RadioActive: Moving US Jobs to Chinese Sweatshops
March 14, 2002

700 Maine shoe workers have recently lost their jobs.

Bjorn Clausen of the Bangor Clean Clothes Campaign talks about how those jobs have been moved to China. Chinese shoe workers only make about 3% of what former workers in Maine once earned.

Also discussed are efforts to expose where and under what conditions our clothes are made.

Choose a link below to listen or download - 28 minutes 50 seconds:

ME-IMC: [realmedia stream 20 kbps][realmedia stream 8kbps]
A-Infos Radio Project: [realmedia stream 20 kbps][realmedia stream 8kbps][download MP3][A-Infos Radio Project Page]

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RadioActive is a grassroots environmental and social justice news journal hosted by Amy Browne & Meredith DeFrancesco, and heard weekly on WERU FM 89.9 Blue Hill and 102.9 Bangor, Maine. The program airs each Thursday at 4:00 pm. For more information on RadioActive, visit http://www.freespeech.org/ran