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Posts Tagged ‘human rights

The Human Sacrifice

Posted by: Jessen on: August 22, 2009

I try not to sound as angry as I feel when I discuss human rights/animal welfare. Nothing makes people reject your point of view like anger, even if you’re right. Look at people like Bill Hicks, who spend their lives yelling at people to think, which only serves to make the people reject truth even [...]

Immigrant Worker Abuse

Posted by: Jessen on: August 22, 2009

http://www.hrw.org/en/node/11869/section/8
They have us under threat [bajo amenaza] all the time. They know most of us are undocumented-probably two-thirds. All they care about is getting bodies into the plant. My supervisor said they say they’ll call the INS if we make trouble.
-Northwest Arkansas poultry plant worker
All the workers’ rights covered so far in this [...]


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