Slavery

The Nasty, Real World

Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 12.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Declaration of Independence, Middle East, Slavery, Health Care Reform, Thomas Jefferson, Obama, Government, Politics News
Stephen Gyllenhaal

This is a despicable health care bill, a stain on the soul of anyone who has worked on it, who supports it, who believes they have done anything right in birthing it. Nonetheless, it should be passed.

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Maids Made Into Slaves in the Middle East

Josie Ensor | Posted 12.19.2009 | World

Read More: Middle East, Domestic Labor, Slavery, World News
Josie Ensor

It is not uncommon for many women working as maids throughout the Mideast to experience forced confinement, food deprivation, excessively long hours and even sexual abuse at the hands of their employers.

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Single Mother Escapes Decade Of Alleged Slavery In Texas

AP | ANABELLE GARAY | Posted 12.11.2009 | Home

Read More: Texas, Slavery, Forced Labor, Indentured Servitude, Nigeria, Ngozi Nnaji, Emmanuel Nnaji, Single Mother, Widow, Home News

DALLAS — She was a widow in a Nigerian village trying to raise six children when she says she met a man who told her he and his wife needed a na...

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Former U.S. Sex Trafficking Victim Shares Plight

Posted 12.01.2009 | Impact

Read More: Sex Trafficking, Sex Slave, Human Slavery, Cnn, Slavery, Impact News

A video broadcasted Tuesday on CNN highlights the very real affects of America's underground slave trade. "Melissa" started off as a teen runaway and ...

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Book Review: Gene Dattel's "Cotton And Race"

AP | EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS | Posted 11.25.2009 | Books

Read More: Gene Dattel Cotton and Race, Slavery, Cotton and Race, Segregation, Race, Civil Rights, Integration, Gene Dattel, Books News

JACKSON, Miss. — Gene Dattel grew up in the segregated South and was one of the few Mississippians enrolled at Yale University in 1962 when his ...

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ReThink Interview: Philippe Diaz (part 1) -- The End of Poverty? and How It Started

Jonathan Kim | Posted 12.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Starvation, Debt, The End of Poverty?, Colonialism, The World Bank, Poverty, Slavery, Sustainability, Rethink Reviews, Philippe Diaz, Documentary, Imf, Capitalism, Jonathan Kim, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

What causes global poverty? Why do the countries of the northern hemisphere enjoy so much wealth while over a billion people in the southern hemispher...

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The Real Reason Obama Isn't Making Much Progress

Johann Hari | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kbr, Kbr Rape Case, Copenhagen 2009, Halliburton, Slavery, Al Franken, Jamie Leigh Jones, Health Care Reform, Iraq, Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News
Johann Hari

The institutions that are blocking progress have rallied over the past few months to defend two causes with very little popular support in the United States: rape and slavery. No, really.

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China To Obama: Dalai Lama Was A Slave Master In Tibet

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 11.15.2009 | Home

Read More: Serfs, White House, Han Chinese, Serfdom, Dalai Lama, Tibet, Beijing, Obama, China, Free Tibet, Slavery, Abraham Lincoln, Black, Asian, Buddhism, Home News

BEIJING — The conviction was clear but the message befuddling: China's Foreign Ministry spokesman was equating serfdom in Tibet to slavery in th...

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The House's Historic Health Care Reform Vote and the Lens of History

Marcella Mroczkowski | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Congress, Wall Street, American History, Slavery, Health Care Reform, Obama, Business, African Americans, Politics News
Marcella Mroczkowski

Today's generation of managers goes to our best business schools not to learn to be builders, creators and healers but to be more clever and effective swindlers, gamblers and parasites.

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Diary of an Escaped Sex Slave

Abigail Pesta | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights, Somaly Mam, Slavery, Cambodia, Sreypov, Brothels, Human Trafficking, Sexual Slavery, Marie Claire, World News
Abigail Pesta

You think slavery went out with Abraham Lincoln? Ask my friend Sreypov Chan about that. When she was seven years old, her mom sold her into sexual slavery.

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Creating Gender Equality In The 21st Century

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Equality, Women's Movement, Human Rights, Congo, Gender Inequality, Slavery, Women's Rights, Living News
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

Nichlas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's recent book "Half the Sky" is a call of awakening for all men and women to take action and right the wrongs existing in the world today because of gender inequality.

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Enteric Disease impact on Global Health, Human Rights, and Environmental Degradation

Lisa Conte | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Clean Water, Global Health, Clinton Global Initiative, Pharmaceutical Industry, Diarrhea, Slavery, Business News
Lisa Conte

One of the collateral benefits of working in the global health arena is being reminded that disease doesn't exist in isolation.

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'Half The Sky' With Nicholas Kristof: A Morally Persuasive Call to Action

Dr. Alex Benzer | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Microlending, Economic Development, Sex Trafficking, Maternal Health, Somaly Mam, Happiness, Sheryl WuDunn, Microsavings, Education, Half the Sky, Oppression of Women, Grameen Bank, Slavery, Nicholas Kristof, Meaningful Work, Childbirth, Alex Benzer, Women's Rights, Living News
Dr. Alex Benzer

In their lucid and levelheaded way, Kristof and WuDunn build a powerful moral case for fostering economic progress in the developing world by unleashing the potential of women.

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Set Children Free From Human Trafficking

Rani Hong | Posted 10.29.2009 | Impact

Read More: Tronie Foundation, Child Labor, India, Child Slavery, Child Trafficking, Slavery, Impact News
Rani Hong

Child slaves are often the unseen hands holding up the economy of the nation, hidden in their places of bondage from the sight of the people buying the work of their labor.

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Of Human Bondage: Slavery Bigger Than Ever in America

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Slave Labor, Free the Slaves, Modern Day Slavery, United Nations, Human Rights Center, Slavery, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The modern day slave trade nearly equals the illicit drug and arms sale trade. Captives work in plants, factories, farms, hotels and restaurants and in prostitution and sex rings.

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John Brown's Body Lies A-Moldering in Upstate New York

Alfred Gingold | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York

Read More: History, Heroes, Harpers Ferry, Terrorism, Slavery, Terrorist, Civil War, Race, John Brown, Race Relations, Lake PLacid, New York News
Alfred Gingold

150 years after his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown looms ever larger in the national psyche, either a great martyr to a just and necessary cause, or our first domestic terrorist.

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Prisoner's Dilemma: Should a Chicago Alderman Relish His Opposition to Felony Franks?

Marilia Duffles | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Hot Dogs, Chicago, Slavery, Social Ills, Neurology, Rehabilitation, Frederick Douglass, Felony Franks, Jimmy Andrews, Chicago City Council, Barack Obama, Robert Fioretti, Felons, Chicago News
Marilia Duffles

Leave it to a Wall Street Journal story this week about a Chicago alderman's opposition to Jimmy Andrews' Felony Franks -- a hot dog joint that hires ...

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Live-Streaming The Freedom Awards: Celebrating Anti-Slavery Heroes

Peggy Callahan | Posted 10.13.2009 | Impact

Read More: Freedom, Human Traffickers, Sex Slavery, Slavery, Human Trafficking, Free the Slaves, Slaveholders, Freedom Awards, Slavery Survivors, Impact News
Peggy Callahan

I dreamed up the Freedom Awards because in Free the Slaves we insist that the people who are closest to slavery should be the leaders and spokespersons of the anti-slavery movement. Who better to tell the world that this is real slavery?

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Michelle Obama: Family History Of First Lady Is Complex, Tied To Slavery

The New York Times | RACHEL L. SWARNS and JODI KANTOR | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Relatives, Dolphus Shields, Great-Great-Great-Grandparents, Melvinia Shields, First Lady, Michelle Obama, White Father, Ancestry, Slavery, Roots, Slave Mother, Family History, Michelle-Obama-Ancestry, Politics News

Melvinia Shields, the enslaved and illiterate young girl, and the unknown white man who impregnated her are the great-great-great-grandparents of Mich...

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Fossil Fuel Is the New Slavery: Morally and Economically Corrupt

Robin Chase | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Barbara Boxer, Copenhagen 2009, Economy, John Kerry, Waxman-Markey, Slavery, Climate Change, Morality, Climate Bill, Green News
Robin Chase

Ownership of another human being and reaping the benefit of their labor is repugnant. While burning fossil fuels is not as intimately observable or viscerally felt, there is a direct link from our actions to individual suffering.

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Child Slavery in Haiti: Odette's Story

The Morningside Post | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

Read More: Child Slaves, Haiti, Poverty, Columbia University, Foreign Affairs, Slavery, Human Trafficking, Restavek, World News
The Morningside Post

More than 300,000 children are currently enslaved as restaveks in Haiti. They make up 3 percent of Haiti's population. More often than not they are emotionally and physically abused.

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A Case for Republican Secession (From Itself)

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Qaeda, Slavery, Rush Limbaugh, Afghanistan, John Boehner, Adultry, Pakistan, Secession, Taliban, Race Baiting, Lindsey Graham, Civil War, Glen Beck, S.C. Governor Mark Sanford, Republican Party, Politics News
Michael B. Laskoff

Sometimes the body from which a political party springs is so filled with bile and corruption that its healthiest components should seek to go their own way. A case in point is today's Republican Party.

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Twenty-Seven Million Slaves

Russell Simmons | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

Read More: Somalia, Migrant Smuggling, Children, Child Labor, Human Trafficking, Slavery, Debt Bondage, World News
Russell Simmons

An estimated 27 million human beings worldwide today are living lives of exploitation. They are objects of ownership, forgotten as children in need of love, nurturing and protection.

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Fighting Human Trafficking, One House Party at A Time

Geralyn Dreyfous | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

Read More: Advocacy, Human Trafficking, Slavery, World News
Geralyn Dreyfous

In a summer focused on the health care, and the deaths of renowned politicians and celebrities, there was all too little attention on a government report released in June 2009 on global human trafficking.

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Sex and Voting

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, 19th Amendment, Universal Suffrage, Women's Suffrage, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Nineteenth Amendment, Slavery, Abigail Adams, Politics News
Kenneth C. Davis

On this date in 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified by the necessary two-thirds of the states and women were granted the right to vote. Somewhere Abigail Adams was smiling.

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