Article excerpt: When police used stun batons to hit garment workers seeking a $14 monthly raise from a Nike factory in Cambodia in 2013, reportedly leading one pregnant woman to miscarry, Nike said it was “deeply concerned.”
The following year, when Cambodian police opened fire and killed four garment workers during widespread demonstrations over low wages, Nike and other brands sent the government a letter expressing “grave concern.”
Despite repeatedly raising concerns about labor rights, Nike has grown its presence in Cambodia from about 16,000 factory workers in May 2013 to more than 57,000 as of March.
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There aren’t any.
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(next to an image of President Obama) “It is up to all of us to fix this. It's not going to be because somebody comes and saves you.
The most important office in this democracy is the citizen—the ordinary person who says, no, that's not right."
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
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Running penguin brandishing a sword
The penguins react to tariffs
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sunk-cost fallacy (n.) -- "the phenomenon whereby a person is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it, even when it is clear that abandonment would be more beneficial"
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'It would be foolish not to admire Putin' — Elon Musk's father Errol swoons over Russian President
In an interview with BBC Russia, Errol Musk said Vladimir Putin says "logical things."
⚡️ 'It would be foolish not to admire Putin' — Elon Musk's father Errol swoons over Russian President.
In an interview with BBC Russia, Errol Musk said Vladimir Putin says "logical things."
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I stand with the penguins of Heard and McDonald Islands!
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A stained glass representation of Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.
The text reads "Be merciful to the stranger
For we were all once strangers in this land"
The gospel according to Saint Mariann
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One of the finest statesmen and all around fantastic human being ever!
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Why invite the fucking anti Christ to the reopening of a Christian church?
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He doesn’t dress himself so don’t get your hopes up
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CANADIAN Version of this series would have been boring. Man gets cancer... Man goes to Dr. because they have universal healthcare. The End.
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Had to update bio on free speechland 😤
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