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“Star Wars”: The Last Jedi Takes a Side In The Class War

What “The Last Jedi” advises is a radical break from resistance as we know it: abandoning old tactics and loyalties and handing the keys — or at least more of them — over to the grassroots: the mechanics, the child laborers, the Ewoks, and the rebel foot-soldiers. The resistance of the “Star Wars” films has never been particularly visionary, operating as a kind of top-down, underground rebellion looking to reconstitute the New Republic of the prequels.

December 27th, 2017

By The Intercept

“Star Wars”: The Last Jedi Takes a Side In The Class War

BEFORE TOUCHING DOWN on the planet of Canto Bight, Rose looks down forebodingly to tell us that it’s full of the “worst people in the galaxy.” Cut to champagne glasses clinking and a casino full of galactic 1-percenters. “Only one business in the galaxy can get you this rich,” Rose — a new character in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” a mechanic on

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Tobacco Farms Exploit Child Labor In North Carolina

The report did not include the children who were working with their families in tobacco fields.

May 06th, 2016

By teleSUR

Tobacco Farms Exploit Child Labor In North Carolina

Various North Carolina farmers partnered with R.J. Reynolds tobacco company illegally hires children under 13 years old to harvest their tobacco crops, report released Wednesday stated. A recent audit commissioned by the tobacco company found that 40 percent of its contractor farms employed under age workers, therefore violating the Federal law

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From Apple To Volkswagen, Tech Boom Fueled By 40,000 Congolese Child Miners

In this episode of MintPress News’ ‘Behind the Headline,’ host and MintPress News Editor-in-Chief Mnar Muhawesh delves deep into the heart of Africa and finds that history is repeating itself in Congo.

April 06th, 2016

By Mnar Muhawesh Mnar Muhawesh @mnarmuh

From Apple To Volkswagen, Tech Boom Fueled By 40,000 Congolese Child Miners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPCIaMjcIO4 MINNEAPOLIS --- A recent Amnesty International report sounded the alarm on a “blood mineral” mined by Congolese children as young as seven and used in rechargeable

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Mnar Muhawesh

Mnar Muhawesh is founder, CEO and editor in chief of MintPress News, and is also a regular speaker on responsible journalism, sexism, neoconservativism within the media and journalism start-ups. She started her career as an independent multimedia journalist covering Midwest and national politics while focusing on civil liberties and social justice issues posting her reporting and exclusive interviews on her blog MintPress, which she later turned MintPress into the global news source it is today. In 2009, Muhawesh also became the first American woman to wear the hijab to anchor/report the news in American media. Muhawesh is also a wife and mother of a rascal four year old boy, juggling her duties as a CEO and motherly tasks successfully as supermom. Contact Mnar at mnar@mintpressnews.com. Follow Mnar on Twitter at @mnarmuh

Obama Bans US Imports Of Slave-Produced Goods

Until now, U.S. customs law banning imports of items produced by forced or child labor had gone largely unenforced.

February 25th, 2016

By Associated Press

Obama Bans US Imports Of Slave-Produced Goods

President Barack Obama signed a bill Wednesday that includes a provision banning U.S. imports of fish caught by slaves in Southeast Asia, gold mined by children in Africa and garments sewn by abused women in Bangladesh, closing a loophole in an 85-year-old tariff law that

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Trafficking, Child Labor May Be Growing In Global Chocolate Industry

Labor advocates say failure to address the root causes of poverty among cocoa farming communities may be leading to both human trafficking and child labor along the chocolate industry’s supply chains.

December 26th, 2014

By Carey L. Biron @clbtea

Trafficking, Child Labor May Be Growing In Global Chocolate Industry

A young boy builds a small storage house in a cocoa producing village close to town of Oume, Ivory Coast. (Photo: Schalk van Zuydam/AP) WASHINGTON --- Almost two decades of advocacy work and multi-stakeholder discussions have resulted in nearly universal acknowledgement of the crushing labor and inequity

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Carey L. Biron

Carey L. Biron is Washington correspondent for MintPress and for Inter Press News focusing on issues of equity and accountability, environmental and corporate regulation, and international development and governance from Capitol Hill. Carey spent much of the past 15 years covering South and Southeast Asia as a radio and print reporter and editor.

Uzbekistan Still Using Child Slaves To Pick Cotton

Uzbekistan may have cut back on its use of young child laborers, but its use of teens and others in its forced labor system continues drawing criticism from social groups, retailers and governments, who want to weed unethically harvested Uzbek cotton out of the supply chain.

October 20th, 2014

By Carey L. Biron @clbtea

Uzbekistan Still Using Child Slaves To Pick Cotton

WASHINGTON --- The world’s fifth largest cotton producer, Uzbekistan, is currently in the midst of a two-month-long harvest and, according to reports, a longstanding system of forced labor is again being used to gather the lucrative crop. For years, children as young as seven years old were forced to

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Keith Ellison Slams Trump Scheme to Resurrect Child Labor

Keith Ellison is calling into question a Trump-led Department of Labor scheme to loosen rules around child labor laws.

“Star Wars”: The Last Jedi Takes a Side In The Class War