Steve Last January Aaron Swartz committed suicide. He had been hounded into a state of deep depression by an overzealous prosecutor in Massachusetts, who wanted to make a public example of a young man who devoted his life to making information free; a function, to him, of a strong democracy. The cruelty in this story is … Read more
From a photo from the AP http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/04/26/bangladesh-factory-collapse-retailers_n_3162066.html This from the Huffington Post: Here Are The Western Retailers That Source Clothes From The Bangladeshi Factories Where More Than 200 Workers Died Quartz | By Gwynn Guilford The eight-story factory building just outside Dhaka that collapsed yesterday has now killed at least 228 workers, reports Reuters—most of them women. The … Read more
