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Underage boy cleaning slaughterhouse in Nebraska shows ID to Department of Labor investigators
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle
(The Jungle is a 1906 novel by American muckraker novelist Upton Sinclair that exposed health violations and unsanitary practices in the meat packing industry.)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle
(The Jungle is a 1906 novel by American muckraker novelist Upton Sinclair that exposed health violations and unsanitary practices in the meat packing industry.)
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
#CapitalismSucks
#CapitalismSucks
Hey, at least they gave the child some goggles, AMIRITE?
#CompassionateConservatism
#CompassionateConservatism
The Guardian's #PandoraPapers 'revelations' aren't revelations at all, they're part of how tax avoidance is enabled, i.e. creating an appearance of outrage to assuage genuine outrage, & tacitly suggest there'll be consequences. See thread for periodic airing of the same story...
Let’s focus on a fraction of the last 10 years of ‘reporting’ in The Guardian alone, which peppers its latest coverage of this long-known practice with adjectives like ‘exposes’ & ‘secret’ & ‘revelation’ – its none of that. They’ve known all along this is happening, as do we…
2011 – We’ll begin with a useful explanation of what a tax ‘haven’ actually is (the clue is in the word ‘haven’): theguardian.com/business/2011/…
1/I've said many times that I am poor because I am unemployed (except for my writing) and I am unemployed because I am disabled.
I am now officially rejecting that shit.
I am still disabled. I still am not employed.
#Disability #ChronicIllness #poverty
I am now officially rejecting that shit.
I am still disabled. I still am not employed.
#Disability #ChronicIllness #poverty
2/But the reason I am unemployed is because society has deemed me disposable. This isn't on me.
#disabled #DisabledPeopleMatter #PplWDisabilitiesMATTER
#disabled #DisabledPeopleMatter #PplWDisabilitiesMATTER
3/It's because society has decided the WANTS of the abled (specifically in my case, to use fragrance and decorate with balloons) are more important than my survival. This isn't on me.
#BanBalloonsInstead #fragrance #MCS #MCAS #allergy #asthma
#BanBalloonsInstead #fragrance #MCS #MCAS #allergy #asthma
