#News: #US budget cuts have gutted ILAB’s global fight against forced #labour and child #slavery in #supplychains. We can't stop modern slavery by cutting the tools that find it! 🧐🚫 #ForcedLabour #HumanRights @palmoildetect.bsky.social foleyhoag.com/news-and-insight…

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Cuts to a Little-Known U.S. Agency Undermine the Global Fight Against Forced Labor

For several decades, the United States has strengthened its efforts to stringently enforce anti-trafficking statutes at home with practical partnerships to prevent forced labor abroad.

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"My numbers are tanking, my Party is in open rebellion, I really need a good policy that the public can get behind me on....."

#KeirStarmer #Starmer #DigitalID #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Labour

they do not, and I've given them one chance to prove themselves and they have/will fail.

I knew Steve Reed wouldn't reply, he's on the Front Bench.

#SteveReedMP #Labour

I've still not heard back from my MP Steve Reed, about the letter I sent to him about this.

Shower of bastards.

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News via a Second Thought video that also provided some additional context on their #labour issues (links below). The video itself is a criticism of "corporate social responsibility".

Second Thought Video:
yewtu.be/watch?v=idBdAw5PuTI
Links to articles about #Nespresso:
theguardian.com/business/2020/…
reporterbrasil.org.br/2021/09/…
Their #bcorp page:
bcorporation.net/en-us/find-a-…

Children as young as eight picked coffee beans on farms supplying Starbucks

Nespresso also named in TV exposé of labour scandal in Guatemala

^{Jamie Doward (The Guardian)}

Reminder: Neptune Frost is eligible for the #HugoAward next year.

It's an excellent Afrofuturist musical about labour rights, about systems of oppression, & about gender.

And it has an epic soundtrack.

If you care about SFF cinema as a distinct artform, and you vote on the Hugos, please give Neptune Frost a chance.

#Afrofuturism #Antifascist #Anticolonial #Labour #Labor #Solidarity #TransRights #TransrightsAreHumanRights #Antiracism

Review: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2022/10/…