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After unsafe Factory kills 400 in Bangladesh, on May Day workers Demand Rights (Democracy Now!)

Juan Cole 05/01/2013

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As deaths in the Bangladesh textile factory fire mount to over 400, on May Day workers demand they be afforded as many legal protections as the products they make. Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! Reports:

The CBC reports:

“Dozens of Bangladeshi garment workers, their bodies too battered or decomposed to be identified, were buried in a mass funeral Wednesday, a week after the eight-storey building they worked in toppled down, killing at least 410 people and injuring thousands.”

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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