>> At the age of 18,
I was just on the track.
Go to a good college, get
a decent degree, do good.
You're going to get
an entry-level job
down on Wall Street,
you're going to
work real hard.
You're going
to get broker,
you're going to
make tons of money.
You're going to be retired
by very young age,
you're going to
have a house on
a beach in New Jersey and
a couple of Mercedes
and a trophy wife.
And that'll be the
end of the game.
I'm done,
multi-millionaire.
That's it. I was
playing professionally
for the
New Jersey Imperials.
I was playing the best
soccer in my life.
I get offered this
coaching job.
I wanted my
teammates to go
coach at Saint
John's University,
the NCAA Division 1
national champions.
They're the best
team in the country.
I was having a blast.
I was loving coaching
and I was loving plan.
I'm at living in New York.
I'm also studying stuff
that I really enjoy.
I'm digging into,
studying theology.
For the first
time in my life
in a formal way,
I get online,
I start doing
searches about Nike,
sweatshops and
labour practices.
And what I found was,
if you wanted to
pick a company
that completely
violates everything,
the Catholic
social teaching is
about Nike would be a
perfect case study.
At the same time, I'm
doing this research,
Saint John's University
Athletic Department
starts to negotiate
a 3.5 million
dollar endorsement
deal with Nike that
require me as a coach to
wear and promote
the products.
Saint John's University,
with the largest
Catholic institution
in the country,
coupling itself with
the largest sportswear
company in the world.
And I said, how can we,
as such a public
symbol of Catholicism,
do something that runs
completely counter
to our mission?
We're saying to the
world, then, look,
you should care
about the poor
and we should
fight against
injustice and we should
seek out the
causes of poverty.
Unless you're getting some
really good
athletic equipment
and $3.5 million
along with it.
You want to talk about
just hypocrisy
manifested in
the real world
like this was in.
>> And you have the
story of Saint John's.
>> Jim Keady has
caused a massive pile.
>> He is clearly an ideal.
>> I didn't go
to Saint John's
University to
work for Nike.
I went there to coach
and study theology.
>> Keady a devout
Catholic, protested.
>> How does he reached
the point where
he thinks it's immoral?
>> Because he's
coming at it from
a background of
faith and religion.
This isn't about
just money or
power or job or anything.
Think about this.
How many of us
on a job that
we really want
are prepared to
get a memo from the
boss saying stop doing
this or you're out and
you keep doing it?
>> I was given
an ultimatum
by my head coach wear
Nike and drop this issue
or resign. End the story.
So in June of 1998,
I was constructively
fired.
People were telling
me you don't know
what you're talking about.
Those are great jobs and
you can live like
a king or queen on
those wages and
those people
are really happy to have
those jobs. I want
to go find out.
Doesn't everybody
just want
to know the truth?
So I wanted to know
the truth firsthand.
I wanted to see it. I
wanted to smell it.
I wanted to hold
it in my hand.
I knew I was going to
need other people.
Leslie was a
natural match.
>> Jim and I went to
college together.
We came together
ultimately because we
share an interest in
labor rights issues.
>> I eventually met
backup with her
few years after
school through an email
about sweatshops.
>> I really wanted
to be working with
these issues.
>> And I wrote to
my buddy in Saudia,
who's this woman that's
writing to you
about this stuff?
And he said,
she's not like
you. You should email her.
She was actually
enroute to go
work with Mother Teresa's
Sisters in India.
And I sent her
off his email,
I got this great idea.
Let's get started on
Nike's wages in Indonesia
>> And so he's like,
I really need to go.
>> She wrote me
back. Sounds great.
>> Let's go.
>> We plopped down in
Tangerang, Indonesia,
there's industrial
suburb outside
of the capital,
Jakarta, with the plans
that for the next month,
we were going to live as
Nike's factory
workers live,
which meant that we
were going to go live
in a worker slum
outside of the capital,
and we were going to live
on the worker's wages,
$1.25 a day for
the next month.
Try and come maybe to
a better understanding
of what it's like
for Nike factory
workers to make
this money and live
under these conditions.
We lived in nine-by-nine
cement box.
It was over 100 degrees to
100% humidity is
small windows,
certainly no air
conditioning.
>> No furniture.
You slept on
a very thin mat on
an uneven cement floor
covered in shelf paper.
>> The streets outside
of your home are
lined by open sores
and what that means like
in the rainy season,
you would have all
that feces just
float up into the streets
and into your house.
>> And every time that you
go to the bathroom,
it comes back out
into the sewer for
everybody else to
see and smell.
>> You would have
football-sized
rats that would
stampede over the ceiling
at night and
come up through
the toilet and
look for stuff to
eat in the house or
the fist-size
cockroaches that
would crawl over
every night.
>> Just like anyone
around the world,
you can't just drop
into someone's life
and be like, hi,
we're here, we
want to live in
your life and tell us
how much it's sucks.
You had to build
bonds of trust.
>> Jim.
>> City.
>> City.
>> Jennie.
>> Jennie nice
to meet you.
>> They treated us very
politely and it
wasn't until they saw
that we were committed
in the capacity of living
on the wages that
they're forced to live
on in the conditions
that they are living in.
They felt that they could
start to begin
to trust us.
You get to know
them and you hold
their children and
you eat with them,
you share stories
with them,
they become part
of your family.
>> We would go to
different workers homes.
You've got like four
women's sleep and
an eight-by-eight
cement box
and all their possessions
are in there,
everything in
this small area.
>> The workers
would have to share
a bathroom with 5-10
other families.
The workers would
have to share
a living quarters,
actually like a row
of shacks with
corrugated tin roofs.
All of those
families would share
a laundry corner and
a kitchen facilities.
And they would all share
the same well to take
the water out of.
>> $1.25 a day
after you've
paid for your rent,
water, electricity,
any major
transportation costs,
you're going to be left
on average with roughly
7,000 rupiah per day.
What the ****
does that mean?
That's going to buy
you two simple meals
or rice and vegetables,
a bag of peanuts,
a bottle ice tea,
and some dish detergent.
And that's all
you can get, and
that's your reward.
>> Without a doubt.
We found that out in
the first week that
we were there.
There was no way
that you can live on
$1.25 a day and maintain
your human dignity.
It's just not possible.
>> I lost 25 pounds
living on Nike's
wages in Indonesia.
I spent a month
painfully hungry and
tired and like near
the point of
exhaustion most days.
>> I just felt
my energy storage
was just depleted
and I just started
going downhill fast and
I just started getting
sick every day.
>> And she got very sick.
She had a fever, 104.
And she's got to
deal with, I have
a fever 104.
I can buy aspirin and
a little drink
box to get some
Vitamin C. But if I
buy those two things,
I don't eat for the
rest of the day.
>> We're going to go home.
We're going to say,
at least I got
lot of money,
no it's not going to be
a **** thing different.
>> How do you feel
like your human being?
How do you feel like
your work, your gifts?
For them the workers that
I've talked to you the
last couple of days.
Number of said the
only thing we have is
our physical
labour because
I just bought this
smallest thing,
shaving creams and one
razor that I might be
able to use two or
three times that
I have to cut
out three meals
this week. The
highest people.
>> They will be working
overtime hours
just to get by
because they
can't possibly
get by on the
ways that they're
paid without working
incredible
amounts of time.
And when you're working
up to 15 hours a day,
6-7 days a week,
your two-year-old child
just doesn't see you.
They don't get to
see their children.
>> The kids can't
even go to school.
How are you going to break
a cycle of
poverty and have
real economic
development if you have
a whole lost generation
of children that
aren't even educated.
I'm walking down
this dirt path into
this village and I see
this massive pile of
scrap shoe rubber
that I later
learned came from one of
Nike's factories and piles
like that get dumped
there all the time.
And the end result of
these piles is
that they get
burned in that village in
the big open space
where kids play.
And the burning fumes
I learned from
the company that
designs Nike shoe rubber
will give off toxins
and carcinogens.
Kids are paying the price.
And they're the ones
who have chest infections
and they're the
ones that are
going to develop cancer.
When we were in
Indonesia, we
made attempts to get
into a Nike factory
because Nike claims
on their website,
we have nothing to
hide. I'm Mike.
>> Hi, Mike.
>> How you doing?
>> Good.
>> We went over to
Nike's corporate offices
and Nike denied us that.
>> We're unable to
accommodate that request.
>> So Nike Headquarters
and Beaverton
Oregon had faxed
an info sheet at all the
factories to be placed
on the wall for all
workers to see that red.
If you are approached by
Jim Keady, Leslie Kretzu,
Mike Pierantozzi.
>> Do not speak
to them. They're
only to speak
to management.
There will be
severe consequences
if you're found
talking to them.
>> And they know from
their management how
they're supposed to act.
And if they don't, there's
some severe ramifications.
Anywhere from
significant harassment
to death.
And I mean it in a
very literal sense.
Certainly, the
management of
the factory didn't
want us to be there.
And it was frightening
because we eat
several times trying to
get into the factory.
>> We weren't out
of the van for
more than 3 minutes and
there was security
surrounding us.
And then the factory
managers came out.
>> What's going on?
We're outside a
Nike shoe factory
right now,
security surrounded us.
>> And they're like,
what are you doing here?
Why are you here? It was
frightening
because who knows?
>> Security guy here
tracking us down.
>> From that moment,
we were tailed by
factory security,
the prey men for
the local mafia.
The local mafia
certainly works in
conjunction with
these factory bosses.
The factory bosses some
of them are just brutal,
ruthless, hired muscle to
keep workers in line.
And we met with one
worker, Julianto.
He told us because
he was union
organized and he
was trying to
form an independent union.
>> He was threatened
at gunpoint.
He had his house
ransacked.
He was given death
threats and he had to
flee back to his
home village.
Because in fear
of his life.
This is literally a
life-and-death issue.
And this happens at
all the factories.
>> Every worker
that we talk to,
there's this struggled
with this fear,
this culture of fear that
just permeates the air
that they want to
tell you the truth and
try and fight for
their rights,
but they also
want their kids
to have a father
or a mother.
They're dealing every
day with the threat of
losing their lives for
doing this kind of work.
I mean, they show
tremendous courage
in light of that.
We were able to meet
with a woman
by the name of
Dita Sari who had been
organizing Nike and
Reebok factory workers at
the age of 23 and
was illegally
jailed and put in
prison and tortured.
>> In 8th of July 1996,
I was arrested
by the army,
the local army
in East Java.
They kicked me and
they used their fists
and their sticks
and their boot to
hurt me and to torture
me in front of
the workers to show
them an example.
>> I think that
the majority of
workers are saying, "Look,
we don't want you to
pull out the jobs.
We want to work.
We'd like to work.
We want to make the shoes
we were proud
of what we do,
but we don't want
to be exploited.
Why can't you just let
us meet our basic needs?"
>> We're talking
about food,
clothing, housing,
health care,
education, being
able to take care
of your kids,
and some modest savings.
That's not a tall order.
>> Excuse me, do
you guys know
where the Nike campus is?
>> Yeah.
>> You make a
right on walker.
>> Yeah.
>> You'll see it on
your southwest corner.
>> So we're on Nike's
campus right now.
It's a little bit
different than the
factories in Indonesia,
just a tiny bit.
>> Hi, how are you?
>> Hi, good to see you.
>> Nice to meet
you finaly.
>> Yeah.
>> I was hoping to set
up some time where
we could talk. I'm
really concerned about
the workforce
in Indonesia.
You know, I spent
the summer there
living with them,
and living on
the wages that are paid to
the factory workers.
>> You're worried
about that.
>> Yeah.
>> Why don't you call
my secretary, see
what happens?
>> I did. I called
Lisa last week.
I called Vada,
I called Dusty,
Brad Figel, I
called Amanda.
>> You're going
to have to talk
someone else, maybe.
You need to talk
to Dusty Kidd.
>> You are the
guy the buck
stops with you, right?
>> Yeah, it doesn't
start with me though.
>> No, but I don't know
who else to talk to.
>> Try Dusty Kidd.
>> He doesn't want
to talk to me.
>> Then I guess you
don't get through then.
>> But you are the man.
>> Thank you.
>> You are the man
that needs to.
>> I appreciate your
concern but I'm having
lunch with a friend
and we've talked
about it and you're.
>> I apologize for
interrupting your lunch.
I've come all the way from
New Jersey to talk
to you about this.
>> I am not
talking to you.
>> I've got to stonewalled
at every turn.
You know workers
have asked of
me that I try to
bring you back to
Indonesia to meet them in
their homes not in the
office in Jakarta.
>> Do you understand
no? You just got a no.
I'm not going to talk
to you about it.
>> Phil Knight,
the CEO of Nike
or Michael Jordan
or Tiger Woods or
Mia Hamm or any
of the other people
that are really
making a lot of money
because of the way
that Nike does things,
should care about
these workers
because they're
human beings.
>> When I see people
like Tiger Woods get
$100 million just for
wearing the clothes,
we're saying,
as a society like
this one
individual because
they play golf well,
is worth more than
700,000 people.
>> We've made up
these wage charts
and have them
looked down at it.
And then look up and say,
Tiger Woods makes
enough in a
second to buy me a house.
Why? I work hard for
the company too.
What do you say to them?
That's the system. Deal
with it, suck it up.
It's capitalism's
survival of the fittest.
I guess you're
not the fittest.
Nike is in Indonesia for
one reason, cheap labor.
>> It's an ideology
of maximizing
profit at all costs to
humanity and nature.
And it's this entire like
a vicious cycle
that starts with
the heads of the
corporations that want to
make a great return
on shareholders’
investment.
>> Some people say,
that's the way things are.
That's the American way.
It's capitalism, that's
the American way.
The American way
is democracy.
That's what our country
was founded on.
I belief that all
people are equal.
That there should be
respect for democracy,
for human rights, and for
the protection
of human life.
That's what we're
about as Americans.
We spent the last year and
a half travelling
around the country,
visiting over 100
schools, high schools,
and universities,
15,000 students.
How are you feeling
about the turnout?
>> I'm feeling pretty
good about the turnout.
>> What do you thinking
about the turnout here?
>> It's great. This is
the best possible turnout.
>> And we try as
best we can to
introduce them to
these human beings.
And say, as students,
as high-school athletes,
as college athletes,
as consumers,
you've got
tremendous power.
And because we can't
fly them over to
Indonesia we bring
Indonesia to them.
And if we can give
them that spark,
even if it's one or
two on that day,
that's going to
multiply and
eventually we'll reach
this critical mass.
And we'll have a
great harvest.
And the harvest
will be truth and
justice and fairness
for all people.
Something's wrong here
and we can fix it.
It's a necessity.
>> The tipping
point is now.
>> At this point
in our history,
we need a story like
this to be told.