It used to be that I had millions of reasons at the readyfor anybody who asked me to give money to charity.
1 Most people raising money for charities are paid (telemarketing, etc)
so the charity gets 50% or less of the money
2 Charities need buildings and employees. Even less money goes anywhere
3 Charities wine-and-cheese the government
4 Here in the UK, charities are make-work projects for Oxbridge grads
5 You have more faith than me if you think your money will get to that
crying naked kid you see on tv
6 money given to Third World governments ends up in tax havens and London
THAT is the UK government's charity trick.
7 it's western business/government policy that is starving countries of cash
and killing their markets. THAT is why they're starving. Isn't anybody gonna complain?
(see below) The US has single-handedly destroyed Haiti. Forget the hurricane,
the real killer is wrapped in the stars and stripes. IT's FREAKIN' SICK!
[what a grandstander and a hypocrite. this guy knows all the sh*t on Haiti. He deposed President Aristide and sent him to the other hemisphere. I sh*t you not.]
[she doesn't know what her government is doing. She's a grandstander, but puts on a good show, likely to get normal folks to shell out money. fools]Now, the main reason, for me, is that the world is upside down, right now.
The rich are running wild in the Hamptons, and us workers are
suffering. And yet, because workers are humans, we are more
moved by advertising and give more in donations, though we have less.
Enough already! No Bullsh*t, no more!
I know bums on the street with more marketing skills than most charities.If Oxfam had any brains, they'd go do a protest in Switzerland
in front of the Bilderbergs. There's gotta be a Trillion dollars in there.
take a page from Greenpeace. Absail off the building. Get arrested.
Shed your blood. Rain flyers with the crying baby all over the place.
Video those rich arse-wipes turning you away.
I guarantee you, it'll fill theatres. Charge entry.
Get off your f%^&king arses! and
now, if you'll please, LEAVE ME ALONE!
Shed your blood. Rain flyers with the crying baby all over the place.
Video those rich arse-wipes turning you away.
I guarantee you, it'll fill theatres. Charge entry.
Get off your f%^&king arses! and
now, if you'll please, LEAVE ME ALONE!
I thank you.
-Cos67¬(%^D>
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By Ryan Chittum
The Nation has a scoop—or had, actually—from Wikileaks cables showing that the Obama administration pressured Haiti not to raise its minimum wage to 61 cents an hour, or five bucks a day.
The magazine posted the story the other day and has now pulled it, saying it will repost it next Wednesday “To accord with the publishing schedule of Haiti Liberté,” its partner on the piece.
But you can’t stuff the news genie back in the bottle. They already put it in my browser and many others, so I’ll summarize what it said (and I’ll link to it once The Nation republishes it).
Two years ago, Haiti unanimously passed a law sharply raising its minimum wage to 61 cents an hour. That doesn’t sound like much (and it isn’t), but it was two and a half times the then-minimum of 24 cents an hour.
This infuriated contractors for (UPDATE: I originally wrote that the companies themselves did this here, but The Nation wrote that it was contractors for the companies, so I’ve added “contractors for” here) American corporations like Hanes and Levi Strauss that pay Haitians slave wages to sew their clothes. They said they would only fork over a seven-cent-an-hour increase, and they got the State Department involved. The U.S. ambassador put pressure on Haiti’s president, who duly carved out a $3 a day minimum wage for textile companies (the U.S. minimum wage, which itself is very low, works out to $58 a day).
The Nation:
[How's your f^**king free-market capitalism, now?-Cos67]
A Pulled Scoop Shows U.S. Fought to Keep Haitian Wages Down (UPDATED)By Ryan Chittum
The Nation has a scoop—or had, actually—from Wikileaks cables showing that the Obama administration pressured Haiti not to raise its minimum wage to 61 cents an hour, or five bucks a day.
The magazine posted the story the other day and has now pulled it, saying it will repost it next Wednesday “To accord with the publishing schedule of Haiti Liberté,” its partner on the piece.
But you can’t stuff the news genie back in the bottle. They already put it in my browser and many others, so I’ll summarize what it said (and I’ll link to it once The Nation republishes it).
Two years ago, Haiti unanimously passed a law sharply raising its minimum wage to 61 cents an hour. That doesn’t sound like much (and it isn’t), but it was two and a half times the then-minimum of 24 cents an hour.
This infuriated contractors for (UPDATE: I originally wrote that the companies themselves did this here, but The Nation wrote that it was contractors for the companies, so I’ve added “contractors for” here) American corporations like Hanes and Levi Strauss that pay Haitians slave wages to sew their clothes. They said they would only fork over a seven-cent-an-hour increase, and they got the State Department involved. The U.S. ambassador put pressure on Haiti’s president, who duly carved out a $3 a day minimum wage for textile companies (the U.S. minimum wage, which itself is very low, works out to $58 a day).
The Nation:
