On AlterNet: slave labor

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Why the Slow Food Movement Needs to Help Stop America's Slave Labor

Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. March 16, 2009.

Faced with a fast food system that's bad for people and bad for the planet, we still need to be in solidarity with those who grow our food.

When Did the American Dream Turn Into Forced Labor?

Tula Connell, Firedoglake. June 12, 2008.

Indian guest workers are striking over appalling work conditions.

Mauritius: "We Are Not Animals," Say Foreign Workers

Nasseem Ackbarally, IPS News. June 2, 2008.

Officially, everything is fine in the export processing zones in Mauritius. But, in reality, foreign workers suffer dismal working conditions.

Slavery Is Alive and Well in the U.S.

Suzi Steffen, AlterNet. October 8, 2007.

The new book Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the Global Economy, goes after the U.S. companies that support slave labor.

Britain's Invisible Labor Force: African Children

Emily Dugan, Independent UK. August 21, 2007.

Why hasn't the enslavement of African children been prosecuted in UK courts?

CEOs vs. Slaves

Barbara Ehrenreich, AlterNet. May 31, 2007.

Recent findings shed new light on the increasingly unequal terrain of American society. The new "top" involves pay in the hundreds of millions, a private jet and a few acres of Nantucket. The new bottom is slavery.