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The Girl in the Doorway
For Raquel, entering class was a daily struggle. She would stand in the doorway well after the bell had rung, I presumed out of either shyness, terror, or a combination of both, but she did not move.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Race and money made for an easy roadmap in 1978 Atlanta. It was orderly. The white and black communities knew where to go and not to go. Each knew where to eat, where to shop, where to live, and where to send their kids to school.
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The Pentagon, corporations and slave labor in U.S. prisons
By Sara Flounders posted on January 8, 2021
This article was originally published in Workers World June 11, 2011.
It is not only federal prisons that contract out prison labor to top corporations. State prisons that used forced prison labor in plantations, laundries and highway chain gangs increasingly seek to sell prison labor to corporations trolling the globe in search of the cheapest possible labor.
One agency asks: “Are you experiencing high employee turnover? Worried about the costs of employee benefits? Unhappy with out-of-state or offshore suppliers? Getting hit by overseas competition? Having trouble motivating your workforce? Thinking about expansion space? Then Washington State Department of Corrections Private Sector Partnerships is for you.” (educate-yourself.org, July 25, 2005)
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“We don’t know what’s coming. I’m eager to see what the new normal will be. It will emerge,” Josie Natori says. Courtesy of Natori Co. Text size
Josie Natori may be the reigning queen of elegant lingerie and work-from-home loungewear, but don’t ask her to work from home herself.
Forty-three years ago, the Philippines native chucked a budding career at Merrill Lynch she was the first female vice president of investment banking to start a fashion label with her husband, Ken Natori, a former managing director of Shearson Lehman. Today, the Natori Co. founder veers more toward dressing up than down, and working-from-office, which is why she’s been heading into her Midtown Manhattan headquarters every day since June. Working from home may be part of the landscape at every company moving forward, and that growing trend may have kept her business afloat these past few precarious mont