The Bad Old Days...

[orthodoc]

This is heartbreaking. I agree, Sundae - capitalism doesn't work on a global basis, not when workers are being employed in factories without emergency exits so that clothing can be marked down to $5/item at 70% off on Black Friday. You wouldn't be able to find an American who would say the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was just fine because conditions kept retail prices low (assuming you could find an American who knew about the TSF, other than a few Dwellars), but as a population, along with Canadians and those in many other 'developed' countries, we're all amazingly obtuse about what it takes to provide those Black Friday specials.

Buy local. Buy less. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Read the Henry Huggins and Ramona books and realize that even Americans (and Canadians) didn't need new everything, every day, not so long ago. We all need to consider the welfare of the entire globe if we're going to survive in this 'global economy'.

How does one even communicate condolences to the families of the dead in Bangladesh?

[Spexxvet]

Another fire in Dhaka. No deaths reported, though there were injuries.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/26/world/...fire-mourning/

[Lamplighter]

Again, not worth the time to find a more appropriate thread...

This event was very traumatic for us in 1971 when we were living in Buffalo.
We were already working with librarians and clergy to improve
the facilities at Attica and one other prison in New York.
It demanded continuous TV attention almost akin to the past few days of the Boston bombings...


NY Times
By THOMAS KAPLAN
April 19, 2013

Decades Later, State Seeks Release of Report on Attica Uprising

More than 40 years after an uprising at Attica left 43 people dead,
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman is planning to ask a judge to make public
a trove of investigatory findings that have been hidden from public view for decades.
<snip>
The Meyer report is a review of the events that began Sept. 9, 1971,
when inmates at the Attica Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in western New York,
took dozens of correction officers and civilian employees hostage.
Four days later, under a cloud of tear gas, the State Police and
correction officers waged an assault to recapture the prison.

A vast majority of the casualties at Attica came from gunfire in the raid
— 29 inmates and 10 prison employees were killed and scores were wounded in the assault —
and Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller’s decision to approve the storming of the prison has been debated ever since.

The situation was bad and it was an uprising of prisoners,
but it was also later called by many a "police riot"
Inmates were later found to have killed one guard and three fellow inmates during the uprising.
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