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 [...]
Posted by: Jessen on: July 23, 2009
It’s Friday, but since I’ve already written several entries about my week, I thought I would do something else this week. I want to write about my experience of being transgendered.
Transgender (pronounced /trænzˈdʒɛndər/, from (Latin) derivatives [trans <L, combination form meaning across, beyond, through] and [gender <ME <MF gendre, genre <L gener- meaning kind or [...]
Posted by: Jessen on: May 30, 2009
It is commonly thought that if you are vegan or vegetarian, you do not value human life or you value animals above humans. This may be true for some, but not for me. I am vegetarian because I value human life.
Animals aren’t the only ones who suffer horrendous conditions inside factory farms and slaughterhouses, the [...]
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