Comments on: ‘FAM’ Values

by: Naillassy

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:29:43 +0000

At Halliburton/KBR, sexual assault is just part of the workplace experience
for women Like many viewers, I watched this ABC 20/20 report when it first aired
in December with jaws-open, eyes-bugging horror. It told the story of two women
workers for Halliburton/KBR who had been sent to Iraq. There, one, Jamie Lee
Jones, a young computer tech, was gang-raped on her fourth day by coworkers
after being drugged; the other, Tracy Barker, was sexually assaulted by a State
Department employee. Both immediately reported their assaults, only to have
KBR first lock them in isolation, then question their accusations. In the case
of Jones, it even "lost" the medical report that documented evidence
of gang rape.
Click on a small picture to see shocking photos:

by: Dave Campbell

Thu, 19 May 2005 07:10:33 +0000

GE, Time Warner, Disney … corporate media behemoths who all ate well at the corporate welfare trough last fall, right before Georgie Porgy and Karl stole their second election through their abuse of power and corporate media ownership. Of course we need a radical new media movement in this country or we’re headed right back to why we (our forefathers, that is) came here in the first place, to escape the tyranny of the self righteous kings. If you don’t think the Bush family doesn’t see itself as a kingship … you’re not looking real hard at much anything at all. And that, my friend is a tremendous waste. the angrybulldog

by: pbswatcher

Thu, 19 May 2005 03:33:50 +0000

“Kenneth Tomlinson has his demanding donors. I’ll take the widow’s mite any day.” I’ll start believing him, as well as take him up on his offer, when he says he would rather have the $500 than the $400 million from Uncle Sam. See Raging Bill

by: John Riordan

Thu, 12 May 2005 15:15:03 +0000

I thought a prime example of a PBS supported show taking a ridiculously anti-labor position occurred right here in Boston May 11, 2005 on a show I usually enjoy, Emily Rooney’s “Greater Boston”. Rooney lambasted a former Polaroid worker (not executive) who had the temerity to question the egregiously excessive compansation arrangements that several C-level interlopers with about 9 months tenure at Polaroid arranged for themselves before raiding Polaroid’s worker’s pension funds. The Polaroid saga is just the kind of outrageous pilferage that a show like Frontline used to expose for all its greedy near-criminality. Rooney treated this disaffected worker cum nascent politician as if he were some kind of nut case, when in fact he was quite articulate and consistent, and supported by more facts than the show had time to explore. Rooney didn’t even do her homework, confusing the PBGC with the FDIC. Not even close! Shame on “Greater Boston”.

by: Bart Preecs

Thu, 12 May 2005 00:14:50 +0000

If there are only four other members of FAM, why aren’t they named?