Wednesday, July 18 - Jim Keady from Educating for Justice Visits

Caption: Lismarie, Tiffany, Jim, Yan Yan, Glen and Mauric in the front.


Today it was raining buckets and Jim Keady visited our group to discuss why he left his coaching job at St. John's (he didn't want to wear the Nike logo).

After Jim founded Educating for Justice, he traveled to Indonesia with Leslie Kretzu to investigate the Nike corporation. Nike wouldn't let Jim and Leslie visit their factories. So they decided that while they were living in Indonesia, they would live on $1.25 a day -- the same salary received by a Nike factory worker.

Discussion questions:

1) Describe something specific you learned from Jim's documentary, Behind the Swoosh.

2) Describe your favorite part of Jim's talk.

3) Now that you know what you know about Nike, how will you respond?

4) Listen to Jim's audio comment posted here. Tell us what you think about this comment.