“The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights.” TryingHumansDoeRightsViolenceLaborTradeEnvironmentalWorkersHuman RightsProtectionAgreementOrganizeEnvironmental ProtectionTrade Agreements Author:Barack Obama
“Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.” HandsEyeViolenceLaborThreatStaringHistoricImplicit Book:Theodore Rex Source: Theodore Rex
“I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.” PeoplePersonsViolenceAchieveRevolutionLaborSouthStrikesResistancePeacefulProgressiveSouth AfricaAmerican RevolutionApartheidProgressive Society Author:Tom Morello
“I simply cannot fathom the horrors of being enslaved, and the thought that children are ripped apart from their families and used year in and out for sex and hard labor under the threat of violence and death breaks my heart.” YearsHeartChildrenHardUsedSexBreakViolenceMy HeartHorrorLaborThreatRippedFathomBreaking My Heart Author:Gillian Anderson
“Another problem about writing about politics in the "age of globalization" is that so much of the violence in the form of war and also in the forms of institutional violence - sweatshops, child labor, victimization of people economically - happens elsewhere and out of sight. And when we do know about it and need to witness it, it's always mediated by images of one kind or another, so you're kind of stuck trying to write about what it's like trying to be you living your life thinking about and experiencing this stuff in that way.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayNeedsWritingTryingKindChildrenWarProblemHappensAgeFormStuffViolenceLaborSightStuckWitnessBe YouElsewhereLive Your LifeGlobalizationVictimizationChild LaborSweatshops Author:Robert Hass
“The violence inherent in our systems and structures of power is a part of who we are - our thoughts, sensibilities, imaginations, language. We live in manifestations of it - permanent war, environmental destrucution, poverty, racism, misogyny, the assault on labor, torture in our prisons, capital punishment - a corporate capitalist state controlled by oligarchical interests for their own private profit and gain.” WarLanguageInterestImaginationPovertyViolenceRacismLaborPrisonEnvironmentalManifestationTortureCapitalistSensibilityMisogynyCapital Punishment Author:Lawrence Joseph