Garment worker challenges DeLay
by Marty Schladen
Galveston County Daily News
Published June 6, 2005
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay says he found no victims of sweatshops, sex slavery or forced abortions on the Pacific island of Saipan in the mid-1990s. But Carmencita Abad says that’s because DeLay did not want to see them.
“My answer is, Mr. DeLay, I am that person,” Abad said in a telephone interview. “I am an example of an individual who can prove that the accounts of sweatshop labor and forced prostitution are not just allegations but true accounts of working conditions in the Marianas Islands when Mr. DeLay traveled there and turned a blind eye to our misery.” [...] Read the rest at http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=2e5931afec8226b9 or http://tinyurl.com/exsec
© Virginia Metze
Galveston County Daily News
Published June 6, 2005
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay says he found no victims of sweatshops, sex slavery or forced abortions on the Pacific island of Saipan in the mid-1990s. But Carmencita Abad says that’s because DeLay did not want to see them.
“My answer is, Mr. DeLay, I am that person,” Abad said in a telephone interview. “I am an example of an individual who can prove that the accounts of sweatshop labor and forced prostitution are not just allegations but true accounts of working conditions in the Marianas Islands when Mr. DeLay traveled there and turned a blind eye to our misery.” [...] Read the rest at http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=2e5931afec8226b9 or http://tinyurl.com/exsec
© Virginia Metze
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