A fellow from England has offered to match donations up to $15,000.00
He responded to a woman named Rosa Morena who really needs help, or at least our attention. Her story should be spread around so that people are aware of it.
If you go into a store this year and look at any consumer electronics and think about the connection with NAFTA, you should think about Rosa and trying to help in some way. It is about human compassion and the need for proper pay and compensation for fellow workers, who might be us if things continue they way they seem to be going.
An account has been set up and Pay Pal donations have been trickling in, a little at a time. Recently a Texas Observer article went online and was picked up by Alternet.org. That boosted the page views up from a couple of dozen a day to about a hundred a day.
It turns out that the alternative media isn't really as keen on truly alternative stories as one might hope. If you really look at it, the same penchant for categories of interest is there, except for a different set of preferred categories than you get with the so called corporate media.
This for sure, is not a corporate media story.
If you email places like Democracy Now!, you get the feeling that they have huge inboxes and may never get around to taking the time to consider. It takes knowing somebody who knows somebody who can talk face to face about why this is an important story. The internet has not replaced the human factor.
Where are people like Bill Moyers when you need them? Hard to get a hold of because Moyers does not allow contact from just anyone. Why should he? Moyers is retired times two or three. One loses track.
There are not very many people out there like Bill Moyers, Amy Goodman, or Maria Hinojosa. That is highlighted when you go through the exercise of working through how to get a story like this out.
Then there is Daily Kos, and whether or not a diary about something like this will stay on the front page for very long before it is lost amidst the numberless diaries that run down off the scroll.
Here is the Texas Observer link to the story about Rosa Moreno, a worker in a factory along the US Mexico border who worked in an electronics factory making flat screen TVs for the big box stores. You might even own one.
We Are Disposable, by Melissa Del Bosque http://www.texasobserver.org/...