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Hazel Blears has suspended sales of T-shirts promoting her campaign for the Labour Party deputy leadership over fears they may be linked to a factory disaster in Bangladesh.

The supply chain for the garments may lead to a factory where dozens were killed when a building collapsed in 2005.

The Salford MP said she was horrified at suspicions that a product sold on her website might be connected to exploited workers - and was urgently investigating claims of a link.

Last night Miss Blears, Labour’s chairman, pledged to donate to a fund for the families of victims of the Bangladesh disaster, which claimed 64 lives.

And she demanded ’swift answers’ from her supplier, Spreadshirt.

In a statement, she explained that one item sold by the firm was supplied from Bangladesh by B&C/The Cotton Group.

The Cotton Group is the second largest promotional T-shirt supplier in Europe and claims to have an ethical policy, she added.

‘However, it has come to our attention that The Cotton Group was one of the customers of Spectrum, a manufacturer who operated an unsafe factory in Bangladesh which collapsed in 2005, killing 64 workers.

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Monday, April 30, 2007
By LaMont Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Some folks criticize Pittsburgh’s distinct neighborhoods as a source of parochialism and provincialism.So when she got the idea to create Neighbor Teaze, a collection of T-shirts based on the city’s 90 neighborhoods, she hoped the public might take a liking to them.

And they have. The vintage-style shirts, $32 each, are selling briskly at Lilas in Shadyside and Sugar in Lawrenceville. Charles Spiegel for men/the Garage in Squirrel Hill recently began selling men’s sizes, and the shirts are also available at juliadinardo.com. "The idea just kind of popped into my head out of nowhere," said Ms. DiNardo, a Highland Park native. "Even though I’ve been away from Pittsburgh for a little while, you can’t help but loving the place you’re from."

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Africa Aid announces "Wear Empowerment" campaign to renew their successful School Lunch Program for the 2007-2008 school year

SAN DIEGO, California - April 16, 2007 - Africa Aid, an international nonprofit founded by a group of post-grads from the University of California, San Diego, is announcing a nationwide call-to-action: buy a t-shirt and feed an African refugee child for one school year. Leveraging the momentum from their successful School Lunch Program, which currently provides healthy, nutritious lunches for more than 200 children in the Buduburam Refugee Settlement in Ghana, Africa Aid hopes to sell enough shirts between now and June 30 to fund the program for the remainder of this academic year, and its entire second year.

"Our model is different than most nonprofits in that we are innovative, lean, and diligently focused on the impact of dollars raised," says Eric Woods, Africa Aid Founder and Executive Director. "By collaborating with American university students and faculty for program planning, and then working directly with our partners on the ground in Ghana, we eliminate middlemen and keep our overhead costs low, enabling us to feed an African refugee child for a full school year through the sale of only one Africa Aid t-shirt." Africa Aid is able to keep administrative and marketing costs related to t-shirt promotions low by relying on man-on-the-street guerrilla efforts at local universities, online social networking sites such as MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/africaaid), and word-of-mouth buzz.

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The University of Minnesota has stopped production of a T-shirt designed to raise money for the athletics program, saying the slogan "Brew’s Crew" is too closely related to alcohol.

The slogan on the front of the shirt is a play on the name of new football coach Tim Brewster, according to the shirt’s producers. The words surround a football with the letter "M" on it.

The university disagreed.

"We think that the word ‘Brew’ has a direct tie to alcohol," said Tom Wistrcill, associate athletics director. "We don’t think it’s in our best interest — for the athletic department and the university - to associate ourselves with that inference to alcohol."

The Goal Line Club - the booster club for the school’s football program — printed the T-shirts to raise money for the athletics program. The shirts were sold at the annual spring scrimmage to students for $10 - $6 of which went to the program.

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Students who wore attire with an offensive word in gay rights debate allowed to tone it down.

Turns out there’s yet another use for duct tape.

Rio Linda High School students who were suspended last week for wearing offensive T-shirts to school can put them back on — as long as they cover the word "sodomy" with duct tape.

Several students were suspended last week for wearing T-shirts that said "Sodomy is sin." The shirts were a response to the national Day of Silence, a day of activism when some students take a daylong vow of silence in support of gay friends and family members.
 
According to an agreement reached Monday morning between conservative religious leaders and school district administrators, students are now allowed to wear the shirts at school — if they’re altered.

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