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>> At the age of 18,

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I was just on the track.

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Go to a good college, get

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a decent degree, do good.

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You're going to get
an entry-level job

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down on Wall Street,

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you're going to
work real hard.

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You're going
to get broker,

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you're going to
make tons of money.

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You're going to be retired

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by very young age,

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you're going to
have a house on

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a beach in New Jersey and

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a couple of Mercedes
and a trophy wife.

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And that'll be the
end of the game.

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I'm done,
multi-millionaire.

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That's it. I was

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playing professionally
for the

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New Jersey Imperials.

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I was playing the best
soccer in my life.

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I get offered this
coaching job.

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I wanted my
teammates to go

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coach at Saint
John's University,

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the NCAA Division 1
national champions.

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They're the best
team in the country.

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I was having a blast.

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I was loving coaching
and I was loving plan.

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I'm at living in New York.

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I'm also studying stuff
that I really enjoy.

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I'm digging into,
studying theology.

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For the first
time in my life

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in a formal way,

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I get online,
I start doing

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searches about Nike,

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sweatshops and
labour practices.

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And what I found was,

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if you wanted to
pick a company

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that completely
violates everything,

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the Catholic
social teaching is

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about Nike would be a
perfect case study.

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At the same time, I'm
doing this research,

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Saint John's University
Athletic Department

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starts to negotiate
a 3.5 million

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dollar endorsement
deal with Nike that

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require me as a coach to

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wear and promote
the products.

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Saint John's University,
with the largest

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Catholic institution
in the country,

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coupling itself with

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the largest sportswear
company in the world.

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And I said, how can we,

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as such a public
symbol of Catholicism,

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do something that runs

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completely counter
to our mission?

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We're saying to the
world, then, look,

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you should care
about the poor

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and we should
fight against

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injustice and we should

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seek out the
causes of poverty.

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Unless you're getting some

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really good
athletic equipment

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and $3.5 million
along with it.

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You want to talk about

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just hypocrisy
manifested in

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the real world
like this was in.

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>> And you have the
story of Saint John's.

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>> Jim Keady has
caused a massive pile.

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>> He is clearly an ideal.

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>> I didn't go
to Saint John's

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University to
work for Nike.

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I went there to coach
and study theology.

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>> Keady a devout
Catholic, protested.

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>> How does he reached
the point where

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he thinks it's immoral?

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>> Because he's
coming at it from

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a background of
faith and religion.

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This isn't about
just money or

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power or job or anything.
Think about this.

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How many of us
on a job that

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we really want
are prepared to

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get a memo from the
boss saying stop doing

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this or you're out and
you keep doing it?

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>> I was given
an ultimatum

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by my head coach wear

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Nike and drop this issue

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or resign. End the story.

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So in June of 1998,

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I was constructively
fired.

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People were telling
me you don't know

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what you're talking about.

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Those are great jobs and

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you can live like
a king or queen on

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those wages and
those people

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are really happy to have

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those jobs. I want
to go find out.

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Doesn't everybody
just want

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to know the truth?

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So I wanted to know
the truth firsthand.

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I wanted to see it. I
wanted to smell it.

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I wanted to hold
it in my hand.

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I knew I was going to
need other people.

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Leslie was a
natural match.

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>> Jim and I went to
college together.

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We came together
ultimately because we

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share an interest in
labor rights issues.

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>> I eventually met

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backup with her
few years after

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school through an email
about sweatshops.

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>> I really wanted

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to be working with
these issues.

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>> And I wrote to
my buddy in Saudia,

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who's this woman that's

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writing to you
about this stuff?

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And he said,
she's not like

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you. You should email her.

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She was actually
enroute to go

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work with Mother Teresa's
Sisters in India.

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And I sent her
off his email,

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I got this great idea.

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Let's get started on

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Nike's wages in Indonesia

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>> And so he's like,
I really need to go.

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>> She wrote me
back. Sounds great.

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>> Let's go.

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>> We plopped down in
Tangerang, Indonesia,

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there's industrial
suburb outside

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of the capital,

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Jakarta, with the plans

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that for the next month,

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we were going to live as

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Nike's factory
workers live,

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which meant that we
were going to go live

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in a worker slum
outside of the capital,

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and we were going to live

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on the worker's wages,

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$1.25 a day for
the next month.

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Try and come maybe to

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a better understanding
of what it's like

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for Nike factory
workers to make

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this money and live
under these conditions.

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We lived in nine-by-nine
cement box.

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It was over 100 degrees to

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100% humidity is
small windows,

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certainly no air
conditioning.

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>> No furniture.
You slept on

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a very thin mat on

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an uneven cement floor

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covered in shelf paper.

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>> The streets outside
of your home are

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lined by open sores

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and what that means like
in the rainy season,

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you would have all
that feces just

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float up into the streets

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and into your house.

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>> And every time that you

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go to the bathroom,

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it comes back out
into the sewer for

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everybody else to
see and smell.

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>> You would have

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football-sized
rats that would

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stampede over the ceiling

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at night and
come up through

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the toilet and
look for stuff to

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eat in the house or

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the fist-size
cockroaches that

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would crawl over
every night.

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>> Just like anyone
around the world,

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you can't just drop
into someone's life

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and be like, hi,

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we're here, we
want to live in

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your life and tell us
how much it's sucks.

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You had to build
bonds of trust.

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>> Jim.

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>> City.

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>> City.

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>> Jennie.

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>> Jennie nice
to meet you.

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>> They treated us very

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politely and it
wasn't until they saw

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that we were committed

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in the capacity of living

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on the wages that
they're forced to live

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on in the conditions
that they are living in.

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They felt that they could

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start to begin
to trust us.

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You get to know
them and you hold

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their children and
you eat with them,

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you share stories
with them,

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they become part
of your family.

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>> We would go to
different workers homes.

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You've got like four
women's sleep and

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an eight-by-eight
cement box

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and all their possessions
are in there,

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everything in
this small area.

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>> The workers
would have to share

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a bathroom with 5-10
other families.

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The workers would
have to share

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a living quarters,

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actually like a row

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of shacks with
corrugated tin roofs.

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All of those
families would share

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a laundry corner and
a kitchen facilities.

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And they would all share

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the same well to take
the water out of.

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>> $1.25 a day
after you've

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paid for your rent,
water, electricity,

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any major
transportation costs,

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you're going to be left

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on average with roughly

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7,000 rupiah per day.

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What the ****
does that mean?

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That's going to buy
you two simple meals

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or rice and vegetables,

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a bag of peanuts,
a bottle ice tea,

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and some dish detergent.

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And that's all
you can get, and

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that's your reward.

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>> Without a doubt.

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We found that out in

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the first week that
we were there.

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There was no way
that you can live on

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$1.25 a day and maintain
your human dignity.

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It's just not possible.

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>> I lost 25 pounds

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living on Nike's
wages in Indonesia.

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I spent a month
painfully hungry and

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tired and like near

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the point of
exhaustion most days.

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>> I just felt

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my energy storage
was just depleted

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and I just started
going downhill fast and

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I just started getting
sick every day.

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>> And she got very sick.

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She had a fever, 104.

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And she's got to

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deal with, I have
a fever 104.

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I can buy aspirin and

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a little drink
box to get some

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Vitamin C. But if I
buy those two things,

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I don't eat for the
rest of the day.

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>> We're going to go home.

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We're going to say,

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at least I got
lot of money,

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no it's not going to be

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a **** thing different.

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>> How do you feel
like your human being?

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How do you feel like
your work, your gifts?

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For them the workers that

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I've talked to you the
last couple of days.

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Number of said the
only thing we have is

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our physical
labour because

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I just bought this
smallest thing,

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shaving creams and one
razor that I might be

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able to use two or
three times that

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I have to cut
out three meals

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this week. The
highest people.

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>> They will be working

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overtime hours
just to get by

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because they
can't possibly

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get by on the
ways that they're

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paid without working

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incredible
amounts of time.

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And when you're working
up to 15 hours a day,

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6-7 days a week,

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your two-year-old child
just doesn't see you.

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They don't get to
see their children.

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>> The kids can't
even go to school.

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How are you going to break

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a cycle of
poverty and have

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real economic
development if you have

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a whole lost generation

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of children that
aren't even educated.

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I'm walking down
this dirt path into

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this village and I see

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this massive pile of

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scrap shoe rubber
that I later

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learned came from one of

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Nike's factories and piles

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like that get dumped
there all the time.

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And the end result of

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these piles is
that they get

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burned in that village in

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the big open space
where kids play.

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And the burning fumes

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I learned from
the company that

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designs Nike shoe rubber

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will give off toxins
and carcinogens.

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Kids are paying the price.

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And they're the ones

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who have chest infections

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and they're the
ones that are

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going to develop cancer.

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When we were in
Indonesia, we

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made attempts to get

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into a Nike factory

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because Nike claims
on their website,

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we have nothing to
hide. I'm Mike.

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>> Hi, Mike.

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>> How you doing?

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>> Good.

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>> We went over to
Nike's corporate offices

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and Nike denied us that.

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>> We're unable to
accommodate that request.

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>> So Nike Headquarters

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and Beaverton
Oregon had faxed

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an info sheet at all the

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factories to be placed

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on the wall for all
workers to see that red.

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If you are approached by

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Jim Keady, Leslie Kretzu,
Mike Pierantozzi.

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>> Do not speak
to them. They're

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only to speak
to management.

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There will be
severe consequences

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if you're found
talking to them.

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>> And they know from

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their management how
they're supposed to act.

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And if they don't, there's

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some severe ramifications.

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Anywhere from
significant harassment

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to death.

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And I mean it in a
very literal sense.

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Certainly, the
management of

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the factory didn't
want us to be there.

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And it was frightening
because we eat

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several times trying to
get into the factory.

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>> We weren't out
of the van for

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more than 3 minutes and

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there was security
surrounding us.

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And then the factory
managers came out.

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>> What's going on?
We're outside a

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Nike shoe factory
right now,

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security surrounded us.

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>> And they're like,

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what are you doing here?

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Why are you here? It was

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frightening
because who knows?

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>> Security guy here
tracking us down.

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>> From that moment,

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we were tailed by
factory security,

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the prey men for
the local mafia.

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The local mafia
certainly works in

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conjunction with
these factory bosses.

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The factory bosses some

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of them are just brutal,

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ruthless, hired muscle to

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keep workers in line.

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And we met with one
worker, Julianto.

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He told us because
he was union

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organized and he
was trying to

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form an independent union.

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>> He was threatened
at gunpoint.

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He had his house
ransacked.

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He was given death
threats and he had to

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flee back to his
home village.

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Because in fear
of his life.

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This is literally a
life-and-death issue.

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And this happens at
all the factories.

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>> Every worker
that we talk to,

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there's this struggled
with this fear,

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this culture of fear that

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just permeates the air

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that they want to

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tell you the truth and

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try and fight for
their rights,

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but they also
want their kids

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to have a father
or a mother.

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They're dealing every
day with the threat of

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losing their lives for

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doing this kind of work.

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I mean, they show
tremendous courage

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in light of that.

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We were able to meet

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with a woman
by the name of

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Dita Sari who had been

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organizing Nike and
Reebok factory workers at

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the age of 23 and
was illegally

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jailed and put in
prison and tortured.

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>> In 8th of July 1996,

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I was arrested
by the army,

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the local army
in East Java.

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They kicked me and
they used their fists

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and their sticks
and their boot to

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hurt me and to torture
me in front of

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the workers to show
them an example.

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>> I think that
the majority of

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workers are saying, "Look,

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we don't want you to
pull out the jobs.

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We want to work.
We'd like to work.

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We want to make the shoes

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we were proud
of what we do,

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but we don't want
to be exploited.

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Why can't you just let

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us meet our basic needs?"

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>> We're talking
about food,

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clothing, housing,
health care,

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education, being

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able to take care
of your kids,

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and some modest savings.

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That's not a tall order.

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>> Excuse me, do
you guys know

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where the Nike campus is?

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>> Yeah.

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>> You make a
right on walker.

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>> Yeah.

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>> You'll see it on
your southwest corner.

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>> So we're on Nike's
campus right now.

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It's a little bit

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different than the
factories in Indonesia,

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just a tiny bit.

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>> Hi, how are you?

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>> Hi, good to see you.

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>> Nice to meet
you finaly.

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>> Yeah.

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>> I was hoping to set
up some time where

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we could talk. I'm
really concerned about

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the workforce
in Indonesia.

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You know, I spent
the summer there

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living with them,
and living on

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the wages that are paid to

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the factory workers.

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>> You're worried
about that.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Why don't you call

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my secretary, see
what happens?

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>> I did. I called
Lisa last week.

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I called Vada,
I called Dusty,

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Brad Figel, I
called Amanda.

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>> You're going
to have to talk

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someone else, maybe.

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You need to talk
to Dusty Kidd.

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>> You are the
guy the buck

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stops with you, right?

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>> Yeah, it doesn't
start with me though.

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>> No, but I don't know
who else to talk to.

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>> Try Dusty Kidd.

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>> He doesn't want
to talk to me.

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>> Then I guess you
don't get through then.

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>> But you are the man.

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>> Thank you.

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>> You are the man
that needs to.

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>> I appreciate your
concern but I'm having

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lunch with a friend

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and we've talked
about it and you're.

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>> I apologize for
interrupting your lunch.

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I've come all the way from

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New Jersey to talk
to you about this.

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>> I am not
talking to you.

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>> I've got to stonewalled
at every turn.

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You know workers
have asked of

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me that I try to
bring you back to

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Indonesia to meet them in

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their homes not in the
office in Jakarta.

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>> Do you understand
no? You just got a no.

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I'm not going to talk
to you about it.

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>> Phil Knight,
the CEO of Nike

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or Michael Jordan
or Tiger Woods or

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Mia Hamm or any

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of the other people
that are really

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making a lot of money

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because of the way
that Nike does things,

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should care about
these workers

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because they're
human beings.

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>> When I see people
like Tiger Woods get

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$100 million just for

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wearing the clothes,
we're saying,

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as a society like

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this one
individual because

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they play golf well,

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is worth more than
700,000 people.

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>> We've made up
these wage charts

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and have them
looked down at it.

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And then look up and say,

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Tiger Woods makes
enough in a

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second to buy me a house.

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Why? I work hard for
the company too.

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What do you say to them?

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That's the system. Deal
with it, suck it up.

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It's capitalism's
survival of the fittest.

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I guess you're
not the fittest.

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Nike is in Indonesia for

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one reason, cheap labor.

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>> It's an ideology
of maximizing

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profit at all costs to
humanity and nature.

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And it's this entire like

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a vicious cycle
that starts with

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the heads of the
corporations that want to

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make a great return
on shareholders’

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investment.

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>> Some people say,

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that's the way things are.

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That's the American way.

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It's capitalism, that's
the American way.

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The American way
is democracy.

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That's what our country
was founded on.

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I belief that all
people are equal.

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That there should be
respect for democracy,

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for human rights, and for

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the protection
of human life.

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That's what we're
about as Americans.

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We spent the last year and

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a half travelling
around the country,

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visiting over 100
schools, high schools,

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and universities,
15,000 students.

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How are you feeling
about the turnout?

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>> I'm feeling pretty
good about the turnout.

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>> What do you thinking

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about the turnout here?

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>> It's great. This is

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the best possible turnout.

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>> And we try as
best we can to

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introduce them to
these human beings.

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And say, as students,

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as high-school athletes,

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as college athletes,
as consumers,

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you've got
tremendous power.

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And because we can't
fly them over to

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Indonesia we bring
Indonesia to them.

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And if we can give
them that spark,

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even if it's one or
two on that day,

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that's going to
multiply and

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eventually we'll reach
this critical mass.

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And we'll have a
great harvest.

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And the harvest
will be truth and

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justice and fairness
for all people.

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Something's wrong here
and we can fix it.

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It's a necessity.

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>> The tipping
point is now.

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>> At this point
in our history,

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we need a story like
this to be told.