China News, Current Events & Headlines | China Digital Times (CDT) Video: China’s Secret Slave Camps Al Jazeera is streaming the most recent episode of “Slavery: a 21st Century Evil“. This episode outlines the modern function of laogai and laojiao – the institutional practices of fo[...]
Posts Tagged ‘labor’
September 6th, 2011 - 7:46 am § in Politics
BREAKING NEWS: Ikea ‘used political prisoners in GDR as slave labour’
Swedish retail giant Ikea used political prisoners in East Germany as “slave labour” to make furniture, secret police files unearthed by a German broadcaster appear to show. Ikea developed strong links with the communist state in the 1970s, opening a number of manufacturing facilities, one of wh[...]
Pro-Union Demo Rocks State Capitol
Pro-labor demonstrators march on the State Capitol, Olympia, 2/26/11. Photo copyright 2011 by Larry Neil Demonstrator at Labor Rally, Olympia, WA, 2/26/11 - Photo copyright 2011 by Larry Neilson.son. OLYMPIA, February 26 -- Some 2,500 braved sub-freezing temperatures and several inches of sn[...]
February 22nd, 2011 - 11:52 am § in America
Walker Blames the Victims
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has been blaming the public workers for the problems of their pension system. Let's get this straight: the pension system insolvency was caused by the banksters' enticing public investors to pony up for worthless "mortgage-backed securities" in the run-up to the Crash of [...]
February 21st, 2011 - 1:22 pm § in America
We Are Wisconsin
Here are a couple of links for following the ongoing people's takeover of the Madison State House.[...]