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ARC is a special project to ….attract the average person’s attention to today’s Hungarian “visual-culture”…every year they organize a poster competition in different topics. For this year you could send your creative ideas among others in topics like “living and surviving in Hungary”, “how much the Hungarians tolerate” and………Nike. Since Nike was one of the sponsors.
In early September they exhibited the best works for the public. There are several great or funny works. You can see my report on them here. But for the DP I have chosen a poster which got removed and censored by the sponsor….Nike. Why? Do YOU have any idea?:)
They thought the poster implies child labour, which it probably does :)
Good one though!
… and I couldn’t help but notice New Zealand missing from the global warming map. NZ Being an island, the risk of being swallowed by the sea is likely to be real… or the artist geography was poor…
what a catching poster this would have been… i guess they got irked that this poster shows a kid doing labor which is very common in asia, and the kid being shown is chinese
That poster needs no words or explaination. The picture says it all. Thanks for sharing.
une belle affiche pour un theme tres important et tres grave
a beautiful poster for a very important and very serious topic
child labour. and we pay so much for a pair of these shoes… i just keep wondering why…
It is a very good poster and gets the messge across very well.
I will stick my head out here a bit though and say that for some the only income they can get is through this. Take it away and the family go with out. Even in England we have child labourers… only the goverment call them ‘carers’ because they look after their parents. It’s far cheeper to let that happen than to give the disabled the support they need.
I believe that only this bad publicity they might get can keep away these corporations from this behavior. I do not mind that they invest in countries where the labour costs are more cheap because these countries will grow through these investments. But forcing children/women to work for coins and then selling the shoes for more then 100 USD in shiny malls is disgusting.
I can proudly say that I’ve never owned a pair of Nikes. I don’t patronize WalMart either. However, it’s practically impossible to completely avoid buying/using child-labor products.
What really, really bothers me is the ignorance-hypocrisy of those who voice their outcry publicly while holding stock in companies that practice child labor. We live in a very ridiculous world.
It is disappointing that Nike, as a sponsored, would censor this poster. Naturally it is about the practice of child labor and Nike would not want to support that image of them. However censorship only makes them appear guilty.