Nike and sweatshops - Democratic Underground

bobbieinok

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Mon Dec-15-03 02:29 PM
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Nike and sweatshops

Just found this email exchange between Nike and a customer who wanted a special message on his shoes.

http://publish.uwo.ca/~pryan2/MY%20Pubs/Nike.html

It was on a link from a professor (P. Ryan) at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.

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GOPisEvil

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Mon Dec-15-03 02:37 PM
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1. Your link is broken, but this is a true story, although an old one.

http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/nike.asp

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bobbieinok

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Mon Dec-15-03 03:03 PM
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2. trying to fix link

http://publish.uwo.ca/~pryan2/My%20Pubs/Nike.html

I didn't realize the story was old. I saw it for the first time today.

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bobbieinok

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Mon Dec-15-03 03:08 PM
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3. for those interested, check out the snopes link

there's a lot more info there

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