Roupas Orgânicas

http://www.organicconsumers.org/clothes/index.cfm

About Clothes for a Change

Clothes for a Change is a global campaign to raise awareness about the negative health and environmental effects of conventional and genetically engineered cotton and the institutionalized exploitation of clothing sweatshops.

By uniting organic consumers, anti-genetic engineering activists, trade unionists, religious social justice advocates, progressives in the fashion & apparel industry, and the Fair Trade / anti-sweatshop communities into a potent force we can change the dynamics of the marketplace and fundamentally alter public policy.

The Clothes for a Change Campaign Is Demanding that Major Clothing Retailers & Manufacturers:

• Stop using genetically engineered cotton.
• Start blending in certified organic or "transition to organic" cotton in their clothing.
• Guarantee that they meet independently verified Fair Labor (non-sweatshop) standards.
• Eliminate all production and export cotton subsidies in the U.S. and convert to Green subsidies for organic and transition to organic cotton production.

While the OCA and our allies put marketplace pressure on the clothing giants, we will also be enlisting public interest groups to support the campaign by:

• Committing to procure non-sweatshop, environmentally sound products.
• Signing-on in support of the core demands of the Clothes for a Change campaign.

LINKS

SUSTAINABLE COTTON PRODUCTION

• Background Information on Cotton
• Sustainable Cotton Project - Information about farmers, manufacturers, activists, retailers and others who are devoting their energies to making sustainable cotton a viable agricultural and economic alternative.
• Soil Association (UK) Global Organic Cotton Campaign
• Fair World Project--OCA's Campaign to Safeguard and Strengthen Fair Trade Standards
• Pesticide Action Network (UK) Organic Cotton Campaign
• Clean Clothes Campaign--Promoting Fair Trade in the Garment Industry
• Global Exchange Socially Responsible Shopping and Action Guide

LABOR ISSUES & SWEATSHOP INFO

• National Labor Committee - Educating & engaging the public on human & labor rights abuses by corporations.
• Workers Rights Consortium (WRC) - A non-profit organization created by college and university administrations, students and labor rights experts on over 100 campuses. The WRC's purpose is to ensure that factories producing clothing and other goods bearing college and university names respect the basic rights of workers.
• UNITE! Fighting for good jobs everywhere. Our union is supporting workers in other countries who are fighting to organize their own unions to improve wages and working conditions.
• Clean Clothes Campaign Campaignind to improve working conditions in the garment industry.
• Ethix Merch A supplier of custom made, union made and organic promotional products and the new Alta Gracia line of living wage, union made clothing. Ethix Merch also hosts a blog that discusses workers rights, sweatfree campaigns, fair trade, and the environment.

Visit the CFAC Background Information Page

Norte-americanos contra transgênicos

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_30081.cfm

Two Oregon Counties Vote to Ban Genetically Engineered Crops Despite Massive Contributions by Monsanto and Corporate Agribusiness

• Wins for Community Rights in Jackson and Josephine Counties a Sign of Growing Momentum for Anti-GMO Movement 
  By Organic Consumers Association 
  May 21, 2014
  

For related articles and more information, please visit OCA's Genetic Engineering page and our Millions Against Monsanto page.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 21, 2014
    
CONTACT: Organic Consumers Association: Katherine Paul, 207-653-3090,katherine@organicconsumers.org
FINLAND, Minn. – On Wednesday, May 20, voters in two counties in Oregon passed ballot initiatives to ban the growing of genetically engineered crops. 

Jackson County’s Measure 15-119 passed overwhelmingly, by 66 percent to 34 percent. Proponents of the ban raised only $375,000 compared with a record nearly $1 million raised by the opposition, which included agribusiness giants Monsanto, Syngenta and DuPont Pioneer.

Voters in Josephine County passed Measure 17-58 by a vote of 58 percent to 42 percent. However, the ban will be tested in court because the state passed a controversial law in October 2013, stripping counties of the right to pass GMO bans. The Jackson County measure is exempt from the state law because it had already qualified for the ballot prior to the passage of S.B. 863. 

Ronnie Cummins, national director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA),   and the Organic Consumers Fund which mobilized its members and donated $50,000 to the Oregon campaigns, issued this statement today:

“The passing of these two GMO bans in Jackson and Josephine Counties should send a clear signal to politicians that citizens not only reject unregulated and hazardous GMOs, but are willing to defy the indentured politicians who pass laws, like Oregon’s S.B. 863, that take away county rights to ban GMOs and obliterate a 100-year tradition of home rule and balance of powers between counties and the state.

“This is a tremendous victory for the citizens of these two counties, and for the farmers who are determined to fight the threat of unwanted contamination by GMO crops. It is also a victory for the national anti-GMO movement as it builds momentum for similar bans in counties in other states.

“The margins of victory for these two measures also bode well for passing Oregon’s Ballot Initiative #44 in November 2014, a statewide ballot measure to require mandatory labeling of GMO foods and foods containing GMO ingredients, sold at retail.

“And finally, these victories make it clear to agribusiness giants like Monsanto and Dow that the day has come when they can no longer buy and lie their way to victory. By using the tools of democracy, such as ballot initiatives, citizens can overcome corporate and government corruption through honest campaigns, built on a foundation of truth, science and fair play.

“The OCA looks forward to helping the citizens of Josephine County defend their right to ban GMOs when they go to court to test the state’s new law, S.B. 863, and to helping the Oregon Right to Know campaign pass a strong GMO labeling law in November.”

The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is an online and grassroots non-profit 501(c)3 public interest organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability. The Organic Consumers Fund is a 501(c)4 allied organization of the Organic Consumers Association, focused on grassroots lobbying and legislative action.