Consider the Lives of Sweatshop Workers
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“Fashion Herd Urged to Save Tibetan Beauties” (Oct. 22) sets up an interesting analogy: It seems that the latest “fashion victims” are antelopes.
According to George Schaller of the Bronx Zoo, “Anyone who wears a shahtoosh scarf has at least two endangered Tibetan antelope draped around their shoulders.” By contrast, anyone who wears clothing manufactured in L.A.’s sweatshops has at least 20,000 endangered sewing operators draped around their bodies.
The “Don’t Buy Shahtoosh” campaign aims to set free the Tibetan antelope from abuse in the name of fashion. How about some attention to an amnesty grant for the thousands of undocumented L.A. sweatshop workers, in order to set them free from the sweatshop labor market and “save” the businesses run by law-abiding sewing contractors?
JUDI KESSLER
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
UC San Diego
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