And I go to the dormitories-- I'm a valuable potential future customer. They will show me anything I ask to see-- the dormitories are cement cubes, 12 foot by 12 foot. And in that space, there are 13 beds, 14 beds-- I count-- 15 beds. They're stacked up like Jenga puzzle pieces, all the way up to the ceiling. The space between them is so narrow. None of us would actually fit in them. They have to slide into them like coffins.
Sounds like jail, perhaps?
, there has been an epidemic of suicides at the Foxconn plant.
Reminder of the game we played in class.
Because the air in Shenzhen-- it's not good in Hong Kong, but when you get to Shenzhen, you can actually feel it, like a booted foot pressing down on your chest
A vivid image of the damage that is being done to the environment
What I thought is they were made by robots.
I have assumed this before as well.
I'm a worshiper in the cult of Mac
Making a point about our cultures obsession with brand names.
he made the audience actually feel something about that fact.
Our society is desensitized to the fact that many of our products are provided to us through the abuse of other humans.
I'm not allowed to say.
Already alluding to the fact that there are things which are being hidden.
No one “won” the Second Congo War; it simply collapsed from exhaustion as resources and energy ran out
What an extreme waste of life. Saddening to think what humans are capable of
He was threatened and then thrown out of his job
This is often times what seems to happen to thosewho try to expose the truth.
The soldiers stood with their backs to us, aiming their automatic weapons at the tree line, as the blast from the rotors whipped the tall grass around their legs. As we touched down, jeeps and four-by-fours roared up, bringing injured soldiers for evacuation, goods and gear to ship out, then reloading with arriving people and equipment. Yet children stood a few feet from the soldiers, complaining about the disruption to their soccer game.
Images of the movie Tarzan are coming to mind. Bad guys vs. good guys, an environment or species at risk...
. The profits generated when we go shopping flow back down the chain and fuel more assaults on the natural world, drive more people toward enslavement, and feed more goods into the global supply chain. Round and round it goes— our spending drives a criminal perpetual motion machine that eats people and nature like a cancer.
Even when we think about these consequences, is it enough for us to stop purchasing these items, so called "feeding the monster" ?
But there’s no secret about the engine driving this vicious cycle. It is us—the consumer culture of the rich north.
We got rid of slavery in our own country, but abuse it in other countries...
pull our cellphones from the earth, our clothing, our computers, our flat-screen televisions, our cars—it all comes from the earth, ultimately.
Neat thought. Typically we think of food and maybe clothing as being provided to us through the Earth, but there are really a great any things that also take a toll on the Earth.
We think of Steve Jobs in his black turtleneck as the origin of our iPhones, or imagine a local funeral director carving a loved one’s name into a tombstone
Concerning that an entire body of people could be trained to believe a "reality" that is so far from the truth.
Cellphones have become electronic umbilical cords connecting us with our children, our partners, and our parents with an immediacy and reliability hardly known before.
I can definitely relate to this. I can't imagine trying to live life without a cell phone at this point. Even something as simple as directions on a road trip seems challenging without modern day technology.
Our view of cemetery monuments is normally restricted to what we see when we bury our loved ones or visit their graves. If we think about where the markers come from at all, we might imagine an elderly craftsman carefully chiseling a name into a polished stone.
Rhetoric.
a bribe here and there means local police and forest rangers turn a blind eye.
Is this something that we see law enforcement do in our country as well?
the quarries themselves are illegal, paying no mining permits or taxes.
So essentially the U.S. is contributing to illegal misconduct in other countries by purchasing their granite?
Just when the family feels they may have finally found some security, they are being locked into hereditary slavery.
Master manipulators...Very much so "big business" mentality
See the little girl playing with the hammer?” asked a local investigator. “Along with the child, the size of the hammer grows, and that’s the only progress in her life.
Such a vastly different picture; what is provided for these children vs. American children
So, like France and many other rich countries, including the United States, Germany imports its tombstones from the developing world.
I did not know we imported our tomb stones. Interesting to think that in an attempt to memorialize our deceased loved ones, we could be killing the loved ones of others in developing countries.
The markup on tombstones is equally high. The red granite tombstones that sell for $500 to $1,000 in the United States
This reminds me of the mark ups on alcohol. I've worked in a few bars and it is not uncommon for the mark up on liquor to be over 100%. It's like getting away with murder.