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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHoly shit... The shooting in South Africa.....
Just saw it on the news.... Fuck... damn...
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Before this 2 security guards were burned to death in their car and 2 policemen were killed with machetes, then the police killed 3 miners and then today this.......
The South African government better step in an do some serious peacemaking and negotiating some fair wages and labor practices before more people die.
nanabugg
(2,198 posts)HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)FarCenter
(19,429 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Or are they worthy sacrifices for your ability to have a catalytic converter?
Their grievances go well beyond inconveniencing the consumer. I don't blame you, that is a common media frame.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/16/us-lonmin-production-idUSBRE87F1DT20120816
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)try to connect dots here. Why do you think a new union is rising to challenge the old? THINK.
This is even more or less common in AMERICAN labor history... THINK.
But going back to basics, you think people go on strike because it is fun?
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)FarCenter
(19,429 posts)Although I think it probable that the catalytic converter was required in the US in order to prop up the South African apartheid regime at the time of its introduction.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)a few more
PufPuf23
(8,836 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)the images come from the many places on the google.
But that is exactly where we are moving back to.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)a strike is an insurrection? Except for ONE... hardly.
I dare you to tell me which one MIGHT qualify as an internal insurrection.
Sad... but hey in a consumerist culture we cannot have any disturbance, let the peons starve.
malaise
(269,157 posts)Workers of the world unite