MooPig 'Stuff No One Wants to Hear About' Department :: "Sumangali Workers"

In India the Untouchables are not the Thugs nor the G-Men
Retrieved by Pat Darnell  |  Nov. 29, 2013  |  Bryan TX

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“We are hopeful that these suggestions by the advocates are helpful to us to get us back the money from the company which failed to pay even after the stipulated period,” said Mupidathi, an 18 year old girl who was cheated of nearly `50,000 after working for a period of 3 years in a cotton mill in Tirupattur.

EXCERPT  | " ... These girls work in a camp based setting where they are not allowed to go anywhere. They are made to work for more than 12 hours a day; some are sexually harassed, not paid even after end of the agreement. Almost 90 per cent of the workers employed in these industries are bonded laborers under Apprentice act. Legally we have not been able to do much things as the industries have strong political connections,” said Joseph Victor Raj, State Convener, CACL – TN and PY.

To address this issue legally and ensure protection of female children, many advocates from Chennai High court were invited to present their suggestions and ideas that could prevent such exploitation in future. (©2013 The New Indian Express. November 23, 2013 in Chennai. LINK) ... "

I Tried to See Where My T-Shirt Was Made, and the Factory Sent Thugs After Me | Mother Jones: "Indeed, some Western companies have taken measures to discourage their suppliers from using sumangali labor. Levi Strauss and Co. provides financial support to SAVE, while Gap helped establish the Tirupur Stakeholders Forum, which sets detailed ethical guidelines for factories. More than 80 companies, including Gap, H and M, and Walmart, have joined an industry group called the Ethical Trading Initiative, ETI, which works with NGOs, Non-governmental Organizations, to educate workers about recruiting schemes and is trying to reduce the sumangali contract terms from three years to six months. But Peter McAllister, the director of ETI, would not speak specifically about any of the Indian companies whose factories I investigated, nor their Western buyers, because the group is concerned about the delicate relationship it has with the companies." (DANA LIEBELSON. Mother Jones. Nov. 29, 2013. LINK)

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If you, dear reader, are looking for a time and place of origin for this batch of acronyms, we could offer this: "... The Department for International Development, DFID, is a United Kingdom government department with a Cabinet Minister in charge. It was separated from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1997. The goal of the department is "to promote sustainable development and eliminate world poverty (y ikki peed ya. LINK) ... "

In 2007 this report was made:

CONCLUSION
Somehow the story about indentured slavery of sumangali girls is getting out, but shameless fabric mills just get better at hiding their "internationally" illegal labor practices. As is the case for so many Transnational Manufacturing schemes, different stages of the fabric process are compartmentalized. "Just how bad is it?"... no one seems to be on top of this flesh empire who will speak about it. If you try to talk in person with would be spokespersons about the status of workers in fabric industries, you are shunned and threatened. It is quite difficult to find one whistle-blower in the whole supply chain of fabric manufacturing.

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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/india-garment-factories-sumangali?page=2
http://m.newindianexpress.com/chennai/72564
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/03/walmart-china-sweatshops-t-shirt
http://www.motherjones.com/photoessays/2011/08/jeans-sandblast-bangladesh/01
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/03/walmart-china-sweatshops-t-shirt
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/08/skinny-jeans-environmental-impact
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/11/o-say-can-you-buy
http://www.ethicaltrade.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_Trading_Initiative
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/links/eticode.html
http://www.ethicaltrade.org/sites/default/files/resources/BASECODE%20POSTER%20ENG%20India%20WEB.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_for_International_Development
http://inef.uni-due.de/page/documents/Report91.pdf

MooPig Zazzle Department :: "They don't show the flip side"

T-shirts ...
Re-hashed by Pat Darnell  |  Mar 22, 2013  |  Bryan TX

[Picture LINK] Reuters/Reuters - A Viking-era woollen mitten found by a shrinking glacier in the mountains of south Norway in 2011 is seen in this undated handout picture released by the Oppland county council March 21, 2013. REUTERS/Oppland county council/Handout

Pre-Viking Tunic Found In Thawing Glacier Shows How Climate Change Aids Archaeology (PHOTO): "Reuters reports that the woolen garment was uncovered in 2011 in south Norway, 6,560 feet above sea level on what is believed to have been a Roman-era trade route. Carbon dating revealed that the greenish-brown tunic was made around the year 300."

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While Kim and Kanye are naming their baby "NorthWest," while Amanda Bynes is proving her mental state-- unaware of her new reputation, and as Britney S picks up some KFC, archaeologists find a "tunic" in glacier ice.

[Picture LINK] Marianne Vedeler of Norway's Museum of Cultural History shows off a 1,700-year-old tunic used as warm outer clothing, found in the mountains of southern Norway in 2011, in Oslo March 21, 2013. The pre-Viking woollen tunic found beside a thawing glacier in south Norway shows how global warming is proving something of a boon for archaeology, scientists said on Thursday. (Alister Doyle/Reuters)

They don't show the flip-side of the oldest Tunic shirt because ...

... of copy-right issues!!!

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http://news.yahoo.com/pre-viking-tunic-found-glacier-warming-aids-archaeology-211622382.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/22/pre-viking-tunic-found-glacier-climate-change_n_2932431.html?ncid=webmail1

Volunteers needed to turn T-shirts into sleeping mats for people in Haiti

Remember Haiti?
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Volunteers are needed Saturday to help transform donated T-shirts into sleeping mats for people in Haiti.

Retrieved in Entirety by Pat Darnell
STAFF REPORTS • JUNE 25, 2010

Many people in Haiti sleep on the ground, which can lead to sores and other health problems.

Volunteers can help make the mats anytime between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday at Peace Lutheran Church, 5509 W. 41st St. No experience is necessary.

[PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH ELCA. USA 5509 WEST 41ST STREET 57106 SIOUX FALLS , SD Phone: 001 (605) 361-3683 fax Fax: 001 (401) 725-0487]

Donated T-shirts have poured into the church from all over the region, church officials say.

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Man Jailed in Dubai for Wearing Marc Jacobs T-Shirt

Planning a Trip to Dubai?
Retrieval and Comments by Pat Darnell

I have always encouraged my readers of Royal entitlement, if they are poor rich kids, to always eat at the 'Y' and advertising it subliminally with a nude pic of Vicky Beckham cleverly posted on one's chest... well that is High Fashion in my low wee mind... no?




Man Jailed in Dubai for Wearing Marc Jacobs T-Shirt

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They didn't jail the guy for the picture on his Tee... he was busted for body odor,, you read it here first... B.O. [... ] "That's right -- assume the position -- you smell like ONIONS !!!!!!!"

It seems as though Dubai is fastly becoming a mecca of inbred policemen. Ouch! As the mopes and mugwumps of inheritance, not Center-fielder John Fogerty, but others like 'Off-their-Rockefellers, and Vacationing-like-Grandpa-did-Kennedy' bairn and cousins... well, so enter all those entertainers, magicians, designers, used car lot paladins, hairdressers, banana vendors, sky pilots, Moroccan whores, and starving artists. [And we all know what that is all about... eh?]

Bain the influx... bain.

-- So here is the story--

A young up-'n-comer from the Mid-west finds his Modo tantra while touring in Mid-east, buys a Tee shirt at a street corner of Dubai, in shadow of those twisty buildings... gets jailed? STFU.

Call Stacy and Clinton, it is not a crime to find pleasure in wearing your Tee's... as long as you wear fitted recycled jeans... no? *[Fashionably Late With Stacy London; What Not to Wear TLC ....remember?]*

"Wearable art is OK, but don't over do it..." Stacy might have said. *[editor's Note: Stacy London is like the finest lady, woman, snapper on TV today... ]

Oh, Dubai, Dubai, D-U-B-A-I... I feel a new JazzRockOperaEpic juicing up... hmmmmm.

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The unauthorized not-hand-painted MooPig T-shirt's for you
Yep. There it is. In a commercial, just like on TV. It's only like $32. Wow what a bargain; or should we say a gar-bain of the highest cost of doing no business. I have high hopes you will just send me the $32 direct, and I will send you a receipt, for donating to my children's' college funds.

MooPig is Eat up. It is a known fact -- if you were once before eat up, but not now, you still will be eat up eventually. Its the law of life.

What do you think an alien to this country first thinks of as they enter the boundaries? They are the same as earthworms, wolves or cheetahs; it's time to find something to eat.

Have you ever been abducted? Well, I don't know if I was either... but when you are you might want to wear your MooPig Eat up T-shirt. It could direct the big eyed grey dudes to eat the livestock first. Just a friendly reminder. That kind of communication is, well, priceless.

I offer one more suggestion: visiting Zazzle and picking your sizes etc, go also to Pribek.net to see more offerings from Zazzle, in all its pithy splendor.

MooPig wants you to be in your most sartorial splendor of pithiness. >eatup/mpw