Comments on: Day 924: Indian Worker Trafficking In KatrinaRitaVille http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/1679 From Kuwait To Katrina And Beyond Wed, 09 May 2012 16:24:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Blog: Pascagoula: Scene of a mutiny « H2B Press Watch http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/1679/comment-page-1#comment-261051 Blog: Pascagoula: Scene of a mutiny « H2B Press Watch Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:09:32 +0000 http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/1679/#comment-261051 [...] families worry about them. For additional background I point you to SAJA’s coverage and also to Maitri’s blog. This ABC news article has a link to an inspiring slideshow wherein the workers are photographed [...] [...] families worry about them. For additional background I point you to SAJA’s coverage and also to Maitri’s blog. This ABC news article has a link to an inspiring slideshow wherein the workers are photographed [...]

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]]> By: New Orleans News Ladder http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/1679/comment-page-1#comment-251696 New Orleans News Ladder Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:55:02 +0000 http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/1679/#comment-251696 Here's another... http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1282311 They are really huge. Their site has been "deactivated": http://www.dewanconsultants.com/ but you can get them here: http://www.naukri.com/jg/dewan/cu.htm Here’s another…
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1282311

They are really huge. Their site has been “deactivated”:
http://www.dewanconsultants.com/
but you can get them here:
http://www.naukri.com/jg/dewan/cu.htm

]]> By: Maitri http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/1679/comment-page-1#comment-251689 Maitri Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:23:58 +0000 http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/1679/#comment-251689 According to the article I mention in today's update to the post, it appears that the culprit is Dewan Consultants of Mumbai (although a firm from nearby Goa is also involved - may be Dewan itself). The article also reports that Signal is now attempting to get more workers through another set of Mumbai-based recruiters, S. Mansur & Company. According to the article I mention in today’s update to the post, it appears that the culprit is Dewan Consultants of Mumbai (although a firm from nearby Goa is also involved – may be Dewan itself). The article also reports that Signal is now attempting to get more workers through another set of Mumbai-based recruiters, S. Mansur & Company.

]]> By: mominem http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/1679/comment-page-1#comment-251688 mominem Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:09:40 +0000 http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/1679/#comment-251688 Like I said, I want to know the truth too. I am surprised there hasn't been more mainstream media coverage. Especially if, as Signal claimed, journalists were invited in. There's very little independant public information to go on. The Mainstream Media generally simply recite both sides. One report seemed to point a finger toward the recruiting firm for charging the workers for visas and misrepresenting what their status would be once they arrived here. Like I said, I want to know the truth too.

I am surprised there hasn’t been more mainstream media coverage. Especially if, as Signal claimed, journalists were invited in.

There’s very little independant public information to go on. The Mainstream Media generally simply recite both sides.

One report seemed to point a finger toward the recruiting firm for charging the workers for visas and misrepresenting what their status would be once they arrived here.

]]> By: New Orleans News Ladder http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/1679/comment-page-1#comment-251681 New Orleans News Ladder Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:55:09 +0000 http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/1679/#comment-251681 Wow you so nail things Maitrisan. When I first returned after the storm I saw a camp over near Iberville Projects? Full of Latinos, with razor wire fence,lights and even a small guard tower. I spoke to a contractor right in front of the place around the end of the day and he said that he had to return his workers there before sunset every day, come get them at sunrise..and had to have the same "count". Did anyone else see this place? I'm just telling you what I saw. They were on one side of the fence and I on the other. This was around the 1st of Dec '05. Anyway you covered so much more ground on this than the article I Ladder'd yesterday. Really, most Americans have no idea what work is like outside thier borders. No idea. After 9/11 I said to my father that I wondered if we would ever see a "American Refugee", you know like in trucks running from death that they can't control...that stuff we see on TV that happens to "them" "over there" that would "never happen here." And then there I was rushing the bridge in a pick-up truck in a convoy of Refugees to get the fuck away from uncontrolable death in crucified New Orleans, away to Baton Rouge to anywhere 6 days after the levees failed...an American Refugee of my own DamnNation. Now I hesitate to wonder if Americans will ever feel the sting of working overseas in such a capacity as so much expendable chattle as is commonly dealt foreigner workers. As we lose even more jobs here, will we go to work "over there"? Given our National Karma...I don't want to go there...I would rather pay "them" better "here"...and don't mind the citizenship thing either. Thus spake da'drake... Wow you so nail things Maitrisan. When I first returned after the storm I saw a camp over near Iberville Projects? Full of Latinos, with razor wire fence,lights and even a small guard tower. I spoke to a contractor right in front of the place around the end of the day and he said that he had to return his workers there before sunset every day, come get them at sunrise..and had to have the same “count”. Did anyone else see this place? I’m just telling you what I saw. They were on one side of the fence and I on the other. This was around the 1st of Dec ’05.
Anyway you covered so much more ground on this than the article I Ladder’d yesterday. Really, most Americans have no idea what work is like outside thier borders. No idea.
After 9/11 I said to my father that I wondered if we would ever see a “American Refugee”, you know like in trucks running from death that they can’t control…that stuff we see on TV that happens to “them” “over there” that would “never happen here.” And then there I was rushing the bridge in a pick-up truck in a convoy of Refugees to get the fuck away from uncontrolable death in crucified New Orleans, away to Baton Rouge to anywhere 6 days after the levees failed…an American Refugee of my own DamnNation.
Now I hesitate to wonder if Americans will ever feel the sting of working overseas in such a capacity as so much expendable chattle as is commonly dealt foreigner workers. As we lose even more jobs here, will we go to work “over there”? Given our National Karma…I don’t want to go there…I would rather pay “them” better “here”…and don’t mind the citizenship thing either.

Thus spake da’drake…

]]> By: Maitri http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/1679/comment-page-1#comment-251667 Maitri Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:20:21 +0000 http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/1679/#comment-251667 Ignoring the sensational coverage, which I didn't cite in my above post, I really want to know what's going on. Asian workers often work abroad in the most horrible conditions and never complain/protest unless the situation has compelled them to speak out. There are also a lot of instances of very similar treatment of workers all over the globe that I wouldn't put Signal beyond reproach at this time. Ignoring the sensational coverage, which I didn’t cite in my above post, I really want to know what’s going on. Asian workers often work abroad in the most horrible conditions and never complain/protest unless the situation has compelled them to speak out. There are also a lot of instances of very similar treatment of workers all over the globe that I wouldn’t put Signal beyond reproach at this time.

]]> By: mominem http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/1679/comment-page-1#comment-251649 mominem Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:56:06 +0000 http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/1679/#comment-251649 I'm sure you Googled the same things I did. It looks like Signal has denied the charges and has claimed that their program has been investigated by the government and approved. They claim to have invited journalists to visit their facilities. The few mainstream media reports I saw report on the protest of either 89 or "some 100" workers. Some web sites msay 280 protesters. Most of the sensational coverage seems to be web sites with an agenda. I checked the number of plumbing fixtures against the<a> Illinois Plumbing Code </a> (first one I found on line) for dormitories. The number of fixtures cited meet the legal requirement for a dormitory in Illinois. Like you I'd like to know the truth. I’m sure you Googled the same things I did. It looks like Signal has denied the charges and has claimed that their program has been investigated by the government and approved. They claim to have invited journalists to visit their facilities.

The few mainstream media reports I saw report on the protest of either 89 or “some 100″ workers. Some web sites msay 280 protesters.

Most of the sensational coverage seems to be web sites with an agenda.

I checked the number of plumbing fixtures against the Illinois Plumbing Code (first one I found on line) for dormitories. The number of fixtures cited meet the legal requirement for a dormitory in Illinois.

Like you I’d like to know the truth.

]]> By: Sophmom http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/1679/comment-page-1#comment-251633 Sophmom Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:45:45 +0000 http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/1679/#comment-251633 Sometimes it seems like corporate America goes so way out of the way to be stupid when doing something smart and (coincidentally) right would be so much easier. Geez. Sometimes it seems like corporate America goes so way out of the way to be stupid when doing something smart and (coincidentally) right would be so much easier. Geez.

]]> By: GentillyGirl http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/1679/comment-page-1#comment-251535 GentillyGirl Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:28:18 +0000 http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/1679/#comment-251535 I'm with you Darlin'! I’m with you Darlin’!

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