pitbullfan:

HOLY SHIT

God fucking damnit you unintelligent philistines, Twitter is blocked by the great firewall so they use Sina Weibo instead! Nobody in fucking China uses Twitter unless they want to work for Foxconn for the rest of their lives.

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Shanghai’s shipping container homes (Credit to Aly Song/Reuters)

thepeoplesrecord:

Foxconn factory workers; trouble hits

October 9, 2012

Foxconn Technology Group, the assembler of Apple iPhones, had to stop production for the second time in as many weeks after factory-line workers at one of its plants protested against increased pressure.

Foxconn employs more than 1 million workers in China and has suffered in the past three years from suicides, riots and strikes. To improve working conditions, Chairman Terry Gou raised pay and allowed inspections by outside observers. The employees, who work as many as 12 hours a day, say the difficulties of meeting Apple’s demands for quality and abuse from guards set off the latest incidents. 

One of the company’s factories in Zhengzhou, China, lost two shifts on October 5 after workers became frustrated trying to prevent scratching on the casings of the iPhone 5, according to two people familiar with the matter. A dispute occurred between the production and quality teams at the factory, the company said. Some 3,000 to 4,000 people who walked off the job at the plant, have since returned to work, according to advocacy group China Labor Watch.

Source

Photo source of Foxconn employees protesting outside of an Apple store in previous protest. 

Workers of the world unite. Power to the people of Foxconn - you deserve more than a life of Apple slavery. 

Screw market demand, if Apple is so innovative and goes against the grain so much, why don’t they just jump out of the Chinese market that seems to steal their IPs every year and just automate the whole production process here in the US. They have enough billions in their war chest for the R&D to make the right robotics for said production but they’re spending most of their money on anti-competitive litigation instead.

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Works of Oakland local Eddie Colla

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And here’s the timeline on how the South China Sea Cyber War happened:

The Diplomat reported in May that Chinese hackers, egged on by bombastic official statements on both sides, attacked the University of the Philippines’ website, leading to retaliation from Filipino hackers in the form of vandalism on Chinese websites. Back and forth attacks continued through May 11 with bilateral calls for sensibility going unheeded. In the Philippines’ case, President Aquino’s deputy spokesperson Abigain Valte, The Philippines’ Department of Science Technology and Information, and the Communications Technology Office all condemned the attacks and called for their end.

As a chart created by Hackmageddon.com shows (above), Philippine hacker organizations such as “PrivateX” and “Anonymous #OccupyPhilippines” carried out attacks on Chinese government infrastructure, while Chinese hackers defaced Philippine newspapers, conducted DDOS attacks and stole and published passwords of Philippine government administrators.

Thanks to Hegamonic China, the Spratley Islands and the Scarborough Shoal are the new Dokdo/Takeshima despite the islands being in the Philippine’s Exclusive Economic Zone. Though for some reason the creator of this map included Ferdinand Marcos’ old claim for Sabah. Word is that China’s started a cyber war and is DDoSing PLDT internet connections within the country.

kblok:

I Love Shanghai

laughingsquid:

Ai Weiwei Ends Yearlong Probation

laorish:

olliemaxwell:

According to A History of Asian Americans: Strangers From A Different Shore by Ronald Takaki most of the Filipino population in America during the Great Depression married white women.

TAKE THAT YELLOW FEVER!

American history books never mention that immigration quotas prevented Asian women from immigrating to the US. Asian immigrant men married black, white, or Native American women. Most of the descendants of these unions today don’t even know about their Asian heritage.

It was never the quota that prevented women from emigrating to the US during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Most women of men who came to this country stayed home due to socio-economic reasons, though there was political hyperbole during the time of the gold rush where any woman traveling in steerage was suspected of being a prostitute and many articles were written on this. To avoid that misconception, wives of affluent merchants often took first class tickets on trans-pacific trips. Hope that clears up for you.

Golden Hour in Old Town III a.k.a. Golden flight by Nina Matzat

Relax by KB Photography Blog

City by Manoharan Karthigasu

nationalpost:

Peter Goodspeed: Dying as a political act: Centuries-old Buddhist tradition of self-immolation continues in China

“This was not the random act of a disturbed individual, but rather a single manifestation of a deeply rooted set of ideas and ideals in Chinese Buddhism that blossomed again and again in the history of pre-modern China.”

Photo: Tibetan exile Janphel Yeshi, 27, runs as he is engulfed in flames after he set himself on fire to protest an upcoming visit to India by Chinese President Hu Jintao, March 26, 2012, in New Delhi. Yeshi suffered life-threatening burns. (AFP/Getty Images)