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To: BD who wrote (70)	3/7/1998 3:12:00 PM
From: paulmcg0	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 136

[Personally I have boycotted disney every chance I can get] The nice thing about capitalism is that transactions are supposed to be voluntary. I choose not to buy anything from Disney or the companies it owns, because I don't feel like contributing to an overpaid swine like Michael Eisner, while Disney runs sweatshops that exploit people in the Third World. For example, Disney was paying workers 28 cents an hour in Haiti to sew Disney pajamas, and pulled out of Haiti so that they could pay less in Vietnam and China. There are a number of links on the Internet about how Disney uses sweatshop labor, like the National Labor Committee at nlcnet.org . Paul McGinnis