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Saturday, 09 January 2010 14:01 |
BARACK OBAMA takes a stance against Slavery
Presidential Proclamation - National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
"The Slave Trade Act was passed by the British Parliament on 25 March 1807, making the slave trade illegal throughout the British Empire. However, it is thought probable that the total number of slaves today is higher than the number who suffered during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Conservative estimates indicate that today, at least 27 million people, in places as diverse as Nigeria, Indonesia, and Brazil, live in conditions of forced bondage. Some sources believe the actual figures are 10 times as large. Slavery worldwide is focussed particularly on pervasive slavery in agriculture, clothing manufacture and the sex industry".
"The rampant decimation of indigenous cultures through European Colonialism over just the last few hundred years subject all peoples of the so-called lesser developed countries to this slavery, displacement of people (specifically Africa) and severance of the relationship of the spirit of the people to the ancestral land of their heritage. It is these very regions that today suffer the appalling consequences of famine, starvation, poverty, pestilence and destitution".
Quotes from Green Fibre's 70% Plan for Planetary Transformation
While Barack Obama's proclomation is applaudable, it must be held within the context that any manifestation of dysfunction must be addressed at a causal rather than symptomatic level. |
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Wednesday, 23 December 2009 13:50 |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Poverty has forced at least 225,000 children in Haiti's cities into slavery as unpaid household servants, far more than previously thought, a report said Tuesday.
The Pan American Development Foundation's report also said some of those children — mostly young girls — suffer sexual, psychological and physical abuse while toiling in extreme hardship.
The report recommends Haiti's government and international donors focus efforts on educating the poor and expanding social services such as shelters for girls, who make up an estimated two-thirds of the child servant population.
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Sunday, 06 December 2009 15:55 |
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Sunday 6th December - Daily Telegraph headline: "American Indian Land Sold Off by IRC to pay off taxes". The article states: "The 7,112 acres - or 11 square miles - of Crow Creek Sioux ancestral land in central South Dakota was auctioned off on Thursday by the US Internal Revenue Service to help pay off more than $3.1 million (£1.9 million) in unpaid taxes, penalties and interest."
A Blackfoot Chief:
"Our land is more valuable than your money. It will last forever. It will not even perish by the flames of fire. As long as the Sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we can not sell it because it does not belong to us. You can count your money and burn it within the nod of a Buffalo's head, but only the Great Spirit can count the grains of sand and the blades of grass of these plains. As a present to you, we will give you anything we have that you can take with you; but the land, never."
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