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60 Minutes Piece on the Ship Breaking Industry in Bangladesh

I’d almost think my previous post was an unfinished affair, where neither party in love understood anything substantially valuable or interesting about the other.  There was much more left to be said; much left to do. Pursuant to that, I think anyone who wants to know something tangible about the grey haze and temperature of a day in the ship breaking yards can do no better than to watch this episode of 60 Minutes, which aired in 2006.

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Please find a transcript accompanying the 60 Minutes piece:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/03/60minutes/main2149023.shtml60

Finally, please find below a website dedicated to the latest news on the ship breaking industry in Bangladesh and updates on those harmed or killed while working therein:
http://www.shipbreakingbd.info/

 

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Faheem Haider

Faheem Haider is a political analyst, writer and artist. He holds advanced research degrees in political economy, political theory and the political economy of development from the London School of Economics and Political Science and New York University. He also studied political psychology at Columbia University. During long stints away from his beloved Washington Square Park, he studied peace and conflict resolution and French history and European politics at the American University in Washington DC and the University of Paris, respectively.

Faheem has research expertise in democratic theory and the political economy of democracy in South Asia. In whatever time he has to spare, Faheem paints, writes, and edits his own blog on the photographic image and its relationship to the political narrative of fascist, liberal and progressivist art.

That work and associated writing can be found at the following link: http://blackandwhiteandthings.wordpress.com