Word: slave-labor
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...official propaganda channels to produce books, videos and games that praise the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks (yes). They don’t conceal the outbreak of a deadly virus like SARS. They don’t hold millions of peaceful oppositionists, minorities and low-level criminals in a vast slave-labor camp system (known as “Laogai”). They don’t systematically torture and kill practitioners of a meditation sect (Falun Gong). And, of most immediate concern for Harvard, they don’t lock up a pro-democracy activist like Kennedy School graduate Yang...
...developed even as title to the real estate remained contested. And in a move to protect German companies from U.S. lawsuits relating to the Nazi era, the government in 2000 made a deal with Washington that involved setting up a €5 billion fund to pay outstanding Holocaust-related slave-labor claims in exchange for legal immunity from restitution demands. Indeed, the German ambassador in Washington, Wolfgang Ischinger, in January wrote to the New Jersey judge who is considering Principe's suit in the U.S., urging him to dismiss that case. It should, according to the ambassador, be subsumed...
...black reparations moves beyond the historical harm of slavery. The case for black reparations becomes even more salient because present-day African-Americans suffer from on-going injustice. To be sure, slavery anchors the claim to repair: it has been estimated that the present-day value of expropriated slave-labor ranges to trillions of dollars, depending the rate of interest. Importantly, the emancipated slaves were neither compensated for this toil, nor treated as equal citizens upon their emancipation. Instead, freed slaves and their descendants were subjected to the Jim Crow period of legalized discrimination and segregation that dedicated a system...
...Prime Number $7000 in compensation is entitled to each of 1 million survivors of Nazi slave-labor camps, from a joint fund created by German industry and government...
...that Sullivan isn't talking about the kind of viewpoint I'd seen at an art exhibit the day before I visited him. In "Confederate Currency: The Color of Money," at the Avery Research Center in Charleston, an African-American artist named John W. Jones took the romanticized slave-labor scenes from Confederate currency and reproduced them in oil paintings paired with the bills. The effect is to punctuate the exploitation of blacks for profit. One scene depicts a sun-lit goddess of good fortune in repose, counting her gold as slaves toil in the fields behind...