Gap was supplied with clothing by the workers in a building in Bangladesh
Wow! So many of us emailed Gap executives that
Gap had to shut down the executives' inboxes
(which you may have noticed if you emailed them and got a boune-back).
We know Gap is hearing us now!
But if you want to help drive home our point that consumers care about the people
who make our tshirts, then you can
email Gap's PR division at
.com
, or
go to its whitewashing website
and scroll down and leave a comment.
Gap's latest excuse is that American companies can't sign the binding agreement for
some
new
unexplained reason. But that hasn't stopped American companies like Abercrombie
& Fitch and PVH (which owns Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein) from joining.
It's time for Gap to stop siding with Walmart and join the Bangladesh Fire and Building
Safety Agreement.
Thanks for keeping up the fight!
Rob and the team at SumOfUs.org
Here's the email we sent earlier today
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Gap thinks its consumers are idiots. It says it will sign the Bangladesh Fire Safety
Agreement with one small change: the removal of the provision that makes the Agreement
legally binding. But
that "small change" would gut the entire Agreement and make it totally unenforceable
. And as Gap tries to stop real reform in the Bangladeshi garment industry, it keeps
trying to convince that it's a leader in social responsibility, even putting a ridiculous
website to brag about how much it cares about workers. We're not fooled by Gap's
PR tricks:
right now, activists are descending on Gap's shareholder meeting in San Francisco
to demand that the world's third largest apparel company get serious about workers'
safety.
We've been ratcheting up the pressue for weeks -- now we need to use the shareholder
meeting to remind Gap that we're not going anywhere.
Can you take a few minutes to hold Gap accountable?
Here’s how to make sure Gap gets the message:
phone
(for North Americans)
Call Gap's customer service line at 800-427-7895
and press 4 to speak to a live representative. When you get an answer, let Gap know
that it needs to sign a
binding
agreement to protect Bangladeshi workers. Feel free to use our talking points:
The binding Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement is now the industry standards.
More than 35 companies have signed on.
Non-binding, corporate-controlled codes of conduct have failed Bangladeshi workers
for 20 years. A non-binding agreement is more of the same. Only a binding agreement
can reform the garment industry in Bangladesh
Many of Gap's top competitors have signed the Agreement, including H&M, Abercrombie
& Fitch, Zara, and Benetton.
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Click here to write on Gap’s Facebook wall.
Here are some examples of messages you can leave for the company, or you can write
your own.
Gap needs to make a stand, right now, to ensure that tragedies like Rana Plaza
happen again. Gap should stop trying to undermine the Agreement by preventing it
from being legally binding. Sign the Bangladesh
http://on.fb.me/13woD9D
I will not shop at a store that gambles with people's lives. By refusing to sign
the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement, Gap is displaying a disgusting
level of greed. Stop putting lives at risk and sign now.
http://on.fb.me/13woD9D
Gap's refusal to sign the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement is a disgrace
to the company, and to everyone involved in decision-making. Shame on Gap. Stop dragging
your feet and join the many other companies that have already signed the Agreement.
http://on.fb.me/13woD9D
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You can email Gap's
VP for social responsibility, Kindley Walsh-Lawlor at
Kindley_Walsh-Lawlor@gap.com
.
You can email VP for Employee relations Eva Sage-Gavin at
Eva_Sage-Gavin@gap.com
. Here's are talking points you can use, but feel free to modify it if you'd like:
The binding Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement is now the industry standards.
More than 35 companies have signed on.
Non-binding, corporate-controlled codes of conduct have failed Bangladeshi workers
for 20 years. A non-binding agreement is more of the same. Only a binding agreement
can reform the garment industry in Bangladesh
Many of Gap's top competitors have signed the Agreement, including H&M, Abercrombie
& Fitch, Zara, and Benetton.
Non-binding, corporate-controlled codes of conduct have been in effect in Bangladesh
for decades, and garment workers keep dying -- most recently in the collapse of the
35 major apparel companies, including major Gap competitors like H&M, Abercrombie
& Fitch, and Benetton have agreed
to an independent, binding safety agreement. When it insists on a non-binding agreement,
Gap is effectively telling consumers
"we'll tell you whatever you want to hear, as long as there are no consequences when
we don't follow through."
According to workers who were on the scene in the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh
a few weeks ago, a crack had developed in the building on a Tuesday, triggering an
evacuation order. Bank employees were told to stay home on Wednesday, but
garment workers sewing clothes for major western brands were ordered to return to
the production floor.
The SumOfUs.org community has been campaigning for months for major global
retailers like the Gap to sign the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement,
which would ensure basic worker protections for Bangladeshi workers.
In the wake of the Tazreen fire, which killed 112 Bangladeshi garment workers last
November, the SumOfUs.org community mobilized to show these brands that we are paying
attention to the deplorable conditions in their supply chains.
Over 150,000 SumOfUs members petitioned global brands to sign the Bangladesh Fire
and Building Safety Agreement. Then thousands of us donated to fund a trip by Sumi
Abedin, a Tazreen survivor, and Kalpona Akter, a Bangladeshi labor activist, to come
to the U.S.
We even held a rally outside Gap’s corporate headquarters, just days after this latest
tragedy -- which was covered in the New York Times. Gap might not have sourced from
a similar disaster could strike a Gap supplier any day.
The bottom line for Gap is this: No one should die making your clothes. Sign the
Thank you for standing up for workers everywhere,
Rob, Kaytee, and the rest of us
P.S. We still need consumers to take our message directly to Gap stores.
To download a letter to Gap store managers and get instructions on delivering it, click here.
SumOfUs is a world-wide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations
accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy.
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The "all time champ in wrongful convictions"?
Kirstin Lobato was 19 when she was sent to prison for murder -- despite the fact
that no physical evidence tied her to the crime scene, multiple witnesses testified
that she was almost 200 miles away at the time, and other evidence pointed to a completely
different person.
Crucial DNA evidence ignored:
For ten years, law enforcement officials have refused to test DNA evidence from
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Kirstin's friend Michelle Ravell says the reason is clear: they know it could prove
they've kept an innocent woman in prison for ten years. But now, there is new hope.
You can help exonerate an innocent woman:
A new District Attorney has just been appointed, and he has the power to agree to
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and she knows that if he hears from thousands of people across the country, he'll
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Click here to sign Michelle's petition asking District Attorney Stephen Wolfson to allow DNA testing in Kirstin’s case.
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Here's more information about
Michelle's campaign
, in her own words.
Kirstin Blaise Lobato is an innocent woman stuck in prison while evidence in her
case goes untested for DNA.
In 2002 at 19 years old, Kirstin was convicted for the murder and sexual assault
of a homeless man named Duran Bailey in Las Vegas
tyingKirstin to the crime and the evidence that was tested for DNA actually excluded
her. There were four identifiable crime scene fingerprints - none matched Kirstin's.
A bloody shoe print was found next to the body and a footprint expert testified that
it came from a "U.S.
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What happened to Kirstin could happen to anyone. But now, Kirstin has the opportunity
to prove her innocence if Clark County District Attorney Stephen Wolfson makes two
very reasonable decisions:
to allow DNA testing of crime scene evidence and to not file any opposition to Kirstin's
appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court.
The Innocence Project, an organization whose DNA testing work has freed 292 innocent
people from prison, has offered to pay to test and re-test 13 pieces of evidence
related to the crime using the latest in DNA technology and Wolfson still won't allow
it.
In addition to the DNA evidence, Kirstin has proven her innocence by way of her Habeas
Corpus petition's new evidence grounds. If the State of Nevada District Attorney
doesn't oppose her Appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court, justice will finally be served
and she can regain her life.
Clark County District Attorney Stephen Wolfson has a chance to do the right thing
and to seek true justice in the murder of Duran Bailey.
Please sign this petition and ask District Attorney Wolfson to allow DNA testing
of crime scene evidence and to not file any opposition to Kirstin's appeal to the
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