A roundup of some of the stories, headlines, and updates you may be interested in from in and around the community of socially responsible fashion design // education.
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Demand a Living Wage! from Clean Clothes Campaign on Vimeo.
TAKE ACTION// Workers Violently Evicted from Picket Line
With the support of the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), Isabelita dela Cruz tells a chilling eyewitness account on the eviction of Filipino Triumph workers from the picket line:
“We appeal to everyone to support us in our struggle, to find justice and condemned the perpetrators on the casualties of the violent dispersal in our picket.” (Isabelita dela Cruz, Union President) Click here to send a letter to the Philippine authorities.
"On the 4th of May, the Triumph workers in the Philippines were violently evicted from their picket line. More than 200 security forces invaded the former factory grounds, removed the protesting workers and destroyed their action camp." (Clean Clothes Campaing)
Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC)
Filipino Triumph Workers Violently Evicted from Picket
Update about the 10 months protest of dismissed Triumph workers in the Philippines and Thailand
Centre for Sustainable Fashion
Sustainable Luxury – challenging the way we shop
Vogue.com add new label to sustainable fashion galleries
Clothesource Comments
Does the Indonesian government want its garment industry to thrive?
Vietnam power crisis: the government doesn’t always know best
Is the Indian cotton ban as important as people think?
Those workers seem to keep on getting tougher to find
Core77
Deliver Takeaway: An Open Source for Ideas
CSR Asia
Korean CSR disclosure under the spotlight
Ecotextile News
GM cotton credentials under fire
Organic cotton leads India’s export charge
Japan outlines new organic cotton rules
American Apparel launches ‘Reuse’ collection
Low cost polyesters from biomass?
Justmeans [Sustainable Develoment]
The Right to Dry: Line Drying and Sustainable Development
Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN)
Action Alert: Labour rights defenders assaulted in Puebla, Mexico
Demand justice for human rights defenders assassinated in Oaxaca, Mexico
re-dress
CLEAN CLOTHES CAMPAIGN – OPEN MEETING
FASHION EVOLUTION: Fashioning Entrepreneurship – International designer and green goddess Katharine Hamnett in conversation with fashion editor, Constance Harris (and SO MUCH MORE!) Check out Fashion Evolution!
Textile Futures
DIY Designer Clothing and Accessories via The Guardian
Histories of the Home Conference (5 June 2009 at London Transport Museum)
The Open University
Ethical consumption: consumer driven or political phenomenon
Timo Rissanen: Fashion Creation Without Fabric Waste Creation
[Zero Fabric Waste Fashion]
Eco Chic – Towards Sustainable Swedish Fashion (part 1)
Eco Chic – Towards Sustainable Swedish Fashion (part 2)
Mary has a PhD in Sociology from University of Edinburgh, researching responsible fashion and transnational labour rights activism in the wake of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh.
