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Uzbek activists call for boycott–again!
If anyone has yet to be convinced that boycotting Uzbek cotton is the right thing to do, they need to listen to the people who are putting everything on the line to call for just that: Uzbekistan’s human rights activists, both in-country and political exiles. These are the people whose friends, neighbors and families are affected directly by forced labor, and who risk terrible repercussions (and in some cases, have already suffered them) for their protests. Read their open letter here: http://www.laborrights.org/files/UzbekCottonOpenLetter.pdf
After the first call for a boycott in 2004, many vested interests pushed the argument that farmers and children will suffer most. Anyone who has taken a careful look at Uzbekistan’s Stalinist agricultural regime, however, can see the falsehood in that. Let’s hope the number of corporations and consumers who take this seriously will continue to grow.
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