Breaking The Chains

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*+-In order to break the economic, social and psychological chains, people must first educate themselves.  In America’s poor communities, African and Latino Americans are being incarcerated in large numbers.  Once these people receive a criminal conviction on their records, they are legally discriminated against.  Whether they’re applying for employment, housing,…

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Incarceration Is A Business

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*+-Incarceration Is a Business In the U.S., incarceration is not only a business, but “Big Business”. Annually, America spends $68 billion and growing on the detention of humans in local, state and federal correction/detention centers. This figure doesn’t include the money private businesses are making off those people incarcerated and…

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Slavery With A Loophole

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*+-For centuries in America, the West Indies and Europe – just to name a few places – indentured servitude, involuntary servitude and chattel slavery was big business.  There are a lot of businesses, corporations, municipalities and families that made a fortune off the enslavement of other humans. The global slave…

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