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While
we are on the subject of evil... HISTORICAL
EVIL:
"The Triangle Fire," by Leon Stein with a new introduction
by William Greider. (Cornell University Press, 2001.)
EVIL
IN THE RAG TRADE:
"NO SWEAT: Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment
Workers," edited by Andrew Ross. (Verso Press 1997.)
BORDERLINE
EVIL:
"Border Witness," by Maureen Casey and Brian Casey. (The New
York State Labor-Religion Coalition, 2002).
COSMIC
EVIL:
"Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy,"
by Susan Neiman. (Princeton U. Press, 2002.)
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> NO SWEAT NEWS >
NEWS ARCHIVE
LabourStart launces campaign to protect unions in Hong Kong.
Help us in our campaign to protest the plans by the Hong
Kong government to introduce an 'anti-subversion law' which will
stop workers in the Hong Kong Special Autonomous Region (HKSAR)
coming together as trade unionists to campaign for their existing
rights and campaign for improved rights - and to campaign for the
rights of workers on the mainland.
If the Hong Kong anti-subversion laws are passed it will put back
the growing struggle for workers' rights and free trade unions in
mainland China.
The China Labour Bulletin and the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade
Unions are asking the international trade union movement to stand
in solidarity with the workers in Hong Kong and mainland China against
the enactment of these anti-subversion laws in the name of "protecting
national security".
LabourStart has been asked by the China Labour Bulletin and the
Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions to help build support for
an international campaign against the anti-subversion laws which
are scheduled to operate from July 2003.
The 'need' to enact anti-subversion laws is prescribed by Article
23 of the Basic Law which states:
The HKSAR shall enact laws on its own to prohibit any act of treason,
secession, sedition, subversion against the Central People's Government,
or theft of state secrets, to prohibit foreign political organizations
or bodies from conducting political activities in the Region, and
to prohibit political organizations or bodies of the Region from
establishing ties with foreign political organizations or bodies.
Article 23 offences are not ordinary crimes -- they can be political
crimes. They can be used to silence opposition, restrict press freedom,
ideas, research, freedom of speech and freedom of belief. The consultation
paper has drawn severe opposition at home and abroad because of
its potential threats to political and civil rights, particularly
in view of concrete cases of political repression in Mainland China
in the name of "national security".
http://www.labourstart.org/
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