Today I learned about the "Made in the U.S.A." crisis that is going on in the Marianas Islands. There is a good amount of well-known brands of clothing that are taking advantage of the labor laws in this United States Pacific Island territory. For many years these companies such as GAP, Banana Republic, Geoffrey Beene, and Levi all were taking Chinese immigrants and shipping them onto this island and shoving them into poor living conditions and into a dark labor filled slave like life. There are many sweatshops scattered over the main island, Saipan, with huge american flags flying over them. Many people are against this and are trying to stop the "slave-like" labor that is going on in these islands.


NY Times Article