Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap
Boycott-the-Gap SPECIAL: $178.8 Million Loss--CAMPAIGN TURNING POINT!!!!
Posted by Mary Bull (chalicenew@earthlink.net)
Saturday, November 17, 2001
Greetings, Gaptivists Around the World!
>THIS IS IT!!! The Campaign Turning Point We've All Been Working For!!! GAP INC--the Largest Clothing Retailer in the US & 2nd Largest in the World--just announced a $178.8 MILLION DOLLAR LOSS this quarter (note Nordstrom and Kohl's posted gains, so it's not just the economy). Profits have been steadily dropping for two years now, but until this quarter, Gap Inc had always made a profit. This is their FIRST LOSS since the launching of the Consumer Pressure Campaign in November 1998, and it's HUGE (~$400 Million down from last year). This means that a Redwood Wildlife Preserve and a Living Wage for all Gap contract workers could be imminent!!! IT'S UP TO US!!!
>TAKE ACTION!!! ****THE FOREST AND THE POOREST NEED YOU!!!!**** Over 150 Gap Actions are scheduled to happen around the world this holiday season, most of them on December 1, the International Day of Action Against Gap!!! PLEASE, if you committed to do an action, follow through and DO IT!!! If you didn't commit yet, you can get everything you need from the Action Packet at www.gapsucks.org. Download some leaflets and demo your local Gap store--or join the Gap action nearest you (check out the Gap Fever Meter at the gapsucks site)! NEED HELP? Contact chalicenew@earthlink.net/415-731-7924!!! See below for SF Action details!
>THE PRESSUE IS ON!!! Not only is Gap Inc in serious financial trouble, but they just lost a motion to dismiss the CLASS-ACTION SUIT against them for SWEATSHOP ABUSES on Saipan: A U.S. District Court Judge held that the allegations, if proven at trial, were sufficient to establish liability of both the factories and retailers for engaging in a "conspiracy" to use peonage labor in violation of racketeering laws. On top of this, Rainforest Action Network is circulating an environmental sign-on letter denouncing the phony "green label" certification that the Fishers--the San Francisco family who controls Gap Inc--bought last fall to take the heat off their REDWOOD FOREST DESTRUCTION in Northern California (over a quarter of a million acres).
>THE TIME IS NOW!!! Our Message Must Be Loud & Clear: Fishers, You Can Change the Tide of Public Opinion Only by Changing Your Policies in Forest and Factory: MAKE THE FOREST A WILDLIFE PRESERVE!!! PAY YOUR WORKERS A LIVING WAGE!!! SETTLE THE SAIPAN SUIT!!!
>IN SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1: We will meet at Union Square at 12 NOON and UNFURL our MAGNIFICENT 200-FOOT Anti-Gap CLOTHESLINE and process to all five Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy stores in the area. Members of the UNION OF CONCERNED SANTAS will be on hand to lead us in Fractured Fisher Sweatshop and Deforestation Carols at each stop. If you can volunteer for this action, contact 415-731-7924, chalicenew@earthlink.net. JOIN US!!!!!
>BE PART OF IT!!!
>MAKE HISTORY!!!!!!
>SHOW YOUR STRENGTH!!!!!!
>GET THIS CORPORATION TO PUT PEOPLE & PLANET BEFORE PROFITS!!!!!!!!
>AND SOUND A WAKE-UP CALL TO ALL OTHER CORPORATE EXPLOITERS!!!!!!!!!!!
For Global Justice and a Sustainable Planet!!!
Mary Bull
Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap Campaign
252 Frederick Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
chalicenew@earthlink.net 415-731-7924 http://www.gapsucks.org
FOR REDWOODS & WORKERS:
BOYCOTT GAP, BANANA REPUBLIC, & OLD NAVY!!!
FOR PEOPLE & PLANET:
STOP “FAST TRACK” & THE FTAA!!! http://www.stopftaa.org
TO END INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM:
STOP THE SUPER JAIL FOR KIDS!!!
http://www.booksnotbars.org
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