Earth is gonna kick our ass.

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From The National Labor Committee

nlcnet.org/article.php?id=610

Toys of Misery Made in Abusive Chinese Sweatshops

May also be carrying Bed Bugs

“Sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite.”

Young workers in China who make holiday toys for Disney, Hasbro and RC2—including Bratz dolls—are suffering from a serious infestation of bed bugs in their dorms. Workers report that their bodies are often covered with red welts from the bug bites, which can easily become infected if the wounds are scratched. A leading entomologist at a major university confirmed to the National Labor Committee that it would be very possible for bed bugs to hitch a ride to the U.S., especially if they hid the cardboard toy boxes.

Disney toys are produced at the Daewi factory in Dongguan, China under abusive and illegal sweatshop conditions:

• Workers are at the factory 96 hours a week, routinely toiling 15 ½-hour shifts, from 8:30 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.
  
• All overtime is forced. Any worker missing a shift will be docked three days’ wages.
  
• Workers are cheated of up to 40 percent of the wages legally due them, paid below the minimum wage and shortchanged on their overtime pay.
  
• A worker arriving 30 minutes late will also be docked three days wages.
  
• Toiling in 95-degree temperatures, workers are drenched in their own sweat.
  
• Eight workers share each primitive dorm room, sleeping in double-level bunk beds which are infested with bed bugs.

Hasbro and RC2 Toys, including Bratz dolls are made under abusive sweatshop conditions at the Yongsheng factory in the south of China:

• Workers are at the factory 93 hours a week, toiling 13 ½-hour shifts, seven days a week.
  
• Anyone missing a single overtime shift is docked three days’ wages.
  
• Workers are cheated of up to 36 percent of the wages legally due them.
  
• Workers describe the factory food as “horrible…You can hardly bring yourself to swallow it.”
  
• Twenty-four workers are crowded into each dorm room sleeping on narrow triple- level bunk beds. Temperatures routinely reach 95 degrees. The dorms are infested with bed bugs.
• Each toilet is shared by 24 workers. ..

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"...Gaia is a tough bitch - a system that has worked for over three billion years without people. This planet's surface and its atmosphere and environment will continue to evolve long after people and prejudice are gone...."
~Lynn Margulis
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...Chapter 4
Brian Goodman
"Biology is Just a Dance"
The "new" biology is biology in the form of an exact science of complex systems concerned with dynamics and emergent order. Then everything in biology changes. Instead of the metaphors of conflict, competition, selfish genes, climbing peaks in fitness landscapes, what you get is evolution as a dance. It has no goal. As Stephen Jay Gould says, it has no purpose, no progress, no sense of direction. It's a dance through morphospace, the space of the forms of organisms...
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