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Clothes for a Change
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Today, organic and Fair Made clothing constitutes a niche market, but with your support we can ensure that at least 30% of all clothing in the USA is Organic & Fair Made by the year 2015. Help us reach these goals by participating locally in the Clothes For a Change campaign:
- Campaign for your school district or university to begin purchasing only organic and Fair Made clothing and fibers. Campus clothing represents is a $6 billion a year industry.
- Get a resolution passed in your town mandating organic and fair made fiber purchasing for municipal contracts.
- Buy your new clothing from socially responsible businesses who can certify that their products are organic (not genetically engineered) and Fair Made.
- Help us ensure that every exhibitor at Earth Day festivals and May Day Rallies are selling only fair made and organic clothes.
- Ask the manager of the local store where you purchase your clothes if they can guarantee that the fibers they use are GMO-free and organic and if the workers who made the garments were paid a living wage.
Join us!
The Organic Consumers Association is seeking interns to help raise awareness among the nation's organic consumers and social justice activists about the social and environmental effects of cotton and clothing production. Whether you are a professional willing to donate some time to a just cause or a college student looking for experience, Clothes for A Change interns will have the opportunity to gain valuable skills and help pressure major clothing retailers to begin purchasing fair made and organic fibers.
Out-of-office projects are available provided that you have access to a computer and the Internet. The time frame for internships can vary depending on the project, however, a three month minimum commitment is usually requested.
Cotton accounts for 25% of the world's insecticides and 11% of global pesticide sales, making it the most toxic crop grown on the planet.
"With full time wages as low as $US2 a day, workers in clothing factories often live in extreme poverty and those with children must either send them to distant villages to be looked after by relatives or else go into debt to meet their basic needs." We are not Machines: Nike and Adidas workers in Indonesia.
Global Exchange/ Oxfam Report
Two-thirds of US cotton has been genetically engineered to produce its own insecticide or to survive high doses of toxic herbicides, exacerbating the public health and environmental problems caused by these chemicals.