TONGOLELE on Thu, 27 Dec 2001 08:35:18 +0100 (CET) |
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[nettime-lat] CHRISTMAS GREETINGS |
Advice of a Southern American plantation owner regarding Christmas, published in 1850: "Believing that the strolling about of negroes for a week at a time during what are called Christmas Holidays is productive of much evil, the writer has set his face against the custom. Christmas is observed as a Sacred Festival. On that day as good a dinner as the plantation will afford is served for the negroes, and they all sit down to a common table, but the next day we go to work. From considerations both of morality and needful rest and recreation to the negro, I much prefer giving a week in July, when the crop is laid by, to giving three days at Christmas." Testimony of maquiladora worker Maria Gallego quoted in a Human Rights Watch Report about sex discrimination in Mexico's Maquiladora Sector, published in 2001: "...two pregnant workers at Industrias Marķa de Tijuana sometimes fainted from exposure to paint thinner with which they worked. Gallego protested and demanded that they received some form of protection. Her supervisor responded by telling her that it was none of her business and that it was common for pregnant women to faint. Gallego was fired shortly thereafter. She was told they no longer needed so many workers, but she was the only one fired to her knowledge. She said she signed her "resignation" papers because she believed that if she argued, the company would make her life difficult and prevent her from obtaining a job at another factory." _______________________________________________ Nettime-lat mailing list Nettime-lat@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-lat