Frankie Leach, journalist and sustainable fashion writer, gives her thoughts on the intersection between feminism, fast fashion and ethical supply chains for International Women s Day 2021.
International Women’s Day is a day for celebration, one where women across the world come together to celebrate themselves and each other, in the face of continuing oppression and struggle. The date for IWD (8 March) is specifically chosen to mark the day women textile workers in Russia who went on strike for bread and peace in 1917.
We all know that International Women’s Day always ends up being a mixture of women on panels talking about hard-hitting topics like FGM, domestic abuse and transphobia to name a few. But it can also be littered with emails throughout the day from brands giving you a 10 per cent discount using the code #womenrock. Or
tweet from alexandria carlos ghosn ocasio-cortez. today is the day we dedicated everyday new yorkers and their neighbors over corporate greed, worker exploitation and the power of the richest man in the world but a lot of people argue i use amazon, makes my life easier. a lot of jobs that were just lost. what does it mean for the future, where we are going? her own constituents will not have jobs. amazon was committed to hiring people in her own district. 25,000 jobs and we are not talking about crummy jobs. and average pay of $155,000. the idea that these idiotic politicians blue this up and caused the welcome mats to be pulled from underneath the team in amazon and jeff bezos, guess what, they can t move somewhere
unpopular yet right thing for the country and match tweets one side says there s a crisis, the other side said it is all made up. the country should have secure borders. we await what the president has to say. an additional $8 billion in funding. there will be more reaction to that once that happens but reaction to amazon. a great job laying out the amazon story. all these lawmakers on social media reaction yesterday. alexandria ocasio-cortez doing a victory lap. anything is possible, today was with a group of dedicated everyday new yorkers defeated amazon s corporate greed. worker exploitation and the power of the richest men in the world. the interesting thing is you get this from republican congressman