I'm still bumming about the whole thing:
"Survivor emerges 17 days after factory collapse" by Julfikar Ali Manik and Jim Yardley | New York Times, May 11, 2013
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Day after day, the drudgery of digging for bodies had progressed at Rana Plaza. Talk of rescuing survivors had faded. This was the recovery phase, and what was being recovered were corpses, the numbers spinning remorselessly forward: 700 dead became 800, then 900, with no end in sight.
By Friday morning, the number had reached past 1,000. Then, late in the afternoon, a soldier from the Bangladeshi Army, standing atop the rubble of the wrecked building, noticed an iron rod that seemed to be moving. There was a noise, a voice. Rescuers hurriedly carved a hole through a concrete pillar. Television stations in Bangladesh cut to the scene: A woman, gasping, was alive in the wreckage, nearly 17 full days after Rana Plaza had collapsed.
A new number was announced: One. A female garment worker named Reshma Begum. A survivor. A miracle.
“Save me!’’ rescuers had heard her shout, before they pulled her into the afternoon light, her face powdered in dust as she was put on a stretcher.
The Rana Plaza collapse is now considered the deadliest disaster in the history of the garment industry. Five factories were operating inside the building when the structure pancaked downward.
It's their 9/11.
The carnage was horrific and has focused global attention on unsafe conditions in Bangladeshi garment factories that make clothing for US and European consumers — especially since there were advance warnings that the structure was unsafe.
Yeah, well, I thought the fires did that and they didn't. It was in the papers, then forgotten. It was back to business as usual, and I'm not very hopeful of any real change, and certainly not from my corporate pre$$. They advance their agenda all the time, so if that was the ca$e things would have been improved and addre$$ed. Instead we had the corporations fighting any ideas offered by labor representatives.
So, you'll excuse me if I'm too enthused about the new attention of my ma$$ media on Bangladeshi sweatshops, thanks.
The rescue of Begum, as described by rescuers and government officials, has offered a temporary respite from the gloom and a startling tale of resilience: She survived in an opening maybe 10 feet by 8 feet in size, high enough for her to stand, within a penumbra of collapsed beams and pillars. Air trickled through the crevices. She found enough food and water to last until two days ago....
Hey, I'm glad and all, but I really am tired of the mind-manipulating ma$$ media picking kernels of corn out of turd.
Reaction in Bangladesh was euphoric....
That's fine.
Begum’s rescue, if amazing, is not without precedent. More than two weeks after the catastrophic 2010 earthquake in Haiti, a 16-year-old girl was discovered inside a collapsed home, having survived by eating yogurt and vegetables, and a man was found in the rubble of Port-au-Prince many days after that. Experts say such incidents are extremely rare, however....
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Nothing on Sunday. Wouldn't want to trouble all those upper-elite minds kicking back for a nice Sunday when the agenda-pushing propaganda has been in the works since Thursday (sorry, I know how newspapers work).
