The Hillary Clinton Building
What do the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Brunei, FedEx, Boeing, PepsiCo, Intel, Cisco, Bank of America, Caterpillar, Citigroup, eBay, General Electric, Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman & Pete Peterson, Microsoft, Wal-Mart and the Clinton Foundation all
The Mussolini Building. “Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power” Benito Mussolini
have in common?
CLUES Elizabeth Bagley to Cheryl
2012. Opening of Caracol Sweatshop. Workers, mostly young women, paid $.31 an hour after Sec. Clinton and her oligarch allies force Haiti to lower wages from $.65 an hour.
Mills E-Mails
January 07, 2013 “We're also receiving $500,000 as a down payment from Fedex by Jan. 15. Attached is the cost breakdown for your review. So now that we're ready to break ground and display the cornerstone with HRC's name embedded on the glass, we need a date.” wikileaks.org…
Feb. 1, 2013. “For the record, we have now raised $36.5 mil towards our goal of $50 mil and I am committed to having her return next year for the dedication of the glass pavilion, which will bear her name!” wikileaks.org…
Caracol Sweat Shop, Haiti
2011. “Unbeknownst to Etienne and other farmers, that same week the Haitian government (GOH) signed an agreement with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, representatives of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the Korean textile giant Sae-A Trading. With those signatures, Etienne’s land and about 300 other plots were converted into an industrial zone.” www.haiti-liberte.com/...
Sae-A Trading operates factories across the developing world and sews garments for giants such as Target, Gap and Wal-Mart…
The Caracol Sweat Shops were built over 300 hectares of the best farmland in Haiti. … “The spot they picked for the industrial park is the most fertile part of the department. We grow a lot of plantains, beans, corn, manioc, etc. That’s how families raise their children, educate their children… its like our ‘treasury!’”
“The Clinton plan was to keep the sewing machines humming 24 hours a day after turning a group of Haitian farmer-fishermen into surplus labor.”
“They told us peasants would get land and cash, landowners were supposed get US$1200 per hectare, but they are not respecting their word,”
1. The Caracol Bay area was slated to become a World Heritage Site and park, with great potential for tourism.
2. The Caracol Bay area is a site of great archaeological wealth.
3. The population of a massive Free-Trade Zone (FTZ, sweatshop zone) into the area will create vast slums.
4. The FTZ will pollute massive quantities of fresh water.
5. The bay is to be blasted to create a deep-water port for convenient export.
6. Funding uses tax dollars – mostly from the U.S. – to benefit textile and clothing companies that are not necessarily American, and every job created there will likely result in lay-offs of workers in U.S.
7. The factory owners are tax free for fifteen years. Not one cent will ever flow into the Haitian treasury, nor, for that matter, the American.
www.haiti-liberte.com/… newsjunkiepost.com/…
Caracol sweat shop labor housing. Do you have any idea how hot it is in a shadeless cement box in Haiti?
Publicity photo for Caracol sweat shop. Funded by Hillary. Looking good! Maybe I send my mama there.
Haitian workers demand what they don’t have. Obviously if they had it they wouldn’t have a reason to demand it.
--a living wage;
--overtime and severance pay;
--the right to organize;
--protection from sexual aggression by supervisors;
--physically safe working conditions;
--coverage of medical costs in the event of work-related injury or illness;
--at least one break a day, plus the time necessary to eat lunch and go to the bathroom;
--provision of drinking water and decent bathrooms; and
--protection from arbitrary or retaliatory firing. socialistworker.org/…
USA Slave Labor
United States. Prison Slave Labor. Looking good. Maybe I send….
In 2014, the imprisonment rate for African American women (109 per 100,000) was more than twice the rate of imprisonment for white women (53 per 100,000). (FACT SHEET: INCARCERATED WOMEN AND GIRLS — The Sentencing project)
“All told, nearly a million prisoners are now making office furniture, working in call centers, fabricating body armor, taking hotel reservations, working in slaughterhouses, or manufacturing textiles, shoes, and clothing, while getting paid somewhere between 93 cents and $4.73 per day.” wocinsolidarity.tumblr.com/…
And to bring it around to the beginning of this diary. The Hillary Clinton Building… Chevron, Bank of America, AT&T, and Walmart, to mention some, all take advantage of US Prison labor as other corporations exploit Haitian labor. All the same donate big money to the Clintons.
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Added after 50 comments - Nothing Made in America Anymore
There are practically zero American goods to buy in Bolivia and Dominica except second hand clothing and second hand toys shipped by the boatload from Value Village and even that is mostly made in Asia and Latin America. The flood of used clothing is contraband but employs some 250,000 individuals in Bolivia, including a large portion of my family. Here is our family store in the rural town my daughter lives in. She sent this yesterday to show me how its grown. We sell Asian and second hand things for kids. That is all anyone but the 1% can afford.
We had a family rag doll making business which was impossible to continue against the flood of Chinese sweatshop toys and later second hand sweatshop goods during neoliberal oligarch rule. The whole country went belly up. It became a failed state. Lucky for us that family in the USA were able to send remisas.
Electronics, automobiles, microscopes, essentially new anything, is made in China. Nothing at all is made in America. Over 80 people in the family and we own one mobilidad (car) between us. Its Asian in origin.
Our family store — Bolivia
Close-up of goods sold in our store.
Used clothes in the El Alto Feria. My family gets all our clothes, sheets, blankets, towels here.
