Suffer from Privatization - The Messenger Band
The Messenger Band, made up of former garment workers, gives concerts that highlight the difficulties of factory work and other women's issues in Cambodia. (Photo: Moritz Ege)Friday 12 March 2010
By Anne Elizabeth Moore
t r u t h o u t | Interview
Do you want to become a famous pop star?"My name is Saem, and the name of my group is the Messenger Band," the singer more formally known as Vun Em explains. We are in Phnom Penh's Meta-House, where four members of the six-member Messenger Band are about to give a quick a cappella concert to the reporters ex-pats, and tourists gathered.
Vun Em: A lot of people ask me, why don't you go to the TV and sing the song and become a famous star? I don't want to become a famous star. I don't want to be a famous person, but I want my song, I want my information to become recognized by the big people, and be respected. And provide the rights to those people. For me, I don't want to be famous, but I want our people here to get enough rice, enough food to eat, and they have the right to demand their rights.
It's not their usual venue. The Messenger Band was formed by the Cambodian NGO Women's Agenda for Change in 2005 to bring the concerns of the young women who move to the city to earn money for their families back to the provinces. They write songs in the traditional folk style, and choreograph moves to accompany their laments, and villagers are often riveted: the subjects of these songs are their daughters, their nieces, their friends.
The subjects of the songs are members of the Messenger Band. All former or current garment factory workers themselves, the varying group of women that perform as the band are well versed in the issues that affect women in Cambodia. "We are tired but we say nothing," one song goes. "We are hard working and much of this money I earn is dollars to help my mother."
But the message of the band is clear: "The voice of garment workers must be used to shout to tell all Cambodian women that to be a servant is very difficult," they sing in tones unheard in American pop tunes, and all the more affective because of it. "We have no freedom and no rights."
Vun Em, the 25-year-old front person for the band - at least for the night - took a few moments before their late January concert to answer a few questions.
How long have you been doing the band?
Vun Em: I work in the band for five years, start from 2005.
And you used to work in the garment factory?
Vun Em: Yes, I worked in the factory from - I started in 2000, until 2005. And from 2005 until now, I work with the band.
You are with the band full time?
Vun Em: Yes.
How do you make a living working full time with a political band in Cambodia?
Vun Em: I have some support from the donors. Women's Agenda For Change, they created this big group and they provide some support to Messenger Band. Not much, just small.
Enough?
Vun Em: Yeah.
Why do you think it's important for garment factory workers to start a band?
Vun Em: I think it's really important because I can really speak out about the situation when I was working in the factory. I saw a lot of problems with the workers in the factory. I think that it's good if we write a song that educates the people. And also do advocacy through song.
What did you see in the factories that you think needs to be changed?
Vun Em: Oh, that's a good question. First, I want to see change, like see the garment worker respected by the law and supported by the government and the investors. It's important for investors: they have to follow the law in Cambodia and they have to respect worker's rights.
How is the law not being followed in Cambodia?
Vun Em: A lot of [ways], like the forced overtime and the low wage. They have to ask permission for when they have to take leave or when they get sick. It's really difficult to take leave. And sometimes, they are dismissed by the company because they cannot go to work, like when they get sick, they have to go to the hospital. But the factory owners, they don't allow them to go. Some factories, when the workers fall unconscious in the factory, when they awake from unconsciousness, they tell the worker that, "you have to promise that you will not [lose consciousness] again, otherwise, you lose the job."
So, if people faint, they have to promise that they won't faint again?
Vun Em: Yes, they have to promise. They cannot unconscious again. Otherwise you will lose the job. And the workers are so scared, they just promise the leaders.
Are you nervous being an activist in Cambodia?
Vun Em: Hmmm, a little bit. But if we don't stand up, no one hear the story. And that's why we have to stand up and share some information about the poor people in Cambodia. We have to stand up and speak out, otherwise we die.
Yes, the workers, they welcome us and they tell us, Oh I have heard your song, through the radio and sometimes through the TV - but not often on the TV.
Do you want to become a famous pop star?
Vun Em: A lot of people ask me, why don't you go to the TV and sing the song and become a famous star? I don't want to become a famous star. I don't want to be a famous person, but I want my song, I want my information to become recognized by the big people, and be respected. And provide the rights to those people. For me, I don't want to be famous, but I want our people here to get enough rice, enough food to eat, and they have the right to demand their rights.
As garment factories close, more and more women enter the sex industry by working at the karaoke bars. You have a song about this.
Vun Em: When the factories close down, some girls will go to become entertainment workers, and HIV will spread out around. But why don't [the NGOs] care about their living life? Why they don't care about their family? Why they don't care about the security of those people? Why they care only about HIV? [She starts to cry.] I don't know, I don't understand.
We also care about HIV, but you have to think about the lives of the people, not only HIV. If the people don't have enough food to eat, if they don't have enough education, if they don't have good health, how can they prevent themselves from the HIV? They don't have time to think about HIV, they only have time to think, I need food, I need food. All the time.
What can people in the United States do to support the factory workers?
Vun Em: I want them to support health care to garment workers, and the poor people in Cambodia. Because health care and food is really, really needed.
One more thing: I want to let those people in the United States be aware that the worker situation in Cambodia - it's really bad. And I want the investors ... to respond to the workers, and our laws in Cambodia. Not only put pressure to our government, put pressure to our people here. You have to respect our law and our people. And also you can support our country and our government and our people, not only judge. You have to learn, you have to understand what is the real situation in Cambodia.
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"A Karaoke Girl's Life" (song written by the Messenger Band):
I have had bad fate in my life since I was born; my life has been different from others. Always facing unhappiness, I bear the family's burden; I bear the shame and sell my voice."Voice of Garment Workers" (song written by the Messenger Band):
I became a karaoke girl I sing in the karaoke bar I don't want to be here but I am poor. Please don't blame me for being bad I have tried to live in this darkness.
Though I work day and night and never resting, I am still poor I was in debt to the owner. If I take rest, they reduce my money.
The tears of a karaoke girl I am living as a slave, without freedom. I was mistreated by the owner and forced to serve clients.
The voice of garment workers must be used to shout to tell all Cambodian women that to be a servant is very difficult. They curse, they blame us and say we are bad girls, but we have no freedom and no rights.
We are all garment workers, we live in bad conditions, we struggle with difficulty, we are tired but we say nothing, we are hard working and much of this money I earn is dollars to help my mother.
The song that we sing is about the real life of garment workers, please pity us and consider the life of garment workers. How we are suffering? We are faced with suffering and problems because the factory owners exploit us.
When the workers are in trouble, who can help to solve the problems? Where is justice? When I need you, why do you ignore me?
39 comments:
This girl speak like a child!
It is not true that workers are forced to work overtime.
Instead most of the workers like to work overtime as they get additional money plus an extra bonus for overtime work.
What the Americans can do to help this workers?
Very simple!
They can STOP to charge extra tax from the products what they do since 2010.
If Cambodia has to pay the same tax than China, all Chinese Garment Factories will stop to produce in Cambodia and will produce in China.
Cambodian girls work 50% slower than Chinese girls. This is a fact!!!
from seeing this, i think in cambodia, the most effective way to get any message across to people or to influent people is by way of radio, television and some kind of stage show, etc... reason perhaps people like to listen to radio, to watch tv, and watch live stage show for recreation and so forth. so, they concentrate more and get absorb the message better, really!
12:12 AM
You're a stupid man. They're not a child, asshole. They're muture enough to know what is right or wrong or black or white. You're the one who is a child still sucks Pecifier, dude. How do you know Chinese girls working faster than Khmer girls? We have brain and two hands, dude. We're intelegent as other races. Khmer children in the USA nowaday become doctor, lawyer, engineer, etc...
Who wants to work overtime if the factory owner pays them enough? But, the pay is so little so it forces them to work overtime. Look at how they eat everyday during lunch time. I don't know where you, asshole, live. But I went to Cambodia and saw in my own two eyes, not Kwak like you and your master, Hun Sen. I saw those factory workers eat their lunch along the road with a lot of cars pass-by and dirts flying. In Western countries the factory has lunch room.
If you're dumb ass, don't talk shit.
12:16AM
For you! What is Hun Sen allowed other opposition in term of radio, TV, or newspaper in Cambodia nowaday?
He shut all of the press or TV that bias with his government. So how can this group of girls show on radio or TV if Hun Kwak doesn't let anyone air time. He only allows CPP airtime.
This is the reality, but your suggestion is not working in Cambodia.
KI MEDIA IS BEING ATTRACTED READERS FROM ALL SORT OF LIFE/PROFESSION.
SOMEONE HERE IN THIS BLOG HAS GIVEN HIS OPINION FROM MANUFCTURER'S POINT OF VIEW, SINCE HE IS THE ONE WHO MAY HAVE ROLE TO PLAY IN THIS GARMENT BUSINESS.
and the poor girl speaks from her own experience. Each story has both sides of argument. Giving Cambodians sacrifice for jobs over working condition,her story seems to have a base of validation and credibility.
The Chinese works faster than Cambodian. You get what you pay for(purely business philosophy).
Do the Chinese workers get average $50/month like Cambodian workers.
The song are great, the singers are very good, the video production is good, but the meaning of this song is too negative.
Yes they have the right to complain about their hardship, but some issue of politic and privatization is beyond their simple mind to understand all the complexity. To put everything under government and union control is not good either, we already see how it failed in communist countries.
The poor always hate privatization and capitalism, because they don't have the knowledge and resources to take advantage of privatization. They can only be an employee and work for the rich capitalist, so they are unhappy with their situation.
CAPITALISM of PRIVATE PARTY!
They're getting BRIGHTER everyday.
We're getting DARK to DARKEST now.
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Yeah, that is the nature of the beast. What can we do! If the poor cannot bear it any more, may be another revolution will happen.
Then what?! We go back to communism, then they slaughter the educated, the rich capitalist again. The cycle of killing and revenge never end.
The only solution is to find the balance. It is ok to have privatization and capitalism, but the business owners have to take care their employees. Look after their well being and not abuse and exploit the for the sake of more profits.
You can never make everyone happy, but if the business owners treat the workers fairly, everyone can get along and make a living.
It's the price you have to pay for growth. Privatization is the fastest way for growth. If you want the government to run everything, Cambodia wouldn't have so much foreign investments like it has today. Just look at the US, how many sectors are privatized.
If you want growth, be ready to pay the cost of privatization. Yes, many people will face hardship because of it but also many other will be given greater opportunities to financial prosperity.
In this era of global economy, you got to have competitive educational edge because all the big corps want is cutting cost and if you're deemed worth less than the next person, you're gone, which is what I think is happening to these girls. They are basically just another dime in the dozen so when the corps need to cut back, the less value assets would need to be let go as well. So, as cliche as it sounds, education is your salvation. Ain't no angel gonna save you. You save yourself by getting a good education and become a valuable asset. Getting good education is easier said than done for many poor Cambodian though.
Free enterprise is good but the exploitation of the workers that is bad. China's labors are probably cheaper and must work harder; less freedom under Chinese regime. That ding dong praising Chinese women output 50% better doesn't know the harsh treatments that slave labors has to endure each day.
"Cambodian girls work 50% slower than Chinese girls. This is a fact!!!
12:12 AM"
where do you get that fact! fucking head!
Do not make your mother shame to bring you out, fool!
We're the poorest country in the WORLD and we lived below poverty line, which is .50 cents a day can't even buy $1.00 lottery ticket that was won in Long Beach, CA a week ago that worth about $133M also cash is taken as $82.9M. I believed Hun Xen had more than that.
Chinese gurlz is the ugliest asian on earth. You're one of them 2:00 AM!
12:34 AM,
Very well said buddy! The individual you responded to look like an ignorant person. I just came back from Cambodia about 9 months ago too. It was very sad to see these workers’ condition. The problem is the Cambodian government works for the interests of the investors, not for these workers. Just consider about these workers’ salary. They only earn between $60 - $80 per month. $1 is equal to 400 real. They share a room $5/month. They only spend 1500 to 2000 real per meal (700 real for rice, 1000 for food). So, one month they spend about $40 just for a basic food and shelter. There is only $20 (if they work OT, they may have $40 left). This left over amount, they have to spend on their other personal needs i.e. clothes. Moreover, some have to support their families at the village. These situations sometimes are beyond our imagination!
Good song. In the meantime, do what you can to save yourself. Go home and plant a tree may be? or doing farmring work. A big tree or as many as you can. They will give fruits for many years to come. Think of orange or Cambodian Apple( plae tek dos ko ) or Jack fruit or short coconut trees. forget about peanuts , pepers and veggetables or seasonal stuff. By all mean stop selling your land to anyone and no matter ho wmuch they give you. Invest in your farm and take management job in your own hands. When you have time, please travel to our border near Thailand. Try to attract local Thai's investor your self. Bring them to your home town. Tell them to find their way to bring their trucks and you load those fruits up and start counting the money. Cambodia had land and water. All doesn't have to be on rice farming. Ship those fruits to Phnom Pehn, if you can also do. Give our local truck drivers a chance to transport those products to the city. Sell them cheap to our people and sell by the thousands or tones. You can do it. Get a man to help you. You're young and pretty. Charm them up and get to work together! Now that I call my Cambodian girls! Also please remember that you are the only one who can push your own hot button and Good luck!
2:40 AM that is a very good instruction for those who have land to cultivate. It is the land full of good fruits and what else that sustain people, not golden streets in Phnom Penh.
In addition to 2:36 AM, they cannot afford to be sick. They don't have money to pay for medication and plus they lost their hours pay.
Yes, please think of privatization as your own privatization business. Those people have freedom. So do you. You have to use it to create something. They do. Think and think harder of what you can do beside singing in the bar or selling yourself. You're now living in a free country. Stop counting on anyone. American has to tax things that are coming from out side into their country just like everything else. They have to gather the money to help their own people too. It's unbelievable that there is no Cambodian fishmen in our Ocean. Why not? why travel to Thailand to get a job as a fishman catching tuna for the Thai instead? Why can we create our own tuna factory or putting fish in the can ourself? So that our ladies can have work and our men can have a job in side the country? Why not?!!! Again Cambodian has forest, land , mountain, river and Ocean and yet, they are just for looking at? What a sick joke. Just think of building a Hotel top of Phnom Som Pov and create brochures for our local and people from other provinces to visit. It's simple and it's business. I'm sure there is someone in Cambodia that has money to do it. Actually Mr. Hun Sen, Sok Ann and all those stinking rich people in Cambodia that should retire and use their money to do business instead. They would be a lot happier and also giving a chance for Cambodia to move on forward with someon eelse that are brighter and clever. There are probably millions and millions of dollars sitting right under their beds right now that are just there and doing nothing. What a waste.
3:08 Isn't there an oppression from the the ruling elite that people just can't do what you had suggested?
People willing to move a mountain for gems but weren't they forbidden from doing so?
Why the rich are not developing factories n so on... because they don't have the know hows or too self invested and could careless for the rest. Don't count on me, I'm just a beggar myself.
Privatization or not, these people had suffer and have to suffer. They went through one genocide to other, have lost everything, rights, life and their human dignity. They have no possibly nor capacity to get out from genocide and yuon merciless colonization by their own specially while the world continue to deny crime of the assassins of these people.
How much life of these people were better before this day? They have been killed, destroyed, oppressed, maltreated, live miserably under poverty line and lost all their human dignity while yuons rapped everything from them, their land, life, rights and what to life in dignity.
If this song is sang by red and green revolutionists or workers in French , in Europe in USA it would be more credible than sang by these poor Khmer people.
Shame to manipulators and ill political opportunist and revolutionists. Fuken your ass, stop to manipulate these poor people. You know, these people always suffered yesterday, today and sure tomorrow as long as they live under yuon control and colonization that has no regard to these people rights and life, had rapped everything from these poor people. The life of these people were not better yesterday like you who just scaring to lose your comfort, to see your industries dislocated to emerged countries like china in particularly.
So ill
A great song !
A great Band !
Cuz they speak fron their true heart.
The change are always from the small things.
...and the small things are starting now !
3:28 AM u know these crooks speak loud but act little. they ill speak against these people who have to work hard day and night but still own nothing, cant even have enough to feed their mouth and theirs while these crooks live from sucking the blood of these people like leech or parasites, commit crimes and ill act for yuons to support their life and family. Who the worse, these people or those crooks, yuon slaves, yuon killing tools? I cant stand such the lowest skin, they don’t merit to call a human but animals or even inferior to animals
3:28am or a begger,
Yes, they may be oppressed by those ruling elite, but only if you let them. Do you have hands? and I can tell that you're not crazy or having mental illness. Can you read? If you do, you can at least acquire a driving license and then, can you go to those rich people or any business and seek a driving job. Can you? That's one and instead of waiting for a factory job that never arrives or worse, will never reopen. Now driving is typical a male's job, but that can change. I assume that you 're a girl or some where in your twenty. You can also be a driver. No one said you cann't until you try. It's better than a 24 hours chambermaid job or don't you think? What else can you do back home? How about a tutoring job? Can you help those young children learning to do their home work better? Talk to their parents and do you live near the water steam or river? Voila! You just hit a mini jack pot. Go to your rich relative or neighbor. Borrow them some money. Buy a machine that can pump water into their homes. If you have land, build a huge water tank. Catch rain water and store them. Then sell it. Charge them cheap. Again get a man to help you. It's a managment job, my love and it' tough, but you can do it. You got to be able to try and make it happen. Your business can be 5 -ten homes a day and remmeber, you lovely hands is your most important tool second only to your head. Make them for counting the Mula or this $$$ mostly, my sweet! I wish you good luck! I did this for free, because I cann't stand poverty in Cambodia and I cann't keep sending money to you. You're going to have to try to produce it your own. You can do it and yes, you can.
Former Battambang
Yes, get your boy friend or husband to help you get the water to people homes and farms or do whatever that you think will be productive. They will be more than glad to help you. Men like yourself are nice and helpful too. They are your greatest source beside Mula or $$$ power.
FB
Be famous Honey! Why not? and you're going to be the Joan of Cambodia.
40 years ago this song was sung by Bun Rany, Hun Sen and their families, they already forget ???
4:10 AM you may not have bad intent but it is easy to yell like fool while you dont understand criminal policy in Cambodia and these people life conditions.
My feeling is the same as this prophet Jeremiah to the people of Israel:
Jeremiah 9
1 Oh, that my head were waters,
And my eyes a fountain of tears,
That I might weep day and night
For the slain of the daughter of my people!
2 Oh, that I had in the wilderness
A lodging place for travelers;
That I might leave my people,
And go from them!
For they are all adulterers,
An assembly of treacherous men.
3 “ And like their bow they have bent their tongues for lies.
They are not valiant for the truth on the earth.
For they proceed from evil to evil,
And they do not know Me,” says the LORD.
4 “ Everyone take heed to his neighbor,
And do not trust any brother;
For every brother will utterly supplant,
And every neighbor will walk with slanderers.
5 Everyone will deceive his neighbor,
And will not speak the truth;
They have taught their tongue to speak lies;
They weary themselves to commit iniquity.
6 Your dwelling place is in the midst of deceit;
Through deceit they refuse to know Me,” says the LORD.
4:10am. I hear them and they can keep on fighting or making their voice be known. There is nothing wrong for asking for better pay and better working condition. This will only bring better future and for all workers in Cambodia and that's fabulous. You have to fight and demand for it. I admire their courage to do so very very much. What i'm saying, is trying not be confused or looked at the privatization as all bad thing. I like them to look at it as opportunity for them as well. Yes, it opens up for those that have money first and it's very unfortunate that our ladies have to face this bad treatment. It shouldn't be this way. Beside stumping their feet and demanding for change, please try and do something else possible along the side to save yourself. That's all i'm saying and please don't think, it's a dead end. Sometimes, poverty keeping us traped and cann't think of any better to do. Yes, you can. You're again going to use your good head and your hands to make it happens. In the meantime or while doing it keep fighting. Did I hear they have some money coming from the supporting group? There it goes. Save some of it and put them together. Can they cook? or learn how to make a desert? Open a sweet shop in the evening for example and open it up more than one places. Networking your group or working as a company. You never know where they money is coming from, but there is one way. An opportunity in a free country is endless. Be thanksful that Cambodia is no longer under a communist rule. In Communist country or in Pol Pot time, you & i had to work from Dawn to dust and not a dime coming in for you and me to do a thing to enjoy our lives. We have zero freedom. You cann't complaint either. Today, you can. If you think that privatization is bad like in some part of their song.Please think again, because it wasn't all bad. Think of having privatization as your own opportunity and business to be free and to be happy and stop depending on them. You can fight for those who are still not able to help themself or still looking to be employed by those who deosn't care much. That is fine, but if you can, get yourself out and do something else or start a business. Even if means just a little. I admire people who can sell Num Ban Chock on the street or make a desert to sell in the market first thing.. Hey! at least they can cook. Wealth start from there. Even frying babana would help, but try and networking. Your famous and tasty Num Ban chok or frying babanas have to be more than one locations and I assume that you ladies have more than 20 people in your group. Please refuse to die in poverty and as long as you are able to walk and do thing.
FB
Love the song and the message. May lord Buddha help our poor countrymen and women.
Keep on singing and getting the messages across.
In Kampong Chnang, there is a group of about 20 family members frying babanas and potatos in 7- 10 huge pots. They sell like crazy. Too bad, you must travel to Kampong Chnang to eat this tasty frying B & T. Imagine, if there is more shops like that in Phnom Pehn or Siem Reap or Battambang. This is our Cambodian famous frying shop. This isn't small and pity thing to do, but that's it. No one ever go and acquire to transfer their names to another location. It's just sad.
In America, there are 5000 McDonald fast food chain and more. There are McDonald in Europe too. Can you see any better of how it can be done in Cambodia?
I don't think the story is just bogus! That's how to make a living! Stop complaining and continue to work if you want to get paid? Welcome to the real world, it's called you work, you get paid. It's not easy unless you 're born rich. If you're poor and uneducated, that's where you're belong! I don't buy it, when they said, they don't wanna be famous. that's just B.S!
This is the reality, but your suggestion is not working in Cambodia.
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So our ladies want the Real Union to come in and they should. The Union is very effective in dealing with those criminals. Be willing to pay them though and they should be too much.
FB
As much as I like to sympathize with these less fortunate factory workers, I believe much more that most people's main reason to do anything is for their own benefits. I like to believe in the greater humanity but when it comes down to it, self-preservation comes first. So maybe these girls are doing it for their fellow workers or maybe they are doing it because it benefits them. We can't tell. Only they who do it know.
That goes for every other thing too. That is why I always have a reservation for making a judgmental call when someone is claiming to do something for anyone except one self. That being said, you shouldn't suspect people of evil deeds. You should always try to look at the optimistic way to it.
But what if there is not a factory opening up in Cambodia? Where are they going to do? Go back to Kareoke bar or selling themself again? Oh God help them think better.
"Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace and be healed of your affliction."...Mr. Hun Sen please help our people and maintain our Country.
Thank you!
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