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- maracamp
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Very nice, powerful and informative. This definitely takes me someplace I'd otherwise never get to see.
Thank you maracamp.
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- covelogibbs
- 1 year ago
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I had no idea of what sulfer mining was. I would be a nightmare if I woke up in the mourning and that was my job. People don't realize how good they have it.
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$5 a day for that kind of work. That is sickening. We in the developed world live in a paradise and heaven compared to the majority or many in the world. It is pitiful. And yet our media always tells us to buy more and that we need more and more and more. And all we buy is made in Chinese sweatshops with conditions not quiet as unhealthy as these but as exhausting.
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While this video was informative, the work Darren Almond, an English artist, did on the same Indonesian minors was much more powerful.
I highly recommend going to see his show, 'Fire under the snow.' The work in question is called 'Baring' and is a film the follows one miner on his journey up the mountain with a none flinching, continuous shot for 30 minutes. Moving stuff:
http://www.parasol-unit.org/index.php?id=148
http://benoliverisalive.blogspot.com/2008/03/darren-almond-fire-under-snow-paras...
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- bjamoliver
- 1 year ago
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Very informative. Sad to hear the conditions in which people have been exploited by working and the pay is close to nothing for what they are going through.
I hope the Indonesian Government would a serious action to rectify the issue and problems are harming these poor men there.
Great work.
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great documentary.
is all sulpher mined in this way? who are the consumers of this resource i wonder? i hope i'm not one but i wouldn't be surprised if i am. -
thing to consider is that we are the eventual end-user, directly or indirectly of that very same sulphur. so today it would be wise if the user take ownership of the quality of the source of their product. regardless of where its from, im not pro-globalist, but i claim pro-global i.e. in this context: establishment of a standards system that seeks to eliminate exlploiting cheap labor, by domestic OR foreign corps who turn around and apply unGodly margins to a valuable resource purged for mere pennies. while at the same time not providing minimal safety equipmnt. k i desist.
