Showing posts with label Global Labor Treaty for Living Wages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Global Labor Treaty for Living Wages. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Saturday, January 23, 2016
Stopping Trump With Just One Meme...Not!
Time to learn a new phrase, kids! It's called...
The Extractor Class
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| The Extractor Class - #XtractorClass |
You don't need to uncover layer after layer of deep, conspiracy-laden, historical documents to find out who is controlling the world...you just need to follow the money.
The Extractor Class is not some dark secret society or hidden group running the world from an underground facility or a secure room.
It's a very OBVIOUS, public group
stealing all your sh*t.
stealing all your sh*t.
The Extractor Class steals resources from vulnerable countries through militarism. They run an on-going con called Wall Street. They take the peoples' commons and sell it back to us. Or, they privatize tech that was developed by public taxes and...again, sell it back to us.
The #XtractorClass is a "toll-booth" society.
If you want to stop them it will require a
#globalsolidarity movement.
#Trump #Clinton #2016 #GlobalLaborTreatyforLivingWages #incomeinequality #XtractorClass
At least, that's the way it seems to me,
Sharee Anne Gorman
annienomad~cyberpoet
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
"China" A Poem of Partnership - USA and China Climate Change Partnership?
China
intuitive observers of one-ness
parents of music, language and arts
…ancient cultivators of enlightenment…
forgive us our tears
our ignorance
our confusion
forgive us our anger
our impatience
our protest
…we are of a different era…
we, who dare to preach
the slick of our rainbows
still floating in tidal pools
your descendants
your issue
your impetuous child
we have thrown our rebel tantrum
we have risked our mortal souls
heaven beckons us from chaos
from the brink of our undoing
…from the certainty of a global grave…
we respectfully remind you
of your ageless
mutually arising
wisdom
taste carefully
the urgency of commerce
weigh judiciously
the opportunity of trade
consider wisely
the burden of lost time
let us gather our wills together
let us damn this toxic tide
let us nourish the mouths between us
and sever the bonds of distrust
our fates are bound
our promise untested
…let us conquer ourselves together…
Monday, March 3, 2014
What "12 Years a Slave" reveals about Capitalism.
"I Don't Want to Survive...I Want to Live"
"12 Years A Slave" won the Best Picture Oscar last night for 2014. Why is this significant? And what does it reveal about Capitalism?
This is a significant win because "12 Years a Slave" has a unique opportunity to provide an historical example of the consequences of oppression...which in reality is the basis of Capitalism.
How so?
Switch out the word "plantation owner" and replace it with the word "shareholder".
(Think Apple, whose iphones cost $199 to manufacture, but who sell it for $649.00 as reported by Computer World. Apple sees such a high margin on their "investments"... not because Apple products are so expensive to manufacture, but because they utilize slave-labor in order to put more money in their investors' and CEO's pockets.)
Switch out the word "plantation owner" and replace it with the word "corporation".
Switch out the word "cotton" and replace it with the words "conflict minerals" or "slave wages".
Slavery is not over in America...nor, is it over in any other country.
We only *think* slavery is over because it has mostly been outsourced. We no longer throw people on a boat, strip them of their rights and put them to work, under threat of the lash, on our inherited lands.
No, now corporations take the plantations to the slaves, in order to escape the horrible stigma of being branded "slave-makers". Out of sight, out of mind.
As long as you have enough distraction in the media, corporations and shareholders
don't have to be called what they are - modern-day, plantation owners.
Not that we still don't have domestic slaves.
Switch out the word "migrant worker" and replace it with the word "slave".
We don't see black people carrying around bales of cotton, so we don't equate it with slavery. As if cotton were the only product of slavery.
The government pretends they don't want "illegal aliens" here. They look the other way while "illegal aliens" slip under a very conveniently porous fence...so that, on the surface, it looks voluntary.
But, it was our strategic trade-policies (NAFTA) that impoverished the economies of these workers, forcing them to migrate north so that business owners could have the benefits of nearly, slave labor.
Once immigrant workers are in the country illegally, it is simply a matter of imposing on them the status of an "illegal", so that our fearless leaders can strip them of their civil rights...just like they did with the slaves of the old south.
"12 Years A Slave" won the Best Picture Oscar last night for 2014. Why is this significant? And what does it reveal about Capitalism?
This is a significant win because "12 Years a Slave" has a unique opportunity to provide an historical example of the consequences of oppression...which in reality is the basis of Capitalism.
How so?
Switch out the word "plantation owner" and replace it with the word "shareholder".
(Think Apple, whose iphones cost $199 to manufacture, but who sell it for $649.00 as reported by Computer World. Apple sees such a high margin on their "investments"... not because Apple products are so expensive to manufacture, but because they utilize slave-labor in order to put more money in their investors' and CEO's pockets.)
Switch out the word "plantation owner" and replace it with the word "corporation".
Switch out the word "cotton" and replace it with the words "conflict minerals" or "slave wages".
Slavery is not over in America...nor, is it over in any other country.
We only *think* slavery is over because it has mostly been outsourced. We no longer throw people on a boat, strip them of their rights and put them to work, under threat of the lash, on our inherited lands.
No, now corporations take the plantations to the slaves, in order to escape the horrible stigma of being branded "slave-makers". Out of sight, out of mind.
As long as you have enough distraction in the media, corporations and shareholders
don't have to be called what they are - modern-day, plantation owners.
Not that we still don't have domestic slaves.
Switch out the word "migrant worker" and replace it with the word "slave".
We don't see black people carrying around bales of cotton, so we don't equate it with slavery. As if cotton were the only product of slavery.
The government pretends they don't want "illegal aliens" here. They look the other way while "illegal aliens" slip under a very conveniently porous fence...so that, on the surface, it looks voluntary.
But, it was our strategic trade-policies (NAFTA) that impoverished the economies of these workers, forcing them to migrate north so that business owners could have the benefits of nearly, slave labor.
Once immigrant workers are in the country illegally, it is simply a matter of imposing on them the status of an "illegal", so that our fearless leaders can strip them of their civil rights...just like they did with the slaves of the old south.
Perhaps someday (and maybe, because of this movie) someday soon, a new generation will be able to throw off the blinders of indoctrination and see where profit and luxury actually come from.
Perhaps, those who never thought about it before, will finally come to understand that Profit Comes from Somewhere...it comes from crushing people.
Please sign and share this Global Labor Treaty for Living Wages petition. Let's end economic and manufacturing slavery. Let's change the way business is done in the world. Let's get this conversation started!
At least, that's the way it seems to me,
Sharee Anne Gorman
(annienomad-cyberpoet)
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
An Open Letter to Chris Hedges...by annienomad-cyberpoet
This is a slightly revised letter that I sent to Chris Hedges, via Common Dreams:
Dear Chris,
Thank you for your many informative and uncompromising articles. You are a one-man, de-programming machine:)
I am writing to you because I have noticed recently that the Occupy Movement is calling for a global citizens' movement and I have an idea that I think will bring the 99% of the world (first world and third world citizens) together in Solidarity...not because I'm a genius or anything. I just think maybe people have been concentrating on the symptoms of the global crisis rather than the cause and might, therefore, have missed the root of the problem.
As you know, one of the many strategies the rich rely upon in gaining and maintaining their wealth is to apply downward pressure on labor. And, of course, the benefit to oppressing workers lies not only in increased profits via slave-wages, but in keeping the 99% in constant survival/panic-mode so that the 1% have less opposition from a frightened, and therefore, more easily-controlled populace.
I would just like to remind everyone that LABOR crosses all demographics - race, gender, religion, sexual orientation and all other cultural and social markers. Which makes it the perfect binder for social and economic change.
Labor has, in fact, been the basis of the most lasting changes in some of the largest social movements in history.
Sometime ago, I started a petition for a Global Labor Treaty for Living Wages. I am not under the impression that, on its own, a petition will solve anything.
Clearly, a Global Labor Treaty for Living Wages *movement* will require the collaboration of lawyers, journalists, social leaders and political strategists for said movement to come to full fruition...but a petition creates a good starting point for the right conversation.
A sort of Genesis point.
A sort of Genesis point.
I believe a Global Labor Treaty for Living Wages is a good idea, but I am only an unknown poet.
There is simply no reason to listen to me....I have no "branding".
My one claim to *non-fame* is that Noam Chomsky once called my poem "Vigil - A Poem of American Crisis"..."Moving and evocative. And so true".
There is simply no reason to listen to me....I have no "branding".
My one claim to *non-fame* is that Noam Chomsky once called my poem "Vigil - A Poem of American Crisis"..."Moving and evocative. And so true".
I have posted my Global Labor Treaty for Living Wages petition on many sites (AlterNet, Truthdig, Truthout, Common Dreams, Facebook, Twitter) trying to build support for what seems, to me, to be a viable approach for stopping runaway corporate worker and third world exploitation but no organization or group has stepped up to lend their numbers...so, I figured, maybe, bringing the idea to the attention of someone who has been writing extensively about the dangers of growing corporate feudalism might possibly help move the cause forward.
Probably not...but I thought I'd try.
Here is the link for the petition:
Here is the link to the website:
Or, here is the link to the animated, multi-media version of "Vigil":
I have no idea whether you will find this idea to be worthy of endorsing or viable enough to consider forwarding...but, in any case, thank you so much for your enlightening journalistic work.
At least, that's the way it seems to me,
Sharee Anne Gorman
annienomad-cyberpoet
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