Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Bill to Stop Modern Day Slavery under Government Contracts

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Friday, July 13, 2012

Bill to Stop Modern Day Slavery under Government Contracts

Click here to access article by Devon Chaffee from American Civil Liberties Union.

Here is another example of how political operatives of the One Percent have no compunctions about engaging in any kind of exploitation that they can get away with to serve the Empire.

Last month the ACLU released a joint report with Yale Law School, Victims of Complacency, that documents the ongoing trafficking, forced labor and abuse of foreign workers hired through U.S. government contracts to work in support of U.S. military and diplomatic missions abroad.