Literal Slave Labor in America

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Forced labor clouds boom in Brazil's Amazon
By Vladimir Hernandez
BBC Mundo, Para, Brazil

Business is booming in Maraba, a small town in the Brazilian Amazon.

The region's cattle farming, charcoal and logging industries are attracting job-seekers from all over Brazil.

But the good times have not managed to dispel a social ill that has long plagued this region: slave labor.

In the state of Para, where Maraba is located, government officials say that over the past two years they have rescued more than 1,000 workers who were being held on farms or in charcoal camps against their will.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/latin_america/10230766.stm

[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. I thought this was about undocumented migrant workers in the US

Believe it or not slavery is alive and well--even though hidden--here in America.

We need immigration reform to get these people out of the shadows where they are abused and exploited.

The situation in Brazil is deplorable but we have to clean our house too.

[burnsei sensei]

2. There are still 13th Amendment suits

being brought here.
I hope they multiply as debt binds people more and more.