Our Perspective

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The Problems

  • Sweatshops are the daily reality for thousands in the US and internationally. Current sweatshop abuses include forced overtime, rotten meals, and verbal and sexual abuse. The ugly habits of our modern industrial capitalist system have taken root across the world- sweatshops are not limited to apparel. Their reach is deep into manufacturing, agriculture, and other industries.
  • Climate chaos (aka climate change or global warming) is an issue as complex as sweatshops, and as far-reaching. Our overuse of Earth’s resources, as we move away from local, self-sustaining communities, is a challenge of utmost urgency. Wars for oil, oil spills, and other upsetting current events further push us every day to seek alternatives to the status quo.

 

The Solution

For Ethix Merch and Solidarity eXchange, labor rights and worker dignity are vital to our endorsement of a product. We know structures like labor unions and worker ownership support workers. Our customers are also encouraged to purchase organic, recycled, and environmentally safe products whenever possible. Learn more about the products Ethix Merch sells.

IB ImageTo effectuate true change Solidarity eXchange needs to build capacity.  Building capacity requires the support of as many individual social networks as possible. We need everyone interested in the labor, fair trade, buy local, and environmental movements to help spread the word about our ethical merchandise.


How can you spread the word? We’ve made it easy to help. Simply tell us about yourself to join Solidarity eXchange, and we will send you some small coupon cards. You can give the coupons away to friends and peers who make purchasing decisions. If you are interested in these issues, you definitely know people who would appreciate hearing about Ethix Merch. When someone makes a purchase using your coupon, you receive a 5% referral fee.


In centralizing buying power of a fragmented marketplace, we can build the critical mass necessary to offer the full-time demand good manufacturing facilities need to operate. You can be a part of this solution today with the Solidarity eXchange program. Questions? Check out our FAQs first!

 

Our Mission

Solidarity eXchange is a national sales organization comprised of activists in the sweatfree, labor, buy local, fair trade, and environmental movements. Our members earn money by shifting demand for custom designed and embellished merchandise to ethically-produced apparel, stickers, mugs, and a variety of other goods.

Solidarity eXchange acts in solidarity with the workers who produce the merchandise we sell through Ethix Merch. We are committed to educating ourselves and the consuming public about the ethics of supply chains: all the steps of production and delivery from the factory to the consumer.