Thursday, September 02, 2010
Nike Agrees To Change WVU Uniforms
WEST VIRGINIA....
Nike has agreed to change its advertisement promoting new West Virginia University uniforms. Mountaintop removal mining activists had demanded Nike pull its promotional ad for a new West Virginia University football uniform because it features a strip mine. The off-white clothing, which was to be worn for the November 26th game at Pitt, was intended to appear coated in coal dust, and the number 29 was on the coal-black helmets in tribute to 29 men killed in the Upper Big Branch mine explosion. But activists pointed out the mine was an underground operation, and the ad suggested WVU and Nike endorse the controversial form of strip mining. Activists say they want apologies to the people harmed by such mines.
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