Response to Professor Johnson's Post: 100 years After the Trianlge Factory

There are no words that could possibly describe how upsetting and shocking this video was.  Just as upsetting as the events that were shown and discussed in the video, is the fact that nowhere on television or mainstream news was this mentioned.  As tragic and devastating as this is, one would think that EVERYONE in America should be made to watch this clip from democracy.org.  It comes as no surprise to me that the repercussions of our unaware, materialistic, capitolist, and flat-out selfish country, are plaguing the developing world.  People in America seem to have no idea that everything we own, eat, wear, and touch, came from a place that we know nothing about, where people are forced into the kind of labor discussed in this video.  The lack of knowledge, and care about those who have and are still suffering so that Americans can continue to live easy and convenient lives, is heartbreaking.  I will never understand how the corporations such as Abercrombie, the Gap, etc...can proceed with such little value for human life.  We in America have it so incredibly easy and yet we forget that one of the main reasons we lead such priviledged lives is because we have exploited other countries.  Until there is structural and governmental change, and until our society as a whole changes, nothing will change.  We forget the the clothes on our back, the shoes on our feet, the food we eat, was made somewhere else by somebody.  Until people start to care and demand legislative change, I don't think anything will change.  I think the exploitation that results from American corporations outsourcing to other countries is a direct result of American values (or lack there of).  We always want the most for our money, the best deal for the cheapest, and we want everything right away.  This comes at a cost, maybe not to us, but to humanity.  This video by democracy.org is truely tragic and depressing and yet not many Americans seem to notice or even care about the damage that globalization has brought about.   

Question:  What can be done about this situation?  Do you think anything can be done?  Should there be laws and restrictions regarding labor for American corporations?