position:garment worker

▻http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/sep/07/edl-marchers-east-london-mosque
Once again EDL marchers scuffle with anti-racist protesters near East London mosque

We are a united community and we are a diverse community. Young people are not coming out today because they are frightened.

claimed Lutfur Rahman the Tower Hamlets mayor, He made that statement being with John Biggs, a local Labour London assembly member, both were among the campaigners who listened to speeches at Altab Ali park, named after an Asian garment worker who was murdered in a racist attack in May 1978.

Last Hope in Ruins - Bangladesh’s Race to Save Shaheena - NYTimes.com

▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/world/asia/struggle-in-bangladesh-to-save-collapse-survivor.html?nl=todaysheadlines&em

SAVAR, Bangladesh — The rescuers discovered her by a faint, distant sound. They had spent four days crawling through the wreckage of Rana Plaza, tons of concrete and steel pressing down, saving hundreds of people. Now only the dead remained. Except for a lone woman, a garment worker.

She was trapped behind a fallen pillar, in a suffocating crevice maybe two feet high. First, the rescuers could see only her fingertips pressing through a tiny opening. After hours spent chipping a small hole, they could see her face. Her name was Shaheena. She was 32. She begged to see her young son.

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