Published EcoNews - Social Justice
Apple Computer Admits to Using Child Labor
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Apple computer has admitted that three factories that supply the company with iPhones, computers and iPods used child labor, adding to mounting evidence of abusive conditions, environmental pollution and labor violations
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Retailers are Lying, Bamboo Fabric is Actually Rayon
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The Federal Trade Commission is forcing retailers to come clean about fabrics marketed to consumers as made of renewable bamboo. The truth? Nearly all fabrics labeled "Made from Bamboo" are actually just Rayon, a man-made fabric
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Revs Jackson and Yearwood on the Poor and Climate Change
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To start Black History Month, the Reverends Jesse Jackson and Lennox Yearwood speak about environmental justice and the challenges the poor face from Climate Change
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Craig Ferguson Hits it Home on Haiti
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With Late Night abuzz about the Leno-Conan bickering, Craig Ferguson takes a moment to talk about something actually important (via the-environmentalist.org)
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Sea Shepherd Releases Video of Whaling Ship Ramming Their Batboat
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The Anti-Whaling organization Sea Shepherd has released a video countering Japanese claims that their protest ship, the Ady Gil, rammed a Japanese whaling vessel and then sank. Sea Shepherd routinely harasses Japan's whaling fleet who they say flout the "research" clause of whale protection laws in order to hunt whales, and their Batman-styled boat was on one of these protests when it was sunk
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