A post every woman should read
Submitted by ShelaghC on Thu, 02/07/2008 - 11:37am.
A blogger named Raine over at Four Freedoms posted an entry concerning the women who were raped while working overseas for Halliburton/KBR and have come forward so far.
Some points from the blog entry include the following:
- Halliburton/KBR ... They force employees to give up their civil rights in order to be employed. That means you as a woman have the right to be raped by your fellow workers.
- A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident.
in another incident) - In a separate letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Nelson asked why there has been no criminal prosecution in the case of the alleged Florida victim. The woman, reportedly now 41, has alleged she was raped in her living quarters. She has sued KBR and Halliburton in civil court, but the judge ordered the case into private arbitration.
(in yet another incident) - A mother of five who says she was sexually harassed and assaulted while working for Halliburton/KBR in Iraq is headed for a secretive arbitration process rather than being able to present her case in open court.
A judge in Texas has ruled that Tracy Barker's case will be heard in arbitration, according to the terms of her initial employment contract.
The full post is here.
Raine has compiled a *lot* of information and written an important piece.
If you are a woman, if you are not but respect women, if you are a human being with an ounce of decency, read Raine's post and post a link in your own blog.
Spread the word about this. If the mainstream media won't publicize it, if the United States government is turning a blind eye to this, then we must do something about it.
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DISGRACEFUL
is this being give the media coverage it deserves in america
if not, then another crime of equall proportions has been perpetrated
and is hillary speaking out about this, or she busy calculating whether it's expedient to do so
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here's some more kindling...
Case Of Alleged Sexual Assault Against Halliburton Staffers Won’t Go To Trial
Sex Assault Suit Against Halliburton Killed
Yes, Horrid.
Later I hope to put on MySpace "page". I get a wee decent amount of "hits".
ARREST! IMPEACH! then INTENSE VIGILANCE!
Hillary is more for Women's Rights, than Obama.
Policy wonkery from TortDeform
via Meteor Blades at Daily Kos:
Election ’08: A Pro-Civil Justice Presidential Platform
Far too many victims of harms like employment discrimination, medical malpractice, predatory lending, and breach of contract find that they have inadvertently waived their Constitutional right to a jury trial when they signed a contract containing a binding mandatory arbitration "agreement." Virtually every adult American has signed such a provision, now commonly nestled in the fine print of employment, consumer, and other contracts. Binding mandatory arbitration clauses send disputing parties to a private arbitrator rather than a public court. Unfortunately, however, arbitration’s burdensome costs, lack of procedural protections and the documented anti-consumer bias of some arbitration companies make it particularly harmful to individuals and beneficial to companies.
More here:
http://www.tortdeform.com/archives/2007/11/opening_page.html