Quotes from this video

“General Motors is now bigger than Denmark. Ford is bigger than Africa. Unseen by shoppers in the high street, the famous brands of almost everything from running shoes to baby clothes are now made in very poor countries with cheap labor…at times bordering on a form of slave labor. Tiger Woods, the golfer, is paid more money to promote Nike than most of the entire workforce actually making Nike products here in Indonesia.”

“You work a 24 hour shift with just a couple of breaks… and then 2 hours later you start another shift. So in effect you work like a 36 hour shift? The long shifts I work are from 7:30 AM through 7:30 the next morning, then finishing at 6:30 that night. Are you given any choice? No way. What would happen if you refused to do this 24 hour shift? Well perhaps I’d be punished. But I’ve never dared to refuse. So I’m just scared. On these long 24 hour shifts, do you recall what labels you were packing? Mostly GAP and Old Navy.”

“One day, in early October 1965, a gang of thugs entered this school in Jakarta and beat to death the headmaster. He was suspected of being a communist. His murder was typical of the slaughter of more than a million people. Teachers, students, civil servants, peasant farmers. Described by the CIA as one of the worse mass murders of the 20th century. The origins of this terrible episode are being covered in mystery. Certainly it brought to power General Suharto. But what is now emerging is the extent of which he was secretly backed by the United States and Britain and by western business leaders. Within a year of the bloodbath, Indonesia’s economy was effectively redesigned in America giving the west access to vast mineral wealth, markets, and cheap labor. What President Nixon called the greatest prize in Asia.”

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