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Jingle Bells, Toxic Toys, Santa’s on the Way
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A chorus of kids on YouTube has a holiday message for the Bush administration, Congress and toy manufacturers.
Set to the tune of the holiday classic “Jingle Bells,” the kids plead:
Toxic toys, toxic toys.
Make them go away.
Please don’t bring us toxic toys
This year on Christmas day-ay.
Toxic toys, toxic toys.
They will make us sick.
Better check the recall list
And notify St. Nick.
Over the past year, we’ve seen headlines about lead-tainted toys and other toxic products hitting our store shelves—usually made in China for U.S. manufacturers seeking the cheapest labor possible. Tens of millions of well-known and popular toys have been recalled.
The video is the newest addition in the United Steelworkers (USW) campaign: ”Protect Our Kids—Stop Toxic Imports.” The campaign features ”Safe Home Events” in which parents, with the help of USW safety experts, can test their kids toys for lead. The campaign also includes distribution of home lead testing kits and an online petition calling on the government to fix the broken regulatory system and unfair trade polices that have created the flood of toxic toys and other tainted products coming into the U.S.
As the kids sing, the first thing parents need to do is:
Check where toys are made
When Santa loads his sleigh.
If it’s not American, they
Could contain some lead.
Call your congressman.
This what you say:
Stop letting all this
Poison stuff into the USA.
Check out the video and follow the kids’ advice, because you don’t want your children to end up like the holiday signers—gasping and then collapsing into to a heap.
For more on the toxic toys crisis, click here, here and here.
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Great video, I’m gonna spread that one far and wide, a few notes, at Union Review I picked up Consumer Union’s Not In My Cart campaign and got a lot of signatures via the website and via my MySpace account, the E-Petition got roughly 5,000 signatures a day. When my Congressman (R)Vito J. Fosella responded to me via e-mail, with some very good points including food contamination concerns, we did a follow up story and the E-Petition gained 20,000 votes the very next day. Many of the toxins we are ingesting are a health risk for today and the long term, while the big corporations have continually exported good jobs to the lowest bidding nations, the idea of safety and work conditions has been diminished. I personally feel that the sole responsibility of such unsafe merchandise should lay upon the company who places the merchandise on their shelves. That includes sweatshop abuse as well, it all ties together. Take a look at Toxic Toys and Sweatshop Abuses are Two Sides of the Same Coin. which is based on reports by the National Labor Committee who also gave me the basis for Merry Wal-Mart Christmas- Kids come forward telling of horrendous work conditions in Chinese ornament sweatshop.
Also to note some sites where people can get safety reports on items which have been independently tested and what other safety risks are out there. Just Green, Healthy Toys and ItsInUs.org are a few good ones which a friend of mine, who’s son has autism pointed out. Again, thank you for the story, I hope the info I gathered can help. Unfortunately with so many different organizations out there doing the same thing it can get rather confusing, maybe we need to have a parent organization to tie it all together.