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• Scientology Guilty Of Slavery And Human Trafficking?

  
  Tai-Chi Policy — Authority: 147
  Those are the charges being filed against it in California . Posted in Crime Tagged: Corruption, Human Trafficking, Scientology, Slavery
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• Horace Clarence Boyer: How Sweet the Sound

  
  RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY — Authority: 421
  Paul Harvey Horace Clarence Boyer, pioneering scholar of the history of black gospel and the author of How Sweet the Sound : The Golden Age of Gospel , died yesterday. A great piece on him from NPR can be heard here. Boyer started How Sweet the Sound when, as a student at Eastman School of Music, he was ...
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• Chattel Slavery (4) - Greater Protection

  
  Blessed Economist — Authority: 129
  Subsequent verses give even greater protection to bonded servants. If a man hits a manservant or maidservant in the eye and destroys it, he must let the servant go free to compensate for the eye. And if he knocks out the tooth of a manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free to compensate for the tooth ...
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• Black Catholic History Month: The Knights of Who?

  
  GeneaBlogie — Authority: 463
  “Claverism” observes 100th Anniversary in USA Every Catholic and many a non- Catholic recognizes the name of the largest Catholic lay organization in the world, the Knights of Columbus.  This is a group of “practical” Catholic men who do charitable acts.  Indeed, over the last ten years, the “K of C” ...
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• Rebecca Solnit : Reflections on Fanaticism

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 559
  John Brown depicted in detail from a mural by John Steuart Curray titled "Tragic Prelude," in the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka.Todays fanatic, tomorrows saintIts popular to think that the world gets changed by nice people, but the lives of activists past and present tell us otherwiseBy Rebecca Solnit / November ...
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• Meat For The State

  
  Reflections From a Murky Pond — Authority: 122
  Over a century ago President Abraham Lincoln freed the Blacks from slavery. Now, the the First Black President who mendaciously seeks to have people think he emulates Lincoln, seeks to enslave all Americans, irrespective of race, in the most disgusting and profound manner. President Obama’s “Regulatory ...
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• Reducing Men to Animals

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 506
  Do you agree with slavery? Slavery mean one man without any kind of freedom that would have to work in heavy jobs such as carrying stones or in dangerous works such as gold mines. There were no machines, all the work was manual. For women that would be serving in a house and doing all kinds of domestic work, including ...
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• Nepal Struggling to Prevent Trafficking of Women to the Gulf

  
  Migrant Rights — Authority: 429
  The UN’s IRIN News recently published a report about the difficulties Nepal’s government is having with preventing its women from traveling to the Gulf to work there in the domestic labor sector. According to Nepali activists, there is a growing problem of trafficking of women to the Gulf region, and it has ...
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• Two True Freaks! Episode 87 – Harry Potter!!

  
  The Comics Podcast Network — Authority: 144
  In this clock-busting episode, Chris hooks up with THE HARRY POTTER ALLIANCE members Hope Mullinax, Dinah Russell and Andrew Slack! Topics range from Wizard Wrock to social activism and the Harry Potter universe, the Rowling books, the movies, undead sex toys and a whole HOST of other topics! For example, did you ...
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• Employment Deployment

  
  The Vigilant Lens — Authority: 131
  President Obama is readying his latest stimulated package of employment and prosperity called, the war in Afghanistan.  Mind you, this is not an open-ended stimulus plan.That being said, we will not leave until the job is finished and or we’ve fulfilled our contracts with Blackwater, Halliburton and Boeing.  Give ...
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• Peru apologizes to African descendants while a main Newspaper in Lima presents Africans as Cannibals [VIDEO]

  
  Peruanista — Authority: 418
  Today BBC reports that the government of Peru has apologized to its citizens of African origin for the "abuse, exclusion and discrimination" that Blacks in Peru have suffered for centuries.A public ceremony will be held to apologize to African-Peruvians, who make up 5-10% of the population. Their ancestors were ...
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• 5 Million Brazillian Workers Underage – Deep Brazil

  
  Stop Child Slavery — Authority: 104
  One hundred and eleven years after Brazil abolished slavery, the number of workers deprived of their freedom is still huge. They raise cattle, produce charcoal, sugar cane or timber. Some of them, most undocumented Bolivians, work in basements of small apparel factories in São Paulo and other metropolis. According ...
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• Camp Nelson

  
  Sherry Chandler — Authority: 130
  One of the horrors I discovered in Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin 2007) was that the African-American soldiers fighting in the Union Army could be as badly treated by Northern forces as by Southern.Here, from Helen Deiss Irvin, is a harrowing incident from Kentucky’s Civil War:In the ...
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• Christmas in Antebellum Virginia: Part I

  
  Gherkins & Tomatoes — Authority: 422
  Jamestown Smokehouse (Painting by Bill Barber) What is now the state of Virginia boasted the first permanent English settlement in North America. Despite its rocky beginnings in 1607, the settlement eventually flourished. The first Africans arrived in 1619 and the tobacco industry began in earnest. Along with the ...
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• Philippine Fact-Finding Mission Calls for a Ban on Sending Maids to the Middle East

  
  Migrant Rights — Authority: 429
  A three-member delegation of the Philippine House Committee on Workers Affairs visited the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan during October and found egregious violations of migrant rights in all three countries. The mission was sent following a rise in reports about cases of abuse of Filipino workers in the region. The ...
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• "In Poor Taste" Doesnt Begin to Cover It...

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 706
  Gun Club Gomer: It is probably a total coincidence, but Parkland is 22 miles down I-5 from Evergreen State College, the radical leftist school that helped create Rachel Corrie and Andrew Mickel, the later of which ambushed a police officer in Nov 2002, and is now on death row. Another radical leftist shot and killed ...
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• Chattel Slavery (3) - Equal under the Law

  
  Blessed Economist — Authority: 129
  The references to servants in Exodus 21 are really important, because they give servants the same protection as other citizens. This is quite unique, as in most other jurisdictions, servants were not protected by the law. The point of Exodus 21:20- 21 is that a master who kills his servant must receive the same ...
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• "It is a decision not made by the General Government"

  
  Elektratig — Authority: 125
  Henry Clays 1st compromise resolution advocated the admission of California as a state with or without slavery. The text of the resolution, and my review of Clays comments on it in his speech of January 29, 1850 may be found here . On February 5, 1850 , Clay expanded substantially on his comments a week ...
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• The ugly side of supply & demand ( Shaniya Davis) MEDIA MISSES

  
  Family Court Crisis-Abusers Getting Custody..!! — Authority: 144
  Note: Cross posted from [wp angelfury] Mothers Global Justice Alliance . Permalink   The ugly side of supply & demand http://mediamisses.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/the-ugly-side-of-supply-demand/   The recent case of Shaniya Davis brought to light the problem of sexual slavery in this ...
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• The ugly side of supply & demand ( Shaniya Davis) MEDIA MISSES

  
  Battered Women, Battered Children, Custody Abuse — Authority: 144
  Note: Cross posted from [wp angelfury] Mothers Global Justice Alliance . Permalink   The ugly side of supply & demand http://mediamisses.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/the-ugly-side-of-supply-demand/   The recent case of Shaniya Davis brought to light the problem of sexual slavery in this ...
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