WALMART INVOLVEMENT IN GARMENT FACTORY FIRE THAT KILLED 112 BANGLADESHI WORKERS? BETTER CALL OUR “ETHICS” DEPARTMENT FOR SOME PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY.
The retail giant takes this stance since some of its Faded Glory brand clothes were found in the ashes. Walmart is heavily dependent for its cheap prices on the cheap and unsafe labor conditions prevailing at this factory and other “suppliers.” Walmart and other multinational clothing retailers like The Gap can and do disclaim knowledge of how suppliers use, to fulfill orders from them, sub-contractors who pay extremely low wages and cut every corner of safety in working conditions.
(World Socialist)
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BLACKWATER COMES OUT OF BUREAUCRATIC EXILE TO BECOME THE LANDLORD OF U.S. SPECIAL-OPS FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN.
The private security firm, which lost its “no bid contract” for security services after its agents stole U.S. weapons and killed Afghan civilians, has re-emerged with a new name—Acadami—and has another such contract that allows it to maintain a facility called Camp Integrity which will rent space for U.S. Special Ops Forces that will maintain in place after the official “withdrawal” of American forces after 2014.
(Wired)
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BLACK AMERICANS TAKE NOTES ON THIS LESSON: LATINO AND LGBT COMMUNITIES GAINED ACTION FROM OBAMA: NOT BY HUGGING HIM BUT BY PUTTING DEMANDS ON HIM.
Progress if not totally satisfactory movement was made in actions for both immigrant and gay rights because activists took advantage of the President’s vying for their votes to force some action favorable to their causes. Blacks for the most part were content simply to “hug” him, putting forth no demands emanating from a “black agenda,” and the response was to revel in the hugs and ignore the agenda.
(Black Agenda Report)
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COPS GONE WILD IN CLEVELAND.
Police pursue car of a black couple who allegedly fired shots near downtown Justice Center. When it appeared to the police dispatcher that pursuit was endangering civilians, she directed that officers had “no permission” to continue the pursuit. They did continue and they and other police shot 137 times into the car and killed the couple. The police union head, defending the officers, said the couple were “bad guys” who deserved to be killed. Officially, the police chief is investigating, but denials are heard the call-off was actually made by the dispatcher—an allegation that is contradicted by “dash camera” video posted by Cleveland Plain Dealer with this story.
(Cleveland Plain Dealer)
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GET YOUR PISSED OFF ELEPHANT OR YOUR JACKACOCK AT A SOUTH FLORIDA HEAD SHOP.
Under this or similar brand names, you’ll be getting a version of kratom, a relatively mild narcotic used around the world but just beginning to make the “scene” in U.S. drug circles. Its sale is still legal in Florida, but the possibility of its ban looms ahead as the Florida Department of Drug Enforcement labels kratom a “drug of concern.” A blogger for Miami New Times tries the “stuff” which is being touted for both medicinal and mood-enhancement results, and wonders what is the big deal about so mild a stimulant.
(Miami New Times)
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Quote of the day…
It was not a single rogue supplier as Walmart claimed—there were several different US suppliers working for Walmart in that factory. It stretches credulity to think that Walmart, famous for its tight control over its global supply chain, didn’t know about this.
Scott Nova, executive director of the Workers Rights Consortium, on Walmart’s connection to devastating garment factory fire in Bangladesh.
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Capitalism at its finest…no wonder those free market, less government regulation supporters take their business out of the country…its a cheaper pay off for the family of the victims they kill with their greed. anyone who favors less regulation and non bargaining unions that doesn’t make over 100k a year is a brainwashed fool because this is your future as a worker in an establishment where profit supersedes basic human dignity .
The garment workers are just one step removed from slavery. They have no rights and are not even free to leave a building when they want to. Boycott Walmart
Remember, this was America before we have regulation of industry and it happens here too. What happened here if you go back a century was more common than corporate America would want you to believe. It still happens here with miners dying because it’s too “expensive” and too “costly” to invest in safety for workers. This is the corporate wet dream, a world where they would not be held accountable if tragedies like this happened.
Only murderers shop at walmart