Edge of Sports is back! In this Season 2 premiere 8/30 at 7pm ET: Former St. John’s soccer assistant Jim Keady joins Dave Zirin to talk about why he left college coaching in protest of Nike sweatshop labor. He then spent a month in Indonesia exposing the company’s sweatshop abuses, making the film Behind the Swoosh. We also discuss the recent film “Air”, about Nike’s relationship with Michael Jordan, and the ways Hollywood is washing Nike’s sins.
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The Nike symbol is how gay men identify each other.
Anyone who wears Nike is just as misanthropic as those who do any business with AMAZON!
Many fail to realize that many multi-national corporations commit crimes against humanity.
The crazy part is when people like Warren Buffett scream "I had no knowledge of this" when they've paid experts millions to know everything about that country, it's infrastructure, resources and leadership. Huge multi-nationals just buy their way out.
Please look up the Yadana pipeline in Burma and what Unocal 76 did to the Burmese and especially little girls at the hands of American oil executives.
Fired for not wearing Nike is such bullshit. Welcome to corporate America.
You look just like Deepok Chopra