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Tuesday, March 30, 2004 2. A blank mind is a calm mind. posted by Todd | 12:14 PM |Monday, March 29, 2004 Richard Clarke was outstanding on Meet the Press yesterday, read the transcript here. MR. RUSSERT: Why do you think the Iraq war has undermined the war on terrorism? MR. CLARKE: Well, I think it's obvious, but there are three major reasons. Who are we fighting in the war on terrorism? We're fighting Islamic radicals and they are drawing people from the youth of the Islamic world into hating us. Now, after September 11, people in the Islamic world said, "Wait a minute. Maybe we've gone too far here. Maybe this Islamic movement, this radical movement, has to be suppressed," and we had a moment, we had a window of opportunity, where we could change the ideology in the Islamic world. Instead, we've inflamed the ideology. We've played right into the hands of al-Qaeda and others. We've done what Osama bin Laden said we would do. Ninety percent of the Islamic people in Morocco, Jordan, Turkey, Egypt, allied countries to the United States--90 percent in polls taken last month hate the United States. It's very hard when that's the game where 90 percent of the Arab people hate us. It's very hard for us to win the battle of ideas. We can arrest them. We can kill them. But as Don Rumsfeld said in the memo that leaked from the Pentagon, I'm afraid that they're generating more ideological radicals against us than we are arresting them and killing them. They're producing more faster than we are. The president of Egypt said, "If you invade Iraq, you will create a hundred bin Ladens." He lives in the Arab world. He knows. It's turned out to be true. It is now much more difficult for us to win the battle of ideas as well as arresting and killing them, and we're going to face a second generation of al-Qaeda. We're going to catch bin Laden. I have no doubt about that. In the next few months, he'll be found dead or alive. But it's two years too late because during those two years, al-Qaeda has morphed into a hydra-headed organization, independent cells like the organization that did the attack in Madrid. And that's the second reason. The attack in Madrid showed the vulnerabilities of the rails in Spain. We have all sorts of vulnerabilities in our country, chemical plants, railroads. We've done a very good job on passenger aircraft now, but there are all these other vulnerabilities that require enormous amount of money to reduce those vulnerabilities, and we're not doing that. MR. RUSSERT: And three? MR. CLARKE: And three is that we actually diverted military resources and intelligence resources from Afghanistan and from the hunt for bin Laden to the war in Iraq. MR. RUSSERT: But Saddam is gone and that's a good thing? MR. CLARKE: Saddam is gone is a good thing. If Fidel were gone, it would be a good thing. If Kim Il Sung were gone, it would be a good thing. And let's just make clear, our military performed admirably and they are heroes, but what price are we paying for this war on Iraq? posted by Todd | 2:24 PM | Sunday, March 28, 2004 The Best Bands You’ve Never Heard of, Part 1: Happy Family, Japan Happy Family explodes American rock'n'roll and prog in the way only Japanese bands seem to be able to do — the record's tracks are quite simply rocking, taking frantic post-punk guitar noise, new-wavey synth lines, syncopated, jerky song constructions, and incredibly tight changes into extremes most bands could only dream of. The result may have the same insane energy as a Melt-Banana record, but its lack of abraision makes it far more listenable — the band has the amazing ability to veer toward extremes without ever forfeiting the straightforward appeal they're amplifying. This makes Happy Family an incredible, incredible record — it would not be an exaggeration to suggest that this might be one of the finest albums of the decade. Even more amazing is the fact that Happy Family's later work progressed upon this in even more interesting ways. — Nitsuh Abebe Second and last Album, Tosco: Toscco is yet another miraculous progression on the frantic rock and prog Happy Family is so adept at constructing — the album backs down from the straightforward energy of records like their self-titled release, and manages to add an epic melodic sense that could even suggest vague comparisons to Godspeed, You Black Emperor. The rock is still there, of course — Toscco returns to the tight, intense riffing of previous records just often enough — but there's a definite rise in the level of sophistication, making for slightly more atmospheric and slanted compositions. The fact that this stands as a large improvement over the already-brilliant albums which preceded Toscco is nothing short of amazing. — Nitsuh Abebe Three other bands you need to get in front of: 1. Guapo their new album, Five Suns. 2. Azigza “Azigza is a unique group of musicians who have conjured an inspired musical style which blends sounds of Arabia, Africa, India, Bulgaria and other world music with the hard edge of rock n roll and the elegance of subtle classical colors. From this palette they have evolved a trance of unworldly nature.” – Riffage.com Oh, sweet lady Hip Hop, I didn't forget you: 3. El Producto - High Water and his label's outstanding new sampler release, Definitve Jux Presents 3 El-P's entry into Thirsty Ear's Matthew Shipp-curated Blue Series is a compelling experiment in genre and sound collision. El-P doesn't rap on this set, nor does he saturate his mix with a truckload of effects. His compositions are skeletal frames on which to hang his mixological architecture of ambitious beats and skeletal samples, creating a tightly controlled dynamic inside which ambitious music is created. His collaborators are pianist Shipp, bassist William Parker, drummer Guillermo E. Brown, and a horn section comprised of Daniel Carter on reeds and flute, Steve Swell on trombone, and trumpet prodigy Roy Campbell. While many titles in the Blue Series catalog seem to be varied in terms of texture and dynamic, High Water is not. This feels like a conscious decision on the part of El-P. The palette is restricted atmospherically; his compositions are almost song-oriented — at least in the beginning. The funky breaks on "Get Your Hand Off My Shoulder, Pig" offer a glance into the depths of his aesthetic: the grooves are midtempo with Shipp delving into his blues and soul book for vamps and a solo, Parker laying underneath and propelling the cadence and the horns floating over the top of those massive beats. Shipp is the first to meander, decentering the melody, pulling it apart phrase by phrase and then turning it inside out. All the while the horns shift harmonics while keeping the timbre and tension in clear view. On "Get Modal," the pop tune "Where Is the Love" becomes the jump-off place for investigation. Parker kicks its phrasing first before Shipp chimes in and confirms it. The skittering beats make the track feel like it is coming off a Tilt-a-Whirl, and a forgotten soul vocal is tossed into the background to rattle around just behind the horns. Meanwhile, Brown's counterpoint polyrhythms accent El-P's foreground sampling — including a looped guitar riff from the ether — and all of it is capped with brief yet tough solo from Campbell. The crackling strangeness in "Intrigue in the House of India" is indicative of the album's moodiness and rhythmic parlance. Shipp's carnival-inspired Afro-Cuban son riff opens out onto a carousel of sonic layering — Carter's flute solo is the only thing that feels as if it were recorded on Planet Earth and Brown's weaving in and out of the synthetic rhythms keeps everything shimmering, skipping along into a void where entropy and suffocation would be the only choices were it not for Campbell once again cutting through the detritus and creating a melodic center. At about three minutes and 15 seconds into the track, the cut breaks open with big beats, Parker's cutting drone bass, and ambient sonics paring their way into the heart of the rhythmic soundscape. The theme that threads through the album is a complete reconsideration and rewiring of Charles Aznavour's "Yesterday When I Was Young." It is quoted at the beginning as the players get ready, in a faltering, stuttering, tentative attempt to encounter the subtleties at work in the tune's harmonic palette — like the mood of the disc, it too is consciously restricted. When they get to its full articulation on "When the Moon Was Blue" with Harry Keys singing, the beats seem to separate from his voice, which invokes not only the ghost of Aznavour and his theatrical phrasing but also Louis Armstrong's with his underappreciated sense of melancholy. As horns offer droning bell-like lines across the entire top of the tune, El-P's beats pop under the vocal and Shipp and Parker wander the rounded edges of the melody's margin, a step away from complete implosion. Brown jumps through hoops and keeps the entire band — mostly — inside not only the time, but the tight lyrical consideration that makes up the body of the tune. In sum, it's a moody and haunting record with a few highs, a few lows, and lots of shades of blue to make your way through. Recommended. — Thom Jurek Def Jux, home to RJD2, Cannibal Ox, El-P, Aesop Rock, Mr. Lif, and others. Simply the most innovative and progressive Hip Hop label out there. Try some Def Jux samples here, some of their artists are hit...some are miss. As always, Cuneiform Records is also the place to be. Can't say I didn't warn you. Gnosis does a great job of offering suggestions for new music. You look up an album that you already love, note the ratings by the reviewers, then check the reviewers that agree with your estimation's other picks. I noticed recently that Gnosis is slowly adding more Progressive types of Hip Hop to their gazillion albums of mostly rock, jazz, avant, experimental and other sophisticated popular offerings. If you want to find ground-breaking, mind expanding music, this is the spot. What does Gnosis cover? Under the vast umbrella of music available and unavailable, somewhere lies the Gnosis focus, a mutable area of ambiguous definition. The focus of Gnosis is best understood as an adjunct to its evolutionary conception. Primarily, Gnosis covers music created for the love of art with no regard to commerce or forced accessibility. However, this does not preclude the inevitably of financial success. Conceptually "music for the sake of art" is defined in different ways by each individual by a personal set of aesthetics. ... ...Progressive, experimental, adventurous, innovative, mind-expanding, psychedelic, cosmic, iconoclastic, groundbreaking, hybrid - these are a number of adjectives that describe the music covered by Gnosis. However, like music that continually changes and ignores boundaries, so does Gnosis, a state of evolution anathema to those who feel the need for definition and the status quo. The directors believe it is in the vested interests of this site to continue to be open-minded, tolerant, and expansive. To be clear, Gnosis is not a "prog rock" or "symphonic rock" site although it is inclusive of these musical styles. It is a site where the exploration of new music is paramount, and thus the directors feel that restrictions should generally be thrown to the wind. posted by Todd | 9:23 PM | Spinsanity, a very good and stringently non-partisan political watchdog announces its first book. We are proud to announce the upcoming release of our first book, All the President's Spin: George W. Bush, the Media and the Truth, which will be published in August by Touchstone/Fireside, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. It will provide the definitive non-partisan account of the Bush administration's unrelenting PR-driven dishonesty about public policy. We want to make very clear to you, our most faithful readers, that this book does not mean we have become partisans or are going to stop criticizing Democratic spin. In our website posts and other articles, we'll continue to challenge deception from partisans of all stripes. Good for Spinsanity, I hope it's widely read and well marketed. posted by Todd | 8:27 PM | Thursday, March 25, 2004 From Harper's Stations of the Boss Posted on Thursday, March 25, 2004. From a 1996 memo written by representatives of Lancaster Management Incorporated to Marty Backus Jr. Backus was employed by the company, which owns several newspapers, as a publisher and editor until June 2001. In March 2002, Backus filed a lawsuit against Lancaster for wrongful dismissal, claiming that company representatives had told him he was "evil in their eyes" for failing to comply with the provisions of the memo. Vickie is Backus's wife, and Adam is their son. Waldron Newspapers is a subsidiary of Lancaster Management. Originally from Harper's Magazine, July 2002. Consider yourself on probation. The following is a listing of our non-negotiable terms for allowing you to continue in your position at Waldron. 1. Both you and Vickie go to a Christian counselor. These sessions will probably need to be weekly or at least semimonthly. Yes, it costs money. Spend it. Make the commitment. Regardless, be sure you are seeing a Christian counselor. There are all kinds of wacko "counselors" out there. 2. Attend church weekly. Without fail. No excuses. 3. Have dinner as a family at least five times a week. At the very least, you and Vickie should eat dinner together at the table every night. Start each meal with a prayer. Clean up together. 4. You and Vickie must go to bed with each other every night without fail. If she likes to go to sleep early and you like to stay up late, compromise where she stays up a little later with you and you go to bed a little earlier. But go to bed together. Besides saying good night to each other, the last thing you should do each night is say a prayer out loud together. And start each morning the same, with a prayer out loud together. 5. This goes for you and your sons: Turn the TV off and leave it off. Allow yourself limited TV of some sports and some news, but that's it. No prime time. No soaps. No talk shows. No Letterman. And certainly no videos that depict violence or sex. Focus on the family. 6. Read Scripture daily. Proverbs is good. Read a chapter of Proverbs a day to correspond with the day of the month. Romans is good, too. One favorite passage, which we suggest you carry with you at all times, is James 1:12: "Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him." Also see Romans 8:28. 7. You must trust each other. You are a team. Vickie has much to do with your success or failure in your personal life together, in the business, and in this effort to resurrect your marriage. But while that is true, you must take charge of this situation. You must lead by example. Be Christlike in all you do. 8. We want a short written report from you faxed to us every Monday morning and on our desk here by 8 a.m. In this report should be your triumphs and tragedies of the past week, the high points and the low points you hit. Business and personal. Tell us about a successful promo you all did. Tell us how the press broke down in Mena. Tell us about a good Scripture passage you found. Tell us about the time you got so mad you had to go for a walk. Tell us about Adam's curveball. Tell us about Adam's curveball breaking the window on the house. We want you and Vickie to succeed in all personal and business areas of your lives — in that order. You are accountable to us; do not forget this. You must comply completely. posted by Todd | 11:58 PM | Wednesday, March 24, 2004 Richard Clarke, Bush Administration Whistleblowers, and the Art of Ineffective Political Communication in the Face of Policy Criticism New Feature: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 I'll get to writing some new stuff soon enough. In the meantime, thought I would share this fine piece from the WaPo. Sen. John F. Kerry's presidential campaign is getting an unexpected boost from an unlikely bunch: former Bush administration officials and congressional Republicans. In the past week, GOP Sens. John McCain (Ariz.) and Chuck Hagel (Neb.) have broken ranks and defended Kerry against President Bush's assertion that the Massachusetts senator is weak on national defense. Over the weekend, Richard A. Clarke, Bush's former counterterrorism coordinator, said Bush focused too little attention on al Qaeda before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and too much on Iraq afterward. Clarke detailed his allegations in a book released yesterday. In it, he echoes criticism of Bush's judgment and fixation on Iraq that were leveled by former Treasury secretary Paul H. O'Neill in his book, which was published in January. Together, McCain, Hagel, Clarke and O'Neill, wittingly or not, are helping Kerry undercut Bush's chief reelection message: that America is safer with this president in charge, GOP and Democratic strategists say. Republicans are unintentionally assisting Kerry on the domestic front, too. Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and other congressional conservatives are accusing Bush of driving up deficits, a top Kerry campaign message, and misleading the country about the cost of the new Medicare law, another Kerry target. Kerry's campaign is circulating Flake's recent remark that Congress would not have passed the Bush Medicare law if members had been told of its projected cost. The Office of Management and Budget estimated the law would cost about $130 billion more than advertised, but those numbers were kept secret until well after the House passed the legislation by one vote. The flap over the Medicare number threatens to turn the law into a campaign liability for Bush. Yesterday, Bush's new assault on Kerry's spending for his proposals prompted Democrats to highlight the large number of Republicans and conservative groups that have chided the president for his record-setting spending. Although Kerry's aides privately admit the Democratic candidate cannot fulfill all of his campaign promises and still reduce the deficit by half as promised, they say the Bush campaign relies on questionable assumptions to back up its contention that Kerry will spend $1 trillion more than he will save over the next decade. More: The Washington Post: 3/22/04 posted by Todd | 10:14 PM | Monday, March 22, 2004 posted by Todd | 11:38 AM | The National Labor Commitee Senator Kerry, want to make Ralph Nader's candidacy a total non-factor? Take my advice and make Charles Kernaghan a key advisor on International and National Labor Issues. Kernaghan gets round approval from all political persuasions on the most base level, he's incredibly bright, articulate, and deserves to be a big part of your campaign and administration. The NLC is the happy place where populism, progressivism, ethics and sound policy option selection meet. Charles Kernaghan Executive Director, National Labor Committee Education: M.A., Psychology, The Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, New York, NY B.A., Psychology, Loyola University, Chicago, IL The New York Times has referred to Charles Kernaghan as "the labor movement's mouse that roared," while Women's Wear Daily observed that, "Charles Kernaghan and his anti-sweatshop battle have been shaking up the apparel industry like nothing since the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire." In 1998, Charles Kernaghan was the keynote speaker at 23 universities, 10 high schools and 39 religious, labor and human rights events. He also appeared on 51 radio and 40 television programs and in over 60 newspaper articles. Charles Kernaghan is the director of the National Labor Committee, an independent, non-profit human rights organization focused on the protection of worker rights--especially those of the young women assembling garments, shoes, toys and other products for export to the U.S. in Central America, the Caribbean, China and other developing countries. Kernaghan became involved in the struggle to defend international labor rights after participating in a peace march through Central America in December 1985. He became the director of the NLC in 1990. Pre-1985, Kernaghan taught at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and at SUNY's Harry Van Arsdale Labor College in New York City. He worked as a photographer, furniture mover, carpenter and shop steward (Carpenters Union Local 608), and cab driver. Under Kernaghan's directorship, the National Labor Committee has played the leading role in bringing the issue of sweatshop abuses and child labor before the American people and placing it squarely on the national agenda. Kernaghan has led numerous fact-finding missions to Central America and the Caribbean--most recently bringing a delegation of U.S. university students to investigate working conditions in the free trade zones. He and the NLC have hosted U.S. tours of workers from Honduras, El Salvador, Haiti and China; made several videos; written numerous research reports, and run a number of highly successful international solidarity/corporate campaigns, which have gained enormous media attention and helped the NLC to develop one of the best social justice networks in the country. The NLC now works with over 10,000 religious, labor, student, women's, human rights, solidarity and community groups across the country. Some of what the NLC and Charles Kernaghan have accomplished: 1. Re-writing U.S. Foreign Aid Laws: In the fall of 1992, an NLC exposé documenting the use of hundreds of millions in U.S. tax dollars to finance company flight from the U.S. impacted on the presidential election, and spurred immediate reform of U.S. foreign assistance programs. Posing as investors, the NLC exposed the extensive use of computerized blacklists across Central America. Within six days of the exposé--covered on 60 Minutes and Nightline and released in the NLC report "Paying to Lose Our Jobs"--Congress had passed legislation re-writing U.S. foreign aid law so that U.S. tax dollars could never again be used to build sweatshops offshore, to provide inducements for companies to flee the U.S. or to fund any project in which worker rights are violated. 2. Working for President Aristide's Return: In 1993 the National Labor Committee revealed that over 87 U.S. companies continued to produce goods in Haiti despite the UN/OAS embargo--paying 14 cent-an-hour wages. The Committee documented the Bush Administration's allocation of $26.7 million to oppose President Aristide's attempt to raise the minimum wage in Haiti, and other social reforms. In October 1994, President Aristide invited Charles Kernaghan to accompany him on his return to Haiti. 3. Taking $160 million a year away from the U.S. companies for violating women's and worker rights: In September 1994, after exposing and filming Liz Claiborne, Wal-Mart, Fruit of the Loom and other companies' use of child labor in Honduras, the NLC testified in Senate hearings held by Senator Howard Metzenbaum. The hearings were featured on World News Tonight and CNN. Following a Cabinet-level viewing of the NLC's video Zoned for Slavery at the White House, President Clinton withdrew a pending $160 million a year increase in tariff benefits to U.S. companies sourcing production in Central America and the Caribbean due to the violation of women's and worker rights. 4. Taking on the GAP / Winning Independent Monitoring: In the summer of 1995, the NLC organized a 59-day tour of the U.S. with two teenaged women maquila workers from Central America who sewed GAP clothing under harsh sweatshop conditions, earning just 12 cents for every $20 GAP shirt they made. The tour led to a successful nationwide campaign to press the GAP to guarantee the rights of these young women in El Salvador by opening its contractors' plants to independent monitoring by the Jesuit University in San Salvador, the human rights office of the Catholic Archdiocese and the prestigious NGO, the Center for Labor Studies. A new concept was born: independent monitoring of factory conditions by local respected religious, human, women's and labor rights organizations trusted by the workers. The NLC has now helped set up a second independent monitoring project in Honduras. 5. Making Kathie Lee Cry / Waking Up the Country to the Issue of Child Labor and Sweatshop Abuses: In the spring of 1996, Charles Kernaghan testified in Congress revealing that 13-year-old girls in a Honduras factory were being forced to work 13-hour shifts, under armed guard, for 31 cents an hour sewing pants for Kathie Lee Gifford and Wal-Mart. Kathie Lee responded on her television program, crying and threatening to sue Kernaghan. The case exploded into a major press story, and the issue of child labor and sweatshop abuses was finally on the national agenda as never before. 6. Mickey Mouse Goes to Haiti / Taking on the Walt Disney Company: In 1997, the NLC exposed Disney sweatshops in Haiti, where workers were stripped of their rights and paid just 28 cents an hour--a starvation wage. Haitian women were paid just 6 cents for every $19.99 "101 Dalmatians" children's outfit they sewed for Disney. The NLC campaign generated over 6,000 letters to the Disney company from grammar school children, and ultimately forced Disney to pull out of Burma, include the right to organize in its Code of Conduct, and review working conditions at their contractors' plants around the world. 7. Quarter Million People Sign a Petition to the President and Congress Calling for an End to Child Labor and Sweatshop Abuses: As a venue for public education, to encourage U.S. people to shop with a conscience and to pressure U.S. companies to do the right thing, the NLC launched the first Holiday Season of Conscience in 1997, encouraging consumers to shop with their conscience during the busy holiday season. In fall and winter 1997, 250,000 people signed a petition to the to the President and the U.S. Congress calling for an end to child labor and sweatshop abuses. In the course of the campaign, 2,530 new religious, labor and community organizations joined the NLC network. 8. 30 Million People See NLC/Hard Copy Investigation: In November 1997, posing as investors, the NLC and Hard Copy exposed the 23-cent-an-hour starvation wages, the miserable living conditions and the systematic human and worker rights violations in free trade zones in Nicaragua, where clothing was sewn for J.C. Penney, Kmart and Wal-Mart. Aided by the spotlight of publicity, 2,000 workers at the Chentex factory organized a union and won a contract. 9. U.S. Companies Lowering Standards, Slashing Wages in China: In 1998, the NLC released its ground-breaking research report "Behind the Label Made in China" documenting conditions in Chinese factories where workers toil 60-to-96-hour work weeks, 10-to-15-hour days, six and seven days a week for wages between 12 ½ and 28 cents an hour without benefits, producing clothing for Ralph Lauren, Liz Claiborne, Wal-Mart, Ann Taylor, Espirit and other U.S. companies. The vast majority of the workers are young women who are fired when they reach the age of 25, since they are "used up," may become pregnant, and the companies do not want to pay maternity benefits. The women are housed in crowded dorms, fed a thin rice gruel, kept under surveillance 24 hours a day and can be fired for even discussing factory conditions. Women in China were paid only $3.44 for a seven-day, seventy-hour work week sewing Kathie Lee pocketbooks. 10. Exposing Wal-Mart's "Buy America" Claim as a Fraud / Launching a Campaign for the People's Right to Know--A Call for Public Disclosure: In 1998, travelling to 14 Wal-Mart stores in 12 states using hidden tape recorders and spending 200 hours counting over 105,000 items of clothing, shoes and handbags, Kernaghan and the NLC proved that Wal-Mart's claim to purchase American-made goods was a lie. Of the 86,500 pieces of clothing counted, only 17 percent was made in the U.S., while 83% was made offshore. Of the 16,245 pairs of shoes, only 16 pairs were made in the U.S., and none of the 1,910 handbags we counted were made here. In fact, Wal-Mart produces its private label clothing in 48 countries around the world, using 700 to 1000 factories in China alone. Wal-Mart and other companies hide their production around the world behind locked metal gates, in un-named factories surrounded by high cinder-block walls topped with barbed wire and patrolled by armed guards. The People's Right to Know Campaign demands full public disclosure of the names and addresses of the factories that Wal-Mart and other companies use. The American people have the right to know where, in which factories, under what human rights conditions, and at what wages the products we purchase are made. The Right to Know, by dragging these factories out into the light of day, will make it much harder for companies to abuse child labor or operate sweatshops. 11. 1998 Holiday Season of Conscience--Distributing 250,000 Right to Know Brochures / Helping to Organize 58 Demonstrations Across the Country: On December 10, to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the NLC helped organize 42 events across the country, including in New York City where 1,000 people--led by high school students--joined a candle light march down 5th Avenue from Niketown to the Disney Store to the tree at Rockefeller Center. Charles Kernaghan has authored numerous research reports, including: Paying to Lose Our Jobs (1992) Free Trade's Hidden Secrets (1993) Haiti After the Coup (1993) The U.S. in Haiti (1996) An Appeal to the Walt Disney Company (1996) What Is It Like to Work for Wal-Mart, Kmart or J.C. Penney in Nicaragua? (1997) The Neediest & Greediest / Worst Companies List (1997) Made in China (1998) Liz Claiborne Sweatshop Production in El Salvador (1998) Wal-Mart Sweatshops in Honduras (1998) Nike Sweatshops in El Salvador (1998) U.S. Apparel Imports from Burma Soar Despite Increased Repression and Sanctions (1998) posted by Todd | 7:21 AM | |
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