Posted on 19 August 2020. Tags: Elections, Garment Workers, Haiti, Lauren Stewart, Miles Rapoport
Voting in America, compared to many other countries, is not easy. That’s always been true. Donald Trump’s relentless effort to undermine the vote in November, in this case by crippling the postal service and trying to make it impossible for ballots to be counted on time, is surely corrupt. But, the undermining of the vote […]
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Posted on 01 November 2017. Tags: Bernie Sanders, Christy Hoffman, Garment Workers, Gilead, Nazma Akter, Rana Plaza
Just about every piece of clothing you put on is made with blood, sweat and tears of exploited labor. I revisit the April 2013 murder of 1,138 garment workers in Bangladesh with my two guests, two women global labor leaders: Christy Hoffman, the deputy secretary of the 20-million member UNI and Nazma Akter, who began working […]
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