Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Warning graphic--pig slaughter in Thailand.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/11/death-by-clubbing-brutality-thailand-pig-slaughterhouses

I've heard of abuse of (Burmese) refugees in fishing industry, Thai farms and orchards, logging, shrimp and tuna factories (where I have been)--

I bet workers in Thai pork industry are also Burmese migrant labor.

I can't do anything except write a novel.

I am already working on one about a Burmese monk who fled the country during the Saffron Revolution of 2007 and then had to disrobe, for economic reasons and work in a slaughterhouse (chickens) in upstate NY.

For research I read Upton Sinclair's famous novel The Jungle, which you can find on the Gutenberg Project, but it was so sad, the exploitation of labor, I haven't yet finished reading it.

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6-11-2019

Former 1988 activist--US scholar MinZin arrested in China--NYT

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/us/politics/china-arrests-us-scholar.html?unlocked_article_code=1.plA.-7tb.2M_-DNpSDzOv&smid=em-share