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DCRunningDiva
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 Posted: 06/17/05 - 21:26 Post subject: Anybody watch Dateline tonight?
If you did, did you see the story about the workers that are making clothes for such companies as Walmart, Sears, Kohl's? Working 70+ hours a week for as low as 10 cents/hour wages? UGH! I'm very disturbed (not that I wasn't already).
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Posted: 06/17/05 - 21:30 Post subject:
Were you heretofore unaware this was going on? 
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Posted: 06/17/05 - 21:31 Post subject:
Saw some of it. Watching the musician getting brain surgery with no anesthetic (more or less).
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Posted: 06/18/05 - 00:13 Post subject:
I don't watch programs like Dateline. It makes me aware of the world and that saddens me.
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Posted: 06/18/05 - 00:23 Post subject:
One of the reasons I don't watch it is it brings up all kinds of problems, but never offers a solution.
Just more and more problems every week.
Even the people on Action4 news try to solve local injustices.
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DCRunningDiva
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Posted: 06/18/05 - 06:08 Post subject:
| thegman wrote: | | Were you heretofore unaware this was going on? |
I knew it was going on but I didn't know the detail to which it was going on.
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DCRunningDiva
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Posted: 06/18/05 - 06:08 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | | Saw some of it. Watching the musician getting brain surgery with no anesthetic (more or less). |
That was the main reason I wanted to watch it and then I ended up not seeing that part! What happened to the guy???
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Posted: 06/18/05 - 07:51 Post subject:
He was a bit cranky after the surgery (gee, I wonder why?), but afterwards (three or four weeks later), he was back to normal, including his musical abilities.
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Posted: 06/18/05 - 10:29 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: | One of the reasons I don't watch it is it brings up all kinds of problems, but never offers a solution.
Just more and more problems every week.
Even the people on Action4 news try to solve local injustices. |
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Posted: 06/18/05 - 10:43 Post subject:
| thegman wrote: | | Were you heretofore unaware this was going on? |
I will not even begin to tell you how I've seen some soccer balls made. I've seen the footage and the little children who stich them as well. 
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Posted: 06/18/05 - 14:27 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | | He was a bit cranky after the surgery (gee, I wonder why?), but afterwards (three or four weeks later), he was back to normal, including his musical abilities. |
Amazing! And, he was supposedly awake during his surgery, right?
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Posted: 06/18/05 - 15:00 Post subject:
| DCRunningDiva wrote: |
Amazing! And, he was supposedly awake during his surgery, right? |
Yup. They poked around to make sure they got the tumor all out (Ahh-nold:"It's not a toom-mah!"  ), and to make sure he was keeping some of his capactities (I guess). They also had him hum music and sing - still sounded way better than me! 
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Posted: 06/18/05 - 15:52 Post subject:
| DCRunningDiva wrote: |
Amazing! And, he was supposedly awake during his surgery, right? |
Once you get past the pain receptors you encounter at the skin level, there are no pain receptors in the brain. They want people awake so they know they are doing ok. This is a quite common procedure in neurosurgery.
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Posted: 06/18/05 - 15:57 Post subject: Re: Anybody watch Dateline tonight?
| DCRunningDiva wrote: | If you did, did you see the story about the workers that are making clothes for such companies as Walmart, Sears, Kohl's? Working 70+ hours a week for as low as 10 cents/hour wages? UGH! I'm very disturbed (not that I wasn't already).
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That is why my aunt was a VP for the International Ladies Garment Worker's Union. (ILGWU - "look for the union label'). After the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in NYC, laws were enacted to protect workers against this. Unfortunately, it still goes on, even in the US.
Do you know there is a company that recruits people from Bangladesh, takes them to Federated States of Micronesia. Why Micronesia ? As a US posession you can place the "Made in USA" label on products. These Bangladeshi are taken there, made to work in sweatshops and made to pay for their transportation, housing, food etc etc.
What sort of person rips off a Bangaldeshi ?
The colleges have it right. Get certificates from manufacturers and wholesalers that products with the college logo are NOT made in sweatshops. Its a start.
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Posted: 06/20/05 - 09:16 Post subject: Re: Anybody watch Dateline tonight?
| andydp wrote: |
That is why my aunt was a VP for the International Ladies Garment Worker's Union. (ILGWU - "look for the union label'). After the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in NYC, laws were enacted to protect workers against this. Unfortunately, it still goes on, even in the US.
Do you know there is a company that recruits people from Bangladesh, takes them to Federated States of Micronesia. Why Micronesia ? As a US posession you can place the "Made in USA" label on products. These Bangladeshi are taken there, made to work in sweatshops and made to pay for their transportation, housing, food etc etc.
What sort of person rips off a Bangaldeshi ?
The colleges have it right. Get certificates from manufacturers and wholesalers that products with the college logo are NOT made in sweatshops. Its a start. |
I'm currently reading a book on that very subject, the Triangle fire.
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