Amerindia US Blog

8/19/2010

Worker Slavery in Brazil

Filed under: Bad Business, Human Rights - LGBT, Social Justice — Queen @ 8:11 am

One would (or should) be astonished about the prevalence of worker slavery all over the world, including the US. Vulnerable populations are forced or lured into jobs where they receive little and are essentially treated like slaves. Much of it happens with the lure of “jobs.” But the “jobs” result in people leaving a sustainable if not prosperous lifestyle, in exchange for “better” living conditions that leave them in financial and/or physical slavery.

This latest incident reported in Brazil

8/17/2010

Guerrilla Gardening Movement

Filed under: Environmental, General, Healthy Food & Ag — Queen @ 6:47 pm

Time to turn concrete back into soil and growing things, to make our environment sustainable. Guerrilla Gardening sprouts up in LA and is spreading everywhere.

Guerrilla Gardening

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