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To: greenspirit who wrote (65059)12/4/1999 11:57:00 AM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
Michael, I am talking about young children working in developing countries instead of attending school. I am more particularly referring to the kinds of things Bill Clinton said this week are particularly immoral--children working in dangerous, back-breaking jobs, as prostitutes, etc. Was it he who said you cannot have free trade based on slave labor? I would second that!

I never use "catch phrases"--I try to be very specific. Well-fed American children delivering newspapers is not what I was talking about. I am talking about children squatting in dusty factories sewing soccer balls together with toxic glues all around them, for one example. I am talking about teenagers working in Nike factories on very long shifts, living in dormitories six or eight to a room and eating very bad food infested with insects. Would you like more examples?



To: greenspirit who wrote (65059)12/4/1999 11:58:00 AM
From: Alexander  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
Michael, My three sons did too..MY daughters did a lot of housework..because there were no jobs for them..specially this one...She just pulled in the first Reverse Trade Mission in the
USA. from Mexico;-) sptimes.com vizatours.com iei-corp.com iei-corp.com



To: greenspirit who wrote (65059)12/4/1999 12:02:00 PM
From: Alexander  Respond to of 108807
 
100 years ago in New England children 12 years old could only work 56 hours a week in the mills during the school term...I have a wonderful copy of a page from a newspaper telling how life was 100 years ago..It is buried in this damn office of mine..I will dig it out..:-)