Well, isn’t this nice. “Pope” Benedict (I hate using the title “Pope” as if the position has some exalted status) has now said that condom use by male or female prostitutes is sometimes justified since it is a “lesser evil” than the spread of AIDS. And some people are calling that a step that will [...]
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To coincide with the Thanksgiving holiday, the Southern Poverty Law Center has just released a paper titled Injustice on Our Plates: Immigrant Women in the U.S. Food Industry. The paper concerns the exploitation of mostly undocumented immigrant women who work in the U.S. food industry and is based upon interviews with 150 women. The women [...]
Filed under: Harassment, Health, Violence, Workplace | Tagged: Food workers, Immigration, Southern Poverty Law Center | Leave a Comment »
