I've been quoted:
> What to say?
> That America is a voyeur at some other *AMERICAN* prole's wake?
FYI, That quote is attributable to Travus T. Hipp, whom I've paraphrased. [January 04 2006] Commentary: A Short History Of The The Disaster That *IS* The American Coal Industry: http://www.archive.org/download/tth_060104/tth_060104_64kb.mp3
"Conditions in the shipyards are dangerous. Many workers are barefoot and without gloves, carefully avoiding razor-sharp metal, hot steel, and pollutants." --Photo Caption
Just to put the West Virginia mineworker's murders in perspective:
How many of these salvage workers in the story that follows are poisoned by toxins or killed/injured by accidents every year doing this job so the western world can have oil delivered to far-flung places, nasty dangerous sweatshops and factories all over the second and third world which make their plastic cellphones (and lifestyles)... SUVs
Would you give up your so-called modern "lifestyle" to protect these workers? Would you turn the thermostat down so the intense pressure to pull coal out of the ground under uncertain/unsafe conditions would not be neccesary? (this would also apply to the oil/gas refineries in the US that have been running at 95% utilization (pre-Katrina), and have had incredibly high "incident and accident" rates for the last couple of years).
Lie to me... ...
(Is that *Socialist* enough for you Wojtek? Gimmee a break! [snicker])
Foreign Policy Jan/Feb 2006 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3349
<...> Where do ships go to die? Thirty years ago, Europe's shipyards took apart most of the world's supertankers. But rising costs eventually sent much of the ship-breaking industry to Bangladesh.
In just two months, teams of workers will reduce a 240,000-ton tanker to scrap metal using crowbars, hammers, and their bare hands.
Click to view the photo essay. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_janfeb_2006/endoftheline1.html <...>
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