The real issue was never a personal attack on her, but an effort to uncover the conditions under which the garments with her name were being made. Kathie Lee Gifford gave a face to Wal-Mart, which otherwise is for most people just a huge anonymous corporation. The Disney people went nuts. One of the things that infuriated Disney, for instance, is that a congregation of sisters in California made it part of the renewal of their vows that they would each write a letter to Michael Eisner, the head of Disney. Again, the Disney people hated it.
Nuns are our most potent secret weapon.
No group of people I've ever met are so dedicated and so persistent. During the campaigns we've done, we've also found out that young people are another group the corporations don't like to deal with. Their whole public relations machinery collapses. What we are struggling for now is a larger coalition of religious people, students and labor organizations to work together. One of the main problems here is that there are too few labor inspectors for wage and hour violations.