URGENT - SHARE WIDELY: today we announced that we will risk arrest at the Congressional Baseball Game. But we need more people to succeed in shutting it down.
Please. Tell everyone you know. This is important. This could be our last chance in a generation to pass a climate bill.
New York's Democratic supermajority just refused to pass climate policy for the 3rd year in a row. National solar industry lobbyists teamed up with fossil fueled merchant power producers to kill a bill because they were scared of losing market share to public renewables
“The FABRIC Act is necessary because it will advance the wellbeing of garment workers and their families,” Cris Lopez, GWC Leader, about the exciting bill about to be intro'd by @SenGillibrand . Read more- https://t.co/et51PtmVir
Solidarity with garment workers in Haiti producing for US brands incl. @Walmart@gildancorp demanding an increase in minimum wage, which in a 48hr week covers less than a 1/4 of what workers need to survive!!
For all the talk of sustainability, has any fashion company ever commissioned a report to know how many times their product is even used? (Since product use is by far the biggest driver of impact reduction.)
Fast Fashion is mainly polyester which is nothing but fuel turned into disposable garments, in the end we all are working to end fossil fuel imperialism
"Is it not violent for a child to go to bed hungry in the richest country in the world? I think that is violent. But that type of violence is so institutionalized that it becomes a part of our way of life. Not only do we accept poverty, we even find it normal..." - Kwame Ture