Kretzu and Keady founded the Olympic Living Wage Project with the goal of informing people of the devastating social effects of multinational corporations taking advantage of struggling countries such as Indonesia and exploiting their workforce for profit. United States corporations that produce sweatshop goods carry such brand names as Nike, Adidas, Reebok, The Gap, Old Navy, Polo, Ralph Lauren, Lotto, and Fila. The conditions described in the interactive-multimedia presentation clearly depicted the consequences of globalized capitalism without globalized democracy.
Factories provide no health care and prescription medication is unaffordable.
You may survive, but you cannot live. Keady and Kretzu discussed the power of students and the ability we have to enact social change. They encouraged students to write letters to their legislators demanding changes in foreign policy in respect to working conditions in American companies abroad. They also encouraged students to tape over logos and cut tags out of clothing brands that practice sweatshop labor.