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League of Fans Founded by Ralph Nader, League of Fans is a sports reform project working to improve sports by increasing awareness of the sports industry's relationship to society, exposing irresponsible business practices, ensuring accountability to fans, and encouraging the industry to contribute to societal well-being.Alerts is League of Fans' email announcements list. Alerts provides news, information, the actions of League of Fans and/or Ralph Nader regarding sports issues, and calls-to-action for subscribers. All email updates are either selected or written by League of Fans. League of Fans is motivated by people, just like you, who are upset with what has become of our sports and would like to make a difference. We work with concerned citizens, sports fans, civic groups and communities to increase awareness of the sports industry's relationship to society, influence a broad range of issues in sports at all levels and encourage the cooperative capacities that make the "sports powers-that-be" capable of helping, not just dominating, our society and culture. We often think of sports as outside the realm of everyday citizen concern. But the many benefits to society that sports can provide are sometimes undermined by a different set of values, often based on the quest for higher and higher profits at the expense of fans, taxpayers, communities, culture and social justice. Get Involved! Your involvement will improve sports for communities and fans, and encourage the sports industry to better contribute to societal well-being. |
Sweatshops and Labor Rights Contact the companies who make the sporting goods and apparel you buy and request information explaining under what working conditions those items are made. Make sure these companies do not use sweatshop labor, subjecting workers to unacceptable conditions and poverty wages. Campaign for Labor Rights (CLR) Campaign for Sweatfree Schools Co-op America's Sweatshops.org Free The Children - Child Labour Campaign Global March Against Child Labor International Labor Rights Fund Internet Resources on Child Labor Lawyers Committee for Human Rights Maquiladora Solidarity Network National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice Resource Center of the Americas Smithsonian Institution's Exhibit on Sweatshops "Between a Rock and a Hard Place" Social Accountability International (SAI) Triangle Factory Fire - Sweatshops and Strikes before 1911 U.S. Department of Labor - Employment Standards Administration U.S. Department of Labor - International Labor Affairs Bureau U.S. Department of State - Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor United Students Against Sweatshops Unite! - Stop Sweatshops Campaign
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