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SWEAT A Story of
Solidarity
Two unlikely young Americans travel half-way around
the world to learn first-hand about Nike's Indonesian
factory conditions and end up taking on the world's
most profitable sports apparel company in the
world. They encounter the local mafia, sexual
abuse, starvation, malaria, football-sized rats,
fist-sized cockroaches, raw sewage in the streets,
massive burning of toxic shoe rubber, corporate
complicity and cover-up.
Sweat, the film, is the journey of Jim Keady and Leslie Kretzu uncovering the story behind the statistics about Nike factory workers. Continue>
Footloose Nike leaves workers rights behind: Thousands of workers in Asian factories that supply multinationals including Nike, Adidas and Levis have been thrown into unemployment and denied their entitled severance pay.
BIG NEWS! SWEAT Named
"firstPix" 2002 Grant Winner
nextPix, a film and media production company based in New York City, announced the winner of its "firstPix" grant program for 2002. The firstPix winner is SWEAT: A STORY OF SOLIDARITY, produced/directed by Jim Keady and Leslie Kretzu of Educating for Justice. The project was awarded a $5,000 grant. Read
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