DVD: Sweating for a T-Shirt
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When incoming UCLA frshman Arlen Benjamin stops by the campus gift shop to buy a t-shirt, she notices that her purchase was made in Honduras. Asking the question "Who made this t-shirt?" sends her on a journey with her mother Medea, through Honduras' sweatshop industry. It also starts her asking where the billions of dollars worth of clothes sold at college stores are being made and what students can do to help eliminate sweatshops.
Join Arlen as she meets with workers, factorty owners, union rganizers and human rights activists. Learn how workers making clothing for wealthy U.S. companies earn $3.50 a day when the basic cost of living is $8 a day. Hear the workers themselves talk about their long hours of overtime, the sicknesses they get from the dust and the stress, and how they are harassed if they try to form a union. Follow workers to their homes to see the conditions they are forced to live in. Arlen also interviews her fellow students back home, and we end with a rally at Brown University, where the students have just forced their administration to adopt fair labor standards for the protection of clothing bearing their college logo. After watching this video, hopefully more and more students will follow their lead.
