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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 01:15 AM Original message |
Wave of garment-worker suicides in Indian “boom” town (1000 in two years) |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 01:18 AM Response to Original message |
1. Free trade! Woo hoo! eom |
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KillCapitalism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 01:18 AM Response to Original message |
2. K&R |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 01:19 AM Response to Original message |
3. Our world is in shambles.. People treated like objects.. Corporations like people.. |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 04:50 PM Response to Reply #3 |
35. Exactly. And according to the powers that be in Washington DC corporations ARE people. |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 01:40 AM Response to Original message |
4. Compared to my dad in the shop in Brooklyn, NY perhaps 70 years ago |
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DesertFlower (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 02:03 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. what an amazing picture. |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 11:06 AM Response to Reply #6 |
15. You're welcome, DesertFlower! |
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DesertFlower (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 04:14 PM Response to Reply #15 |
30. happy new year to you and yours. |
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Raksha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 12:51 PM Response to Reply #4 |
20. Thank you for posting this incredible picture, Eleny. |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 03:08 PM Response to Reply #20 |
29. You're welcome Raksha |
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DesertFlower (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 04:31 PM Response to Reply #4 |
33. my first job was with a garment company. |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 04:34 PM Response to Reply #4 |
34. Thanks for that great pic |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 05:02 PM Response to Reply #4 |
36. Wow, that is an AWESOME photo! I love seeing the men sewing! That's the America I love & miss! |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 01:56 AM Response to Original message |
5. Interviews with workers: looks like DEBT is a big factor. |
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DesertFlower (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 02:05 AM Response to Original message |
7. and the greedy corporations make more money. |
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snagglepuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 03:00 AM Response to Original message |
8. I think Tamils in the diaspora should direct their attention here as opposed to |
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Shallah Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 05:45 AM Response to Original message |
9. I HAVE shut my little sister in from life and light ~ Margaret Widdemer, 1919 |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 06:03 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. thank you, i'd not heard of this poet or poem before. |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 11:08 AM Response to Reply #9 |
16. I never read that poem before - Thanks so much |
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musette_sf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 01:30 PM Response to Reply #9 |
25. thank you for posting - I remember this poem |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 04:25 PM Response to Reply #9 |
32. Thanks for posting that |
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tomm2thumbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 05:58 AM Response to Original message |
10. no safety net whatsoever - basically organized slavery - horrible |
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johnroshan (333 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 06:24 AM Response to Original message |
12. The only way out is this - customers should demand that the clothing stores |
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Raksha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 01:01 PM Response to Reply #12 |
21. +1000 |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 01:11 PM Response to Reply #12 |
22. With our economy, such demands are simply not going to happen. I'm very sorry. |
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Starry Messenger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 08:33 AM Response to Original message |
13. . |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 10:52 AM Response to Original message |
14. So all those neo-liberals, like Clinton, who thought that bringing these |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 11:17 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Do you really think that Clinton was that naive |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 01:19 PM Response to Reply #17 |
24. I think that was the hope behind NAFTA. It obviously, didn't work. |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 03:02 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. Yeah, crossing our borders for under the table, non union work with no benefits |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 01:12 PM Response to Reply #14 |
23. Bill Clinton is brilliant and charming, but he is decidedly not naive. |
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duhneece (967 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 09:21 PM Response to Reply #14 |
38. I confess I bought into the notion that the developing world... |
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snagglepuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 10:14 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. I thought it would be bad but never this bad. Its interesting that free trade |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 10:32 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Maybe the problem is that Capitalism is more manipulated that people realize. |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
18. Oh, that's just growing pains from their move into prosperity. It'll happen. |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
19. While the RICH criminals have been reassured.... |
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Karmadillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
26. Imagine if the American people were exposed to the evils of global capitalism |
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musette_sf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 01:49 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. I think we are being made to be aware of it |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
31. wonder what is in the water there, |
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Shallah Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 07:08 PM Response to Original message |
37. James 5:4 'The wages you failed to pay the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you' |
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