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Dressed to Kill: How Fashion is Fatal for Workers

By The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow 4:20 260 views on YouTube May 14, 2013

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Fashion is fatal. Or at least it is for the workers in the developing world who make most of our clothing. The death toll from the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Bangladesh is over 1,000, making it the largest ga... Show more

Fashion is fatal. Or at least it is for the workers in the developing world who make most of our clothing. The death toll from the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Bangladesh is over 1,000, making it the largest garment industry disaster in history. Garrett Strain of United Students Against Sweatshops (@USAS) talks with Executive Producer Daniel Marans about preventing similar disasters from happening again by holding the multi-national corporations that sell clothing to us accountable for conditions in their suppliers' factories. Rana Plaza supplied clothing for many Western retailers, including, we now know, Wal-Mart. To take action, go to: gapdeathtraps.com. Subscribe to Take Action News with David Shuster for more: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=takeactionnewstv If you liked this clip of Take Action News with David Shuster, please do us a big favor and share it with your friends... and hit that "like" button! http://www.takeactionnews.com

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