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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
International labor rights case to
proceed in U.S. court
The Wall Street Journal September 19, 2002
A
federal appeals court, broadening the potential liability of U.S.
corporations for human-rights abuses committed abroad, reinstated
a civil lawsuit against Unocal Corp. for alleged mistreatment of
villagers in Myanmar.
In reversing a lower court's dismissal of the case, the Pasadena,
Calif.,
branch of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Unocal,
based in El Segundo, Calif., may have "aided and abetted"
human-rights abuses committed by the military of Myanmar, formerly
called Burma, and the judges remanded the case for trial to U.S.
District Court in Los Angeles. The case was brought by several citizens
of Myanmar who claimed their own military, with the connivance of
Unocal, subjected them to rape, torture, murder and forced labor.
Unocal faces a separate California state trial on alleged human-rights
abuses in Myanmar; but this federal case had been dismissed in August
2000.
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