Nike SB

Not all dunks but...

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Not only do most of them make you look like a flaming homosexual (not a bad thing if thats what you're going for)...

they're more expensive and still made in sweatshops. cool
 
i got the bluebird taxis, papa bears, reese forbes hunters and pusheads all size 10/10.5 if the moneys right i may be able to part with some of them
 
but whats the real cost cause the sneakers dont seem that much cheaper. why are we still paying so much for sneakers when they got little kid slaves making them? what are your overheads??
 
Lol, I didn't know that guys had "shoe collections". I thought that was for neurotic females.

At any given point I have one pair of presentable sneakers, then the older pair which is worn when they're going to get abused skateboarding or mud wrestling.
 
either you have a connect and a shit ton of skrill or youre rockin fakes. there are 29 pairs of guccis in existence, if you got one props, if nott, youre supporting terrorism.
 
yah i thought there was only 30 pairs made of those more than likely their fakes and what the dunks were real hard to get your hands on too had to live in a city where they released the newest nike skate movie and pretty limited at that also a couple serious shoe boutiques got them and marked them sky high
 
NIKE shoe production

in the Third World

-- the facts

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Indonesian workers make $2.46 a day

10,000 Indonesians went on strike to protest wages that are below subsistence level.

"If I don't work overtime, I can't survive," says Baltazar at PT Hasi Nike factory in Jakarta. He works an average of 40 overtime hours a week.

Vietnamese workers make $l.60 a day

1,300 workers at the Sam Yang factory went on strike to demand a one cent per hour raise in wages. Other issues include excessive and illegal overtime and compensation for working with hazardous material.

Chinese workers make $1.75 a day

There is no minimum wage in China and when abuses are discovered, the whole factory disappears. "The supervisors will get nervous and move the work to another province. It's impossible to monitor factory conditions," says Asia Monitor Resource Center in Hong Kong.

You pay over $100 for shoes that cost less than five dollars to make.

PHILIP KNIGHT, CEO of Nike is the sixth richest man in America. He is worth 5 billion dollars and profits off the backs of sweatshop laborers.

NIKE is the biggest shoe company in the world because it operates in countries where it is illegal to organize and collectively bargain for better wages and working conditions.

NIKE can afford to pay endorsers like Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and Monica Seles a combined total of over 60 million dollars to brand themselves with the swoosh.

Call NIKE at: 1-800-344-6453 (press 3 for comments)

Demand that NIKE pays overseas factory workers a living wage for an eight hour work day.

Vietnam and China should get $3.00 a day and Indonesia should get $4.00 a day.

For More Information contact Global Exchange: 415-255-7296,

E-mail: gx-kimberly@globalexchange.org

Address: 2017 Mission Street, Ste. 303, San Francisco, 94110

Website: www.globalexchange.org
 
I actually use my shoes, I don't collect them because my shoes get too dirty. Respek to those who have a collection because I can't keep my shoes clean enough I don't know how you guys do it.
 
when was that written?

Nike made massive changes to their structure and manufacturing plants over the past 5 years which remedied much of the previous sweatshop conditions which that article speaks of.

At one point it was getting really bad - what they would do is essentially exploit their factory workers in one country, and then when shit hit the fan and the media etc investigated them, then they would shut down the plant and more to another country and start again..a pretty bad way to operate..
 
I think you're refering to when they got caught with little kids making their shoes. The conditions refered to in the post still stand, with adults only at this point (alledgedly).

Asians get paid $2 a day working in the shops.

You pay $100 for shoes that cost $5 to make.

A few worthless old men get super rich by exploiting their fellow man as much as they possibly can
 
i doubt you have half these and if you do they are fake cause they only made 400 of the cowboy and 300 of the what thes and just a few of the gucci
 
To people of stronger spiritual development, understanding of cooperative human morals, and those who recognize and resist evil when it manifests itself, it seems to be an issue. Good luck in life, hope you wake up sooner rather than later.

 
I ordered a pair of these yesterday.

Not as a "collector's item" like some of you have, but as shoes.. to wear.

They're not SB's. They're Air Zoom Oncore Premiums. (BMX pro model).

i'm gonna get different colored laces for them.. they come with pink ones. haha.

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You're right I am totally enraged.

(But if I had a shoe collection I'd be 'flaming' anyways, so what's the point?)
 
for real.. you're not going to change us (and you seem smart enough to know that), and we are posting in this thread because we like sneakers while fully aware of where they come from.. your concerns aren't in the right place to get nike to change the way they do business
 
I'm pretty sure there are people that don't think about or really understand the situation.

And if you do understand, you could just acknowledge that you are vain, greedy, don't care about abused poor people, all while simultaneously getting raped by corporate executives. I might make fun of you for a moment, but then I'd leave you all alone, and you could get back to sucking at life. Laterz.
 
I've had The Neptunes, Wieger, Erie ( the St. Patty's day ones), Green Taxi's, Baby Blue Taxi's and the money cat lows. I've skated in every single one of them. I really like the shoes but they're so comfy there's just no reason to not skate in them plus they are made for skateboarding so why not.
 
And if it makes you feel any better, I had no intention to post in this thread again till you told me not to.

You're Welcome
 
I can't even dignify that, you question my morals with your far too simple logic.. there is more to it than "buy the sneakers, make people in sweatshops struggle"

as sad as it is.. nike is a bitch for taking advantage of those people, yet they bring a way for them to earn SOME money for food. thats how it is in poor countries, that is the countries' issue.. why would they pay them triple when they dont need to? look around your house... everything is made in china, is there any reason you single out nike? my adidas are made in china too fucker
 
Lol, I don't think you really wanted me to stop posting, now did you? ;)

I picked Nike because they have a long history of well documented abuse, including that of children. Yes, worse than adidas, and most other factories in the area. A "nike shoe collection thread" was too juicy, I'm sorry.

And about them being 'generous' for providing any wage at all...If corporations were not in bed with their governments, laying "property taxes" and zoning regulations, driving up prices, so that peasants can no longer afford the land needed to sustain themselves and produce food, they could refuse this abusive treatment. They are slaves in every since of the word.

Corporations own and pollute their lands, forcing them into wage-slavery in order to stay alive. You support this arrangement by sending money to these corporations. It is that simple.

 
Obviously I struck a nerve because people can't stop responding to it (lol). You're falling over eachother to deny any responsibility for the undeniably true mess we're all in.

It proves you all have a conscience :)

some are just stuck in denial.
 
Congratulations. (...why did you respond?)

I just noticed someone's step-dad is a Nike exec. Don't worry, my step-dad is an HP exec, and my uncle is an oil exec. We can't help those things.

btw, page 1 hijack complete.

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