[nettime-lat] CHRISTMAS GREETINGS

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Advice of a Southern American plantation owner regarding Christmas, published 
in 1850:

"Believing that the strolling about of negroes for a week at a time during 
what are called Christmas Holidays is productive of much evil, the writer has 
set his face against the custom. Christmas is observed as a Sacred Festival. 
On that day as good a dinner as the plantation will afford is served for the 
negroes, and they all sit down to a common table, but the next day we go to 
work. From considerations both of morality and needful rest and recreation to 
the negro, I much prefer giving a week in July, when the crop is laid by, to 
giving three days at Christmas."

Testimony of maquiladora worker Maria Gallego quoted in a Human Rights Watch 
Report about sex discrimination in Mexico's Maquiladora Sector, published in 
2001:

"...two pregnant workers at Industrias Marķa de Tijuana sometimes fainted 
from exposure to paint thinner with which they worked. Gallego protested and 
demanded that they received some form of protection. Her supervisor responded 
by telling her that it was none of her business and that it was common for 
pregnant women to faint. Gallego was fired shortly thereafter. She was told 
they no longer needed so many workers, but she was the only one fired to her 
knowledge. She said she signed her "resignation" papers because she believed 
that if she argued, the company would make her life difficult and prevent her 
from obtaining a job at another factory."



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