Saturday, May 31, 2008

Feeling sick today, like everyday

I'm feeling a little sick today. Sick of the foods I eat, sick of the clothes I wear, sick of the shoes I buy, sick of the hair elastic in my hair, sick of my nailpolish, my toothpaste, my underwear, my eyeshadow... sick of the brand names, the ignorance I have of their history, and sick of the complex situation of my everyday life, my (almost) everyday consumption. I'm sick of taking things for granted. I'm sick of wasting food, wasting lives, and wasting time.

What should I buy?

What should I wear?

What can I do?
to reflect my opinions of the world..


to reflect my feelings and respect of other nations, ethnicities, countries... and ourselves
-I say ourselves just because something is made in Canada, does not mean it's not made in a sweatshop. So many registered Canadians work in sweatshops in the middle of nowhere, so companies don't get caught treating their employees with neglect.

In fact, Street Cents, a report by a University professor in Toronto states that "the house next door" could infact be a sweatshop.... In Canada over 40,4000 women work at home sewing for large companies. The sweatshop 'pandemic' is so complicated that we cannot say don't wear ____. band ____.


we need to change the whole system. But HOW? I began to look more into this...
and many students have organizations and campaign against sweatshops.


http://www.cbc.ca/streetcents/guide/2001/16/s02_01.html

http://www.nosweat.org.uk/



http://www.iht.com/articles/2000/03/02/rthai.t.php

I think I'll look more into this....

1 comment:

macduff (mcguchan) said...

economic imperialism is the most difficult to fight against of all