#forced laborers

[softsoundingsea]

Japan removes monument for Korean forced labor victims despite criticism

By Yi Wonju

TOKYO, Feb. 1 (Yonhap) -- A Japanese local government has taken down a memorial stone for Korean victims of Japan's wartime forced labor at a public park earlier this week despite opposition from activist groups.

Authorities from Gunma Prefecture began pulling down the stone on Monday and finalized the removal on Wednesday, Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported the next day.

Aerial photographs taken by the news outlet showed the remains of what appeared to the base of the memorial stone smashed into pieces at the site.

The authorities are said to have spared the epitaph of the stone and handed it over to a civic group handling the memorial stone, before tearing down the concrete wall.

The phrase, "Remembrance, Reflection and Friendship," is engraved in Korean, Japanese and English on the epitaph.

The memorial stone was erected in 2004 by a civic group in Japan to promote the public's understanding of the shared past history from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula and the friendship between the two neighbors.

In 2014, Gunma Prefecture refused to extend the state approval for the establishment of the stone, claiming a civic activist made inappropriate remarks about the forced labor victims during a 2012 memorial event.

Japan's top court ruled in favor of the Gunma authorities in 2022, but the civic group has filed for separate suits seeking to block the removal.

Source: https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20240201008400315

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

anyone else have multiple traumatic memories associated specifically with holidays/family vacations? because that is a topic I never see discussed in all the So You Had A Shitty Childhood, Now What? self-help books i've been reading. but for me, it was a significant thing. and the more i think about it the more it seems like this would be an (unfortunately) common experience. would be grateful to hear if this matches other peoples' experiences...

[kingbear8]

Something about making you take it. My seed. My genes. Planting it in your body where it could take root. Then absolutely everything will change, your body and life forever subjugated to attenteding my baby.

[knifebaby3000]

young prince

[oceanicluvrboy]

WEEE LALALA BIRTHDAY GROCERY SHOPPING !! [ i refuse to draw backgrounds 2day just trust me on this one ]

[the-final-sif]

The qsmp being investigated by the French government for labour laws infringement was not on my 2024 bingo card

Currently I don't believe it's the French Government, currently it's the Solidaires french labor union, but shockingly they have actually apparently gone after minecraft servers before for poor labor practices and taken them to court, although my limited searching hasn't resulted in the outcome of that case. I don't want to talk too much about the qsmp because it's not my business, but legit there's a huge amount of exploitation in youtube spaces that is probably illegal but gets brushed over. Creators are so often removed from it to the point of plausible deniability so it never really gets addressed properly. You see it with merch companies delivering awful quality products, having huge wait times and massive delays, missing people, not staying in contact, mistreating employees, scamming fanartists and underpaying them (look into youtoonz for some of that stuff), etc.

It's part of why I respect Dream so much for building out his own merch company and not going with one of the crappy ones. I love ordering merch from his company because I know I'm going to get what I paid for, it's going to be comfortable as fuck, and if there's any issues the company goes out of it's way to make things right. That sort of company set up takes time and a lot of care and effort to build. When you just half ass it, and don't supervise or actually run your own company, that's how you end up breaking a shit ton of labor laws, exploiting a number of people (at least some of which may be teenagers), and potentially end up getting sued.

I honestly do hope Quackity gets taken to court over this not out of any malice, but because these sorts of creator practices can't be allowed to continue. Creators at his size and scale are getting millions and millions of dollars and they can't be operating like a twitch channel with 20 viewers. If cases get brought to court, even if they aren't won, it will scare a lot of creators off from doing labor exploitation and push them do things more like Dream, where people are paid properly and fans aren't end up getting shafted at every turn.

[rowrowronnie]

i am not immune to cowboy propaganda

[3-aem]

im going on a mini hiatus 😭

[odinsblog]

🗣️ Please pay attention

Amazon argues that national labor board is unconstitutional, joining SpaceX and Trader Joe’s

Amazon is arguing in a legal filing that the 88-year-old National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional, echoing similar arguments made this year by Elon Musk’s SpaceX and the grocery store chain Trader Joe’s in disputes about workers’ rights and organizing.

The Amazon filing, made Thursday, came in response to a case before an administrative law judge overseeing a complaint from agency prosecutors who allege the company unlawfully retaliated against workers at a New York City warehouse who voted to unionize nearly two years ago.

In its filing, Amazon denies many of the charges and asks for the complaint to be dismissed. The company’s attorneys then go further, arguing that the structure of the agency — particularly limits on the removal of administrative law judges and five board members appointed by the president — violates the separation of powers and infringes on executive powers stipulated in the Constitution.

The attorneys also argue that NLRB proceedings deny the company a trial by a jury and violate its due-process rights under the Fifth Amendment. (source)

ICYMI, this is a case of corporations going, “7th Amendment Protections for me, but not for thee.”

It is strongly worth noting that in 2018 the John Roberts Court ruled 5-4 that companies can use forced arbitration clauses to stop people from joining together to fight workplace abuses - in effect denying individuals their 7th Amendment protections.

Subsequently, binding arbitration clauses used by corporations has proliferated; sneaking into all manner of common legal documents: personal banking applications, ordinary car loan applications, furniture purchases, and more. This is, unsurprisingly, a direct violation of the 7th Amendment that guarantees HUMAN BEINGS AND PEOPLE the right to a jury trial in certain civil cases and inhibits courts from overturning a jury's findings of fact. Republicans and SCOTUS are perfectly okay with corporations having more rights than workers and using forced arbitration to block people from having access to jury trials—but God forbid if corporations don’t have their right to a jury trial.

This legislative push to bestow corporations with more rights than people, while simultaneously taking away rights from human beings, has been nothing if not thoroughly and methodically done. At this rate, no corporation will ever need to fear a class action lawsuit again.

Amazon, SpaceX and Trader Joe’s are union busting.

But this latest case against the NLRB isn’t just an attack on labor and worker’s rights, it’s a fascistic attack on the very heart of fairness and democracy itself.

[kopykunoichi]

[butchniqabi]

Nature became land, conceivable only in terms of property, laid bare of myth, custom, tradition. Land if it were to function as land, needed not men, nor communities, but so many units of labor-power. The Middle Passage, it must have been assumed, was wide and deep enough to exile the tribal African from all the social customs and traditions that defined him as a man rather than a labor unit.

-Sylvia Wynter, Black Metamorphosis New Natives in a New World

[ot3]

just saw someone say 'we're living in the golden age of dying for your boss' on a post about california shortening the covid isolation period to 1 day to minimize disruptions to work/school and i totally understand the sentiment. but also. an insanely objectively not true statement if you're looking at A Lot Of Pretty Significant Industries

[zvaigzdelasas]

I just don't believe anyone reposting those lists about "here's 15+ different places with Problems going on (just like palestine!!)" knows or cares enough to be able to explain what's happening in more than 1/4 of them in anything approaching the depth appropriate to doing the topic justice

[therrerium-valkryonia]

The goddess of death is one day seduced by a mortal man and manages to get knocked up by him. Despite her growing belly she refuses to acknowledge her reality. 9 months has pass and now no matter how hard she tries this baby is going to come out. Would also enjoy if maybe there’s a goddess of life character who sort of acts as a midwife coaching the goddess of death and this goddess of life is also heavily pregnant. Maybe her water breaks as she helps the goddess of death and the 2 are now forced to give birth together

Intertwined Mother's

(Egyptian Mythology)

Tw: 18+ Minors DNI, Mature.

Nephthys owned the domain of death, proudly and she'd use it malevolantly each time some other of her pantheon began to question her.

Her sister Isis, owns the domain of life itself keeping her foot down whenever she'd try anything reckless to not repeat past mistakes.

The two we're close, never imagined being without another though conflicted at heart.

But Nephthys had her eyes set, once she had encountered a mortal man quite bold at his charms towards the beauty he'd set upon a woman he would most accept no matter.

It worked even if she was mostly in control within the moment, following him home a distance from the town she soon was kept unfocused at his apperance, wildly red.

Unexpectedly confused on why she felt any feelings at all, he offered her a glass of wine throughout the night until she was drunk as civillians in a feast for their king or god.

Things kicked off as she permitted him with anything he wanted from her, she was then stripped and her clothes torn stripped ti'll completely nude though bashful in words.

Accepting in accordance to the deal, he had gone in with raw strength and in a complete suprise had overpowered her completely, an immediate reaction occured once he ran up inside her womb and finished her off.

Complete in satisfaction and utterly finished, she would accept him as her consort when in times needed to satisfy her ravenous lusting.

In the events that proceeded she figured out that the mortal had impregnated her, furious but hesitant she instead denied the unborns existence eventually crying in denial.

Nine months, she'd commanded him to give what she asked in their deal and that he will ensure the possible denial of this child's life.

She wanted nothing with it, tears in her eyes though in the midst of the rage she began to labor and her sister came to her rescue and solemnly allowed his farewell and to return anytime for her sister as she carried her own.

From the same mortal a consequence of the siblings beings intertwined in fate and heart.

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Nephthys laid on her side, relished in pain and internal flames as the child began to descend she denied it mutiple times with tears still in need of retribution to her own consequence.

Isis had summoned the undead spirits to hold her legs up and rolled her to her back, she was not amused and dared threaten her with death.

Howling in the pain, she arched back as her head pulled in reverse as the child went out from within her out, her scowls were intense, enraged in pain as her childs begins to crown.

She began to beg, for the child to be torn to pieces as she wrapped her palms over her womb with it dipped into enraging pains as Nephthys wailed louder and louder.

Isis grabbed her sisters legs, as she leaned above her belly, she bellowed softly as her waters broke before her as she arched back, crowning as her child spreads her open.

Her bump deflates as she howls out with a single push, then the child's head bursts outwards with her weeping growing and her body sweats with the heat.

Isis coaching Nepthys while her baby dangles, holding her breath with each push as it falls a sudden yelp, she catches the newborn as she chants the spells to help Nephthys go forth.

While the goddesses of death weeps, scowling then howling as the arms pop forth she begs to Isis to pull out the baby from her womb.

Isis does so as they both gush with the last of the fluids and Isis bearing a twin, her eyes in complete shut with gasps slowing, Nephthys remained silent as the spirits unbind and fade.

Weeping in fury, thinking about how to end the bastard she just birthed then hearing it's wails.

Her instincts jump to protect, she shuffles tiredly and cradles the baby in her arm and shushess the baby ti'll sleep frantically with clarity in her mind, realising she hated her mistake with the mortal and being caring.

She hadn't named the child yet, to hide his existence from her husband Set and to be completely safe from his & her malevolence.

Her tears stroll as they celebrate the newborns.

[strigital]

not to be cringe on main, but the little click-clacks of Johnny's metal arm that we hear whenever we're in Johnny's POV literally make the autism creature inside my brain go apeshit

kinda like this:

[wanderinguteruspress-blog]

More rodeo AU doodles

Donnie would hate getting licked ( I agree it’s pretty gross) it’s a 100% autistic hell no.

Sometimes you gotta bottle feed some of the calves, Usagi’s softer side is showing.

Rodeo is still hella dangerous even if you are a mutant designed for war, and now and again you have a close call.

Leo is really good at putting on a smile for the crowd after nearly getting his head stomped in.

Good thing he knows a really spectacular rodeo clown 🤡