#slavery

#GiftArticle Here Come Trump’s ‘Freedom Trucks’ A fleet of mobile museums is touring the country with a version of #UShistory the #Trump admin can get behind. …The #FarRight wing edutainment nonprofit #PragerU, which aims to help “people of all ages think & live better while upholding Judeo-Christian values,” put the vehicles together. Criticized for spreading #disinformation about #ClimateChange & downplaying the significance of #slavery… #propaganda #whitewashing

100 #humanrights NGOS have signed a declaration that @RSPOtweets is a fake solution 👎 that does not stop #palmoil #deforestation #ecocide #slavery from entering consumer goods 🩸🛒 Fight #greenwashing lies, instead #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife

“I then asked him, when it came to determining what kind of man [Thomas] Jefferson was, “of the two things, owning slaves, or having sex with a slave, which do you think is worse?” He said that he couldn’t answer that question. I told him that he had just answered it very clearly. … That has been the hidden dividing line in our discussion of slavery in this country, such as we have had any discussion at all.” —Lucian Truscott IV https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/when-human-beings-owned-other-human #thomasjefferson #slavery

British Crown symbol was branded on enslaved Africans, research finds https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20l8vpznqjo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss #History #Colonialism #Slavery

#News: Freedom United pushes the #US, #UK, and #EU to pass #supplychain #laws. They demand an end to voluntary corporate responsibility and that #corporates must face #criminal penalties for #slavery #forcedlabour. @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk #HumanRights ⚖️⛓️

#usa #eu : #africa / #history / #humanrights / #slavery / #reparations „Slavery is not just a thing of the past. Its effects continue to be felt in #systemicinequality and #racism. This was reiterated on Monday by the UN Committee against Racial Discrimination ( #CERD ) as the world marks the International Day of People of African Descent.“

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social They'll be jailed, offered a plea deal where they get a place to sleep and eat but have to work it off and then *never manage to work it off.* #slavery

Australia’s trade in human flesh: blackbirding - follow the money... "Between 1860 and 1906 up to 62,000 Pacific Islanders were shipped to Australia to work primarily in sugar cane and cotton farming.." "...The Pacific Islanders came, they died, they were buried like dogs and more were sent for.” >> https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/10/sydney-sugar-industry-slave-trade-pacific-islanders-ntwnfb #slavery #Blackbirding #SouthSeaIslander #IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #PastoralIndustry #sugar #cotton ##plantations PALM

📖 Not Built in a Day: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire "It traces how people entered, experienced, and left slavery, covering the little known story of slave revolts and the complex realities of enslaved people who themselves owned enslaved people." 🔗 https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Not-Built-in-a-Day/Emma-Southon/9781668089552 #Ancient #History #Histodons #Slavery #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Booksky

A quotation from Frederick Douglass Americans! your republican politics, not less than your republican religion, are flagrantly inconsistent. You boast of your love of liberty, your superior civilization, and your pure Christianity, while the whole political power of the nation (as embodied in the two great political parties), is solemnly pledged to support and perpetuate the enslavement of three millions of your countrymen. You hurl your anathemas at the crowned headed tyrants of Russia and Austria, and pride yourselves on your Democratic institutions, while you yourselves consent to be the mere tools and body-guards of the tyrants of Virginia and Carolina. Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York More about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8… #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #America #enslavement #hypocrisy #pretension #slavery #systemicracism #tyranny

Focus on Coffs Harbour and Nambucca Valley "NSW modern slavery report calls for urgent reform to protect migrant workers." A NSW parliamentary report into modern slavery has detailed "harrowing stories of mistreatment and harm..The report asked the government to investigate allegations of systemic labour exploitation in Coffs Harbour and the Nambucca Valley. "NSW Anti-slavery commissioner Dr James Cockayne said in a statement the report was "informed by evidence from almost 100 witnesses across NSW, including victim survivors of modern slavery, and 60 submissions"." >> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/nsw-anti-slavery-report-urgent-reform-to-protect-migrant-workers/107003130 #exploitation #PALM #MidNorthCoast #HorticulturalIndustry #blueberries #CoffsHarbour #NambuccaValley #food #harm #slavery #regulation

Blackbirding by Ryan Butta

• "Australia has long reassured itself that, despite genocidal treatment of First Nations peoples, at least it has no heinous past of slavery, unlike Britain and the US. Ryan Butta shatters this historical self-deception. The term “blackbirding” (its etymology in the African and West Indies slave trades) involved the coercion and kidnapping of up to 62,000 Pacific Islander people, many children, to labour mostly on Australian sugar cane plantations between 1860 and 1906."

"Long portrayed as somehow “other” than slavery, Butta uses forensic archival work and compelling prose to disturbingly illustrate why this was Australia’s slave trade – and how a colonial who’s-who profited handsomely from it. – Paul Daley " >> https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/05/best-books-to-read-australia-august-2026

• Book :"As Australia becomes more willing to confront the violence and trauma of its colonial past, one chapter has remained largely hidden: the Australian slave trade known as blackbirding." >> https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Blackbirding/Ryan-Butta/9781923135703 #slavery #history #EngineeredForgetting ##Oceanic peoples blackbirding #Australia #sugar #plantations #books #EuropeanColonisation #violence

“American society’s use of Civil War to rhetorically veil the slaveholders’ rebellion has consequences. After the redemption of the Confederacy, ex-Confederates and their heirs helped create a regime of anti-Black violence by instituting a legal architecture of disenfranchisement and lynching. That is what makes confronting how we refer to the Civil War a civic imperative.” #uspoli #slavery #jan6

RE: https://thelounge.network/@LogicalApex/117015592498964606 indentured servitude is #slavery by #debt. #healthCare tied to #employment is an engineered debt. the usa health care by employment is a form of indentured servitude. in other words: EMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES IS A FORM OF DEBT SLAVERY. doubly so if you have debt by #studentLoans. #PuertoRico outlawed debt slavery because post-slavery plantation workers were locked into their jobs by debt ―always to the plantation owner― they couldn’t retire in bankruptcy. like today's student loans.

🇺🇸 📜 The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world." 🔗 https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states #History #Histodons #Slavery #Georgia #Mississippi #SouthCarolina #Texas #Virginia #USA #US #UnitedStates #America

RE: https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/116958206847346564 Pretty soon the USA is going to run out of people to pick the food to feed them, I guess that's when the chain gangs for "communists" come into play.... #USPol #USPolitics #Fascism #ForcedLabour #Slavery

RE: https://flipboard.com/@globalnews/global-news-cu8h0oq4z/-/a-Ds_0FyFnRP2jQqNG9RW65w%3Aa%3A749442239-%2F0 keep an eye on this. #MAGA #GOP #Republicans want to turn all #prisons & #ICE dentention centers into slave-work concentration camps. this is them preemptively feigning to care about slavery. they want to extort other countries into accepting #USA slave labor. this is what the #deportations are about ― #slavery.

'However, some of the almost 4,000 [Black People] who were lynched between 1882 and 1962 [and there were far more than 4,000 according to Jeff Fager further below] were lynched in settings that are appropriately described as (1/3) #slavery #whitehistory #blackhistory #blackmastodon

But it’s legal to rip-off a million or two That comes from the labour that other folk do; To plunder the many on behalf of the few Is a thing that is perfectly legal.

• Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger (1977) *

(Bosses are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour.” )

https://theconversation.com/australian-companies-to-face-fines-and-criminal-action-if-they-fail-to-prevent-modern-slavery-287667

• Audio of Legal/illegal song https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3wbjZDtR2e0&pp=0gcJCWQCo7VqN5tD

#Capitalism #exploitation #minimumwage #slavery #workingpoor

RE: https://flipboard.social/@ScienceDesk/116936566009455008 toldya so. #IVF #abortion #reproduction #slavery #embryos