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2. Building a mass movement

Only a mass social movement can change the exploitative fashion industry

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Do you agree with the thesis that only a mass social movement can change the exploitative fashion industry?
This topic emerged from feedback from participants in the Faircademy training series (https://faircademy.org/) 2024/2025 in Germany in April 2025.
How can we realise a really international mass movement for a Just Transition to a new fashion industry?
As a worker in the fashion industry, if you could talk to those who wear the clothes you make, what would you ask? What would you like them to know?
Workers who are involved in making, moving, reusing or recycling clothes and people who wear them are often very far away. Share what you would say to the people who wear the clothes you make -whether it's about your working conditions, the…
What new institutions and power structures need to be created in the just transition to a future fashion industry, and how?
How do we build solidarity and cooperation between the environmental and labour movements?
The environmental movement in fashion is often focused on the quantity of clothes the industry produces, the materials that are used, and they way they are disposed of. But the system that pollutes our environment is the same that exploits …
As a consumer, if you could talk to those who produce the clothes you wear, what would you ask? What would you like them to know?
Workers who make clothes and people who wear them are often very far away. Reflect on what you'd want to ask the people who make your clothes, about their lives, working conditions, or how your choices impact them. How would your consumer b…

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