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Greg Russinger's Blog – March 2010 Archive (8)

Back and forth on twitter.. Moore and Kardashian... we need to think

Some twitter feed, two different spectrums.. need to close the gap...

read below...

Demi Moore fought a new Twitter crusade late Sunday night. After Kim Kardashian posted a picture of her, Serena Williams, singer Kelly Rowland, and former MTV V.J. Lala

Vasquez to her over 3 million Twitter followers with the caption “big

pimpin,” Moore decided to send a response directly to Kardashian in

which she chastised her for the casual use of the word… Continue

Added by Greg Russinger on March 30, 2010 at 8:02am — No Comments

Kevin Bales (Free the Slaves) from TED2010

We had the honor of having Kevin Bales at Freedom Day 2009, a thoughtful heart, intelligent mind, and a true voice for the cause of ending slavery. Here is the link from his presentation at TED 2010..
Enjoy..
http://conferences.ted.com/TED2010/

or check out our videos section, thanks Jonathan

Added by Greg Russinger on March 30, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

Tracing the bitter truth of chocolate and child labor

Read here if your wanting to learn more concerning the child slavery issues on cocoa plantations..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_8583000/8583499.stm

Added by Greg Russinger on March 24, 2010 at 7:35pm — No Comments

Cocoa Slave tastes sweet freedom

This Easter, Britons/Americans will eat their way through 80 million chocolate eggs but would we have such a sweet tooth if we knew how it was

harvested?

Sixty per cent of cocoa beans found in chocolate on UK shop shelves are sourced in Ghana and Ivory Coast. Fatao is a 12-year-old boy from Burkina Faso who Panorama discovers working on a cocoa farm in Ghana. He is just one of thousands of trafficked children helping to feed the world's appetite for chocolate.…

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Added by Greg Russinger on March 24, 2010 at 9:51am — No Comments

Slavery in Canada

http://maytree.com/blog/?tag=slaverymap

Added by Greg Russinger on March 24, 2010 at 9:21am — No Comments

Texas Monthly, a really good read, insightful, informative

The Lost Girls

For the thousands of women who have been trafficked into Houston and forced to work as prostitutes in the city’s underground sex trade, escaping from captivity may be the easiest part

of the nearly impossible road to recovery.

more here…

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Added by Greg Russinger on March 19, 2010 at 1:36pm — No Comments