11/30/2012 BBB 2nd Release
AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS |
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Presents a Reprint of the Original Book Announcement for
BLOOD ON BROWN WATER
This was the original book announcement from the National Mariner's Association last summer. The announcement provides all the information needed to order a spiral bound soft cover copy. We produced the book in serial form in the blog space over the summer and now have it available to read in its entirety and in sequential order in our "Merchant Marine Interest Section. We are still making some editorial improvements in the series physical appearance, but it is all there, free of charge. We want our readers to read this work, even if we never sell a single copy, encourage others to read the work, and act on it! Congress did not stop its partisan bickering long enough this session to even consider the NMA's Second request to Congress. NMA starts lobbying again in the Spring for the occupational safety and health of our domestic fleet and Jones Act merchant mariners. BLOOD ON BROWN WATER is the TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST of the 21st Century.
NATIONAL MARINERS ASSOCIATION
For Immediate Release
E-mail: info@nationalmariners.us
Website:
www.nationalmariners.us
Asserting
our right “…to petition the Government
for redress of grievances.”
Amendment 1, U.S. Constitution,
Dec. 15, 1791
TO:
NMA Members
FROM:
Richard A. Block, Secretary, NMA
Our
Association is working hard to put a complex message across to the
112th Congress. While most of our individual “limited
tonnage” mariners try to cope with day-to-day problems on the job,
many are left to solve these problems on their own. Our Association
deals with some of the broader problems that mariners put on our
doorstep.
Recent History
shows that any changes for the better for our 126,000 “limited
tonnage” mariners will come by way of Congress only if they
understand what is really going on and then press the Coast Guard to
make any changes that are warranted. Unfortunately, it takes more
than a written report to bring about change.
Recently, NMA
Mariner #39 volunteered much of his own time and effort to walk the
Halls of Congress on Capitol Hill and hand-deliver and discuss with
Congressional staffers the contents of three NMA Publications, namely
our reports on …
Abuse of Mariners Under the Two-Watch System (NMA Report
#R-370, Rev. 4)
Deplorable Treatment of “Limited Tonnage” Mariners
(NMA Report #R-202, Rev. 5).
Mariner Indictment of Careless Personal Injury Reporting
Practices (NMA Report #R-350-Y).
As a result,
we have become much more visible to those Senators and
Representatives that, through their committee assignments should be
concerned with our mariners.
We
are preparing one last effort in the new book listed below. This
approach needs to have much wider distribution to other members
of Congress who may not be those on the
targeted committees and subcommittees – in other words, YOUR
Representative or Senator!
We
are out of money! We ask you to order one or more copies
of our latest book BLOOD ON BROWN WATER and then do the following….
First, read it yourself. Tell us what you think!
Call the office of your U.S. Representative
and/or one or both of your U.S. Senators (listed in the phone book),
leave them a copy of the book, and ask for an appointment to discuss
those areas that you are most familiar with.
Call your local TV or Radio Station and do the same thing.
Loan the book to and talk with other mariners. We need more
members to support our efforts.
Our
new book is…
“BLOOD ON BROWN WATER”
Table
of Contents
Prologue
Chapter
1 America’s Invisible Merchant Marine Fleet
Chapter
2 Third World Work Hours and Life Expectancy in the Invisible Fleet
Chapter
3 The Industry Abandons Its Sick and Injured Mariners
Chapter
4 An Industry That Eats Its Young
Chapter
5 The Short Leash
Chapter
6 The Black List
Chapter
7 Foreign Seamen are Employed and Mistreated
Chapter
8 No Next Generation of Seamen
Chapter
9 If Injured Seamen Are Ruined
Chapter
10 A Danger to More Than Just Themselves
Chapter
11 You May Never Be Able to Go Home Again
Chapter
12 The Last Message From The Alamo
Chapter
13 How you Can help Our Mariners
Here is how one “blog” describes the book….
http://americanadmiraltybooks.blogspot.com/
MERCHANT MARINE INTEREST:
ANOTHER TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST?
FLASH!
This Isn’t Your Grandfather’s NMA REPORT #R-370, Rev. 4.
You must read “BLOOD ON BROWN WATER”
We’ve
been following this for a while and have reported on it in these
pages twice. It’s worth saying again. As you read this,
approximately 126,000 of America’s 210,000 plus merchant seamen are
working under third world conditions. On March 28, 2012 we described
how the National Mariner’s Association (NMA) had described these
conditions in great detail in their new report to Congress Report No.
370, Rev. 4 that deals with working conditions in parts of the inland
towing and off shore work boat industries where the “Two Watch
System” prevails. Crew members on such vessels work at a minimum
under present rules, 12 hours per day for officers, and 15 hours per
day for men. What’s sad is that these excessively long work days
were intended by Congress to be maximum working hours, not minimum;
but lax regulatory enforcement and profit motives by shipping
management have combined to make these horrific hours floors and not
ceilings on long work days. NMA Report 370, Rev. 4 describes the
working hours and other abuses in detail, outlines the status of the
existing laws and regulations, and provides graphic details on
examples of particular abusive practices. This report has been
circulating through the halls of Congress since late March. On April
16, 2012 we described in full the resulting “Second Request to
Congress” ‘by the NMA where in the NMA proposed specific
legislative actions for the relief of these seamen. Back in March we
asked in our blog if it wasn’t time for another Richard Henry Dana
whose nineteenth century book TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST launched
decades of reform of working conditions in America’s deep sea
fleets. We have long felt that the long suffering segments of
America’s Jones Act fleets needed a book that appealed to the
general public and clearly described the working conditions in the
unreformed fleets
It
happened! Capt. Richard Block, the Secretary of the National
Mariner’s Association and author/editor of NMA Report R-370, Rev. 4
has made his appeal in print to the general public with the
publication of his BLOOD
ON BROWN WATER.
The reader who wonders
just how such primitive and unhealthful working conditions could
survive in twenty first century America need no longer wade through
the grim but dry statistics of an NMA report, or skim over legal
citations. BLOOD ON BROWN WATER is the agony, and the
injustice, the courage, and the pain of the real world on the wet
side of the levee and beyond the beach line without submitting the
reader to the dry text of an OSHA report. We urge the general public
to read this and then call your congressmen and senators. For
information on how to obtain a copy of BLOOD ON BROWN WATER
contact the National Mariner’s Association at
www.nationalmariners.us
or Marine Education textbooks at:
http://marineeducationtextbooks.com/
Cut here and mail in.
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Abuse
of Mariners Under the Two-Watch System
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28.96
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Blood
on Brown Water
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Deplorable
Treatment of "Limited Tonnage" Mariners
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Mariners
Indictment of Careless Personal Injury Reporting Practices
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44.64
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