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Ethical living? Stop taking cocaine

"Ethical living? Stop taking cocaine Posted on March 9, 2008 by MexicoReporter | Edit There is a great Leader in this Sunday’s Observer which makes a point I’ve often debated - how cocaine takers in Britain...

created by MexicoReporter | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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Dan Rather Investigates Voting Machines -- Uncovers New Surprises About ES&S Touch-Screens

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Dan Rather Investigates Voting Machines -- Uncovers New Surprises About ES&S ...

By Kim Zetter"Who would have thought that Manila sweatshops would figure prominently in the manufacture of U.S. voting machines? It turns out that Election Systems & Software, one of the top voting machine...

created by jayr_patron | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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Anti-Sweatshop Crusader Rini Chakraborty

"How can garment workers at the dawn of the 21st century still face 19th-century sweatshop conditions? It's disturbing questions like this that drive Rini Chakraborty, 31, Executive Director of California-based Sweatshop Watch, to seek justice for exploited workers in the...

created by shu717 | 4 years ago
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Target takes on Che-Mart

"In a controversial marketing move, French retailer Target has announced a new line of Che-inspired products including calendars and CD cases. From Investors Business Dailyâ¦ "Target, the retailer that distinguished itself last year by banning Salvation Army...

created by nukegingrich | 5 years ago
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Apple running iPod sweatshops?

"Lunchtime arrives and hundreds of young, weary workers in company shirts flood through factory gates and out into the sweltering southern air. Most are migrants in their own country. Born poor in rural China,...

created by lmurch | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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Paradise lost: sweat shops and sex slavery on Saipan

The whir of hundreds of sewing machines reverberates in the thick, dusty air at the RIFU garment factory. Inside this large warehouse, behind a...

created by lmurch | 5 years ago
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Legalizing Human Trafficking

Current WTO negotiations threaten to worsen the already precarious lot of migrant workers around the globe.

created by Haecus | 5 years ago
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Forget Bloggers. Are Journalists Journalists?

People are constantly asking whether 'blogging is journalism' or if 'bloggers are journalists'. Given the current standards of mainstream media the question we should be asking is whether journalists are...

created by mtippett | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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Campuses Launch Renewed Anti-sweatshop Campaign

College students across the country yesterday kicked off a campaign aimed at forcing 40 different institutions to abandon tacit approval of sweatshop labor practiced by the world's largest...