And Who Made Your Shopping Bag? In a mindbending ps to Fashion Revolution Day’s &ldquo
And Who Made Your Shopping Bag? In a mindbending ps to Fashion Revolution Day’s “Who Made Your Clothes” this story reported on DNA Info exposes the forced labor and shocking conditions behind the thing that encloses the Clothes… Australian New Yorker Stephanie Wilson was taking her new Hunter rain boots out of this Saks Fifth Avenue shopping bag (above), when a hand written note and passport photo (below) fell out. "HELP HELP HELP!“ prisoner in a Chinese jail, Tohnain Emmanuel Njong had scrawled. "We are ill-treated and work like slaves for 13 hours every day producing these bags in bulk in the prison factory…”. Having risked his life writing the letter, "…Thanks and sorry to bother you,“ he heartbreakingly signs off. Well, Njong is free now and back with his family in Camaroon, but he is presumably a rare lucky one. All the little shopping details–not such details to some on the other side of the world… -- source link
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