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• Human Trafficking, Justice, and CSI

  
  onehandclapping — Authority: 460
  I’ve gotten used to popular TV shows going the after-school special route and highlighting some issue or another.  Granted, it boosts their ratings, but it also brings attention to issues that need attention.  So I was intrigued this past week when the CSI franchise did a story-arc across all three shows that ...
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• Slavery Museum Honoured by UNESCO

  
  Liverpool Art and Culture Blog — Authority: 143
  INTERNATIONAL SLAVERY MUSEUM HONOURED BY UNESCO Museum receives a honorary mention at UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize At a ceremony today in Paris Liverpool’s International Slavery Museum will receive an Honourable Mention by Koïchiro Matsuura, the UNESCO Director-General, as part of the UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh ...
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• Video: My Exodus Story

  
  Beyond Blue — Authority: 520
  Its helpful for me to remember concrete moments where I gave up all control. Here is one such moment, an "exodus moment," when I crossed the Red Sea from slavery to freedom. *  Click here to subscribe to Beyond Blue ! And c lick here to follow Therese on Twitter . And click here to join Group ...
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• The 12 Second Commute Freedom Team - Professional Online Tools And Explosive Residual Incomes

  
  Free Internet Marketing Information — Authority: 160
  If you’re weary of meaningless promises, of working for someone else, of get rich quick scams on the Internet, then it is time to get your 12 Second Commute. If you are serious about working from home, I’m sincere about helping you reach your goals, and gaining your freedom. Commuting to and from work, Layoffs, ...
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• Headtime scalp massager massages scalps, blows minds

  
  Hobbies Fun & entertainment - fun-entertainment.marc8.com — Authority: 164
  Say what you will, but we love the idea of having a tireless automaton massaging our overworked noggins. And, since human slavery was outlawed a good while ago, our only choice left is modern technology . Enter the Headtime scalp massager, produced by Kinatech. read more
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• The Mystery of Easter Island

  
  NotionsCapital — Authority: 491
  Everybody knows that the inhabitants of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) have dissappeared. Where did they go? Disneyworld? Abducted by space aliens ? Did the inhabitants de-forest their island and starve themselves out? Maybe after they made those big stone heads ( moai) they got creeped out by them and just split. Or ...
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• Is this “The Age of Apology?”

  
  BBC World Have Your Say — Authority: 572
  “We come together today to deal with an ugly chapter in our nation’s history.”Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s apology to thousands of children abused in state care – following a 20 year campaign by the victims - is another example of governments saying sorry for historical events.Saying sorry has ...
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• MY REPLY CONCERNING: "SELF-CENTERED EGOTISTS APATHETIC OR JUST PLAIN DUMB"

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 128
  Before I joined Facebook, I had read that Facebook was the so-called "Hottest" piece of Internet real estate. What wasnt clear was to what end. It appears that the Web 2.0 crowd of self-styled "geeks" or "nerds" (no offense intended) were stating their view that Facebook is "hot" because it has gained so many members ...
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• Obama gets a taste of China’s slavery taunt on Tibet

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Shanghai, Nov. 16 (ANI): Even before Barack Obama touched down in Shanghai, he got a taste of Chinese taunts on Tibet, asserting that the black President should respect Chinese opposition to the Dalai Lama whose ancestors were ’slave masters’.“He is a black President, and he understands the slavery abolition ...
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• Slavery: Mauritania moves to end slavery

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 489
  DPA reports Mauritanias government has begun to educate its law enforcement and justice officials about slavery, in what it said was an effort to crack down on the practice.Mauritania has long been considered by human rights groups as a safe haven for slavery, with people still being bought and sold and then held as ...
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• Get them off the human trafficking bus

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 605
  From McCann Kenya comes a visually-compelling and direct message to stop human trafficking, especially of children. The public awareness campaign through transit ads serve to spread the message quickly, and with a visual connect that is readily comprehensible, action-inducing, agitating, and graphic as any visual ...
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• My Presentation at the History and Fiction Conference at the University of West Georgia: Speaker for the Dead: a Historian’s Tale (Part II)

  
  Izgad — Authority: 119
  Post IThe three books that make up the Speaker Trilogy are about Enders search for redemption. At the end of Enders Game Ender secretly writes a book, called the Hivequeen and the Hegemon, to explain to humanity that the Buggers where not the monsters everyone thought they were. He writes this book under the pseudonym ...
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• Slavery in America — Part 10

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 562
  President Grant was willing to suspend habeaus corpus to insure the 15th Amendment, establishing voting rights for freedman.  He later signed the Civil Rights Act of 1875 which entitled equal treatment in public accommodations and jury selection. The Ku Klux Klan was vigorously prosecuted. There were 1000 ...
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• If Dalai Lama is Jefferson Davis, who is Lee?

  
  Looking for Words — Authority: 134
  The internet’s abuzz with the news that, in Beijing’s view, Tibet was like the Southern states before the US Civil War. “President Obama, as a black president, certainly knows well the great significance of the U.S. Abolition Movement initiated by President Lincoln,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman ...
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• If Dalai Lama is Jefferson Davis, who is Lee?

  
  Blowin' In The Wind — Authority: 475
  The internets abuzz with the news that, in Beijings view, Tibet was like the Southern states before the US Civil War. "President Obama, as a black president, certainly knows well the great significance of the U.S. Abolition Movement initiated by President Lincoln," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang. ...
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• Reparations Will Not Repair Our Nation

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 562
  Reparations Will Not Repair Our Nation             There was a time in our country’s short history where not all men were created equal.  In the eighteenth and nineteenth century black slaves were used in America as tools for farmers in the south.  Not only were they workers, but they were also the ...
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• China Cautions ‘Black’ Obama Over Meeting Dalai Lama

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 628
  From the Times of India : China on Thursday invoked Abraham Lincoln’s anti- slavery philosophy to persuade US president Barack Obama from meeting the Dalai Lama… ”He is a black president, and he understands the slavery abolition movement and Lincoln’s major significance for that movement,” Chinese ...
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• Hubinette and Trenka on Transnational Adoption

  
  FAMILY PRESERVATION ADVOCACY — Authority: 430
  Ive quoted Hubinette here before without digging deeply into who this adoption scholar is. Tobias Hübinette was born Lee Sam-dol in Korea. Adopted by Swedes, Hubinette, who earned a PhD in Korean Studies in the Department of Oriental Lan-guages, Stockholm University, Sweden in 2005. Along the way, he earned a BS ...
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• Albions Southwestern Seeds -- Roman Slavery To Virginia Slave Trade

  
  Fox Home — Authority: 467
  Reading along in Albions Seed: Four British Folkways in America (1989) by David Hackett Fischer. The second folkway is that of "South of England to Virginia,", i.e. a/k/a the Chesapeake region of the New World Atlantic coast. In the section titled "The Cradle of Virginia: The South of England," pp. 241 - 43 Hackett ...
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• Finally - Africans Apologizing for Slavery

  
  Miss Kelly — Authority: 420
  As Kathy Shaidle of Five Feet of Fury says , now heres an apology for slavery that I can really get behind: "Traditional African rulers should apologise for the role they played in the slave trade , a Nigerian rights group has said in a letter to chiefs." " We cannot continue to blame the white men, as Africans ...
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