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Halliburton Rape
bgalrstate.blogspot.com - 10/8/2009
Halliburton Rape
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If you don't have ten minutes, at least start watching at the 7:00 mark. I usually don't cover stuff already covered at Big Orange, but .... Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) proposed an amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill that would withhold defense contracts from companies like KBR ...
Franken Wins Bipartisan Support For Legislation Reining In KBR’s Treatment Of Rape
thinkprogress.org - 10/7/2009
Franken Wins Bipartisan Support For Legislation Reining In KBR’s Treatment Of Rape
— thinkprogress.org — In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her co-workers while she was working for Halliburton/KBR in... Baghdad. She was detained in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food, water, or a bed, and “warned her that if she left Iraq for ... (more) Franken Wins Bipartisan Support For Legislation Reining ...

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dailykos.com - 10/7/2009
GOP backs corporate rape
— dailykos.com — How was this controversial? In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her co-workers while she was... working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad. She was detained in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food, water, or a bed, and ... (more) GOP backs corporate rape

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themoderatevoice.com - 10/15/2009
Jon Stewart on the ‘Franken Anti-Government-Contractor Rape Liability Bill’
— themoderatevoice.com — Jon Stewart’s piece on Sen. Al Franken’s first legislative amendment. Added to a defense bill passed last... week, it prohibits giving defense contracts to any company that requires employees to sign a mandatory arbitration contract preventing them from taking the company to ... (more) Jon Stewart on the ‘Franken Anti-Government-Contractor ...

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Franken Passes Bill To Help Contractors Raped Abroad (VIDEO)
airamerica.com 10/8/2009 — Minnesota Senator Al Franken today--over the objection of fully 30 Republicans-- authored and passed legislation restricting military contractors from bidding "if they restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and ...
Sen. Al Franken Stands Up to Support KBR Rape Victim and Others Like Her
crooksandliars.com 10/8/2009 — DOWNLOADS: (46) PLAYS: (331) (h/t CSPANJunkie) Rookie Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) passed an amendment to a defense bill this week that would withhold government contracts from organizations like KBR if they restrict employees from taking rape and sexual ...
U.S. Midwest: Open Discussion — Booman Tribune
Minnesota: Sen. Al Franken has already earned this year's pay with his successful amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill making it illegal to for the government to pay any contractor who makes their employees resolve allegations of rape and sexual harassment through arbitration. ...
Howie Klein: Senate Passes Amendment To Prevent KBR & Halliburton From Getting Away With Raping Employees (Literally) — Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
Today the Senate "debated" the Department of Defense appropriations bill passed by the House (H.R. 3326 ) for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010. Republicans added frivolous amendments all day, that were defeated one after the other . The amendment du jour , however, came from Al Franken ...
Senate Passes An Amendment Against Concerted GOP Opposition To Prevent KBR & Halliburton From Getting Away With Raping Employees (Literally) — DownWithTyranny!
Today the Senate "debated" the Department of Defense appropriations bill passed by the House (H.R. 3326 ) for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010. Republicans added frivolous amendments all day, starting with one of the Wyoming clowns, John Barrasso trying to prohibit the use of funds for ...
Trish Kinney: Franken's Amendment; the Power and the Promise — Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
Senator Al Franken got my attention and the attention of a lot of other people who care about sexual abuse and violence, with the passing of his Senate Amendment 2566. The Amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill provides for the withholding of federal funds from contractors who continue to ...
Franken Amendment Step Towards Ending Militarism's Culture of Impunity Regarding Sexual Assault, More Needed — Commondreams.org Views
by Lucinda Marshall Yesterday, by a 68-30 vote, the U.S. Senate passed Senator Al Franken’s amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Bill (Amendment 2588) that, according to Stop Family Violence , prevents the Defense Department from using contractors that require, “mandatory ...