Remember, Remember, the women who were dismembered

And the more than a thousand killed in the collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh on April 24, to the horror of developed nations such as America and the European Union.

The Garment Factory Exporters Association expresses concern.

The Bangladeshi government promise reparations, yet not enough for the workers and the workers' families to live on.

What is enough for these human beings who can't make a living anymore because their limbs have been severed from their bodies or their mothers and daughters were killed.

For the pain and agony and suffering because of neglect by the factory owner.

Because the government never enforced safety regulations.

Remember the workers who were killed, every time you buy an expensive shirt at Gap.

Remember the women with severed arms and legs every time you buy a pair of jeans or t-shirt or underwear at Wal-Mart.

Remember the decomposed bodies of the garment workers every time you buy something at Gap, Wal-Mart and other corporations that contracted with the owner of this factory. 

Remember the children of the slain and suffering because they can't support the children.

Remember, really, the children.

They will remember their dead mothers and their mothers who can't feed themselves because they have no arms.

Who can't walk because they have lost their legs.

They will remember the American corporations in 20 years who contracted with this Bangladesh factory to produce cheap clothes for generations of Americans living in debt.

Will the women who died or were dismembered live better?

They will remember their dead mothers and sisters.

They will remember the disaster.

But, you, Americans, remember the hatred we may have created in another generation.

Because we are greedy and gluttonous.

Because we consume like rabid animals.

America has exported its history of child labor, unsafe working conditions, poverty wages and the art of dodging real and truthful issues.

The collapse of the garment factory is a glimpse at America’s past. Of sweatshops in tenements in New York City.

Of children working 70-hours a week in steel mills and factories for pennies.

We elevate fools to heroes.

And corporations to the status of humanity.

It starts here, in your home and on your block.

America, where are you now?

Where are your sons and daughters?

Do you know your sons and daughters anymore?