Tag Archives: slavery

How the Italian mafia makes millions from tinned tomatoes | It’s Complicated

Posted on September 19, 2023 by agogo22

f your tinned tomatoes come from southern Italy, it’s likely that organised crime had a hand in getting them from the farm to the supermarket shelf. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/subscribegdn The mafia controls much of the … Continue reading →

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Palenque | Psyche Films

Posted on December 2, 2020 by agogo22

The steady drumbeat of life in the first free town in the Americas Palenque is a film made from rhythms. Musical rhythms, daily rhythms, visual rhythms. Rhythms of work, of speech and of play. It’s also a film that breaks … Continue reading →

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Brazil Reverses Course, Will Not Weaken Anti-Slavery Law – FreedomUnited.org

Posted on January 11, 2018 by agogo22

In response to widespread criticism, Brazil will not weaken its anti-slavery law. The government has issued a decree backtracking on its original plan to revise the legal definition of slavery, a move that would have made it harder for abuses … Continue reading →

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The people’s market

Posted on October 12, 2015 by agogo22

A house for the selling of people Slaughter house again The smiling tourist sees only colour History is buried six feet under Model market for the model citizen None the wiser. I scream from aching heart Black children stretched along … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 5, 2012 by agogo22
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