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You are really good at resorting to insults to make your point. Swish is the one who started this by stereotyping whites. I'm tired of you and Swish constantly resorting to the same hateful tactics as as guys like rocky and Vambo.

If you have something to say about me, be man enough to post it directly to me. Stop with the cowardly hiding names in a list as you BASH posters who don't share your opinion.

Wow V, we agree on something.

and now we see the real reason Kap is out of the NFL

It's his chicken legs folks. I see more meat on the legs at KFC than I do on his sticks.

I'm not going to put your ass on ignore. And I could care less if you like it or not, but when you run around here and start stereotyping races, I'm gonna call you out! And I could care less if you like it or not.

You are no better than the racists on the other side.

Don't freaking knock "all whites" w/your dumb ass stereotypes and expect me to ignore it. You wanna dance, son? We'll dance!

I have worked along side Heroes for 30 years in the Fire Service yet watch as others want to make some kind of hero out of Kap.

Kap is no hero.

I think it is awesome that we celebrate furthering the divide rather than trying to bridge the gap.

You are really good at resorting to insults to make your point.

Once again the Left uses children to push their issues.

I think both sides of this issue are being a little hypocritical.

First, Nike is a private business, they can choose any ad they wish to make. If you don't like it, don't wear or buy nike products.

Here is where the hypocrisy comes in on BOTH sides.

1. A lot of people on the right who are boycotting Nike, still support a church who systematically rapes children. They will boycott a company for an AD, but not one word of a boycott on the catholic church.....just saying.

2. A lot of people on the left (KAP included), started this entire thing over views that minorities are oppressed. So Kap is now taking millions from a company that oppresses minorities with slave labor, and markets 100 shoes to poor minority children.

Am I the only one seeing these two things?

Chris Kyle’s Widow Has a Message for Nike Over Its Colin Kaepernick Ad

The athletic gear brand is already under fire by many — and now the company has a brand new enemy

By Zachary Leeman | Wednesday, September 5, 2018


Nike has yet another high-profile critic of its recent ad campaign featuring former quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

The ad, which features Kaepernick’s face and is meant to celebrate the company’s “just do it” slogan, has caused major controversy this week.


Fans have posted videos of themselves burning Nike products — and the company’s stock has taken a hit.

The main issue most people seem to have with the ad are the words put over Kaepernick’s face: “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.”

Kaepernick, the former quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers and the originator of the national anthem-kneeling protests, has many supporters as well as critics.
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He says the NFL is working to keep him off the field due to his political activism; he was also a distracting player with only average stats.
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Since leaving the NFL, his celebrity has only grown.

He’s gotten a $1 million book deal, a television deal, and several media awards. The word “sacrifice” doesn’t really apply to him in the way Nike apparently intended.

The word “sacrifice” surely belongs to people like late Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, whose military service and struggles were highlighted in the 2014 hit movie “American Sniper,” and in a book by the same name, co-authored by Kyle.
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Kyle was murdered in 2013 while helping a veteran deal with PTSD issues. He left behind his wife, Taya (shown above left), and their two children. He served four tours in the Iraq War and received the Silver Star and four Bronze stars, among other awards.

Taya Kyle is among those who are unhappy with Nike’s new Kaepernick ad. Kyle’s widow, who now runs a foundation in her husband’s name, took to Facebook to blast the athletic gear company.

“Nike, I love your gear, but you exhaust my spirit on this one. Your new ad with Colin Kaepernick, I get the message, but that sacrificing everything thing,” wrote Taya Kyle. “It just doesn’t play out here. Sacrificing what exactly? A career? I’ve done that both times I chose to stay home and be with my kids instead of continuing my business climb … and it wasn’t sacrificing everything. It was sacrificing one career and some money and it was because of what I believe in and more importantly, who I believe in.”
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She went on to say that the most Kaepernick sacrificed in leaving the NFL was some money — but plenty of other doors were opened for him.

She, then, as many others have done, highlighted former NFL player turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman, who died in the line of duty while serving overseas in 2004.

He left his NFL contract behind to serve his country.

“You want to talk about someone in the NFL sacrificing everything? Pat Tillman. NFL STARTING, not benched, player who left to join the Army and died for it. THAT is sacrificing everything for something you believe in,” wrote Taya Kyle.

She continued, “How about other warriors? Warriors who will not be on magazine covers, who will not get lucrative contracts and millions of followers from their actions and who have truly sacrificed everything. They did it because they believed in something. Take it from me, when I say they sacrificed everything, they also sacrificed the lives of their loved ones who will never be the same. THAT is sacrificing everything for something they believe in.”


She ended her thoughts by saying she would be joining the boycotts of the Nike brand. She wrote, “All I know is, I was actually in the market for some new kicks and at least for now, I’ve never been more grateful for Under Armour.

https://www.lifezette.com/2018/09/chris-...-kaepernick-ad/

Escalating Sweatshop Protests Keep Nike Sweating

Nike worked hard to improve conditions in its factories around the world, but activists say the company has been slipping back into using sweatshops.

Escalating Sweatshop Protests Keep Nike Sweating
[Photo: Alan Dejecacion/Getty Images]

By Elizabeth Segran5 minute Read

(This story has been updated to reflect a new statement from Nike about its stance on sweatshops.)

College students protesting outside Nike stores around the country. Workers recently laid off at a factory in Honduras holding a rally to condemn the sportswear giant’s treatment of employees. Activists in a group called United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) organizing a “Global Call to Action Against Nike” to draw attention to allegations of mass fainting, wage theft, and padlocked exits at factories.

It may seem like a flashback to the 1990s, when Nike became the poster child for corporate irresponsibility and was regularly targeted by anti-sweatshop activists. Over the next decade and a half, the company made serious efforts to reform its practices, adopting one of the business world’s first codes of conduct and winning praise from labor activists. But in recent months Nike has lost much of that goodwill, amid similar allegations, and is sparking new protests led by a new generation of activists.

Benjamin Simonds-Malamud, a sophomore at Northeastern University, recently took an interest in workers’ rights. Several weeks ago, he joined a conference call hosted by USAS in which union leaders at the Honduras Star factory discussed what had happened to workers when Nike abruptly ended its contract.

“We heard about how this had devastated the local economy there and how those workers were fighting for production–and their livelihoods–to come back,” Simonds-Malamud says. “Hearing about that firsthand had a big impact on me. I’m down to support any campaign that will improve people’s lives and show solidarity with people who are being exploited.”

On Saturday, he will be among the students standing in front of Niketown, a large Nike store on Newbury Street, Boston’s posh shopping district. He anticipates about 30 others will join him. Small rallies like this are planned in front of Nike retail stores around the country. In the past, even small USAS-organized rallies have prompted certain stores to shut down for a few hours, forcing Nike to lose revenue.

When reached for comment, a Nike spokesperson clarified that it was not Nike’s decision to leave the Honduras factory. Instead, it was kicked out by Gildan Inc., a large apparel company that recently acquired American Apparel, when it took over the facility. “Nike, along with the other brands in the factory, were informed that Gildan would take over 100% of factory production, replacing current brands with their own apparel brands,” Nike’s spokesperson said. “We have been advocating that Gildan work to minimize the impact on their workers.”

Angeles Solis, a national organizer for USAS, makes it clear that Nike is just one of many corporations that she claims violate workers rights around the world. Her organization has also gone after Adidas, REI, North Face, and many other corporations. But since Nike is the biggest sportswear brand on the market, it is important to shed light on what it is doing and try to change it. “Nike has been a target in the past because it does have a history of sweatshop violations,” says Solis. “Nike is not going to go away: It is the biggest sports apparel manufacturer in the world. So our goal is to improve worker conditions and practices.”

But the Honduras factory layoffs are just part of a broader pattern of activity on Nike’s part that has outraged these students. Two years ago, Nike stopped allowing independent inspectors to monitor working conditions at Nike factories, saying that it would instead carry out these checks on its own. Since then, there have been reports of terrible working conditions inside these factories.

In Cambodia, for instance, 500 workers inside a plant that supplies products to Nike, Puma, Asics, and the VF Corporation were hospitalized after fainting out of exhaustion and hunger as a result of working 10-hour shifts, six days a week, in 98-degree heat.

Defying Nike’s policy that bars the entry of investigators into their factories, watchdog group Worker Rights Consortium managed to get access to a plant in Hansae, Vietnam. It was able to document a string of alleged abuses there including wage theft, forced overtime, restrictions on the workers’ use of toilets, exposure to toxic solvents, and padlocked exit doors. “Workers (were) collapsing unconscious at their sewing machines due to heat and overwork,” the report said.

Nike has been a target of anti-sweatshop protests since 1991, when an activist produced a report about factory conditions in Indonesia. However, over the years, it has attempted to improve its image by increasing monitoring in factories and working with human rights groups to clean up its supply chain. In 2005, it became the first in the sportswear industry to be fully transparent about all the factories with which it partners, publicly posting its audits. However, its policy of preventing third-party investigators from verifying its claims has reignited the debate about working conditions at Nike’s supplier factories.

Nike has clarified that it continues to allow third-party audits at all of its factories. However, it has chosen not to cooperate with the Worker Rights Consortium because the organization was founded by USAS. “We respect the Worker Rights Consortium’s (WRC) commitment to workers’ rights while recognizing that the WRC was co-created by United Students Against Sweatshops, a campaigning organization that does not represent the multi-stakeholder approach that we believe provides valuable, long-lasting change,” Nike’s spokesperson says.
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College students have been vital in helping to change how big corporations like Nike manage their supply chains, especially since 1997 when they first began such large-scale protests. And the company has attracted particular attention on campuses, since Nike has lucrative deals with universities to supply gear for their athletic teams. Over the last two decades, worker’s rights organizations like the Worker’s Rights Consortium have had a strategy of educating students about Nike’s alleged overseas violations. Student activists, for their part, can apply pressure to university administrators to end contracts with Nike until it can prove it is treating workers properly.

“The collegiate market for Nike is huge,” says Solis. “It produces athletic gear and bookstore apparel, and sponsors games. The University of Texas, Austin, for instance, has a $250 million contract with Nike.”

This approach of targeting colleges has proven particularly effective. The athletics programs of the University of California Berkeley and Los Angeles had been sponsored by Nike, but in August the schools switched their sponsorship to Under Armour in a 10-year agreement. Georgetown, the University of Washington, and Northeastern cut their ties with Nike until it allows the Worker’s Rights Consortium access to its factories. Rutgers has allowed its relationship with Nike to expire and has asked any company that bids on its athletic sponsorship to allow periodic inspections of supplier factories.

In the past, Nike has responded to these student protests with targeted measures. In 2010, for instance, it paid $1.54 million to help 1,800 workers in Honduras who lost their jobs when Nike closed a factory there—this came after USAS pressured the company to offer severance pay that had been denied to workers by the factory.

“This is not the first time we’ve fought Nike,” Solis says. “And in the past, we’ve beat them.”

https://www.fastcompany.com/40444836/escalating-sweatshop-protests-keep-nike-sweating

We all use a product that was made by people making 8-18 dollars a month. Look up Foxconn. Nike ain’t the only multinational corporation who uses these methods.

Make a thread about the failings of capitalism if you want to talk about sweatshops.

We all use a product that was made by people making 8-18 dollars a month. Look up Foxconn. Nike ain’t the only multinational corporation who uses these methods.

Make a thread about the failings of capitalism if you want to talk about sweatshops.

I think he might be getting on board with autocracy these days bro.

Not that I'm anti-capitalism but sure it would. Less consumer demand for super cheap products would mean less demand for sweatshops.

Capitalism doesn't exists without consumer demand.

somebody is willingly going to spend $250

So if we had less capitalism in the United States, that would somehow change Honduras and Cambodia labor policies?

This has always baffled me.
Man, that's a whole lot of good, nutritious food. Gas for the car. Shopping trip to Best Buy.

Sneakers.
250
wow.

Stop trying to attack people on these forums via articles, it makes you look just as malicious as Vambo, 40 and the other people who do it.
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I think he might be getting on board with autocracy these days bro.

I didn't make an argument. I provided articles.
This sounds like an attack to me:

it makes you look just as malicious as Vambo, 40 and the other people who do it.