Workers' Rights Article and Poem

 In the article, "Coca-Cola Accused of Using Death Squads to Target Union Leaders", Gary Leech argues that what Coca-Cola is doing to the union leaders is wrong. He never really states his opinion in any way, but all the facts he gives are on the union leaders' side. Coca-Cola is, or was, hiring people to kill, kidnap, threaten, or torture union leaders protesting against the working conditions in Colombia. Gary Leech states that, "Colombia has long been the most dangerous country in the world for trade unionists with almost 4,000 murdered in the past 15 years. Last year saw 128 labor leaders assassinated." I think that this act of murdering, kidnapping, threatening, and/or torturing is a violation to our human rights, like the right to public assembly and workers' rights. What surprised me was that Coca-Cola would take this violent route and get away with it. They did what they did, benefited from it, and no government was able to stop them.

   The argument in "The Sweatshop" was that the worker felt that he/she was turning into a machine because of the way his/her life was playing out. They worked endlessly, not knowing for whom, they stopped working at the same time every day and continued at the same time every day. Using a machine for what seemed like forever. The writer claims that he/she forget who they are, they have no emotions, no feeling, they have become a machine. Reading the poem was more interesting than reading the article. It got my attention more because with the poem I had to take a deeper meaning into it while with the article everything was just there. Of course, understanding it was more challenging, but at the same time more interesting. Nothing's interesting without some sort of challenge.