Can Marc Kasky make Nike tell the truth?
By Jayson Whitehead This story begins in 1997, when Marc Kasky opened up his New York Times in his home in San Francisco and began reading an article about shoe manufacturer Nike. “Prior to that day, I was aware of the protests,” he says. “Nike had opened a Niketown in San Francisco. And there had been a lot of protests by activists and organizations about what they were claiming was Nike’s sweatshop practices in Southeast Asia, and the issues that related to that—health, safety, etc.
