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Uncategorized by 4realpeopleMay 1, 2019

They worked in sweltering heat for Exxon, Shell and Walmart. They didn’t get paid a dimeReveal

A nationally renowned drug rehab program in Texas and Louisiana has sent patients struggling with addiction to work for free for some of the biggest companies in America, likely in violation of federal labor law. The Cenikor Foundation has dispatched tens of thousands of patients to work without pay at more than 300 for-profit companies […]

Uncategorized by 4realpeopleJune 4, 2014

Immigrant Detention: Modern Day Slavery

Slavery is not dead. Last Sunday, Melissa Harris-Perry @MHP took viewers on a journey places where enslavement lives in the shadows and its threat controls people through fear. “Thousands of immigrants, locked up at federal detention centers for sometimes no more than a status offense, are being put to work at the detention facilities for […]