Sentences with phrase «from slave labor»

Its economy makes a relative few well - connected cronies rich, their bank accounts filled with profits from slave labor.

Mortars and pestels are microgrids harnessing human energy, not much different from slave labor or waterfall - driven gristmills — microgrids (balancing captive supply and demand resources to maintain stable service within a defined boundary).

howz about not buying your kids so much crap and chocolatey cookies (that probably came from slave labor)?

The defendants, claims Fagan's suit, «conspired with slave traders, with each other and other entities and institutions... to commit and / or knowingly facilitate crimes against humanity, and to further illicitly profit from slave labor.»

That's why US corporations abolished the tariffs that once protected our economy from the slave labor that is made available in countries such as China.

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From prostitution to slave labor, human trafficking is a booming business.

King Leopold II «founded» the Congo Free State as «his own» private colony, and went on to make a huge fortune from it by forcing the Congolese into slave labor for ivory and rubber.

Sure, Mitt Romney gives more to «charity» (meaning, directly to the Mormon Church), but then, he's gotten incredibly wealthy by shutting down profitable American companies in order to benefit personally from the near - slave labor available in China.

But despite the real gains in social morality that came in the wake of the abolition of the slave trade, despite the rise in the status of women, despite the benefits that came from the enactment of child - labor laws and the establishment of the welfare state, did not the nineteenth century also bequeath to us those proposed «solutions» to social ills that led to mass starvation in Russia and China, to the utopian nightmares of communism and fascism, to wars unending, and ¯ in those societies that actually managed to abolish most social evils ¯ to a hedonism that is undermining society from within?

Would they fear loosing jobs, or for the Slave Owners angry about loosing their property that helped them Profit and maintain their great wealth from the use of slave labor, much like China doesSlave Owners angry about loosing their property that helped them Profit and maintain their great wealth from the use of slave labor, much like China doesslave labor, much like China does now.

As tyrannical kingship had taken the place of paternal chieftainship and a stratified society based on slave labor had crowded out earlier equality, so the social organization of Israel continued to take form from the patterns of the day.

Henry rejected liberal versions of the social gospel which tended to be all social and no gospel, but he appealed to an earlier evangelical consensus of cultural engagement that included the work of William Wilberforce in campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade in England, the revivalist impulses of Charles G. Finney against slavery in this country, as well as evangelical concerns for suffrage, temperance, child labor laws, fair wages for workers, and many other progressive issues to which many theologically conservative Christians were once committed» before what David Moberg has called «the great reversal,» an evangelical withdrawal from such concerns.

But giving your mom a speech about how you are morally superior to her for not eating animals is false logic, considering the slave labor used to produce your fruits, vegetables, nuts, and other delicious animal - free ingredients (coffee, sugar, bananas, mangos, berries, peaches, and cashews are just a few examples of foods imported from the third world where workers are severely mistreated and underpaid, or farmed by underpaid Mexican immigrants in the US).

Yes, formula can save lives for babies who have no access to breastmilk but that has nothing to do with Nestle's marketing practices... or its sourcing cocoa from plantations using slave labor.

This isn't about privileged women saying «breast is best» (a woman's choice how to feed her child is her own)-- it is about misleading, unethical, and in some cases illegal marketing practices, illegally sourcing milk from a horrible dictator, and the use of slave labor.

12 percent of Norway's present population are not descended from African slaves brought to labor in Norway.

«From an eight - hour workday, to no child labor, from LGBT rights, to women's suffrage, from the Civil Rights movement, to freeing the slaves, were all revolutionary moonshFrom an eight - hour workday, to no child labor, from LGBT rights, to women's suffrage, from the Civil Rights movement, to freeing the slaves, were all revolutionary moonshfrom LGBT rights, to women's suffrage, from the Civil Rights movement, to freeing the slaves, were all revolutionary moonshfrom the Civil Rights movement, to freeing the slaves, were all revolutionary moonshots.

As an aside: I don't think most people are aware that the vast majority of chocolate products, like cocoa powder, comes from child slave labor.

But when he receives an invitation from King Leopold II of Belgium to return to the Congo as a trade emissary for the House of Commons, American statesman George Washington Williams (Samuel L. Jackson) convinces him to go in order to investigate rumors that Leopold is using slave labor to colonize the country.

We don't want to give the impression that the film is purely a comedy, it's far from it, dealing with the great Catholic Church scandal of the Magdalene Sisters who were forced into near - slave labor and separated from their children (Peter Mullan dealt with similar stories in his underrated directorial effort «The Magdalene Sisters «-RRB-.

While some thunder was stolen from Telluride, who managed to nab a handful of high profile pictures to show off first — «Labor Day,» «12 Years A Slave,» «Prisoners» — one could argue that it's in Toronto where the sustainability of a critically acclaimed film, the ability to survive the conversation through the noise and buzz of the season, is truly tested.

A thousand years from now, the dreaded alien race known as the Psychlos, take over Earth and submit those few remaining human beings to prison and slave labor, raping the Earth for its resources such as gold.

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A wealthy American teenager, a Chinese adolescent intent on freeing himself from a lifetime of slave labor, an...

From a magical realism viewpoint, maybe Whitehead was trying to say that the railroad was built by slave labor to help slaves escape.

And indeed, the original Underground Railroad drew its name from an analogy with a powerful new method of travel — built by slaves (or imported cheap labor treated as free men in name only).

Disputed Banksy Back at Auction — The alleged Banksy street artwork, Slave Labor (Bunting Boy), which depicts a young boy stitching Union Jack flags on a sewing machine, and was first painted during the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, is back at auction alongside works by Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst, despite protestations from the council that represents the district in which the painting was made.

As part of their labor series, their documentation has covered the cruel conditions of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, a former slave - breeding plantation named for the African nation from which «the most profitable» slaves, according to slave owners, were kidnapped.

Sugar cane has not been immune: of the 5,877 workers freed in 2007 from conditions analogous to slave labor in Brazil, 2,947 had been sugar - cane cutters.

Politicians reflexively delete trade provisions that penalize products coming from plants that don't employ slave labor or produce enormous emissions.

Brazilian authorities announced Thursday they are seeking $ 1.2 billion in fines against 14 companies accused of buying beef from farms exploiting illegally deforested areas or slave labor in the Amazon.

As a result, many foreign victims of egregious crimes — ranging from torture and slave labor to the execution of loved ones — that were sanctioned, endorsed or commissioned by corporations have found justice in our courts.

The only place where sundown towns are scarce is in the traditional south, where the labor of black slaves and later sharecroppers was too valuable and commonplace to expel from white communities.