Date of publication: April 3, 2011
Source: The Providence Journal
Author: Mark Reynolds
PROVIDENCE — A small group of workers’-rights advocates chomped on pizza and engaged in lively conversation Saturday afternoon, just before a 38-year-old Bangladeshi labor leader attracted their attention.
The organizer, Babul Akhter, had the ashen expression of a man who faces a death sentence.
His story was about his own plight and also about the suffering of Bangladeshi garment workers, including hundreds who have been burned alive in factory fires over the past four years....