Tag: Slavery
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From Bacteria to People: Slavery in Disguise
[ad_1] “Small Organic Robots” We are in a strange spot. For a long time, our culture has been assuming that nature is our property and our slave. An unruly and hostile slave — a slave to be tamed, dominated, and abused — as long as we can get away with it and feel good about…
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Exposed: Secret report on UK modern slavery the Home Office didn’t want you to see
[ad_1] Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email British farmers have been accused of modern slavery following allegations of the widespread exploitation of seasonal workers – which the Home Office tried to prevent from being made public. An investigation by…
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MSNBC Guest: Christianity Brought to America to Justify Slavery & Genocide
[ad_1] On Thursday night’s The Reid Out on MSNBC, guest host Jonathan Capehart aired a pre-recorded interview host Joy Reid gave to Public Religion Research Institute founder and president Robert Jones who wrote a book smearing Christianity with the thesis being that the religion was brought to the Americas in the 1400s with the purpose…
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‘I’d love the energy spent arguing over slavery reparations to be used to save the next black kid who’s going to get stabbed’: Sir Trevor Phillips claims there are ‘more important things on the agenda’ for people of colour than revisiting historical wrongs
[ad_1] Sir Trevor Phillips is clattering around in the kitchen of his North London home making a meal for one. Or, as he calls it, ‘a lonely person’s dinner’. The broadcaster and former Labour politician, 69, is home alone, having returned early from a family holiday in France to prepare for his new flagship political…
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UN envoy links temporary foreign worker program to ‘contemporary forms of slavery’
[ad_1] A United Nations official on Wednesday denounced Canada’s temporary foreign worker program as a “breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery.” Tomoya Obokata, UN special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, made the comments in Ottawa after spending 14 days in Canada. “I am disturbed by the fact that many migrant workers are exploited…
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Watch What Happens When A Black Family Learns The Real History Of Slavery
[ad_1] A new video is going viral this week in which a black family learns the real history of slavery. This is powerful. Candace Owens outlines how whites did not start slavery, but were the first to ban it. pic.twitter.com/Z9ytGmKWhe — Paul Golding (@GoldingBF) September 1, 2023 Cartier Family Learns True History Of Slavery The…
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Former Tory MP threatens legal action after being named in slavery research
[ad_1] Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A former Conservative MP has threatened to sue the University of Cambridge after a historian named her as a descendant of a merchant with links to the slave trade. Antoinette Sandbach, the…
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Canadian businesses seek extension on 2024 rules targeting slavery in supply chains
[ad_1] Canadian industries are pushing back against the country’s planned January launch of the Modern Slavery Act, intended to fight forced labour and child labour in supply chains, as mining and apparel trade groups say the government has failed to spell out the details of the law’s requirements. The act, which passed in May, seeks to…
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World Day Against Trafficking in Persons: How Corruption Drives Modern Slavery
[ad_1] The trafficking of persons is a “high profit-low risk” money-making venture. In 2022, human trafficking generated approximately $150 billion in revenue globally, up from previous estimates of $32 billion in the early 2000s. To facilitate this lucrative and transnational crime, traffickers invest in highly corrupt systems that, in turn, assist them in trafficking individuals…
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Tim Scott slams Florida’s Black history curriculum: “There is no silver lining” in slavery
[ad_1] Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, a Republican presidential candidate, on Thursday rebuked his opponent, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and his state over its controversial new standards on how Black history is taught in middle school, which includes instruction on how “slaves developed skills” that “could be applied for their personal benefit.” “There is…