This community surely includes many who are engaged in the effort to figure out how to use the internet to raise awareness of issues that don't fit standard media formats. I ask for your thoughts on this message and on what might push it out into more networks, circles and in front of more eyeballs.
Below is a website link that tells the story of one person's plight who worked making the backs of flat screen monitors, possibly the one you are seeing this on or perhaps your TV set.
This is what offshoring looks like. This is what moving manufacturing away from American laws that protect workers looks like. This is Wall Street escaping from the responsibilities represented by union contracts and benefits and better pay. This takes us back all the way to the era of Upton Sinclair, a hundred years ago.
This isn't abstract. There is a place that is real and real people's lives are affected.
Welcome to Romneytopia or perhaps Romneyville. Hundreds of people like him are collectively responsible for creating these places. The large amount of money involved - and our own lack of awareness as consumers - are also a big reason why this condition is out of sight and out of mind in the media and our public consciousness.
Perhaps we can begin dealing with this by spreading awareness virally, so that the activists and advocates at the local level can have better traction in gaining reforms.
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