Garment workers are staging mass demonstrations and strikes in Bangladesh. A major part of Bangladesh’s foreign currency reserve comes from the contracts the country gets from foreign garment companies. The workers are demanding that their minimum salaries be increased from about 45 USD a month to 70 USD a month. (Factories are not honouring even [...]
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Why Higher Wages for Garment Workers is Good for Bangladesh
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Racism in the CNN
Posted in History, hypocrisy, News, west on December 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The racist undertone and the hilarious stupidity of the anchor. “conspiracy theories drive the middle east.” -those stupid “muzlims.” “despite denials by the state dept.”- the state dept is the Ultimate Arbiter of Truth. That’s not logic, you moron. (By the way, these leaks was pretty certainly not leaked by the US state dept. The [...]
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