NIKE - just puke. (Nike - Park Life)

Member Name: Aang

Product:	Nike - Park Life
Date:	09/09/00 (340 review reads)
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Advantages: It conned me. Then I thought: what ugly, over-priced products....

Disadvantages: It might con you too.

This advert is expensive, clever (in a nasty way) and it's trying to con us. It does not tell us why its yukky products are so ridiculously over-priced. Female workers producing NIKE products in Indonesia get paid 85 pence a day. Some NIKE workers have had to work 15 hour days. Why do NIKE workers get paid STARVATION wages? Where does all NIKE's money go?

Well, NIKE spend incredibly vast sums on advertising. Zillions and zillions of dollars.The purpose of the adverts is to con nice people like you and me. Actually NIKE products are not sexy and not cheap. They are naff. Reebok, for example, is sexy; Reebok pays its Indonesian workers much, much higher wages.

A US athlete, sickened by NIKE's treatment of its workers, went to Indonesia to see if it was possible to live on 85 pence a day. The athlete (as reported on Sky News) could only afford a little rice and vegetables each day and soon became exhausted and malnourished.

So, enjoy the advert, by all means, but, do look at www.caa.org.au/campaigns/nike/
www.saigon.com/~nike/
and help try to persuade NIKE not to starve its workers.

Workers in Indonesia who have tried to campaign for higher wages have usually been given rough treatment. One young female campaigner called Marsinah (not a NIKE worker) was kidnapped, raped and murdered.

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