{"id":25095,"date":"2025-06-23T16:05:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T16:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/followthethings.com\/?p=25095"},"modified":"2026-03-03T14:28:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:28:05","slug":"handbook-example-tackle-the-shackles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/followthethings.com\/?p=25095","title":{"rendered":"Handbook: example page"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hiatt shackles<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Made in England
Worn in Cuba<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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KEY FACTS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Type<\/strong>:
Protest & activist campaign
Dates<\/strong>:
8 Sept 2005 & 1 Jan 2007
Organisers:<\/strong>
Amnesty International, Reprieve, Save Omar Campaign, Birmingham Guantanamo Campaign, Muslim Public Affairs Committee
Location:<\/strong>
Hiatt & Co., Baltimore Road, Birmingham, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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INTENTIONS<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Change government behaviour
Change corporate behaviour<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TACTICS<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Target the right brand
Hold ’em accountable
Put your bodies in the way
Embody exploitation
Make the hidden visible<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RESPONSES<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

There is no alternative
Who’s responsible?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IMPACTS<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Corporations change
Workers suffer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tackle the shackles<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
IN BRIEF<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

British citizens are detained in the USA\u2019s Guantanamo Bay detention centre, but none are charged with a crime. They notice the shackles restraining them are \u2018Made in England\u2019, just like them. When some go on hunger strike in 2005, and when the 5th anniversary of the centre\u2019s opening takes place in 2007, musicians, doctors, lawyers, comedians and activists protest outside the factory where they are made. Their use at Guantanamo, they argue, is unethical and illegal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to read this page<\/summary>\n

We are slowly piecing together a ‘followthethings.com handbook for trade justice activism’ and are publishing the pages here as we write them. This is an ‘example’ page. The wide column paraphrases and condenses this example’s followthethings.com page, section by section. The narrow column contains some details about the commodity, some key facts about the activism that took place around it, and a list of its ‘ingredients’: its intentions, tactics, responses and impacts. These have been identified during the writing of this example page and, as more handbook pages are added, you will be able to click each one to read about it, and there will be links to other examples where we have found that ingredient, and a list of linked ingredients. This hypertext format, we believe, will help readers to understand how trade justice activism can work, and what it can do. <\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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