I received this today from the Burma Campaign UK:
Dear Friends,
Do you want your money to end up in the pockets of Burma’s Generals?
Today we launch a boycott campaign against Cotton Traders because a Burma Campaign UK investigation has discovered that they are producing clothes in Burma.
Clothing exports are an important source of income for Burma’s brutal military dictatorship. Burmese trade unions have called on companies not to source clothing from Burma, as the clothing exports help to fund the dictatorship. Burma appeals to manufacturers because of its very cheap labour, ban on trade unions and lack of health and safety laws. Cotton Traders thinks it is acceptable to produce clothes in a country where factory wages are as low as 5p an hour and a factory employee working 60 hours a week could earn just £3.
More than 130 major high street clothing retailers, including M&S, Next, ASDA, H&M, Debenhams, House of Fraser and BHS, have policies not to source from Burma. However Cotton Traders are still make clothes in Burma.
BOYCOTT COTTON TRADERS
Support our boycott campaign and write to Cotton Traders now: http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/cottontraders_action.html. Tell them to stop sourcing from Burma and that you will be boycotting them until they stop.
Click on this link and send them a message using our automated form, it will take just 2 minutes of your time: http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/cottontraders_action.html
Thank you
Johnny Chatterton and the Burma Campaign UK team
The Shiny Headed Prophet 
Great pick on the smallest retailer and leave the big ones alone. Way to put more people on the dole.Talk about an arm chair activist. Oooooh look at me I have a crusade. Why don’t you go out and confront these Generals instead of trying to put people on the dole through scare tactics.Do you have any facts?Do you have any quantities?Or did you just read the label?Very Clever!!!!!!
sorry I appear to have upset you – but the campaign from Burma Campaign exposes all traders who invest in the brutal regime of Burma.These are listed on the dirty list which is on the website and which is accurate. The largest investor by far is Total and we internationally campaign so people are aware.I can understand that tou think I’m an amchair supporter with no facts – the facts are clearly there after much research from Burma UK, and as for armchair supporter I have often been outside the Burmese embassy, written letters, marched and attended many events where we not only raise money for Burmese citizens but also raise the situation with world leaders.If you work for Cotton traders etc. and have concern for your or someone elses job – that is not the plan – all we ask is for CT to stop sourcing their clothes from a country which has such a brutal regime where villages being burnt and women and children being raped is the army’s everyday way of controlling people.Yes I have a campaign, no I won’t apologise, we ahve a responsibility to speak out for justice – in the words of Aung San Sui Kyi – we need to use our liberty to campaign for theirs.
I was interested to read,on the Burma campaign website, that within two days of this boycott campaign and the emails sent to Cotton Traders, they seem to be pullling out of Burma (just waiting for final confirmation, that they have)- So armchair campaigner or not (and I don’t believe for 1 minute that you are!) it seems to have done the trick!!
thanks Nikmore pressure on the generals as a result = a good thing for the people of Burma!