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Link Party: Miley Cyrus Is a Bad Tipper

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:14:55 GMT

clipped by: u4i86
clipper's remarks: • Since we’ve all had a chance to say good-bye to Miley Cyrus‘ Twitter, now it’s time to get back to good ol’ gossip. Like this gem: She went to Outback Steakhouse and didn’t tip on her $70 bill. According to her rep, “She didn’t know she was supposed to tip unless she was eating inside.” Too bad there isn’t some microblogging site or something where she can defend herself.

Clip Source: nachocelebrity.com

Link Party: Miley Cyrus Is a Bad Tipper

• Since we’ve all had a chance to say good-bye to Miley Cyrus‘ Twitter, now it’s time to get back to good ol’ gossip. Like this gem: She went to Outback Steakhouse and didn’t tip on her $70 bill. According to her rep, “She didn’t know she was supposed to tip unless she was eating inside.” Too bad there isn’t some microblogging site or something where she can defend herself.

• Taylor Lautner went to Taylor Swift’s Chicago concert and they hugged. And not just a normal hug, like a really superlong hug that can only mean a song about their inevitable breakup is in our near future.

• Aren’t there child labor laws to protect against this sort of thing? And then what about this? Bad day to be a kid.

• Jon Gosselin now considers himself half-Jewish.

Tags: link party: miley cyrus is a bad tipper

ICE: Wait, wait! Let me shoot myself in the other foot too!

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:28:11 GMT

clipped by: nedhamson1
clipper's remarks: Sigh... We had a process that enabled children and parents to be reunited fairly quckly. Now to "protect" kids, we are going to lock them up for months before they can be returned to their parents. I guess Homeland Security cloned Dumb and Dumber many more times than we thought they did.

Clip Source: news.newamericamedia.org

More Children Held in Detention Centers

A new law designed to combat labor and sex trafficking, the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, H.R. 7311, requires that the case of every unaccompanied minor detained along the border be investigated before the child is repatriated. The law calls on investigators to research the reason for their entry into the country and the immigrant status of their parents.

A process that used to take hours, he said, could now take months. According to the Department of Homeland Security, about 10 percent of the immigrants arrested crossing the border are minors.

Tags: immigration, jailed-children, kids_locked_up

Cultural Divide

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:00:48 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: There is this disturbing elephant in the room. Mohammad took a bride who was 9 years old and consummated the marriage when she turned 11. Most people today would view this as depraved behavior. I'd like to know how modern day Muslims feel about this.

Clip Source: atheism.about.com

Yemen: 12-Year-Old Pregnant Girl Dies After Three Days of Labor

I don't think that Islam will be able to move forward in any significant way or garner much sympathy from outsiders so long as Muslims tolerate or support practices like what we are seeing in Yemen: girls being married at 11, pregnant at 12, then dying after three days of painful labor. Marriage and pregnancy at that age might be justifiable if the survival of the species were dependent upon rapid, frequent reproduction, but we haven't been in such an extreme situation for millennia.

This situation may not be all that rare. More than 25% of all women in Yemen are married before they reach the age of 15.

Muslims who are unable to state unambiguously that child marriage is immoral are having their basic moral compass twisted; Muslims who actively defend chid marriage and rape and morally just have had their moral compass broken beyond all recognition.

What did slave labor make for you?

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:02:07 GMT

clipped by: nedhamson1
clipper's remarks: Human trafficking is as much about child labor slavery, as it is about sex.

Something that you already own was probably made by a child slave. Find out what is is so you don't support slavery any more!

Clip Source: www.givmusic.com

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Made By Slaves: Do you know who makes the goods you buy?

Want to learn more about Human Trafficking? Not For Sale Campaign is hosting a global forum on Human Trafficking in Carlsbad, California October 8-9. They are giving a way a free audio book copy of Not For Sale, the book that began the movement if you register TODAY! Register at www.globalforumonhumantrafficking.org

Tags: humantrafficking, profiteering, slavery

MODERN SLAVERY- CHILDREN AND FORCED LABOR

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:06:24 GMT

clipped by: klippety
clipper's remarks: Do we really need those cheap things or could we live without? Protect the children and all those forced into slave labor

Clip Source: humantrafficking.change.org

Department of Labor Releases List of Slave-Made Goods

After receiving over 6,200 letters from Change.org community members, the Department of Labor released their long-awaited report on goods produced by child labor and forced labor today. Thank you all for urging DOL to release this important tool for consumers!

The report tops out at a daunting 194 pages, and can be read in it's entirety here. But let's face it -- no one wants to read 194 page government report, no matter how useful it may be. So here are some of the highlights I've found in my initial read-through:

Bolivia: nuts, cattle, corn, and sugar

Burma: bamboo, beans, bricks, jade, nuts, rice rubber, rubies, sesame, shrimp, sugarcane, sunflowers, and teak

China: artificial flowers, bricks, Christmas decorations, coal, cotton, electronics, garments, footwear, fireworks, nails, and toys

India: bricks, carpets, cottonseed, textiles, and garments

Nepal: bricks, carpets, textiles, and stones

Yemeni Child Bride, 12, Dies in Labor

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:54:38 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: www.cbsnews.com

A 12-year-old Yemeni child-bride died after struggling for three days in labor to give birth, a local human rights organization said.

Fawziya Abdullah Youssef died of severe bleeding on Friday while giving birth to a stillborn in the al-Zahra district hospital of Hodeida province, 140 miles west of the capital San'a.

Child marriages are widespread in Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country, where tribal customs dominate society. More than a quarter of the country's females marry before age 15, according to a recent report by the Social Affairs Ministry.

Youssef was only 11 when her father married her to a 24-year-old man who works as a farmer in Saudi Arabia, Ahmed al-Quraishi, chairman of Siyaj human rights organization, said Saturday.

Tags: child, baby, pregnancy, marriage

Get Ready for Detroit-Style Labor Relations in our Hospitals

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:23:04 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: The current House version of ObamaCare (H.R. 3200) goes much further. Section 225(A) grants Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius tremendous discretionary authority to regulate health-care workers "under the public health insurance option." Monopoly bargaining and compulsory union dues may quickly become a required standard resulting in potentially hundreds of thousands of doctors and nurses across the country being forced into unions.

Ms. Sebelius will be taking her marching orders from the numerous union officials who are guaranteed seats on the various federal panels (such as the personal care panel mentioned above) charged with recommending health-care policies. Big Labor will play a central role in directing federal health-care policy affecting hundreds of thousands of doctors, surgeons and nurses.

Consider Kaiser Permanente, the giant, managed-care organization that has since 1997 proudly touted its labor-management "partnership"

Clip Source: online.wsj.com

Tucked away in thousands of pages of complex new rules, regulations and mandates are special privileges and giveaways that could have devastating consequences for the health-care sector and the American economy at large.

The Senate version opens the door to implement forced unionization schemes pursued by former Govs. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois in 2005 and Gray Davis of California in 1999. Both men repaid tremendous political debts to Andy Stern and his Service Employees International Union (SEIU) by reclassifying state-reimbursed in-home health-care (and child-care) contractors as state employees—and forcing them to pay union dues.

Following this playbook, the Senate bill creates a "personal care attendants workforce advisory panel" that will likely impose union affiliation to qualify for a newly created "community living assistance services and support (class)" reimbursement plan.

Tags: compulsory union dues, detroit-style labor, doctors and nurses forced into unions, goons and thugs, monopoly bargaining, union health-care racket

Read the Union Health-Care Label

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:01:16 GMT

clipped by: billpar
clipper's remarks: There's more. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has suggested that the federal government could pay for health-care reform by taxing American workers' existing health-care benefits—but he would exempt union-negotiated health-care plans. Under Mr. Baucus's scheme, the government could impose costs of up to $20,000 per employee on nonunion businesses already struggling to afford health care plans.

Mr. Baucus's proposal would give union officials another tool to pressure employers into turning over their employees to Big Labor. Rather than provide the lavish benefits required by Obamacare, employers could allow a union to come in and negotiate less costly benefits than would otherwise be required. Such plans could be continuously exempted.

ObamaCare is a Trojan Horse for more forced unionization.

Clip Source: online.wsj.com

Read the Union Health-Care Label

Get ready for Detroit-style labor relations in our hospitals.

In the heated debates on health-care reform, not enough attention is being paid to the huge financial windfalls ObamaCare will dole out to unions—or to the provisions in the various bills in Congress that will help bring about the forced unionization of the health-care industry.

The House bill has a $10 billion provision to bail out insolvent union health-care plans

Tags: healthcare

Profits Before People: 7 of the World’s Most Irresponsible Companies

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:40:11 GMT

clipped by: GarryWert

Clip Source: eco-chick.com

Profits Before People: 7 of the World’s Most Irresponsible Companies

Clip Source: eco-chick.com

Money isn’t everything – or is it? To most corporations, making a profit is goal number one – but some of those companies take it way too far, sacrificing the health of the planet and its inhabitants for a bigger bank balance. Far too many corporations turn a blind eye to the consequences of their destructive, exploitative practices. The worst of them are committing atrocities that go beyond the realm of objectionable into criminal, dumping toxic chemicals without regard to public health and employing child labor.

What makes these seven companies extra evil is the fact that they’ve committed crimes that are BOTH environmentally and socially irresponsible.

Nestle

Pfizer

Wal-Mart

childbirth in chains

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:21:39 GMT

clipped by: djenne
clipper's remarks: can we come into the light?

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Childbirth in Chains

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists called several years ago for an end to the barbaric and medically hazardous practice of shackling female prisoners during labor. In addition to further frightening these vulnerable women, the practice of chaining their legs, wrists and even their abdomens makes treatment and delivery more difficult and places mother and child at greater risk of harm.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons must have had these facts in mind last fall when the bureau ended the routine use of restraints for women in labor and limited shackling to cases in which a woman presents a danger to herself, the baby or the staff. Five states have similar policies. New York would become the sixth — if Gov. David Paterson signs an antishackling bill that sailed through the Legislature this spring.

Tags: pregnant women shackled

Low-wage workers are often cheated by their employers

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:56:16 GMT

clipped by: Lexica
clipper's remarks: More:

The researchers said one of the most surprising findings was how successful low-wage employers were in pressuring workers not to file for workers’ compensation. Only 8 percent of those who suffered serious injuries on the job filed for compensation to pay for medical care and missed days at work stemming from those injuries…

The study found that women were far more likely to suffer minimum wage violations than men, with the highest prevalence among women who were illegal immigrants. Among American-born workers, African-Americans had a violation rate nearly triple that for whites…

The report found that 57 percent of workers sampled had not received mandatory pay documents the previous week, which are intended to help make sure pay is legal and accurate. Of workers who receive tips, 12 percent said their employer had stolen some of the tips."
Clip Source: www.nytimes.com
Low-wage workers are routinely denied proper overtime pay and are often paid less than the minimum wage, according to a new study based on a survey of workers in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
The study, the most comprehensive examination of wage-law violations in a decade, also found that 68 percent of the workers interviewed had experienced at least one pay-related violation in the previous work week.
In surveying 4,387 workers in various low-wage industries, including apparel manufacturing, child care and discount retailing, the researchers found that the typical worker had lost $51 the previous week through wage violations, out of average weekly earnings of $339. That translates into a 15 percent loss in pay.
“The conventional wisdom has been that to the extent there were violations, it was confined to a few rogue employers
What our study shows is that this is a widespread phenomenon across the low-wage labor market in the United States.”

Tags: employment, labor, corporatism, worker-solidarity

Slavery Today Ugly - Look at it!

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:43:50 GMT

clipped by: nedhamson1
clipper's remarks: Another take on the varieties of modern slavery being practiced all over the world.

Clip Source: forpeace.net

Slavery Now More Than Ever

By Mark Svensson, with Tarik Abdelqader

The term "modern-day slavery" refers to the status or condition of a person who is under the control of another person, where that control is enforced by violence or psychological coercion. Here in the 21st century, the main forms of modern-day slavery are chattel slavery, debt bondage, and child labor. Human trafficking, another major dilemma, serves as a pipeline for many forms of slavery today. And while some of these forms of modern slavery occur in other parts of the world, our own country is deeply implicated in this abhorrent practice.

Debt bondage, or bonded labor, is the most widely practiced form of modern slavery around the world. In Southeast Asia, where it is most prevalent, Anti-Slavery International estimates that debt bondage claims an estimated 15 to 20 million victims.

Tags: slavery

Stealing & Selling Kids - Here!

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:32:07 GMT

clipped by: nedhamson1
clipper's remarks: Child trafficking is a problem in Eastern Europe, in South Asia and USA. It's not just for sex that children are trafficked but that's the big ticket item here in USA. Disgusting - yep. Who's buying and who gets jailed when police departments stop denying there is a problem in their community. In Cincinnati, they think it's not a problem but it's not just weed and coke that travels I-74, I-75 and I-74 interstates!

Clip Source: globalvoicesonline.org

Human trafficking in the United States is an often undetected problem because the victims are usually hidden from the public view. The victims are enslaved into illegal jobs often in the sweatshop labor or clandestine sex services. Frequently the victims are minors brought into the United States by organized crime cartels.

Clip Source: globalvoicesonline.org

USA: Activism to Stop Human Trafficking

Clip Source: globalvoicesonline.org

Across America, about 800,000 children are reported missing each year, 33% of which are African-American. In New York City last year, half of reported missing children were black and 60% were female. And these aren't 17-and-a-half-year-olds; most of the girls were between 13 and 15. Other urban areas like Atlanta, Washington DC, Chicago, and Los Angeles with large African-American populations also have high instances of young black girls being kidnapped or “running away”. But what's happening to these girls? Surely they don't vanish into thin air?

Tags: american child slavery

Sex Worker Rights, Unionization - Not for These Kids

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:33:21 GMT

clipped by: nedhamson1
clipper's remarks: Lately, some folks have been promoting and romanticizing about sex worker discrimination, rights and potential for unionization in the US and other countries.

There is nothing romantic or cool about trafficking kids and young women and men for sex or labor slavery.

Clip Source: www.tulsaworld.com

Man charged in an interstate child-prostitution ring may be in Tulsa area

A man who is charged in an interstate child-prostitution ring has eluded police and is thought to be in the Tulsa area, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

He also is suspected of teaching the girls how to avoid undercover police during their shifts at Houston massage parlors and spas where they also provided sexual services to clients.

Court records depict Presley as a violent overlord who used guns to intimidate the girls and keep them from seeking help. While on a trip to Kansas, he is accused of forcing a girl into his vehicle at gunpoint and threatening to hurt her family if she called authorities.

Tags: sex slavery, slavery, trafficking

So? How's Your Summer Vacation?

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:16:33 GMT

clipped by: nedhamson1
clipper's remarks: Working in a brick factory may not be your dream summer job or holiday but a family has to do what it can to survive - right?

For those who believe the hype about modernizing economies in India and China: where would you rather be laid off: in China, in India, or here in USA?

Clip Source: www.chinasmack.com

Summer Work for Zhang Qianqian

Upon asking her age, Zhang Qianqian laughed nervously and spoke of other things; I think she might be afraid of involving the “child labor” issue, so I did not keep asking her.

Tags: child labor, china, summer vacation