Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Among the sea of Dominican flags at Fenway Park Friday night, a few of the more traditional Red Sox fans in attendance were getting their first lesson in Spanish. Pedro Martinez, Boston's new ace, was on the mound against the Cleveland Indians, and a large contingent of the city's Dominican population had arrived to lend him their vociferous support. Long before the first pitch, as Martinez warmed up in the bullpen, the chanting and cheering began, and it didn't stop until Pedro's final pitch retired David Justice to end the ninth...
Yesterday two workers from a sweatshop in the Dominican Republic that makes hats which bear the Harvard name stood in front of the John Harvard status and described the abysmal conditions of their workplace. The workers in this factory are paid 8 cents for every $20 hat, forced to work overtime, harassed, mistreated, and rendered unable to further their education or unionize, according to event organizers. The administration is said to be looking into the matter, and Students for a Sweat-free Campus are doing their best to make sure that the University adopts an effective code of conduct that...
While we are happy to see students taking aim at BJ & B's factory in the Dominican Republic, this particular shop is only one of many. Men, women, and children re being beaten, harassed and essentially enslaved so that Americans can have cheap apparel; as consumers we must work to limit suffering by consuming responsibly and insisting that the institutions into which we pour our money act responsibly. Sweatshops are bad and we should do our best to punish those who strive to profit from the suffering of others. But rather than striving to stomp out each individual sweatshop...
...four-day conference took place at the University of Panama in Panama City. There were approximately 200 participants from Panama, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Canada...
...offering them to guests. (Add up the figures and it's hard not to suspect that the help had their hands in the humidor too.) Not that Bibi hadn't sacrificed enough already: During his opposition days, he smoked 'em Cuban; once elected, he had to switch to a Dominican brand to stay on the right side of the U.S. embargo...