Subscribe to Dollars & Sense magazine. Recent articles related to the financial crisis. Stop child labor: buy haute couture!Speaking of Boston's Metro as a tool for getting progressive economic views out to a wide audience: magazine editor Amy Gluckman is now the only member of the Dollars & Sense staff who hasn't published a letter to the editors of the Metro. Last fall, magazine editor Chris Sturr chided the Metro for paying more attention to Boston youth activists' clothing than their message when they testified before the Boston City Council about violence, police conduct, and safety in the city. Last February, editor Dan Fireside opined that of course fooling around with an intern is a much more serious offense than shooting your hunting partner and trying to cover it up. And today, business manager Esther Cervantes responded to an interview with Valerie Salembier, publisher of Harper's Bazaar, in which Salembier advised Metro readers that they could stop sweatshops and child labor by eschewing designer knock-offs (and, of course, spending much more to buy the real thing).
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Don't forget Maggie's Organics (http://www.organicclothes.com/), which combines (hah!) organic cotton and a worker-owned Nicaraguan coop (which recently pressured the Nica government into giving it the same tax and export benefits its neighbors in the "free trade zone" garment factories get!
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