Have you noticed hundreds of new nike ads all over toronto? Hard to miss!

They're on billboards, subway stations, buses and streetcars.

Pretending to represent local neighbourhoods and promoting fitness, the ads represent nothing more than the continued privatisation of our public spaces in the effort to sell more junk manufactured in sweatshop conditions.

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Q: "But hasn't Nike stopped using sweatshops?"

A: Years of activist organising has forced companies like Nike to address their working conditions. Nike has taken steps to improve working conditions, including their decision in April 2005 to disclose the names and addresses of all its supply factories producing Nike brand products around the world.

While this is an important step, their own audits revealed that many of these factories are ignoring Nike's "code of conduct".

Percentage of Nike audits (factory monitoring by Nike compliance staff) with one or more instances of noncompliance:
· Harassment and Abuse: 25-50%
· Hours of Work: 50-100% exceed Nike standard: 25-50% exceed legal limit
· Wages: 25-50% below legal minimum
· Freedom of Association Prohibited by Law: 10-25%

As long as companies like Nike make millions off of others people's oppression, and as long as they try to dominate our landscape with their commercial propaganda, we will continuously try to reclaim our visual environment with a diversity of voices.

(information from the Maquila Solidarity Network)