Wal-Mart and the Strip-Mining of America

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Nov 9 16:31:37 PST 1998


christian a. gregory wrote:


>i was just talking to a friend who said he saw a stunning presentation on
>c-span about global labor situation-- partly focused on walmart. he said it
>was given by one of the guys in the national labor committee, evidently a
>new york group. anybody know anything about them?

Was it Charlie Kernaghan you saw - the man who made Kathie Lee cry? He does a fantastic performance; you don't want to be on a panel after him. He and his colleagues at the NLC, with not much more than letterhead support from unions, have done lots, maybe more than anyone, to expose sweatshops in the garment biz. Charlie was an apolitical photographer who got politicized during the Central American wars of the 1980s. Now he traces the course of a garment from Guatemalan teenagers' hands to Ann Taylor, at a markup of several thousand percent.

Doug



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