Saturday, September 4, 2021

What happens to old clothing of the Westernized industrial countries?

 Those fake "donating clothes" boxes are now exposed as the scam that they are - vid mini-doc

I have a pretty small wardrobe and have been wearing the same clothes for years. Small holes and tears get sewed up, socks get darned ( a lost art these days ). When things wear out beyond repair they get demoted to cleaning rags. I haven't thrown out or donated any clothes in many many years.
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Kitty cannot even sew so I mend her stuff
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I would rather wear old rags than "new" clothes my by young females in starvation slave wage jobs - see the doc, "Behind the Swoosh" for details. Then when people get mad at me for looking like a bum I can secretly be mad at them for feeling all glorious off the backs of young females not able to go to school and unable to support their starving families.
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 @Voidisyinyang Voidisyinyang  - Here's the thing though - those sweatshop jobs are sometimes the only way to make a living for women in those countries, apart from the sex industry.
 @OldSchool Jeremy  yes the Spanish conquerors made sure to remove the indigenous people from their land so no one could have a self reliant culture - forcing people into slave labor. Even to this day there is huge swaths of undeveloped land by the rich in Latin America - hence the revolutionary movements pushing for land reform. Of course the U.S. is quick to attack such movements as being controlled by Cuba and hence the Soviet Union - or in the case of IndoChina - controlled by China. The Communist land reform movements of Asia were from fighting against Japanese and British imperialism that both used slave labor. So yes we now have Westernized "development" worldwide with a global ecological crisis of land degradation. In 1997 I visited the most traditional Berber village of Morocco as a Peace Corps Volunteer was living there - the village lived off humanure compost for thousands of years - transforming the desert into farm land. The clothes were made also by the females - from the local "wild" sheep herd. Of course now with global capitalism - land is a monopoly and so land rents are speculative while job wages barely rise at all and thus a global job crisis. Jobs did not exist in the West before the 1600s - or as Noam Chomsky and the early Republican party calls them "wage slavery." A good book on this is "Bananas, Beaches and Bases" by professor Cynthia Enloe - documenting the females forced into prostitution nearby US military bases of which there are some 800 worldwide in other countries - and the Bananas refers to CIA genocidal coups orchestrated by the Wall St elite owning banana corporations, etc. Based on abrupt global warming we have about five years left of life on Earth as the Arctic is going ice free for the first time in 3 million years and then the ESAS methane bomb goes off. Soon it will be too hot to grow food at scale. By the way those Berber females were all tattooed on the chin because the Arabs used to steal them off as sex slaves and return them Tattooed when the females were all used up. So the females would get preemptive tattoos to prevent themselves from being stolen into sex slavery. Clearly modern humans are a Chimpanzee culture based on rape and war mongering.
 @OldSchool Jeremy  By the Way - as a student volunteer activist I initiated the Workers Rights Consortium membership for the University of Minnesota. Look up "Workers Rights Consortium" - as an independent coalition of schools to organize boycotts of bad working conditions for clothing apparel for school sports clothing. So Workers Rights Consortium increases the wages of workers and gets unions recognized, etc. Of course the University was about to join the corporate "self-monitoring" fake organization - and so we had to meet with the General Counsel lawyer and the PR department for nine meetings - and the PRofessros jobs were threatened for their work on the committee - and we had to debate the Student Senate, etc. It took a year of protests and finally I announced I was going on "Unlimited HUnger Strike." The President of the University of Minnesota then emailed me asking me to do so as I had "done enough already" and he signed the school to join the Workers Rights Consortium. It took another separate campaign of other student activists to get the University to actually adopt a binding "code of conduct" for worker conditions for the sports apparel that the athletes wear. The real athletes are the young females who can't afford to go to school as they are behind their sewing machines all day.
 
 

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