The 13th amendment to the Constitution states that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Recently I learned that wor[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Wage Slavery’
February 22nd, 2014 - 12:16 pm § in Hypocrisy
12 yrs a slave .. politically correct, boring
The Emperor’s New Clothes Comes t0 a Slave Flick We saw “12 Years a Slave.” After preparing for something as hard to watch as Schindler’s list or Roberto Benigni’s “Life Is Beautiful,” we saw a politically correct movie with flat performances and rather[...]
December 22nd, 2013 - 8:32 am § in Hypocrisy, Schools & Colleges
WHILE AMERICAN ACADEMICS BOYCOTT ISRAEL: Some Call This Slavery
Workers on Abu Dhabi projects including Guggenheim and NYU campus face destitution, internment and deportation The students of NYU Abu Dhabi might be the world’s most pampered undergraduates NYU has come under increasing criticism from faculty, driven by renewed questions about academic fr[...]
December 17th, 2013 - 4:20 am § in America, The Ave Scene
Does Amazon Use Slave Labor?
Amazon — the future of retail? Amazon’s warehouses are run like colonial enterprises — the staff are treated with contempt, paid badly, disciplined brutally, and set in competition against each other, often as temporary workers or on short-term contracts. Meanwhile, North of France: B[...]
October 18th, 2013 - 2:43 pm § in Misc.
!2 Years a Slave
The reviews of this movie are awesome, Opens Friday, October 18, 2013 (Limited) In the years before the Civil War, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South. Subjected to the cruelty of one malevolent owner (Michael [...]
US Slavery: Stealing Wages From the Working Poor
Pope Francis Condemns Wage Slavery Minimum wage for tipped workers: $2.13 readmore about how Congress PERMANENTLY fixed minimum wage at $2.13 for food workers.[...]