New Political Topic up for discussion...

So after the election blog and how well recieved that seemed to be I am offering up another piece for political discussion. I was introduced to this song in my feminist theory class and I think it is extremely powerful and since the topic of how great our country is came up I would like to offer this up as a debate to really look behind the facade of our "great country" enjoy...

"So, what does globalization have to do with you? Have you ever thought about where your shoes come from? Not just where they are made, but where do the materials come from? Who constructs your shoe? What about your food? Who raises your food? Who engineered your produce? What pesticides were involved? Who plucked it from the ground? The following lyrics are from a song about a journey of a shirt.

Are my hands clean?

I wear garments touched by hands from all over the world.
35% cotton, 65% polyester, the journey begins in
Central America
In the cotton fields of El Salvador
In a province soaked in blood,
pesticide-sprayed workers toil in a broiling sun
Pulling cotton for two dollars a day

Then we move on up to another rung-Cargill
A top forty trading conglomerate, takes the cotton thru
the Panama Canal
Up the Eastern seaboard, coming to the U.S. of A. for
the first time

In South Carolina
At the Burlington mills
Joins a shipment of polyester filament courtesy of the
New Jersey petro-chemical mills of Dupont

Dupont strands of filament begin in the South
American country of Venezuela
Where oil riggers bring up oil from the earth for six
dollars a day

Then Exxon, largest oil company in the world
Upgrades the product in the country of Trinidad and
Tobago
Then back into the Caribbean and Atlantic Seas
To the factories of Dupont
On the way to the Burlington mills

In South Carolina
Burlington factories hum with the business of weaving
oil and cotton into miles of fabric for Sears
Who takes this bounty back into the Caribbean Sea
Headed for Haiti this time
May she be one day soon free

Far from the Port-au-Prince palace
Third world women toil doing piecework to Sears
specifications
For three dollars a day my sisters make my blouse
It leaves the third world for the last time
Coming back into the sea to be sealed in plastic for me
And I go to the Sears department store where I buy my
blouse
On sale for 20% discount

Are my hands clean?