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The Fashion Revolution movement was launched a year after the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh where more than 1,130 textile workers died and over 2,500 were injured. The Rana Plaza tragedy wasn’t the first time garment workers had suffered at the hands of the global fashion industry, but it did mark a turning point in public awareness of the industry’s social problems and human rights violations. Now recognised in more than 100 countries worldwide, the Fashion Revolution movement continues to strike the balance between raising awareness of the industry’s most alarming truths while encouraging and educating people – students, educators, designers, consumers, fashion brands – about the actions they can take to shape the industry for the better. To mark Fashion Revolution Week, we redefine it to be fashion revolutionaries who are coming to town to make people listen about ethical fashion.

This week Australia and New Zealand’s leading e-commerce platform THE ICONIC launched a new part of their website, Considered by THE ICONIC, allowing customers to shop by their personal sustainability values. Evaluating products on 30 sustainability factors, the business has conveniently funnelled them into just five ‘Sustainability Credentials‘ so shoppers can filter and search products by the values that matter most to them: Sustainable Materials, Eco-Production, Fair Production, Animal-Friendly and Community Engagement. Discussing the number of ways in which brands can be sustainable, the panel’s overarching message was clear: humans aren’t perfect, neither are brands (including Considered by THE ICONIC) but as a collective community, our informed and conscious choices have the power to create change. As an important milestone in our 2020 Sustainability and Ethical Sourcing strategy, we hope Considered by THE ICONIC drives greater demand for sustainable brands and products, while debunking the misconception that sustainable fashion is either expensive or unfashionable, an in general inaccessible,” says Jana Quaintance-James.

Many believe they have managed to channel man’s brainpower and innovation to utilize the earth’s resources to the advantage of man and his wellbeing; I don’t think this description is accurate. In other words, the green economy is human trade that finds a more sustainable way of utilizing the earth’s resources. Economies which have so ravaged the earth’s resources that the whole world is now fighting for survival at the hands of climate change. In addition, the remainder of these developing countries have spent decades in developing the infrastructure to harness their natural resources (modelling their actions, quite naturally, after the countries that sit atop the global food chain) and increasingly have economies entirely dependent on resources such as oil.

Civil disobedience isn’t the same as non-violence Civil disobedience is traditionally identified with the non-violent campaigns of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King junior. When the government claims that only non-disruptive protests are “civil”, it’s also implying that those who seek to go beyond mere symbolic actions, and to have some impact on others through their protest, are censored as “criminal” and uncivil. After many non-disruptive protests that led to no answer from the government, the activists resorted to a disruptive act to force society to face the moral issue of animal treatment in the food industry. The Coal-Free Movement Heats Up in the Philippines Title image of animal rights activists protesting in front of Flinders Street Station in Melbourne blocking traffic on April 8, 2019.