Everybody as angry as Rachel tonight?
...yeah, me too.
She hit every item and note of the day that bellows out for justice, and demands vengeance; retribution an awful reality in quelling tyranny. Corruption's spreading through the nation, buoyed by a dogged propagandist's daily flurry of lies and acquiescing republican politicians from Senate to governorship, on down.
We're in a race to an election that's being openly manipulated by the President of the United States and his republican henchmen, with no Senate check on anything; no courts to stop the madness whose judges hands don't look to be deliberately tied in knots; no responsible or safe way to mass against the machine like Hong Kong's protest what seems like ages ago.
Meat plant workers, like sharecroppers indentured to their jobs in towns built on nothing else but the industry; families and generations bound to every whim of their employer to just survive. Like workers in chemical plants in the seventies who were exposed to poisons they produced for corporations that didn't inform them of the risks or dangers of exposure, meat and poultry workers are being deliberately and actively denied information about their workplaces' level of infection, about the workers they stand next to and toil everyday in rough conditions even in the best of times.
Hundreds of thousands of those chemical plant workers in the seventies got sick and died without anyone acknowledging the cause. Wasn't revealed until studies of cancers and deaths on maps revealed sad, deathly patterns that represented generations of workers and their kin. Same thing is happening with this virus and these meat and poultry plants. You have the actual President of the United States ORDERING these infected plants to open; employers in turn ordering workers (some with Covid symptoms) to return to infected plants, who made a sham display of testing workers and abandoned their testing programs when it was clear workers were testing positive.
Rachel reported on one meat plant which is refusing tests to anyone answering 'yes' on a questionnaire to a list of probable instances where a worker might be exposed to the virus. An affirmative answer to ANY of the infection scenarios disqualified the worker from being tested... confirmed by the plant when she called them.
This kind of corruption can only stand when our government has fallen. We are desperately close to that end.
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“Wild Blue Yonder: Money, Politics, and the B-1 Bomber”.
by Sam Roberts
Kotz was a Washington correspondent for The Des Moines Register and its sister paper The Minneapolis Tribune when he wrote a series of articles in the mid-1960s on the unsanitary and unsafe conditions in meatpacking plants. He found that many plants were not subject to federal inspection because they were not engaged in interstate commerce.
The series brought him the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1968. In their citation, the Pulitzer judges said that Kotz’s articles had “helped insure the passage of the Federal Wholesome Meat Act of 1967,” which extended federal standards to all manufacturers.
His series evoked Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel “The Jungle,” which dramatized horrific conditions among immigrant workers in Chicago’s stockyards and abattoirs. When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the legislation in 1967, he was joined at the White House by Kotz and Sinclair, who was 89 at the time. (He died the following year.)
read more: https://artdaily.com/news/123658/Nick-Kotz--crusading-journalist-and-author--dies-at-87
