HELP STOP LABOR ABUSE at Garment Companies in Saipan
Target:
U.S. Congresswoman, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi
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Dear Petition Signers,
First let me add that this issue is very important to me, and I plan on delivering this petition as soon as I can get the needed signatures. If you are part of Care2, you can add to my friends list so I can send you more information about future actions. To all who read this, Please PASS this on TO your FRIENDS, and friends of friends. Thank YOU!!
I took a trip to the Island of Saipan in 2005. On that Island, I discovered a billion dollar garment industry that supplies clothes products mainly to large corporations in America, with a "made in the USA" label. This industry is a constant violator of basic human rights, and perpetrator of labor abuses. This discovery led me to create the film I posted, that is about Saipan Sweatshops. The garment industry in Saipan represents a microcosm for all that is wrong with how our world treats the poor and less fortunate. So to stop this atrocity, will be a domino effect, that will change the way companies can treat the people that work for them, everywhere. Humans are not to be kept in barbed wire compounds to work all through the day. Especially young girls, who have their whole lives ahead of them.
Reasons to Sign this Petition:
- The labor practices on this island are very poor, with little regard for human rights.
- The minimum wage is set at $3.05 currently, and President Bush just signed a law that will make it go up to $3.55 on July 24 and only .50 cents a year after that. Saipan is an American Commonwealth, and bills like this one, H.R. 2066, go to show, the politicians cannot hide the influence they have over this island. This island also uses American Currency. There is no reason to have a minimum wage so low in a place that also recruits for the armed forces.
- Poverty and crime are a problem in Saipan, and higher wages would fix this. Saipan should have a minimum wage equal to the United States which is at $6.25, now. This will also be included in the petition.
- Garment workers are imported to Saipan from Asia. These are mainly young girls who are under the impression they are coming to America. Recruited from mainly poor countries and villages, they send money home to their impoverished families. (if they get paid) These are not greedy people.
- On the island, they find themselves working and living in the same building.
- All the garment workers stay in gated compounds, surrounded by barbed wire, that are guarded by security at the front.
- They sleep in barracks, so they rarely have privacy, and many investigations done by news agencies such as ABC News, have exposed terrible conditions inside these operations.
- Some of these girls are forced to pay up to $8000 dollars before they can even start receiving a profit. This forces the girls to have to work off their huge debt. So the better part of their young lives are spent working.
- Then it is common for these companies to shut down, without paying their employees, and move on, when they have reached their quota. Only to start the operation again on a similar island, like American Samoa. There are always lawsuits trying to collect unpaid wages from these garment companies.
- This leaves many of these girls, unpaid, and wondering the island, with no money, which leads some of them to the large prostitution operation on the island. This also is kept secret, though, many outside news agencies have reported that this is forced prostitution, with young girls who are also minors.
- If these girls try to leave the garment industry, to get a regular job on the island, they are forced by the Department Of Labor to return to their old job at the garment factory. So these girls are treated like cattle to be herded into a pen.
- However, they are real people. We must help them receive the conditions they deserve.
- They must be paid a proper wage, they must have rights, that are protected.
- There must be laws that insure they get paid.
- There must be regular inspections ensuring a descent quality of life.
- The girls must be aware of the situation they are getting into, through an awareness campaign, before they enter the island, or at Customs.
- The garment companies must be accountable to laws that protect human rights, and the garment shops must be transparent, allowing inspectors from the outside to oversee the operation.
- I stopped to take a photograph at one of these gated operations, and was approached by two armed guards that tried to intimidate me.
- Most of us in the free world can quit a job whenever we want. These girls are far away from home on an island, and don't have the luxury of quitting and going home.
Thank YOU !!
Some news reports on this issue...
Dear Petition Signers,
First let me add that this issue is very important to me, and I plan on delivering this petition as soon as I can get the needed signatures. If you are part of Care2, you can add to my friends list so I can send you more information about future actions. To all who read this, Please PASS this on TO your FRIENDS, and friends of friends. Thank YOU!!
I took a trip to the Island of Saipan in 2005. On that Island, I discovered a billion dollar garment industry that supplies clothes products mainly to large corporations in America, with a "made in the USA" label. This industry is a constant violator of basic human rights, and perpetrator of labor abuses. This discovery led me to create the film I posted, that is about Saipan Sweatshops. The garment industry in Saipan represents a microcosm for all that is wrong with how our world treats the poor and less fortunate. So to stop this atrocity, will be a domino effect, that will change the way companies can treat the people that work for them, everywhere. Humans are not to be kept in barbed wire compounds to work all through the day. Especially young girls, who have their whole lives ahead of them.
Reasons to Sign this Petition:
- The labor practices on this island are very poor, with little regard for human rights.
- The minimum wage is set at $3.05 currently, and President Bush just signed a law that will make it go up to $3.55 on July 24 and only .50 cents a year after that. Saipan is an American Commonwealth, and bills like this one, H.R. 2066, go to show, the politicians cannot hide the influence they have over this island. This island also uses American Currency. There is no reason to have a minimum wage so low in a place that also recruits for the armed forces.
- Poverty and crime are a problem in Saipan, and higher wages would fix this. Saipan should have a minimum wage equal to the United States which is at $6.25, now. This will also be included in the petition.
- Garment workers are imported to Saipan from Asia. These are mainly young girls who are under the impression they are coming to America. Recruited from mainly poor countries and villages, they send money home to their impoverished families. (if they get paid) These are not greedy people.
- On the island, they find themselves working and living in the same building.
- All the garment workers stay in gated compounds, surrounded by barbed wire, that are guarded by security at the front.
- They sleep in barracks, so they rarely have privacy, and many investigations done by news agencies such as ABC News, have exposed terrible conditions inside these operations.
- Some of these girls are forced to pay up to $8000 dollars before they can even start receiving a profit. This forces the girls to have to work off their huge debt. So the better part of their young lives are spent working.
- Then it is common for these companies to shut down, without paying their employees, and move on, when they have reached their quota. Only to start the operation again on a similar island, like American Samoa. There are always lawsuits trying to collect unpaid wages from these garment companies.
- This leaves many of these girls, unpaid, and wondering the island, with no money, which leads some of them to the large prostitution operation on the island. This also is kept secret, though, many outside news agencies have reported that this is forced prostitution, with young girls who are also minors.
- If these girls try to leave the garment industry, to get a regular job on the island, they are forced by the Department Of Labor to return to their old job at the garment factory. So these girls are treated like cattle to be herded into a pen.
- However, they are real people. We must help them receive the conditions they deserve.
- They must be paid a proper wage, they must have rights, that are protected.
- There must be laws that insure they get paid.
- There must be regular inspections ensuring a descent quality of life.
- The girls must be aware of the situation they are getting into, through an awareness campaign, before they enter the island, or at Customs.
- The garment companies must be accountable to laws that protect human rights, and the garment shops must be transparent, allowing inspectors from the outside to oversee the operation.
- I stopped to take a photograph at one of these gated operations, and was approached by two armed guards that tried to intimidate me.
- Most of us in the free world can quit a job whenever we want. These girls are far away from home on an island, and don't have the luxury of quitting and going home.
Thank YOU !!
Some news reports on this issue...
"We the undersigned", hereby petition for new and stricter laws forcing the garment industry in Saipan to abide by international human rights standards.
- No longer can we allow the garment workers of Saipan to be kept a secret, forced to work for $3.05 an hour, while living in compounds surrounded by guards and barbed wire.
- Saipan is an American Commonwealth, and therefore should be protected by our laws.
- Saipan should also abide by our labor laws and our standard of living. The law H.R. 2066 sets the minimum wage to go up .50 cents a year. Please accelerate this to a level more equal to the $6.25 found in the U.S. to help lower crime, and make it harder for the girls in the garment industry to be taken advantage of.
- A law must be passed preventing employers from charging the girls a fee as high as $8000 dollars, just for the girls to have the right to work for the garment company.
- We must make it mandatory for these girls to be aware of the situation they could be getting into at the airport of origin, or at Saipan Customs. This can be done through handouts of information.
- Please pass a law that forces the garment industry on Saipan to be transparent, and subject to regular inspection. The quality of life for many young, female, Asian garment workers is in your hands,
Thank YOU so much for reading this!!!
And, Thank YOU in advance for helping this cause!!
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# 224:
9:15 am PDT, Sep 3,
Frances M. Amaya, Texas
# 223:
3:07 pm PDT, Sep 1,
Name not displayed, Jordan
After Medical greeting: have the honor to submit myself to you , I Bassam Hussein of Jordan holds a certificate of Fashion Design and manufacture of garments in terms of expertise in this area more than 13 years. Work with JCPenney Company of America, headquartered in New York A certificate from "JC People" magazine as eyes customer in 2002and also worked with the company FVC Asia from Hong Kong Quality Assurance & Sourcing Manager, have experience in all phases of production from the first step product to the consumer even if you are interested darlings This is my hope that you find an opportunity I'm ready to any questions , Heading the Team of Quality Department in Jordan and Arabic counters. Direct Quality Concern Communication with Buyers In depth knowledge in garment construction & Quality aspects of Woven's and Knit garments. As I have got a good knowledge of our local and out marketing and factory's As well as because my direct personal relationships of other International and continental companies, fashion and producing clothes With it's different kinds .I can work's on all country's Contras as Pakistan, I India, Hong Kong, china, USA, Europe contras And Arab contras as Egypt, Syria, Iraq, turkey etc. knowledge of AQL quality requirements of garments. Quality Assurance Auditor is also not only in clothing but also my experience in upholstery, carpets, curtains and children's saliva and other mineral also has the ability to direct marketing and manufacture of new investment opportunity, beautiful and fruitful and also to the capacity and experience in management and production team work in any area of the aforementioned. contact me at No. 00962795836121 or E-mail: bassamhussien11@gmail.com My skype bassam5533 thanks you
After Medical greeting: have the honor to submit myself to you , I Bassam Hussein of Jordan holds a certificate of Fashion Design and manufacture of garments in terms of expertise in this area more than 13 years. Work with JCPenney Company of America, headquartered in New York A certificate from "JC People" magazine as eyes customer in 2002and also worked with the company FVC Asia from Hong Kong Quality Assurance & Sourcing Manager, have experience in all phases of production from the first step product to the consumer even if you are interested darlings This is my hope that you find an opportunity I'm ready to any questions , Heading the Team of Quality Department in Jordan and Arabic counters. Direct Quality Concern Communication with Buyers In depth knowledge in garment construction & Quality aspects of Woven's and Knit garments. As I have got a good knowledge of our local and out marketing and factory's As well as because my direct personal relationships of other International and continental companies, fashion and producing clothes With it's different kinds .I can work's on all country's Contras as Pakistan, I India, Hong Kong, china, USA, Europe contras And Arab contras as Egypt, Syria, Iraq, turkey etc. knowledge of AQL quality requirements of garments. Quality Assurance Auditor is also not only in clothing but also my experience in upholstery, carpets, curtains and children's saliva and other mineral also has the ability to direct marketing and manufacture of new investment opportunity, beautiful and fruitful and also to the capacity and experience in management and production team work in any area of the aforementioned. contact me at No. 00962795836121 or E-mail: bassamhussien11@gmail.com My skype bassam5533 thanks you
i working bfor with USA company's
# 222:
6:13 am PDT, Aug 30,
MDHJohnHollyMKS Quinn, Georgia
# 221:
7:26 am PDT, Aug 26,
Paul Wickins, United Kingdom
# 220:
1:19 pm PDT, Aug 19,
Chum R, Canada
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# 219:
1:02 pm PDT, Aug 15,
Jillyanne Michelle Cape, Missouri
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# 218:
6:18 pm PDT, Aug 13,
David Peters, United Kingdom
For more impact, Tell the U.S. Politicians why you think that the 'garment industry' in Saipan needs strict laws enforcing human rights, and transparency for regular inspections. PROTECT THE HUMAN!
For more impact, Tell the U.S. Politicians why you think that the 'garment industry' in Saipan needs strict laws enforcing human rights, and transparency for regular inspections. PROTECT THE HUMAN!
# 217:
3:31 am PDT, Aug 13,
Robyn MacDonald, Australia
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Why are labor rights important to you?
# 216:
1:12 am PDT, Aug 11,
Maria Chua, Philippines
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# 215:
6:16 pm PDT, Aug 6,
Ron Stephen, Canada
Jobs will NEVER return to the US until the labour costs overseas include following human rights and safe work conditions.
Jobs will NEVER return to the US until the labour costs overseas include following human rights and safe work conditions.
# 214:
8:59 pm PDT, Aug 5,
Derick F., Canada
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# 213:
9:20 am PDT, Aug 5,
CHIEF DUBIE, Missouri
For more impact, Tell the U.S. Politicians why you think that the 'garment industry' in Saipan needs strict laws enforcing human rights, and transparency for regular inspections.in a world where money means everything, we need one wage, for all workers, except for the public servants, who should be the ones getting mininum wage, if anyone does!!!
For more impact, Tell the U.S. Politicians why you think that the 'garment industry' in Saipan needs strict laws enforcing human rights, and transparency for regular inspections.in a world where money means everything, we need one wage, for all workers, except for the public servants, who should be the ones getting mininum wage, if anyone does!!!
slavery is illegal, and so is discrimination
# 212:
5:13 am PDT, Aug 5,
Anabelle Prescott, Venezuela
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# 211:
7:08 pm PDT, Aug 4,
Steven Cousens, Washington
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# 210:
10:19 am PDT, Aug 4,
Sara Stevens, North Carolina
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# 209:
9:59 am PDT, Aug 4,
Name not displayed, Michigan
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# 208:
9:58 am PDT, Aug 4,
Ralf Schuetz, Colorado
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# 207:
8:40 am PDT, Aug 4,
Amber Flounders, Colorado
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# 206:
3:36 am PDT, Aug 4,
Jennifer Langer, Washington
It is our responsibility to help watchdog the areas that need help. People deserve to have a safe job that pays them what they need to subsist on.
It is our responsibility to help watchdog the areas that need help. People deserve to have a safe job that pays them what they need to subsist on.
Labor rights are a necessary ingredient to a peaceful world. We need to help those who need a hand.
# 205:
5:57 pm PDT, Aug 2,
Bobbie Peter, Texas
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# 204:
5:50 am PDT, Aug 2,
Andi Alnwick, New York
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# 203:
4:31 pm PDT, Jul 30,
Mandy Johnson, United Kingdom
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# 202:
3:42 pm PDT, Jul 30,
Linda Bonura, Louisiana
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# 201:
7:17 am PDT, Jul 28,
John Peterson, Oregon
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# 200:
5:28 am PDT, Jul 28,
Roberto Angarita Vargas, Colombia
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# 199:
8:55 pm PDT, Jul 27,
Marcy Morgan, California
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# 198:
8:34 pm PDT, Jul 27,
Laura - Elena Doltu, Romania
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# 197:
1:10 pm PDT, Jul 27,
Dawn Gordon, Canada
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# 196:
10:36 pm PDT, Jul 23,
Darlene Davis, Michigan
The 'garment industry' in Saipan needs strict laws enforcing human rights, and transparency for regular inspections.
The 'garment industry' in Saipan needs strict laws enforcing human rights, and transparency for regular inspections.
Labor rights are very important as it ISN'T type of slave trade, and has many human and civil rights, with rights to fair wages.
# 195:
10:12 pm PDT, Jul 23,
Rosa Ranger, Michigan
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# 194:
7:34 am PDT, Jul 22,
Kathy Davis, Florida
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# 193:
7:58 pm PDT, Jul 19,
Elaine Secondo, Connecticut
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# 192:
3:59 pm PDT, Jul 19,
Alison Hiestand, Connecticut
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# 191:
3:48 pm PDT, Jul 19,
Terrie Williams, Texas
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# 190:
1:50 pm PDT, Jul 19,
Susie Holman, United Kingdom
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# 189:
10:14 am PDT, Jul 19,
Lorraine Kay, United Kingdom
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# 188:
7:09 am PDT, Jul 19,
Iro Kapeloni, Greece
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# 187:
9:51 pm PDT, Jul 18,
Angel Halloran, Virginia
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# 186:
7:52 pm PDT, Jul 18,
Lily Arnold, United Kingdom
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# 185:
6:42 pm PDT, Jul 18,
Adrianna Martin, Indiana
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# 184:
2:44 am PDT, Jul 18,
Sandra Vaskova, United Kingdom
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# 183:
1:44 am PDT, Jul 18,
Livia Gomes, Portugal
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# 182:
9:13 am PDT, Jul 17,
Rachel Lane, Canada
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# 181:
4:47 am PDT, Jul 17,
Sheila Gredzinski, Pennsylvania
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# 180:
8:24 pm PDT, Jul 15,
Ulla Weiland, Finland
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# 179:
12:18 pm PDT, Jul 15,
Terri Schirmer, Arizona
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# 178:
11:41 am PDT, Jul 15,
Emma Owen, United Kingdom
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any abuse of peoples human rigts should be stopped
# 177:
11:37 am PDT, Jul 15,
Philippe Ducreux, France
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# 176:
11:22 am PDT, Jul 15,
Sonya Armenia Hunter, United Kingdom
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# 175:
11:05 am PDT, Jul 15,
ELEUSINIA SOCIETY, North Carolina
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There needs to be a closer monitoring of labor practices in every U.S.Protectorate,otherwise the very notion of protecting becomes ludicrous
# 174:
10:25 am PDT, Jul 15,
SL VSL, Bulgaria
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# 173:
12:25 pm PDT, Jul 14,
Mick Cave, United Kingdom
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# 172:
12:18 pm PDT, Jul 14,
Name not displayed, Canada
I think workers everywhere need to be protected from exploitation!!
I think workers everywhere need to be protected from exploitation!!
I have worked my entire life and have seen many injustices in the work environment--workers are vulnerable to alot of exploitation and that is wrong!!
# 171:
11:56 am PDT, Jul 14,
Courtney Burton, Missouri
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# 170:
10:46 am PDT, Jul 14,
Michelle Murphy, Pennsylvania
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# 169:
7:16 am PDT, Jul 14,
Kathleen Howren, Ohio
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# 168:
5:02 am PDT, Jul 14,
Ketutar Jensen, Sweden
Saipan is part of US by being part of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). The laws of the States should be applied all over the area. Things like this are just what makes "the world hate US"...
Saipan is part of US by being part of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). The laws of the States should be applied all over the area. Things like this are just what makes "the world hate US"...
Why are labor rights important to you? People should be able to work to improve their situation, to be free from poverty, to feel good about themselves. Sweatshops are slavery.
# 167:
12:37 am PDT, Jul 14,
Can Atik, Turkey
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# 166:
8:26 pm PDT, Jul 13,
Name not displayed, Mississippi
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# 165:
7:50 pm PDT, Jul 13,
Laurel Watson, Arizona
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# 164:
3:33 pm PDT, Jul 13,
Heather Gregory, South Carolina
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# 162:
2:43 pm PDT, Jul 13,
Denise Lytle, New Jersey
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# 163:
2:41 pm PDT, Jul 13,
Michael Barth, California
I think that this petition will have an effect, but an even greater effect would be that all of us stop buying clothes from manufacturers and retailers that have clothes that are made in a sweatshop. If you are interested in doing that, visit http://www.nosweatshop.com or http://www.justiceclothing.com where the clothes are made in Canada and the US and these companies support union rights.
I think that this petition will have an effect, but an even greater effect would be that all of us stop buying clothes from manufacturers and retailers that have clothes that are made in a sweatshop. If you are interested in doing that, visit http://www.nosweatshop.com or http://www.justiceclothing.com where the clothes are made in Canada and the US and these companies support union rights.
# 161:
1:59 pm PDT, Jul 13,
Art Felsinger, Arizona
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# 160:
1:50 pm PDT, Jul 13,
Pamela White, North Carolina
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# 159:
12:00 pm PDT, Jul 13,
Jeanie Bürger, Massachusetts
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# 158:
10:56 am PDT, Jul 13,
Mark Smith, California
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# 157:
9:15 am PDT, Jul 13,
Robert Stockstill, California
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# 156:
7:55 am PDT, Jul 13,
Liz Casey, Canada
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# 155:
7:51 am PDT, Jul 13,
Cristina Seica, Portugal
And if it was you? What did you like people to know and do?
And if it was you? What did you like people to know and do?
Workers should be respected and protected.
# 154:
7:25 am PDT, Jul 13,
Walter Weese, Germany
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# 153:
5:58 am PDT, Jul 13,
Cher Isbell, Texas
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# 152:
3:33 pm PDT, Jul 12,
Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
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# 151:
11:30 am PDT, Jul 12,
Mary Neal, Georgia
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