LL Bean vows to exclude Uzbek cotton
Posted on December 9, 2009 by admin | 2 comments

Duckboots back on the shopping list
Of all the companies named by the International Labor Rights Forum on this year’s Sweatshop Hall of Shame for the use of Uzbek cotton, LL Bean was the fastest to respond, and vowed to (eventually) exclude it from their supply chain. Let’s hope their follow through is as exhaustive as their initial response was rapid.
Read more on the ILRF blog here. If you buy LL Bean products, take time to let their corporate office know that this is important to you.
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December 18th, 2009 @ 5:47 am
Hi, your site helped me to come up with an interview with Mr. Yodgar Obid here: kultur-multur.org
Thanks
Janyl Jusubjan
April 7th, 2010 @ 10:13 pm
Janyl, thanks! It’s a beautiful piece of work and so wonderful that you make his readings available as audio files!