Huffington Post - by Ruma Paul/Reuters, 9/23/13

Bangladeshi garment factory workers shout slogans during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, Sept. 23, 2013. Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas in the third day of clashes Monday with thousands of garment workers demanding better minimum wages amid escalating tension over the country's main export business.
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DHAKA, Sept 23 (Reuters) - More than 100 Bangladeshi garment factories were forced to shut on Monday as thousands of workers protested to demand a $100 a month minimum wage and about 50 people were injured in clashes, police and witnesses said.

Workers took to the streets for a third day on Monday, blocking major roads and attacking some vehicles in the Gazipur and Savar industrial zones, on the outskirts of the capital, Dhaka.

Weather.com - Eric Zerkel, September 2013

On Aug. 6, 1945 an American bomber dropped a 9,000-pound atomic bomb dubbed "Little Boy" over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The resulting explosion reduced 5 square miles of the city to rubble and killed 80,000 Japanese—the first of two atomic attacks that would signal an abrupt and unceremonious end to World War II. But the incident also ushered the power of nuclear energy into the global consciousness, sparking a nuclear obsession that spawned a Cold War, nuclear power and nearly 70 years of ongoing fear of a potential nuclear disaster. 

To assuage those fears, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) developed the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) a rudimentary, color-coded scale that rates nuclear incidents at civilian sites, like nuclear power plants, from 1 to 7 in order of increasing magnitude. Every jump up the scale represents an increase in severity of 10 times, so that the impact of a level 7 event is roughly 1 million times greater than that of a level 1 event.

The Raw Story - Scott Kaufman, 9/22/12

“We don’t want this globalized economic system which does us so much harm,” he reportedly continued. “Men and women have to be at the center [of economic systems] as God wants, not money.”

The pope laid blame for the Italian economic downturn at the feet of the world economy, saying “It is not a problem of Italy and Europe … It is the consequence of a world choice, of an economic system that brings about this tragedy, an economic system that has at its center an idol which is called money.”

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Alternet.org - Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, 9/20/13

This week we reflect on the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street and the fifth anniversary of the financial collapse.

There are reasons to celebrate despite continued economic stagnation and growing debt: the culture of resistance in the US is here and it’s having an effect. The corporate power that has so blatantly stomped on our rights and whipped Congress to do its bidding is faltering and losing its grip. There are cracks in the pillars of power, and it’s up to us to pry them open and shine light on the lies and corruption that have been used to steal our future. We see a movement that is building momentum.

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The Raw Story - 9/21/13, Agence France Presse

Thousands of Bangladesh garment workers blocked roads and attacked factories outside the capital Dhaka on Saturday demanding a $100 minimum monthly wage.

“There were at least 20,000 workers who joined the protest. They blocked roads, demanding a big salary hike,” Mustafizur Rahman, deputy police chief of the industrial district of Gazipur, told AFP.

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