Community | July 01, 2010 | 4 comments

Garment Workers Get Beaten Unmercifully During Protests in Bangladesh

source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/jun/30/bangladesh-protest?picture=364397791

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Children are caught up in clashes with police as at least 15,000 protesting garment factory workers block key roads in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, the latest in a string of protests over low wages and poor conditions. Police fired tear gas and used water cannons to disperse the workers, who sew clothes for some of the top names in western retail, after they blocked a major intersection in the north of the city

Protests by workers at Bangladesh's many garment factories are spreading, even as riot police fire tear gas and water cannons at crowds of up to 20,000 people, including children. The workers are protesting conditions and wages, which now average $25 a month for sewing clothes for the western likes of Wal-Mart. One more reason among so many not to shop there.
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4 comments // Garment Workers Get Beaten Unmercifully During Protests in Bangladesh

  • jubal
  • toyotabedzrock
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      toyotabedzrock  

    • That is just so wrong, someone needs to tell the person who took the picture that next time they might actually do something to stop it.

      No one else is gonna stop it because anyone with the money to stop it doesn't care, so the picture does no good.

    • 1 year ago
  • Omnomynous
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      Omnomynous  

    • It's bad, you got people so poor they can't afford to shop anywhere but the places that carry the goods these people make. And these people couldn't realistically be considered anything but slaves.

      This is why I tend to bash capitalism, because nobody wants to look at the real price, we're all just happy for our discount. And capitalism is just that capitalizing on the weakness of others. Unless living wages in our own country go up most of us would find it almost impossible to clothe ourselves without it coming from places like that.

      Yet another reason to dethrone our corporate overlords, they've pushed nations to be complicit with slavery, and if they had their way almost all Americans would be all out no exaggeration slaves too.

    • 1 year ago
  • KSirys
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