Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Coca-Cola and death squads?



"Coca-Cola Accused of Using Death Squads to Target Union Leaders"

 Coca-Cola was accused of using death squads to hunt down and kill workers who decided to speak up against the terrible conditions they faced working in a Coca-Cola bottle plant in Columbia. I was a little surprised at the fact that Coca-Cola would use death squads and have horrid conditions within the factories they owned, but most people would be. We all don't really think about things like that because our mind sets are really and mainly set to worry about ourselves so we just don't think and wonder about that kind of stuff because we have other things to do. Yet in reality the victims of the squads were kidnapped beaten and killed just because they knew they weren't in any way, shape, or form in an okay work position. That's not even the part that made me a little bit frustrated. No, the part that did wasn't that they were getting killed because people die everyday but the fact that there really isn't a way to stop it, that's what got me. Out of all that I'm pretty sure it's safe to say that it was a wrong doing.

 "Simone Weil: The Year of Factory Work (1934-1935)"
 As for a poem I read about the subject of sweatshops and factories, the message or idea i got out of this poem was that the the whole thing of working in a sweatshop or factories in bad conditions was that it just never seems to end. That it is just an endless viscous cycle. Personally I cant connect except for a way less extreme example of having a bad school/work week because it just keeps happening and happening like an endless cycle, not viscous, but just seems endless. Now most people can not connect at all or barely, just barely, can like I can. The poem in my opinion is better than the article because the article is jut facts being thrown into your brain, the poem on the other hand is more hard hitting I think, it's not just facts being thrown at you like i said but it's more of something that you can just let sink in. Which in my opinion is just better.