New report: Behind the "fair trade" & "ethically grown" claims are widespread abuses of workers, including forced labor. Every week, seems there's another expose of the failures of certifiers. This time it's in the voices of 200+ workers thanks to my coauthor @drjamesdaria Thread

The convo about Forever 21's bankruptcy has been dominated by F21's own narrative: They couldn't fast fashion fast enough to keep up with Shein & Temu That's not the whole story Join me down a rabbit hole of private equity, dead malls & extreme capitalism https://t.co/Fh7VlBr9o6

It's timely as I've just been looking into the role of private equity in wage theft cases with garment workers. The short version: Private equity's got billions in hoarded assets, but where's the accountability? #PayYourWorkers https://t.co/F05r4lkL1A

Fascinating fact in here: Private equity firms control 1/5 of US companies-their greed is behind so many of the bankrupcies, not just traditional supply/demand we learned in school @derekseidman80 w/ a look at PE's villainy across vital sectors of society https://t.co/8nRsBEEtzZ

Fashion brands leaving garment workers in the lurch is way too common. But this case has an impressive lineup of ghouls from Shein to Blackrock to the company who owns all the dead malls. Despite the *billions* of $$ between them, workers haven't been paid https://t.co/nNs1EDYGVx

"The Global South’s workforce provides a staggering 90% of the labor to power the world economy, yet gets only 21% of global income"

On Wednesday, November 27th, workers at all unionized New Seasons locations will engage in a one-day Unfair Labor Practice Strike. To avert the strike, the company must meet the our demand for a wage and benefits proposal that materially improves the conditions for all workers.

The G20 has removed language calling for the "transition away from fossil fuels," agreed on at COP28, from its leaders' statement in Rio. You can call this backsliding, or you can call it murderous indifference. Really, up to you. https://t.co/P4GsBKsrJE

"If we deport people, food will be more expensive" is a bad argument vs deportation. It's going to be used as a reason to expand the guestworker program, which is appallingly exploitative as people's legal status is tied to their employer. Great article on orgs to support now

As U.S. braces for Trump, it could learn a lot from the Global South about what "resistance" really means Going beyond hashtags and doing the real work of building community is our strongest defense against authoritarianism LATEST by me for @pirate_wire

I can’t believe I have to say this in 2024 but mass deportations irreparably harm the people being hunted down, detained, and deported and their families. Focusing on how you’re gonna pay more for your groceries because there will be less farmworkers is frankly offensive af.

In Colombia: Water is a Casualty of War As COP16 progresses, the link between illicit economies, conflict and environmental destruction is starkly illustrated https://t.co/nM6wDM1BqX

This was the other one - which I read even as there's a push to log off more of the old forests of the Pacific NW where I live. How do we reconcile the urgency of reality with the profit-hungry status quo? https://t.co/X4YJv4x2ZV

This is the 2nd "exceeding natural limits of the planet" warning I've read in the past week. "to address mass extinction, we need to have more humility as part of just one other species in the web of life…we can’t have this casual attitude to ecocide.” https://t.co/iKzfPnAQq2

Palestinian farmers in Israeli-occupied West Bank facing the most dangerous olive season ever. The intimidation of farmers, restriction of access to lands, severe harassment+attacks by Israeli armed settlers & occupation forces further undermine food sovereignty of Palestinians

For the 1st time in history, the World Bank has been forced by a US court to pay reparations to a community harmed by its investments - in this case, $30 million to a Honduran African palm oil company linked to death squads. My story for @MongabayOrg https://t.co/2W1y9bBZYh

• Addicted to fent? Blame a migrant not Purdue Pharma! • Outbid on a house? Blame a migrant not AirBnB! • In a hurricane's path? Blame a migrant not Chevron! Migrants are not the cause of overdoses, housing crises, and climate change. You're thinking about corporations.

NEW: Migrant & undocumented farmworkers in south Georgia are grappling with decimated homes and lost livelihoods after Hurricane Helene. Ineligible for FEMA relief, their communities have been largely forgotten. https://t.co/fGqxGANFIy

I wrote years ago about how Dole is big enough to own an entire port in Ecuador - their own private port in parallel to everyone else’s system - & what it means for the efforts to actually build an ethical food system https://t.co/tFwoK9N1Iy

This is why consumer choice won’t win us a fair food system. Chiquita & Dole are able to bypass everyone else’s logistics to get their product on the shelf - & yes it goes back to their human rights abuses