*falls over* Someone should have seen this one coming....

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Actually that's entire bullshit. The re-copies that companies use to make them and make money off them (like the 'LiveStrong' bracelet are) but their original manufacturers don't make them that way.

'Edun' helped with the 'one' and 'make poverty history' bracelets and they've nothing to do with sweat shops.

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Where have you read that, just out of curiosity?

I've checked out the Oxfam and Making Poverty History sites, there's nothing there. Basically what they said is that several of the factories in China have recently been found to have the 'unfair' working conditions.

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I didn't read it anywhere, I talked to Bono as well as Morleigh about both campagins. I also know generally everything there is to know about the women of U2. I'm part of the DATA campagin and follow Edun closely.

As a completely different arguement; can anyone show me working conditions anywhere in China that fall under the 'fair' category in comparison to most of the western world?

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This is where I first read it:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/conservatism/2089402.html#cutid1

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I read that?

And it's true to a degree. There are compaines that have been reproducing the bracelets in order to sell them and make profits off them. Unfortunately, the original campagins get tied into that, but that's not where they started and it's not where they're being supported, either.

As an aside, I'm sure many of the celebrities will go in and apologize, etc etc. It's a bunch of bollocks.

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. . .

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ditto

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I hope that isn't true. I'd rather see some proof before I burn mine (joke).

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It made me laugh, but I have a sick sense of humor.

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call me stupid, but isn't the one campaign and the make poverty history campaign different campiagns?

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I was wondering the same thing myself....

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The tagline to the One Campaign is "The Campaign To Make Poverty History" so it may or may not be related to it (depending on if there really is another poverty relief organization titled as such).

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They are and they're not. They're created under the same umbrella but separate branches.

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The ONE campaign is strictly for the United States (asks you to sign a Petition to send to the US government). "Make Poverty History" is basically everybody else. But basically it's the same thing.

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ohcrap.

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