In These Times

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• • 07 Aug 05
  • 7:37 pm

  Mr. Paul, With all due respect, this is some the shoddiest journalism I've seen since I wrote for a campus paper. First, had you bothered to contact any of the plaintiff parties, you would have discovered that there is, indeed, no signed affidavit regarding any explicit request for masturbation. Rather, you chose to recycle the content of already published articles. Secondly, your quoted source regarding Charney's alleged union busting is a labor orgnization piece of propaganda. Were you that eager to defer to the single-sided opinion of party with an explicit and articulated agenda, you should have at least bothered to …

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• • 09 Aug 05
  • 7:30 pm

  al-Dakari, Progressive is a CONTEXTUALLY RELATVE term. It implies movement or evolution toward some, more desirable end. To generalize that no corporation can be progressive displays a serious degree of ignorance. Corporations are simply one of many ways to manage finances and investment capital. The particular way in which one operates is depends ENTIRELY on its OWN by-laws. Just because huge, multi-nationals tend to all gravitate toward one, certain pattern of behaviour, there is no categorical reason to presuppose than any corporate entity will do the same. peterdreier, The NRLB determined that ALLEGATIONS were serious, ut not necessarily true. Do you …

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• • 17 Aug 05
  • 4:21 pm

  As per the original point with which I entered this discussion, Aug. 7, this is precisely the problem with substituting primary sources for secondary ones. Whereas Business Week initially ran a piece that was less than favorable for American Apparel, it has now run something that lauds its distinction in the marketplace and even apologizes for it conducting business in an ethical way without necessarily taking up any specific cause. A link: http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/aug2005/id20050811_388618.htm Essentially, the case is made where American Apparel's needn't be held to any standards based on how some of their practices are compatible with certain, more politically-charged, agendas. …

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