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Poland: Workers Of The Gdansk Shipyard
By Francois Struzik
Posted in all, features, europe, slides on 4 June 2010
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sounds of the building hall by Cécile Liège
In 1980 the workers at the Gdansk shipyard, then called the LENIN shipyard, fought on behalf of the entire Poland. In that year the SOLIDARNOSC union was founded. Lech WALESA, electrician at the shipyard, became one of the most famous union leaders. This was the beginning of the end for the communist [...]

Turkey: Tekel Workers’ Protest
By Emre Kuheylan
Posted in all, news & global, slides on 4 March 2010
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The most persistent and determined protest in Turkey for a decade: “Tekel” was the government-owned tobacco and alcoholic beverages company for many years, but when the tobacco branch of Tekel was sold to British American Tobacco in 2008 as part of privatization plans, Tekel workers lost their job status.
The government is now forcing them to [...]

UK: Claws Of Steel
By John Watts-Robertson
Posted in all, features, europe, slides on 28 December 2009
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Bill Pinchers stands with a group of his workmates – tough looking men, waiting for a red hot bar of steel to make its way towards them inside one of the last hand-rolled steel mills in Britain. Outside, the Black Country weather is doing its worst with heavy rain being driven almost horizontally by [...]

USA, Detroit: Once an Icon of American Prosperity
By Q. Sakamaki
Posted in all, news & global, slides on 13 November 2009
Stats: 2,633 views and 9 Comments

Detroit was once America’s iconic city of prosperity. However, upon visiting for the first time in early 2009 it reminded me of the war-torn cities of Beirut and Kabul. Many factories of former legendary automakers were left in ruins, still containing hazardous materials such as asbestos. One-third of the city’s buildings or houses remained vacant. [...]

India: Mercury Menace
By Sudhanshu Malhotra
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 7 August 2009
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Beautiful lakes, silent hills coated with eucalyptus and pine trees, misty mornings ascertaining a perennially cool weather, Kodaikanal comes across as a perfect tourist destination in southern India. But even this picture perfect landscape has not escaped the harsh consequences of man’s eternal greed. It is a story of suffering on account of exposure to [...]

Papua New Guinea: Paradise Lost
By Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific on 29 July 2009
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My view is filled with green, green as far as I can see: dark green, vibrant green, tired looking green but all green with the occasional splash of muddy brown. I’m in a helicopter flying over the rainforests of the Gulf and Western Provinces, Papua New [...]