Posts: 12231
Threads: 324
Joined: April 14, 2011
Reputation:
140
Qatar World Cup: over 900 workers died already, could be as high as 4000 by kick off
May 23, 2015 at 10:59 pm
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news...88/?no-ist
Quote:More Than 900 Workers Have Already Died Building Qatar’s World Cup Infrastructure
The International Trade Union Confederation says that if conditions don’t improve, at least 4,000 migrants will die before kick-off
As if the circumstances surrounding the Qatar World Cup weren't sickening enough already.
Posts: 3931
Threads: 47
Joined: January 5, 2015
Reputation:
37
RE: Qatar World Cup: over 900 workers died already, could be as high as 4000 by kick off
May 24, 2015 at 12:01 am
(This post was last modified: May 24, 2015 at 12:02 am by Regina.)
I hate to say it but appalling as it is I'm not surprised. Happens all the time in these Middle Eastern oil countries, where these builders (often immigrants from South and South-East Asia) are basically in slave conditions. Dubai was built on almost slave labour.
Shame it takes this to get the media to actually notice and talk about it.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
Posts: 13051
Threads: 66
Joined: February 7, 2011
Reputation:
92
RE: Qatar World Cup: over 900 workers died already, could be as high as 4000 by kick off
May 24, 2015 at 12:16 am
Gee, who could have foreseen that? Oh, that's right. Everyone but FIFA did foresee that. It's either that or FIFA is run by total whores that turned a blind eye as long as Qatar made sure the price was right.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
Posts: 18510
Threads: 129
Joined: January 19, 2014
Reputation:
91
RE: Qatar World Cup: over 900 workers died already, could be as high as 4000 by kick off
May 24, 2015 at 6:38 am
Is there any sensible reaction to that but to boycot it?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
Posts: 198
Threads: 5
Joined: April 30, 2015
Reputation:
4
RE: Qatar World Cup: over 900 workers died already, could be as high as 4000 by kick off
May 24, 2015 at 7:22 am
I hope people don't forget this when 2022 comes around, would be very depressing if there wasn't a boycott
“The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend your individual beauty you also give up a lot of your humanity. You will do things in the name of a group that you would never do on your own. Injuring, hurting, killing, drinking are all part of it, because you've lost your identity, because you now owe your allegiance to this thing that's bigger than you are and that controls you.” - George Carlin
Posts: 12231
Threads: 324
Joined: April 14, 2011
Reputation:
140
RE: Qatar World Cup: over 900 workers died already, could be as high as 4000 by kick off
May 24, 2015 at 9:33 am
Yeah it's sickening. FIFA is one of the most corrupt organisations on the planet. They'll just expect people to ignore/forget all this shit by the time it comes around. I hope these air conditioned stadiums are worth it.
Posts: 3300
Threads: 119
Joined: January 19, 2015
Reputation:
30
RE: Qatar World Cup: over 900 workers died already, could be as high as 4000 by kick off
May 24, 2015 at 9:58 am
I saw this type of thing in Saudi Arabia. They treated foreign workers as bad as they could get away with - which often was dependent on which country the worker was from. I knew a lot of guys from British Aerospace over there. One of them decked one of the Mutawah (religious police) - knocked him out, cold. He was on a plane back to the UK the next day, deported. If it had been a Filipino or such, the offender wouldn't have been on a plane - he would have been in a jail cell and may have never come out.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Posts: 4659
Threads: 123
Joined: June 27, 2014
Reputation:
40
RE: Qatar World Cup: over 900 workers died already, could be as high as 4000 by kick off
May 24, 2015 at 10:17 am
You know how it's like, as long as there profit FIFA doesn't give a shit about the working class's dignity.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
Posts: 19789
Threads: 57
Joined: September 24, 2010
Reputation:
85
RE: Qatar World Cup: over 900 workers died already, could be as high as 4000 by kick off
May 24, 2015 at 10:49 am
Why the hell would the World Cup be held, of all places, in Quatar?
Posts: 18510
Threads: 129
Joined: January 19, 2014
Reputation:
91
RE: Qatar World Cup: over 900 workers died already, could be as high as 4000 by kick off
May 24, 2015 at 11:01 am
So we can have après-ski parties and christmas-themed world cup parties at the same time.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
|
