Is anyone watching the sweatshops hearing on CSpan?

[La_Serpiente]

If you want to improve your Spanish, you can listen to it on CSpan 1. They are talking about the free trade zones in Central America and Sweatshops.

www.cspan.com

Good heavens, if her words were correctly translated to English, it would sound a lot worst. She said that the bosses called her "cabron" and "burro". That is "fucker" and "donkey" or "ass"

Union organizers get killed in Central America. They have a hard time organizing there.

I think this hearing is taking place at the DNC.

[LittleApple81]

1. Oh, my gosh. I SPEAK Spanish... this is sooo depresing. n/t

[La_Serpiente]

2. Yeah, totally

[La_Serpiente]

3. I bet you

all of the sweatshops companies like Fruit of the Loom, Wal-Mart, and everyone els is cringing right now while these young women are speaking.

[La_Serpiente]

4. She is crying

she cannot even buy her a book for her children and she is crying because of it.

We take so many things for granted here.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

5. yes...i hate ther AAA Comapnies...Nike, Hanes, fruitof the loom, etc...

i will NOT buy these fucking products ever again...take that to the bank you AAA fuckers!...i will sew my own underwear for my family!~

[0007]

6. Holy shit, this making me cry!

While Santorum is crying on the other c-span outlet about absolutely nothing except how bad the dems are, he should get his skany ass to this hearing.

[prolesunited]

7. That last woman

made me want to cry. I can't believe they are treated so inhumanely. I would rather pay more and buy less stuff than to have my fellow human treated like this.

[LittleApple81]

8. Right On! We have to support workers. n/t

[La_Serpiente]

9. I cannot believe

that she has the courage to return to her country. She stands in solidarity with her compatriots. And she puts all of her faith in God. This is simply amazing, confusing, and everything related.

[SoCalDem]

10. Central America has long been the devil's playground

Lots of fortunes here in the good ole USA were started from bananas, coffee, sugar cane, silver & indigenous people to take advantage of..

their misfortune was to be so close, so trusting, and to live in such beautiful and bountiful places..:(

[La_Serpiente]

11. All this guy can do

is spew Macroeconomic statistics and that is it.

[prolesunited]

12. I wonder what the response

of "compassionate" conservatives would be to these women's plights.

Perhaps it's just their faults and they should pull themselves up by their bootstraps instead of being so lazy. :eyes: I keep imagining them trapped in a "Twilight Zone" episode in which they have to live these squalid lives so others can make millions of more dollars in bonuses.