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May 12th Public Lecture: “Understanding Slavery Past and Present”
A reminder to our readers that you are all invited to the final lecture in the Mississauga Library System’s ‘History Minds’ series, co-hosted with ActiveHistory.ca. This talk will be on Thursday, May 12th at 7:30PM in Classroom 3 at the Mississauga Central Library (see below the cut for directions). “Understanding Slavery Past and Present” With Karlee Sapoznik, Co-Founder of the… Read more »
Modern slavery, environmental stress, and lingering international imperialism – unwinding the connections between intimately linked problems
There are critical connections between modern slavery, environment and imperialism.
Forced Marriage: An under recognized, poorly understood form of enslavement
In the lead up to International Women’s Day, Karlee Sapoznik looks at past and present aspects of forced marriage.
Slavery Affects 27 Million Lives Today: Legal Abolition vs. Effective Emancipation
An analysis of slavery past and present from the Alliance Against Modern Slavery.
New ActiveHistory.ca Paper – Cancun Summit: The True Reasons for the ‘Failure’ of the Green Movement by Jean-François Mouhot
As the 2010 UN Climate summit in Cancun seems unlikely to make any significant advances, the green movement has been blamed for failing to convince the public that action on climate change is both urgent and necessary, in particular because of its refusal of technologies such as nuclear energy and geo-engineering. However, looking at a previous period of “boom and… Read more »
“When People Eat Chocolate, They Are Eating My Flesh”: Slavery and the Dark Side of Chocolate
Whether it’s a Mars, Cadbury, Hershey, Nestle or Snickers chocolate bar, most of us relish biting into one of life’s most tasty, cheap indulgences: chocolate.
Bill C-268, Human Trafficking and Slavery in Canada Past and Present
As a former British colony, Canada abolished the slave trade over 200 years ago. However, slavery was certainly not eradicated with the legal abolition of the slave trade. Canadians still buy and sell human beings.
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