no i am not the bravest guy on the planet and it's hard to confront a group of five drunk guys who are just as big as you who are acting like idiots on the street but doing so with ten stone sober militiaman buddies could provide a much more convincing argument for the drunkard's this could be a big step forward for democracy when you actually have at least a scrap of power or control over the events in your neighborhood then you are sure feel like people actually have a lot of power and this could be good for the country but that's just my opinion. but with economic downturns in the final. days the longer the deal sang like the rest like the same eat cake be it briefly.

today the european consumer has no way of knowing the all region of the leather he bites. feel. the number of e.u. member states have deed localized production and see no reason for shoes and leather bags to be labelled made in bangladesh.

i am my own business the european. the europeans everybody happy to buy chip lead projects they don't live with this and if we're discounting from the europeans i totally i know they're about to head i said. our leaders are being exposed to far stuff flying f. fourteen point lead good to. over the last twenty years bangladesh has become

a global center for lead the production. this industry generates over three hundred fifty million euros per year for the country. and has a very bad suburb of the capital dhaka around three hundred tonne there is a keeper field of twenty five acres producing the clothes and leather goods that flood the international market. and more than fourteen million skins are treated every year in the slum warehouses and tanner is sit side by side. a nightmare situation for which we westerners are also responsible i heard was. all skins arrived like lists every day and each one of the factories where in. one

of the has a very bad tenure is an average sized factory employing around thirty workers it's here that the cycle of leisure tending begins. every day around one thousand tonnes of skins arrive directly from albatross all over the country to be stored in this hangar. in callsigns arrive coated in salt so as to avoid rapid decay. what do you want to say i was in the morning we get the deliveries and we cover the skins and lie rinse them and dry them how they was next after applying the chemicals we place them in the tanning drums and then we wash them i

don't know why there was ever again a collage of what we do this three times over and in but then again there was. a large proportion of the letter bags jackets and other accessories we buy today are produced in tanneries such as this the working conditions are antiquated nothing has changed in thirty years neither machines nor techniques. telling is a long process to remove the parasites the fact in the head is work is carry handled scrape and treat the tons of skins using numerous chemical products and wearing only gloves for protection.

i am cutting the small pieces of skin that had been damaged during washing. sherman is one of the forty thousand working in the turner is more than twelve hours a day nonstop manual workers are hired on a daily basis without training all contracts. few women are able to withstand such physically exhausting and wearing labor. i wear a scarf to protect my hair otherwise i would lose it because of the lime water. and when the water runs over my hands it burns away my skin and what i.

meant in the others put up with these working conditions for the simple reason that today in bangladesh forty percent of the population is unemployed getting a job in eternity is considered a lucky break. the main problem in the tannery is the smell was. bad i think it makes us sick blackens and it's a way of our skin. color but people like me have no other choice so we have to take the job that. i work long hours because i have to cut the small leather pieces and unwrap the new skin. they arrive. here to live what sometimes the skins are crawling with

parasites and smell a style. that you've got to find it takes away my appetite. if i remember my first day of work in the factory. the smell was so disgusting that i threw up and faint like so many guy had the noise of the machines pounding in my head until it would burst. but at the fraction i was i was sick for a week after but now i'm used to it. and doesn't know how old she is she may be twenty she's been working in a tunnel risa to lose on a good months she can earn forty euros i can't let. her

go down this is my mother's house. i was a kid and this is my daughter. rosa post three year old daughter thank you get it done and then and i'm sure. you can give that. back and that there is nothing at the factory no medical support. and that i have no friends and there are no safety regulations do you know when i start every day at eight am and there's no paid overtime because how they should you know i never get any holidays and if i miss half a day they counted as a full day dad i don't know if i'm sick it's the same they count me up sent one dollar so i have to go to work even when i'm ill. and another was. i have no money

left at the end of the month. the judge will. sharman spends ten euros on her rent and for this price she gets one tiny room in which to house the whole family. like her the majority of the slums five hundred thousand residents are dependent on the lives of industry. do not bet the fortune i never get a pay rise. it down i asked for one in january but nothing happened they said to be happy with what i had or leave money. after paying my rent and giving some money to my parents there's almost nothing left to give up but i had a better salary i could save some money but it's impossible right now. to worry among i need money to bring up my daughter and send her to school there's i don't want to show you how can i educate her properly without money then i'm sure of the

. others even if i had a hard life will be the same for my kids. charmaine would like to be able to count on her husband to feed the family. what i think. what time did you get back home. at five and you left because i went to the fish market he goes to show what time should leave for work at noon i caught a cold i didn't feel well i must write it down you go to work at noon because you can't called my mother and me how do you think i'm going to go to work at eight. little one mom is preparing dinner. thank you.

i never wake up i don't get up. but. i shan't. let it go we have no electricity and no gas here so it's difficult to cook but i wish at that from a senate. that's a sentiment as i'd like a more comfortable and cleaner life. i keep cleaning but everything gets dirty so quickly and i had to get. we live with the stink of the time mary's. we have every kind of problem here. the job i love you but we can't afford to go anywhere else so i have to stay in this disgusting environment going on resume what i thought it was but that i guess. i.

never. thought much of it was a population of twelve million i exist to watch and is a serious problem so she percent of the population don't have any sherman and her husband are among those who have the privilege of access to a water pump which they share with the neighborhoods but it's not drinkable and has to be paid for if you don't. need my husband pulls rickshaws back but he only works part time i don't mention his that's why i have to work if he. was a little guy. there's

a nine story building i noticed that standing on a true for some men in civilian clothes holding a sniper rifle. to say something that offends so they can only do they used blank or wooden shells but the building was burning through my how much time it took to restore it. reloaded for yeltsin in the referendum with the deputies of the supreme soviet didn't appeal to us out of all we have to support yeltsin otherwise it would have been civil war. we know how to do banking it should be like infrastructure to support the economy it shouldn't be for the benefit of it leads to think they're above the law as we

currently have. but then i work for a miserable wage and they yell at me that i doubt you should and they are not but did tell me. this morning i didn't go to work because i didn't feel well she doesn't go look until about the boss was unhappy about that he got angry with me and he told me i would lose my job if i didn't come much better but how can i work in this state my hands and my feet hurt so much. he lives with his feet and hands are eaten away by the chemical products. used throughout the tanning process these products so extremely toxic for the skin but also when inhaled the tanning factories have no ventilation system. all the workers are exposed to danger but

especially those who end direct contact with the chemicals. proximately three hundred products are necessary to soften and die the skins and monium acids wrestling fans are see as old crow mates hydrogen sulfide and more. inflammable explosive and corrosive they use requires training the workers never receive. we use all the derivatives of potassium in. my house e.m.i. and ammonium. when we rinse the skins we use lots of acids. and we put them in the drums that can be dangerous. for the new workers it's dangerous but after they get used to it was. to get

my hands there i k. there's no problem that matters because i've just used chemicals. that was one of the few doctors working in his area bag. you know. his liver. you lose your. then your feet where do you do when you're going. to fix the colors on the skins the workers use mercury huge quantities are used for blue and for black this process has been outlawed in france for twenty years because mercury permeates the body and contaminate all the vital organs. the stuff you can. see these.

days. in two thousand and ten at apex one of the country's so-called model tanneries three workers died and ten was seriously injured in an explosion caused by an error in the handling of chemicals. yes there are accidents you have to be careful throughout the whole process especially when turning the drums on and off and when you put the chemicals in. we often drop the sacks on our feet touch the chemicals. one third of workers will be injured. fifty years now the tenants union representing twenty thousand workers has attempted to improve working conditions

for its members but to no avail. what i've. got a little of that to be honest conversation and their behavior towards us. shows that their priority is to give us the least they can. without for many years their union our union has put forward baseball solutions. that they show no interest in not only you need to run with it i mean i think with the tight shit going on with us so we have no other choice than to revolt. i don't know what. long live the union strike no workers unite workers of the world unite workers of the world get open. might a muscle battle system almost all of us a sick tonight we're going to the bosses have never taken any health measures but what a night and i don't want doctors in the factories caring for the workers you know but i like that's why every day here at work is die from leather sickness look at

the gum or see. when the workers take to the streets to demand an increase in the minimum wage the police welcome them with guns and ammunition. in two thousand and ten several thousand demonstrators and three died fifty were injured and hundreds were arrested. i'm not sure from their way to the letter industry that is not a risk to health from one of the. national we want the bosses to respect the employment and health legislation of this country you know because she doesn't have the money coming in to know by ignoring the law they make bigger profits lobbying

the government. was. as it does allow i do this to protect her from evil. than to lead to the nation i don't like in. my daughter is three but she still can't walk properly there are not looking she has trouble eating and falls over a lot. and she still can't touch that one of allah. now she's very weak and her health is very fragile and i wasn't there and i'm not over but i can only afford to feed her rice and biscuits back ok i'm like yeah we're going to.

need a couch telly. and. sharman has no health protection the only way she can obtain health care is at the same soul dispensary which also is free consultations. the a.o.l. . ninety percent of the of the workers develop an illness as a direct consequence of their work if you live beyond fifty. percent what are your symptoms of the six months i've gradually been feeling worse and worse the more i work out the weaker i get. where do you work

down at the other factory. visually i hear women working in canneries are often frail. they suffer from vaginal infections their very joint pain fever and coughing. children want to. often have respiratory complications in the morning they leave the man arose so debilitated our dishwasher nobody little suffering from part problems and gastritis . cannot simply. if sherman also worries for her. a daughter who is not growing well. after that where is your child while you are working better she stays up my little brother. i'm here for the last twenty years right now i'm just maybe going to slow me down you're doomed

from the coming. you believe if you want to live. in his own bag no one is the. tires he's three hundred times higher here than in the rest of the country but sherman and her family have no other choice than to endure the working conditions and to live in the sun breathable environment if you. please three or four stars you can. live here you can. live here i'm coming from long sleeve. dollars. i don't feel any better. but if you take the one you sure. don't see. this thing that i.

recently and despite her age sherman's mother was forced to go back to work in an open air factory in the center of the. good little here there is some terrible smelts put out but what can we do. i wouldn't if we had rice in our belly what would worry about it but it can't be our priority today. in the countryside life is peaceful. in other countries there is not political there is no work no food and in the winter. of the dish. that does happen.

every year eight hundred thousand people leave their own fertile land so fertile lands to crowd into his every bag and its surrounding area it's. a willing to accept such conditions because the turner is of their only hope. sharmeen is among these climate refugees she's originally from. the northern island of bangladesh and ghost by water in two thousand and five that madison had. to go by and we had to come here because the river overflowed that let them in and house was washed away. so i know now having a little thing i. did to my parents of nowhere else to live so they stay here with us. did they tell you that the on the and i gave it to her what is your i'm also

from poland and i ended up here because my home was swept away i built my house seven times and seven times it was carried away by the flood waters i have no more land to live on and no money to buy more there was no more work for us there that's why i came to talk about it when i'm on the rails i work at the tannery for forty five euros a month it's the only way for me to survive. on this here. among sherman's friends and family some children also have to work to help their parents. sometimes now you have this in the bible to do that all of the lazy and that is added to the. most i think. the lanham supplemental for this is. getting it in the business of. my family it's your mother who works instead of your father and you hate me. the.

soldiers you're in the military now no more joking any more. never been some time in my life. every day with the story up speed limits. do you think it's going to be easy. but everyone's just. suspects to. college. i don't know if i'm going to make it to the end the can still. so i'm just going the thing that i don't know what to do. some mathematicians at the swiss federal institute of technology have given us a very precise answer they did a study of who owns and controls the companies on the capital markets forty three thousand companies and they found out that there's a secret super entity they call it that owns sixty percent of the

earnings every year and forty percent of the assets they did this by putting the same people on the boards of these companies so they have ten times the economic power that they're entitled to and they thought no one would catch them at it this is a huge conglomerate that has been rigging the library prices it's been rigging all of the commodities prices it's been trading in the securities markets with insider information it has got to be stopped it also bought up all the media and has been lying to people deliberately. i mean if you. couldn't take three months for two hundred three. three three. three. two two three.

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