Forced labour, mass repression, “re-education” -- a brand new report just uncovered how giant sportswear companies are making huge profits from China’s Uyghur population in internment camps.
Nike, Adidas, Puma and The North Face are racking in the profits thanks to the exploitation of coerced Chinese citizens. These giant clothing corporations want you to believe that they know nothing about what's happening in China...but we're not buying it.
Nike is in panic mode, already: they're scrambling to see how they can quickly fire these Uyghur workers to sweep the problem under the rug.
Meanwhile, U.S. lawmakers are threatening to crack down on Uyghur exploitation with an expeditious bipartisan bill tightening the screws on goods manufactured in appalling internment camps. With China under so much scrutiny, Nike, Adidas, Puma and The North Face have to act right now.
Tell Nike, Adidas, Puma and The North Face that you don’t want any bondage in your threads.
The report published by ASPI (Australian Strategic Policy Institute) is damning - ordinary people from the Xinjiang region are being sold to factories and labor camps across China simply because they practice the "wrong" religion.
Segregated from other workers, considered financial terrorists if they send money to their families overseas and tracked electronically through a WeChat app by Chinese authorities, Uyghur workers are threatened at every turn and isolated from their families.
Two million Uyghurs from the Xinjiang region have already been detained and relocated in factories. The Uyghur people are facing cultural extermination aided and abetted by Nike, Adidas, Puma and The North Face.
SumOfUs members have been down this road before and won because of our incredible international solidarity. When tens of thousands of SumOfUs members called on Loblaw - Joe Fresh clothing - to take responsibility for the safety of its Bangladeshi workers, the company agreed to sign the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement. Then H&M, Zara, Benetton followed suit.
Just don’t do it: Nike, Adidas, Puma and The North Face, no longer use Uyghur forced labor workers and demand that the Chinese government stop persecuting the Uyghurs.
More information
Nike to review supply chains in China after reports Uighurs forced to make shoes
The Washington Post. 11 March 2020.
The Washington Post. 11 March 2020.
Those Shoes Were Made by a Uighur Detainee
The Nation. 5 March 2020.
The Nation. 5 March 2020.