>> 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.
>> 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.