I'd like - oh, to be able to breathe normally again. Thanks.

[kyburg]

So Arlen Specter had enough, did he? Again? HAY ARLEN, NEXT TIME GO GREEN.

We'll take you. And then maybe we'll have someone running the joint who can actually get paperwork filed on time. And pay bills. And...stuffs. (In the meantime, we solitary Greens get to perfect our facepalms. Oh yes, we do.)

Any of my knitty friends ever buy yarn made by a company in North Carolina called Tuscarora? I'd never heard of them, and I'm pretty sure they won't be happy about how I did.

In a completely done deal, the EEOC is suing them for 'subjecting an employee to sexual harassment and then retaliating against her for com­plaining about it.'

A Latina factory worker in North Carolina was brutally assaulted by the plant manager after she had earlier reported his sexual harassment to officials of the yarn company that employed her, according to a federal court complaint filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The complaint, part of a motion filed by the SPLC today, alleges that Tuscarora Yarns Inc. of Oakboro, N.C., failed to protect the woman, who speaks very little English, after she told superiors about unwelcome sexual advances, comments, innuendo and physical contact by the manager in 2007.

On Dec. 29, 2007, she left the factory in an ambulance following an assault by the manager.

UH, check the dates. The suit was filed on 3/30/09. That's how long it takes, guys. (Tip of the hat to reannon - I would never known anything about it.) After leaving your job in an ambulance. Keerist.

Does this mean I shouldn't be taking Rush so seriously?

Tapped motorbike yesterday - this issue NEEDS shirts like nobody's business. And you know what? I don't plan to store-sell. I'm sure the Twitter underground will do nicely. Who doesn't have a Twitter account? Me. Who has Twitter accounts? All y'all. Will let you know the particulars as soon as we get them together. (Oh and BTW? Locals - you want to make some noise, please? A little louder - nobody can HEAR YOU.)



I hates Hollywood today.

Going to Target today. For humidifiers, mayonnaise and brains.

Comments

[caitlin.livejournal.com]

1 - No, Rush is SERIOUS. And so completely full of it and himself that it's no wonder he "jiggles"... any further imagery I am not mentioning.

2 - in regards to "racebending.com"... umm... what if you're not Korean, Belgian, or your run of the mill WASP? Because, uh... hi... I think I'm offended.

3 - Why do you keep leaving crocheters off of your 'friends'? Sure, T and I knit, but crochet is our CoC... =P Although I had never heard of the yarn company in question, that will definitely be one place I will never go for yarn.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

What would be more inclusive? 'Yarnies?' *sniggers*

Oh baby. I AM offended. I'm sure of it.

[caitlin.livejournal.com]

"yarnies" works. Includes spinners and people who do things other than knit and crochet with yarn. =D

some people just don't think... stupid movie producer people.

[dracowayfarer.livejournal.com]

"...and brains."

Just don't buy the ones labeled Abby Normal.

[gallo-de-pelea.livejournal.com]

I suspect there's a great deal of overlap between the "Why don't they report and pursue legal action RIGHT AWAY NOW NOW? If they don't it can't be legitimate" crowd, the "She's just making it all up" crowd, and the "Bitch deserves what she gets for speaking up" crowd.

[reannon.livejournal.com]

It's not the woman pressing the suit, actually. It's the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission filing the suit, which is part of their mandate. Therefore it's actually pretty quick for the suit - the story didn't mention anything about criminal prosecution. Most of the time when the victim is an undocumented immigrant, they don't even bother to prosecute because juries won't convict.

[gallo-de-pelea.livejournal.com]

My bad; I got this conflated in my mind with another case that involved "taking anything more than a week to file/get in court = consent" grandstanding by the opposition.

[reannon.livejournal.com]

That is, often, the case in criminal prosecution. To add to the fun, even when they press charges in many cases prosecutors won't file and/or juries won't convict when the victim is undocumented.

[reannon.livejournal.com]

I have since been informed that Tuscarora provides yarn primarily for the clothing and textile industry - more industrial yarn, rather than the kind used by knitters and crocheters. Still worth watching to avoid.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I'd love to know who they sell to. That would be telling.

[luscious-purple.livejournal.com]

It's not that hard to figure out:

Tuscarora Yarns is the largest manufacturer of cotton heather and mélange yarns in the U.S. and the only Supima-licensed spinner of heather yarns in this hemisphere. Its yarns are sold in end products at the mass market level to the private label level and are found in such top brands as Victoria’s Secret, Liz Claiborne and Ralph Lauren, to name a few.

(from http://tuscarorayarns.com/documents/STN_Tuscarora2002_04_081.pdf)

[gallo-de-pelea.livejournal.com]

I keep reading it as 'Yams"

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

YAMS YAMS YAMS

Damn, where's that icon....

[sal_amanda]

I so need to find out if my university has that Colbert article available.

[sarahwilder.livejournal.com]

I may singlehandedly encourage a Libertarian revival in Colorado.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Go green. Seriously. We have brownies.

[lordindra.livejournal.com]

Thank you for that racebending link.

I had seen your posts complaining about this controversy, not knowing the show and never catching your posts at a convenient time for research I had no idea really what the problem was.

Now I do... And yeah. I just don't get why they'd do that. It implies racism on their part, and implies they think we are racist and won't watch it with Asian actors. I find both angles there rather offensive. Sure, maybe they aren't intentionally doing it for those reasons, but if so, they clearly didn't think this through very thoroughly. Would they sign off on live action Jetsons with all black or asian actors?

And rewriting the entire tribes? If they were really sure a white actor was better for a given part than anyone of the original ethnicity, there HAD to be a less blatantly racist way to justify it within the story.

Sometimes changing race from the original source is fine- The new BSG did that with several characters. But in that case there were things they were saying about race and how when you get down to basics, it really doesn't matter. They could not have said those things as clearly if they stuck with the original race of all the characters.

Unless I'm missing something though, and I don't think i am, with Avatar they aren't trying to say anything other than "we think we'll make more money this way".

You know they've screwed up when someone who hasn't seen more than 10 seconds of the show flipping through channels is getting offended at it.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Tell a friend. Tell a lot of friends.

And then go tell Viacom. In clear language, what you just told me.