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Subject: BS: Slavery in the world: NOT HISTORY. From: GUEST Date: 29 Nov 05 - 05:50 PM "Most people believe slavery no longer exists, but it is still very much alive. From Khartoum to Calcutta, from Brazil to Bangladesh, men, women, and children live and work as slaves or in slave-like conditions. According to the London-based Anti-Slavery International (ASI), the world's oldest human-rights organization, there are at least 27 million people in bondage. Indeed, there may be more slaves in the world than ever before." From here. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Slavery in the world: NOT HISTORY. From: Rapparee Date: 29 Nov 05 - 06:19 PM Yes, I know. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Slavery in the world: NOT HISTORY. From: CarolC Date: 29 Nov 05 - 07:02 PM Check out their fact sheet. Lest anyone think that modern, western industrial societies are without any slavery, this is what they have to say about the United States... UNITED STATES: The CIA estimates that 50,000 people are trafficked as sex slaves, domestics, garment, and agricultural slaves http://www.iabolish.com/today/factsheet.htm It's a real and growing problem in every part of the world. I am a bit skeptical about motives of the site linked to in the opening post in this thread, however. Their activism seems mostly to be directed toward slavery in Sudan, ignoring all of the other areas where activism is needed. This site is concerned with slavery everywhere it exists, and they are doing activist work all over the world... http://www.antislavery.org/sitemap/sitemap.htm |
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Subject: RE: BS: Slavery in the world: NOT HISTORY. From: Bobert Date: 29 Nov 05 - 07:28 PM Yeah, I was tryin' to argue on another thread that slavery, though not officially called "slavery" was practiced in the South up until the 1950's... I'm sure this will get the carpet-baggers all up in arms again but, hey, when the Union left the South in 1876 Hayes/Tildon elction it, in essence, said, "Okay, Johnny Reb, have yer way with them folks." And Johnny Reb sho nuff did... Only freedom that blacks got from 1876 until Brown v. Topeka Board of Education was the freedom to be terrorized and impoverished... Nevermind... No, don't... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Slavery in the world: NOT HISTORY. From: GUEST Date: 29 Nov 05 - 09:28 PM
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Subject: RE: BS: Slavery in the world: NOT HISTORY. From: Paul Burke Date: 30 Nov 05 - 03:48 AM It's you people who buy the products. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Slavery in the world: NOT HISTORY. From: SINSULL Date: 30 Nov 05 - 03:18 PM In every major city in the US, illegal immigrants work as slaves to pay off the thugs who smuggled them into the country. Sometimes the price is a life of prostitution. Sweat shops still abound. The enslavement of a group of deaf Mexicans discovered in Jackson Heights, NY showed just the tip of the iceberg. Garment workers still toil in the same unsafe conditions that existed before the Triangle Factory Fire. Slavery even in the US is not History. |
