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this is a story about
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clothing it's about the clothes we wear
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the people who make these clothes and
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the impact that it's having on our
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world it's a story about greed and fear
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power and
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poverty it's complex as it extends all
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the way around the world but it's also
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simple revealing just how connected we
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are to the many hearts and hands behind
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our
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clothes I came into the story with no
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background and fashion at all beginning
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with nothing more than a few simple
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questions what I've discovered has
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forever change the way I think about the
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things I wear and my hope is that it
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might just do the same for
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you maybe just start and and say your
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name and talk about how this kind of
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began my name is Lucy seagull I am a
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journalist and broadcaster based in the
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UK and I have been obsessed consumed
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with the environmental and social
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impacts of the fashion industry for
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about a
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decade well I love everything about
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clothes you know I love I love the
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Poetry I love the fabric I love the
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colors I love the textures I love the
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way that they make you feel you know
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they are
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our chosen skin well I had the classic
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massive closet clothes everywhere bags
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constantly coming into my house you know
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every day every other day with some
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other item in and never had anything to
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wear I could never put together a
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coherent
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outfit we communicate who we are to a
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certain extent through clothing and this
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is this is again throughout history you
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know you have the trends at C you know
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again Mar Antoinette making these huge
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hats it's always been it's our personal
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Communication in many ways that's what
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interests me that it is fundamentally a
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part of what um we wish to communicate
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about
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ourselves and we used to have a system a
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fashion system where people would go to
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the uh shows so they would do spring
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summer awesome winter and those kind of
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r like clockwork for very many years
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okay rip that up throw it out the window
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that has absolutely nothing to do with
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the fashion industry today it has been
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reinvented the shift is moving
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ruthlessly um
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towards a way of producing which only
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really looks after big business
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interest growing up I never gave much
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thought to anything other than the price
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price of the clothes that I bought
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usually making choices based on the
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style or a good
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deal looking back I learned that for a
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long time most of our clothing was
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actually made right here in
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America as recently as the 1960s we were
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still making 95% of our clothes today we
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only make about 3% and the other 97% is
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outsourced to developing countries
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around the
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world I've been in the business for over
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9 years now in terms of scale we got
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about 25,000 people just on garment
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manufacturing side we produce one in six
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dresses sold in the
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US if you actually go to the store and
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you Benchmark the price of a a garment
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over the last 20 years you will find
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that it's actually a deflationary
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product I the price has gone down over
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time now has our cost gone down
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absolutely not okay the cost has gone
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up the more production we've outsourced
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the cheaper prices have become on the
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clothing we buy making way for a whole
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new model known as fast fashion almost
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overnight transforming the way clothing
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is bought and sold the newest H&M store
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on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan is the
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company's largest ever and just one of
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many new stores it's planning around the
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country it's all part of a High Street
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Revolution fast fashion instead of two
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seasons a year we practically have 52
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Seasons a year so we have something new
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coming in every week and fast f has
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created this so that it can essentially
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shift more
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product we
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love you can get this Fringe metallic
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skirt for $39 at Joe Fresh a brand new
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store in town with price tags that might
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look a little bit more appealing to
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budget conscious Shoppers American
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consumers they really have grasped the
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fashion part of H&M and we know from
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before that American zo is are very
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value oriented if you match these two
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together with fashion and value then you
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have a recipe one Japanese clothing
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retailer it's making a Fast and Furious
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march here in the US the price has
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dropped the way of making that product
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has completely completely changed and
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you have to ask yourself at some point
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where does it end the global Marketplace
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is some place where we export work to
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have happen in whatever conditions we
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want and products come back to me cheap
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enough to throw away without thinking
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about
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it well globalized production basically
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means that all of the making of goods
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has been outsourced to lowcost economies
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particularly where wages are very low
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and kept low and what that means is that
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those at the top of the value chain they
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get to choose where the products are
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being made and they get to switch if for
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example one Factory says we can't make
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it get that cheap anymore the brand will
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say well we're not going to come to you
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anymore we're going to switch to another
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place which is
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cheaper in the west they're using
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everyday low price so every day they're
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hampering me and I'm hampering my
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workers this is how it is they're
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competing the stores are competing in
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there when the stores are coming to us
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for order and negotiating they're
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telling look that particular store is
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selling this shirt with like $5 so I
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needed to sell it in the $4 so you
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better squeeze your price so we are
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squeezing then other store is coming and
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selling hey they're selling it the $4 so
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the Target price is three if you can
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meet the three you are getting business
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otherwise you are not getting because we
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want that business so badly and we don't
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have other options okay every time we
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are trying to okay survive actually
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ultimately something's going to give
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either the price of the product has to
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go up or manufacturers have to shut down
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or cut Corners to make it work cutting
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corners and disregarding safety measures
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had become an accepted part of doing
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business in this new model until an
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early morning in April when an event
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just outside of DACA Bangladesh brought
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a hidden side of fashion to front page
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news Well State media in Bangladesh say
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an eight story building has collapsed
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near the capital of Daka killing more
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than 70 people
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rescue workers are racing Against Time
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searching through the rubble trying to
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find as many survivors as they can
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hundreds are dead hundreds more might
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still be buried alive after officials in
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Bangladesh say Factory owners ignored
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and ordered to evacuate some 400 dead
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hundreds still believe to be missing
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garment workers in Bangladesh paying the
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price for cheap clothing a huge crowd
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has gathered near the building side many
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of them family members looking for loved
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ones and they say they can still hear
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people screaming from underneath the
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rubble crying out for help many are
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simply losing
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hope
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spech anybody who like me had written
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about
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problems in the supply chain
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particularly for fast fashion and tried
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to
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articulate how the risk was being
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carried by those who are most vulnerable
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and the worst paid you try to articulate
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that but you could never have envisaged
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that there would be such a catastrophic
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illustration of what you were trying to
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say and R Plaza to me was like some
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Horror
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Story two weeks after the catastrophe
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and the death toll now stands at a
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staggering
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931 making it the worst garment industry
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disaster in history I think one of the
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the the most profoundly impressing
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things about the Runa Plaza disaster was
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that news that the workers had already
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pointed out to the management the cracks
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in the building they they'd already
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pointed out that the building was
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structurally unsafe and yet they'd been
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forced back in many survivors are asking
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how they could have been forced to
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return to work when management already
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was aware of the cracks in the building
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and workers concerns on the very day of
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the collapse a lot of clothes in
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American stores are made in Bangladesh
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by workers who earn about $2 a day last
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month there a garment Factory collapsed
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killing more than 1,000 and a few months
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before that a factory fire killed more
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than 100 and his bodies are still being
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pulled out of the rubble another Factory
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in Bangladesh caught fire early this
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morning killing eight more people as
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story after Story of clothing Factory
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disasters kept filling the news it was
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now the case that three of the four
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worst tragedies in the history of
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fashion had all happened in the last
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year as the death toll Rose so did the
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profits generated the year following the
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disaster at Rona Plaza was the
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industry's most profitable of all time
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the global fashion industry is now in
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almost $3 trillion annual industry
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Bangladesh is now the second largest
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apparel exporter after China how well
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unlike some of its competitors
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Bangladeshi manufacturing remains dirt
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cheap and unions have limited power the
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country cornered the absolute bottom of
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the value chain those 1,000 poor girls
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lost their life because everybody didn't
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bother didn't give damn [ __ ] and they
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just wanted the cheap price and a good
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profit it shouldn't be like that
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everybody should take the responsibility
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for those
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kids that's how it
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is and it might coming coming more sorry
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but uh yeah you know that it's not only
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the Press pressure it's something
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ignoring other people's life is it's
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it's not it should it's not right it's
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21st century it's a global world we are
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living and we just ignore other people's
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life how come this
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enormous rapacious industry that is
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generating so much profit for a handful
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of
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people why is it that it is unable to
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support millions of its workers properly
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why is it that it is not able to
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guarantee their safety we're talking
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about essential human rights why is it
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unable to guarantee that whilst
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generating these tremendous profits is
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it because it doesn't work properly that
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is my
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question Lucy's question sounds like the
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obvious one but instead of answering it
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everywhere I looked I found people who
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were constantly justifying the cost
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because of the economic benefits being
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generated so this low-wage manufacturing
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or so-called sweat shops they're not
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just the least bad option workers have
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today they're part of the very process
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that raises living standards and leads
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to higher wages is in better working
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conditions over time your proximate
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causes of development are physical
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capital technology and human capital or
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skills of the workers when sweat shops
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come to these countries they bring all
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three of those to these workers and
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start getting that process going is it
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possible that sweat shops are actually
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good yes horrible awful sweat shops the
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word itself sweat shop it evokes
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terrible images of poor people and
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children suffering in third world
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countries slaving away in awful
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conditions make products for us selfish
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Americans thank you what does it does it
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bother me that people are working in a
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factory making clothes
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for Americans or for you know Europeans
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or that they're that's how they're
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spending their
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lives is that what you're kind of asking
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me um yeah sure um no I mean you know
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they're doing a job uh there are a lot
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worse things that they can be doing it
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is live television and I will ask you
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Define sweat shops yeah I think we have
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to be very clear what we're talking
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about from the outset so we're talking
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about places with very poor working
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conditions as us normal Americans would
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experience it very low wages by our
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standard maybe children working places
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that might not obey local labor laws but
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there's a key characteristics of the
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type of ones I want to talk to you about
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tonight Kennedy and that's that there
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are places where people choose to work
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admittedly from a bad set of other
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options well I mean there's nothing
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intrinsically dangerous with sewing
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clothes so so we're kind of starting out
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with you know with a a relatively safe
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industry it's not like coal mining or
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natural gas mining or you know a lot of
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things that you can that are much more
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dangerous so sweat shops jobs look like
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horrible working conditions and wages to
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anybody in the west who's wealthy enough
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to own a TV and watch your video but we
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have to keep in mind that the
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Alternatives available for these workers
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aren't our own Alternatives they're much
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worse than our alternatives and they're
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usually much worse than the factory job
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that the worker has low wages unsafe
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conditions and Factory disasters are all
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excused because of the needed jobs they
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create for people with no
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Alternatives this story has become the
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narrative used to explain the way the
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fashion industry now operates all over
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the world but there are those who
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believe that there must be a better way
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of making and selling clothing that does
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generate economic growth but without
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taking such an enormous toll so we don't
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know yet um how long this embroidery is
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taking do you think you could ask chantu
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just just roughly how long that whole
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panel is taking because I guess we'll
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see it later on in the fob price
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breakdown but it would be great to know
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wouldn't it so I'm safia mini I'm
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founder and CEO of people tree and uh
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people tree is a fair trade fashion
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brand that started over 20 years ago in
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Japan you were worried that we had a bit
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too much Navy what are you feeling now
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cuz we did put more black into ss4 and
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that has worked really really well with
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um
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A's um designer collaboration have we
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got enough black Print in the collection
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uh well we've lost that abstract dust
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print this one here in the black but I
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think this pink be really I think it's
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one of those prints that everyone's a
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bit nervous of but actually will do
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well I think most fashion brands start
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with a a concept of a collection or a
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look um they don't tend to think uh you
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know who is going to make the product
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and um how can I ensure that producers
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or or suppliers um are going to eat um
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so what we what we're trying to do at
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people TR is really start with uh the
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skills that we have at each producer
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group and then design The Collection up
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whilst also looking at the Integrity of
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the collection in its
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aesthetic I worked originally with
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freelance designers and uh went into
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Bangladesh Zimbabwe India Nepal the
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Philippines and bit by bit we put
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together you know an amazing network of
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like-minded fair trade organizations
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that put women's development you the
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workers Social Development and
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environment absolutely Central to
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everything they
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do 1 2 3 happy world fair trade day
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y
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thank you very
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really really
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great that's beautiful fair trade is a
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citizens response to correcting the
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social injustice in a international
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trading system that is largely
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dysfunctional where uh workers and
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farmers are not paid um a living wage a
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and where the environment is is not
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considered at all to make the products
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that we buy every
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day
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Shima is one of about 40 million garment
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Factory workers in the world almost 4
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million of these workers are here in
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Bangladesh working in almost 5,000
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factories making clothing for major
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Western
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brands
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over 85% of these workers are women and
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with a minimum wage of less than $3 a
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day they are among the lowest paid
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garment workers in the
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world
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May
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NAD
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the
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workers must not have any kind of
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distrust on their
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owns if they
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have there will not be any good working
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atmosphere in the factory they must
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respect our owner is paying us as per
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rule if they do not have this kind of
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confidence you won't get the
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result
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foreign
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spe
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for it's estimated that one in every six
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people alive in the world today work in
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some part of the global fashion industry
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making it the most labor dependent
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industry on Earth most of this work is
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done by people like Shima who have no
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voice in the larger supply chain today
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we purchase over 80 billion pieces of
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new clothing each year that's 400% more
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than the amount we bought just two
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decades ago the way we buy clothes has
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changed so much so fast that few people
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have actually stepped back to understand
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the origin of this new model or the
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consequence of such an unprecedented
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increase in consumption there's
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um an article in printer Inc uh which is
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the leading advertising trade Journal of
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of of its day uh by a very famous
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copywriter named Ernest Elmo Caulkins a
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grand old man of of uh the art of
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writing advertising and copy was an
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article called consumptionism
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in that article he says there are there
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are two kinds of products okay they're
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the kind that you
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use like washing machines cars and so on
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things that you buy and use for a long
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time and then there are the things that
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you use up like chewing gum and
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cigarettes other
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perishables he said uh consumptionism is
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all about about getting people to treat
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the things they use as the things they
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use up with their Innovative buy 1 get
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three free pricing a suit from Joseph A
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Bank is effectively cheaper than paper
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towels and now they come in these easy
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to ous
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dispensers with four suits for the price
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of a modest dinner I can feel good about
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throwing them away when I'm
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done you just have to look at landfill
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and you can see in landfill that the
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amount of clothes and textiles being
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chucked away has been increasing
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steadily over the last 10 years um as
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the sort of dirty shadow of the fast
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fashion
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industry as we get sort of closer and
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closer to species degradation to uh
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trashing our last remaining pristine
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Wilderness we seem held Ben on producing
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more and more disposable stuff it makes
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no sense fashion should never and can
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never be thought of as a disposable
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product I think after any big change in
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any industry it takes a while to sort of
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to feel and smell the dirt that comes
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out of something um that is that is
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polluting so I think now there is a
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change because you can't deny that the
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fast fashion industry is having a
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massive impact in developing countries
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the average American throws away 82 lbs
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of textile waste each year adding up to
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more than 11 million tons of textile
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waste from the us alone most of this
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waste is non-biodegradable meaning it
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sits in landfills for 200 years or more
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while releasing harmful gases into the
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air the sheer amount of cheap clothing
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even though people feel perhaps
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somehow um that they're offsetting by
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giving to charity you know the Journey
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of a t-shirt donated to charity is
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unpalatable in itself
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I love the embroidery
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shantu the embroider is really nice
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don't you think we should have the
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embroidery on both sides I think we
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should definitely add the embroidery
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here as well I think it looks a bit mean
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to have it just on the front so let's
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have it on the sides
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too it won't add much cost it's not so
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dense is
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it
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swallows is a fair trade fashioned
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business but it's also a development
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Society so it helps more than 3,000
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people in this
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Village I come here every four months um
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we we call them production trips and um
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and we're working with the producers
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trying to find out you know what are the
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barriers to making a great product and
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to to getting it to the market and we're
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also doing Fair tray capacity building
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so looking at you know what what are the
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obstacles to delivering more social
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benefit or improving you know the
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Environmental Protection in the in these
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areas for me this this is about
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partnering this is about finding
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Creative Solutions together with them
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with the team here um and really
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listening to what their problems are and
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finding a way that that works
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together I want to invite um the best
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employee here at swallows I want to
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invite one women one female
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representative from swallows to come to
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London in Autumn or next spring and I
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would like you to think who would be
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that best
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representative but I want you to know
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who your customers are and I want you to
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really understand the marketplace and
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come back and tell all your
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for
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for
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foreign speech
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speee
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for the same low wages that have made
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places like Bangladesh so attractive for
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Brands to do business have left millions
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of workers here working incredibly long
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hours unable to afford to keep their
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children with them even in the city's
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worst slums in order to give their
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children an education and the chance of
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a better future than life in the
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factories many garment workers here like
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Shima are leaving their children to be
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raised by family or friends in villages
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outside the city only getting to see
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them once or twice a
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year
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operating within a system that only
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measures profit companies have little
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incentive to do anything other than to
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make this quarter better than the last
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no matter what damage is caused along
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the way as corporations that make up the
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global fashion industry Major Brands as
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well as seed and chemical companies are
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growing today to reach unprecedented
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Global size and power this mandate for
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profit at all cost is beginning to stand
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in direct opposition to the Val values
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that we
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share Richard wolf is an economist who
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after graduating from Harvard Stanford
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and Yale became convinced that the real
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problem is within this system itself so
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America became a peculiar country you
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could criticize the education system to
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make the schools better you could
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criticize the transportation system to
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make that work better you could CR but
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you couldn't criticize the economic
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system that got a free pass you couldn't
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criticize just you know and if you don't
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criticize something for 50 years it rots
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it goes to seed one of the ways a
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healthy Society works is it subjects its
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component systems to criticism so that
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we can debate it and hopefully fix it or
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improve it or do better capitalism
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couldn't be questioned capitalism is the
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reason the fashion industry looks as it
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does today it's the reason why workers
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in Bangladesh have paid so little
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because if you're operating in a
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capitalist system system the main thing
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you have to do is create profit and you
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have to create more profit than your
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competitors and this is what drives
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companies to push wages down and down
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and down like they don't like companies
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don't go like fashion retailers don't go
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to places like Bangladesh for any other
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reason except they can get the cheapest
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labor possible that there's no um
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Collective rights in Bangladesh there's
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no Trade union rights there's a very
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very low minimum w wage there's no like
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maternity benefits there's no pensions
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that is why the fashion industry is in
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Bangladesh because it can reap the
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biggest profits out of those people that
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are that are making the clothes for them
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before you can solve a problem you have
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to admit you got one and before we're
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going to fix an economic system that's
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working this way and producing such
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tensions and inequalities and strains on
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our community we have to face the real
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scope of the problem we have and that's
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with the system as a whole whole and at
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the very least we have to open up a
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national debate about it and at the most
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I think we have to think long and hard
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about alternative systems that might
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work better for the environment the
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great threat is that Capital must
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continue to expand infinitely in order
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to survive it it can't have any limits
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on its expansion and its growth the
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natural world clearly does have limits
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there are very defined limits to how
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much the world can sustain in terms of
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production uction in terms of trade in
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terms of transport and distribution and
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it's quite clear that we've already
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overstepped a lot of those limits which
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is why you're seeing such stress in the
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natural world at the moment the system
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we live in isn't one that most people
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want to live in I think it's a system
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that makes most people very unhappy and
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I don't think people want to live on a
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slowly dying planet or to be exploiting
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um you know their neighbors so I think I
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think we need huge systemic change if
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you don't change this system you're
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leaving intact the decision making of
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these Enterprises which means a small
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group of Executives and shareholders are
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going to be working in the same system
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subject to the same pattern of rewards
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and punishments which will sooner or
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later make them
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reimpose there or elsewhere the very
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conditions you're fighting against so
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stop this stuff about improving their
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conditions deal with as system or else
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you're not serious our economic system
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is one of consumer capitalism and that's
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why the government needs to have
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consumption at very high levels um and
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why of course the corporations do and
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why at some level most people then buy
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into it you know I can't tell you the
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number of people I talk to who say well
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but if we became less materialistic our
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economy would tank well they're right in
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some level because our economy is based
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on materialism it's based on these kinds
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of values that's what it needs in order
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to survive that's part of the fuel that
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it
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needs the problem is that comes at a
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really high price black Fridays here can
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we Black Friday shopping Mania is still
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playing out tonight at malls Across
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America in some places across this
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country tonight it's as if someone
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announced were in danger of running out
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of stuff and those who need stuff had
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better go out and buy it now cuz it's
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going away forever Walmart doing more
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than 10 million transactions in the
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first 4 hours of the frenzy a record
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15,000 people at Macy's in New York City
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Shoppers hung tough Black Friday will be
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the single largest day of the retail
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year certainly in the case of Macy's
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we'll do more business on this day uh
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than on any other uh day of the year
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Nation this orgy of Christmas shopping
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proves Amer America is back we are once
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again
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yes oh
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yes we are once again spending money we
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don't have on things we don't need to
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give to people we don't
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like yeah USA USA USA
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USA
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DN oh my
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God
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I've kept my grip so
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tight I won't let anyone get in my way I
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want beautiful things golden rings
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golden rings and I get what I
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want I live just to give what I want and
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I
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want I want it
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all
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now I want
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it now you CH
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again how how to
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this is the beginning of a turning point
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not just for you know a responsible way
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of doing fashion but for a new way of
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doing capitalism for a new way of doing
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economics I'm I'm sure that we we will
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see a significant change over the next
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10 years um whether it's in time or not
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there another
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question if you know Martin Luther King
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Jr at a speech in a Brooklyn church he
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said that what what the America needed
00:44:04
was a revolution of values it needed to
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stop treating people like things needed
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to stop treating people in ways that
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were just about profit but instead to
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treat people in a real and human way my
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God we can do better than this if if
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what we want is to spread as I would
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argue we do spread industry around the
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world not concentrate it in one place
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let it let the benefits be
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shared globally then let's do that in an
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orderly reasonable careful way we need
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to recognize that capital is just money
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money is a means and people should be
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accountable for how it's used we need to
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celebrate the creative power of human
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beings and we need to talk of cre
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creative work we must stop talking about
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Labor we need to look at the land as not
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a
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commodity to be speculated on and traded
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but as the very basis of our life as
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Mother Earth if you change all consumers
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into activists all consumers asking
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ethical questions all consumers asking
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quite simple questions about where their
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cloth are from all consumers saying I'm
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sorry it's not acceptable for someone to
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die in the course of a working day we
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can't just roll over and say yes have it
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do what you like it's too important it's
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too significant in industry it's has too
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much impact and effect on millions of
00:45:35
people worldwide and common
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resources will we continue to search for
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happiness and the consumption of
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things will we be satisfied with a
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system that makes us feel rich while
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leaving our world so desperately poor
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will we continue to turn a blind eye to
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the lives of those behind our clothes or
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will this be a turning point a new
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chapter in our story when together we
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begin to make a real change as we
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remember that everything we wear was
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touched by human
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hands in the midst of all the challenges
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facing us today for all the problems
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that feel bigger than us and beyond our
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control maybe we could start here with
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clothing
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