s a small story. Listen.
I went to a free Tibet protest the other day. They screamed , they cried for their parents in Tibet who they were afraid to contact, in case the Chinese government found out. (They are quite arbit in their arresting routines anyway).
Long Live the Dalai Lama . Who is the killer? CHINA Who is the butcher? CHINA PEOPLE OF THE WORLD _ SUPPORT us.
All of the girls there including me were wearing those sexy skinny jeans made most definetely in China , atleast the cheaper species that students like me can afford.
In January, I made a film (ok WE , a group of 5) made a film about bonded child labour in Kancheepuram. Those beautiful kancheepuram sarees that your mother wore to weddings was probably woven in a dingy little room by a child who had to work the next twenty years to repay the loan his parents took.
Nine hours a day, everyday, weaving mechanically so that rich women can look pretty in weddings and rich men can flirt with them .
So how can you have a conscience without being hypocritical ? Go to a free tibet protest but wear jeans made under unimaginable sweatshop conditions by workers?
Nike shoes- child labour
coke- uses water that farmers don’t get to grow food crops
Benneton-racism
add to the list.
but you know what i mean?
Hide in a jungle and wear no clothes and then have a clear conscience
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The list does not end here, when we think about it the electricity that we use or the power that is used to make this stuff, is at the cost of all those people who mine coal for us, who get paid very less with no health insurance.
Recently I saw this very interesting video called, Story of Stuff, do watch it,
http://storyofstuff.com
Would it be ok for you to send me the film that you made about child labour in Kancheepuram?