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Friday, March 19, 2004

When the headline says it all...

"Bush campaign gear made in Burma
His campaign store sells a pullover from nation whose products he has banned from being sold in the U.S."

Here's what Charlie Kernaghan says:

Human rights watcher Charles Kernaghan, director of the National Labor Committee, said the slip-up showed a lack of conviction on the administration's part. "Given the debate about outsourcing, it's amazing that the campaign would be selling stuff made in the most brutal country on earth, known for things like child labor and sexual slavery," he said. "It shows a crude indifference to this issue."

While i'm skeptical about the way the democrats are phrasing the outsourcing issue - particularly in the way that they are being protectionist instead of articulating a global understanding of capital flight and the offshoring and outsourcing of work and the need to organize a transnational and anti-imperial globalization from below, this - in a country which even the NBA is now boycotting - is just ridiculous. (And as a side note, and to his credit, Kerry's stance on outsourcing seems ten times better than Clinton's. Doesn't mean he isn't a capitalist, two faced, lying SOB, but it isn't a necessarily a bad thing either.

¶ 8:48 PM

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