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Tesco in Slave Labour Scandal!
Garment factory workers in India, producing the Florence & Fred clothes range under the supermarket's name are reportedly earning somewhere in the region of 16p an hour, a wage hardly appropriate for these people who work overtime and to strict deadlines.
Always thought Tesco's prices were too good to be true... Garment factory workers in India, producing the Florence & Fred clothes range under the supermarket's name are reportedly ear... more -
Mining for Bling
Christof Putzel traces gold to its origins in one of Africas biggest gold mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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With £25 and a plane ticket to Haiti you can buy a slave
There are more slaves on the planet today than at any time in human history. The ease with which a comparatively wealthy Westerner can obtain a human being is one of the lessons writer Benjamin Skinner learned while researching his book, A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery. Skinner met with slaves and traffickers in 12 different countries. After adjusting for inflation, Skinner found that, "in 1850, a slave would cost roughly $30,000 to $40,000 — in other words it was like investing in a Mercedes. Today you can go to Haiti and buy a 9-year-old girl to use as a sexual and domestic slave for $50. The devaluation of human life is incredibly pronounced."
In 2005, Skinner visited Haiti, which has one of the highest concentrations of slaves anywhere in the world. "I pulled up in a car and rolled down the window," he recalls. "Someone said, 'Do you want to get a person?'" Though the country was in a time of political chaos, the street where he met the trafficker was clean and relatively quiet. A tape of the conversation reveals a calm, concise transaction. He was initially told he could get a 9-year-old sex partner/house slave for $100, but he bargained it down to $50. "The thing that struck me more than anything afterwards was how incredibly banal the transaction was. It was as if I was negotiating on the street for a used stereo." There are more slaves on the planet today than at any time in human history. The ease with which a comparatively wealthy Westerner ca... more -
Some Truths Are Intolerable
A global network of spies, deception and political pressure must be overcome to prevent the further suffering of innocence. Some Truths Are Intolerable is a short film about the persecution of Falun Dafa (a peaceful spiritual practice from China), at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). From 1992-1999 Falun Dafa was freely followed throughout China, until the government decided that there were too many people studying the energy exercises and meditation. The CCP banned the practice and immediately declared up to 100million innocent people as being criminals. Since then, thousands have been tortured to death for their beliefs, hundreds of thousands are in slave labour camps, and millions have had their lives ruined by their own government. It is the intention of What Is Tough (a project dedicated to releasing a feature film about this issue) to bring to the public's attention this global disaster, before the Olympic Games are held in Beijing, in August of 2008. The atrocities covered in the film continue to this day.
Please visit www.whatistough.com for more information on the project and please sign-up to Current TV to vote for this film, so that more people become aware of the truth about Falun Dafa, because some truths are intolerable!
Thank you. A global network of spies, deception and political pressure must be overcome to prevent the further suffering of innocence. Some Truth... more
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