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The Slavery Business - Breaking the Chains (3/3) 2005 08 17 BBC

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The Slavery Business - Breaking the Chains (3/3) 2005 08 17 BBC 500 MB/00:58:43 The third and final part of this series tells the story of how slavery came to an end. Today William Wilberforce is considered a hero, the man who ended the slave trade, but there's another story that's been hidden for 200 years. Although opposed to the slave trade, Wilberforce believed that the 800,000 slaves owned by the British should remain in chains. He regarded them as unfit for freedom. This programme uncovers the real heroes of the battle against slavery. They were radical political activists, many of them women; fiery evangelical preachers who worked amongst the slaves; and thousands of slaves themselves, who rose up in rebellion to break the chains of their own bondage. See Also:Coolies: How Britain Re-invented Slavery 2005 08 11 BBC http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1894278/?rel=1240724849 http://www.open2.net/slavery/ http://www.open2.net/slavery/breaking_chains.html Other active torrents/uploads at: http://www.bt-chat.com/browse.php?category=11
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Michel Chossudovsky's Global Research News Hour - Week 16.2009

Category: Talks, Debates, Interviews
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Host: Stephen Lendman Monday, April 13th Ramzy Baroud is a veteran Palestinian-American journalist and former Al-Jazeera producer. He's the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Palestine Chronicle, a vital resource for information on Israel/Palestine, the Middle East, and much more. He's written many articles, commentaries and short stories and is the author of several books. With Palestinians calling for a Third Intifada, his latest is most relevant: "The Second Palestinian Intifada - A Chronicle of A People's Struggle." Conditions in Occupied Palestine will be discussed. Tuesday, April 14th Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial topics. Her latest book is titled "Web of Debt," a brilliant analysis of the private cartel Federal Reserve and how it usurped money creation power to control its supply and price, then charge the government interest on its own money. She writes often on the global economic crisis. Discussion will focus on her latest article - an open letter to president Obama to "Revive Lincoln's Monetary Policy" (by) restoring the government's power" to control money. Wednesday, April 15th Michael Hudson has had a long, varied, and distinguished career as a Wall Street insider, leading economist, expert on financial history, and Research Professor at the University of Missouri. He's also an author, consultant, head of a Harvard-based economic and financial history group, and president of the Institute for the Study of Long Term Economic Trends (INSLET). Hudson is a fierce critic of Washington's banker bailouts and the criminal element in charge. His latest Global Research.ca article is titled: The Financial War Against Iceland - Being defeated by debt is as deadly as outright military warfare." Enriching finance capitalism through debt bondage will be discussed, including the horrific fallout. Thursday and Friday are rebroadcastings. ---(3x47min, no commercials)
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Slavery and the Making of America (2005) (PBS) (Four Part Documentary)

Category: Documentary
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Slavery and the Making of America (PBS-Public Broadcasting Service) (Complete Four-Part, History Documentary) DVDRip by derelict of Cinema Obscura Distributed to the Public by BloodLogic Narration By: Morgan Freeman Starring: Chauncey Herring, Justin Jackson, Fred Johnson, Fred Johnson, Eric W. Klatt, Don Pentz, Virginia M. Pinckney, Desmond Aldridge, Steven A. Butler Jr., Carlo Daquin, Ian Eaton, Jerrod Paige, Kerry Robinson, Jeremy L. Sheppard, Robert Sizemore, Algernon Ward Jr., LeCourtney Young, Sebastian Trossbach PBS Description: SLAVERY AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA is a four-part series documenting the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states and the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction. Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, it looks at slavery as an integral part of a developing nation, challenging the long held notion that slavery was exclusively a Southern enterprise. At the same time, by focusing on the remarkable stories of individual slaves, it offers new perspectives on the slave experience and testifies to the active role that Africans and African Americans took in surviving their bondage and shaping their own lives. IMDB Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0472251/ Episodes... Episode 01 - The Downward Spiral Description: Episode one opens in the 1620s with the introduction of 11 men of African descent and mixed ethnicity into slavery in New Amsterdam. Working side by side with white indentured servants, these men labored to lay the foundations of the Dutch colony that would later become New York. There were no laws defining the limitations imposed on slaves at this point in time. Enslaved people, such as Anthony d'Angola, Emmanuel Driggus, and Frances Driggus could bring suits to court, earn wages, and marry. But in the span of a hundred years, everything changed. By the early 18th century, the trade of African slaves in America was expanding to accommodate an agricultural economy growing in the hands of ambitious planters. After the 1731 Stono Rebellion (a violent uprising led by a slave named Jemmy) many colonies adopted strict "black codes" transforming the social system into one of legal racial oppression. Episode 02 - Liberty in the Air Description: From the 1740s to the 1830s, the institution of slavery continued to support economic development. As the slave population reproduced, American planters became less dependent on the African slave trade. Ensuing generations of slaves developed a unique culture that blended elements of African and American life. Episode two follows the paths of several African Americans, including Thomas Jefferson's slave Jupiter, Colonel Tye, Elizabeth Freeman, David Walker, and Maria Stewart, as they respond to the increasingly restrictive system of slavery. At the core of this episode is the Revolutionary War, an event which reveals the contradictions of a nation seeking independence while simultaneously denying freedom to its black citizens. Episode 03 - Seeds of Destruction Description: One by one the Northern states, led by Vermont in 1777, adopted laws to abolish and phase out slavery. Simultaneously, slavery in the Southern United States entered the period of its greatest expansion. Episode three, which starts at the beginning of the 1800s, examines slavery's increasing divisiveness in America as the nation develops westward and cotton replaces tobacco as the country's most valuable crop. The episode weaves national events through the personal histories of two African American slaves -- Harriet Jacobs and Louis Hughes -- who not only managed to escape bondage, but also exposed the horrific realities of the slave experience in autobiographical narratives. These and other stories of physical, psychological, and sexual exploitation fed the fires of a reinvigorated abolitionist movement. With a diverse membership comprised of men and women, blacks and whites, and led by figures including Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Amy Post, abolitionist sentiment gathered strength in the North, contributing to the widening fissure and imminent break-up of the nation. Episode 04 - The Challenge of Freedom Description: Episode four looks at Civil War and Reconstruction through the experiences of South Carolina slave Robert Smalls. It chronicles Smalls' daring escape to freedom, his military service, and his tenure as a congressman after the war. As the events of Smalls' life unfold, the complexities of this period in American history are revealed. The episode shows the transformation of the war from a struggle for union to a battle over slavery. It examines the black contribution to the war effort and traces the gains and losses of newly freed African Americans during Reconstruction. The 13th amendment abolished slavery in 1865, the 14th and 15th amendments guaranteed black civil rights, and the Freedmen's Bureau offered aid to former slaves throughout the 1870s. Yet simultaneously, the formation of militant groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan threatened the future of racial equality and segregation laws began to appear across the country. Slavery's eradication had not brought an end to black oppression Episode File Specifications ------------------- File Size: 696.46 MB Container: avi Codec: Xvid Frame: 640x352 Frame Rate: 29.97 Data Rate: 1782.94 kbits Audio Codec: ATSC A/52 and AC-3 Decoder Sample Rate: 48000 hz Bit Rate: 224 kbps Channels: 2 Duration: 0:55:54 Has Index Is Interleaved Language: English More action from Operation Massive Information Leak, Wave 1. BloodLogic
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The Ascent of Money - S01E02 (24 November 2008)[WS.PDTV(XviD)].avi

Category: Documentary
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The Ascent of Money - S01E02 Channel 4 - 24 November 2008 2/6: Human Bondage Niall Ferguson's history of finance continues. This week, he tells the story of government bonds. Invented when the city states of Italy were fighting each other in the early Renaissance, bonds meant that instead of being taxed, citizens effectively lent money to their government to fight wars, on the assumption that the government would pay them back in due course. So was created a way to buy and sell government debt, a market that was dominated in the 19th century by the Rothschild family, whose financial weight duly helped defeat Napoleon at Waterloo. Filename.........: The Ascent of Money - S01E02 (24 November 2008)[WS.PDTV(XviD)].avi Filesize.....: 394,561,536 bytes Runtime......: 48:07.600 (72190 frames) Video Codec..: XviD ISO MPEG-4 (B-VOP//) Video Bitrate: 957 kbps Aspect Ratio.: 624x352 (1.773) framerate....: 25.000 fps Audio Codec..: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3 Audio Bitrate: 128kbps 2ch CBR 48000Hz
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Sacrifice- Child Prostitutes from Burma

Category: Documentary
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Sacrifice Category: Documentaries Regions: South Asia Topics: Human Rights, Political Institutions / Systems, Music / Art / Culture, Women / Gender / Sexuality Each year thousands of young girls are recruited from rural Burmese villages to work in the sex industry in neighboring Thailand. Held for years in debt bondage in illegal Thai brothels, they suffer extreme abuse by pimps, clients and the police. The trafficking of Burmese girls has soared in recent years as a direct result of political repression in Burma. Human rights abuses, war and ethnic discrimination has displaced hundreds of thousands of families, leaving families with no means of livelihood. An offer of employment in Thailand is a rare chance for many families to escape extreme poverty. Sacrifice examines the social, cultural, and economic forces at work in the trafficking of Burmese girls into prostitution in Thailand. It is the story of the valuation and sale of human beings, and the efforts of teenage girls to survive a personal crisis born of economic and political repression. LEARN MORE: To purchase this film or to view a clip from it, visit Bruno Films. GET INFORMED! GET INVOLVED! Learn more about organizations working against human trafficking: Child Wise HumanTrafficking.org UNIFEM Singapore AWARDS Gold Apple National Educational Film Festival Grand Prize Religion Today Film Festival, Italy Golden Spire Award San Francisco International Film Festival Documentary Film Competition Sundance Film Festival Jury Award Charlotte Film Festival REVIEWS "Sacrifice counterpoints forthright tales of four young prostitutes with mesmerizing images: a woman standing in a door frame awaiting her fate juxtaposed with farmers cultivating the fields. The images make a poignant plea for survival, both of the exiled women and the tormented land." — Andrea Alsberg, Sundance Film Festival "Sacrifice offers a view of the terrible odds faced by women born into poverty where the only commodity for sale are their bodies. These are complicated stories that get beneath tabloid headlines to capture, with great visual invention, the dignity and damaged nobility of young Burmese victims. The lives of these women are revealed to be the stuff of fairy tale… the magic goes bad and the witch, the ogre, and the monster win the day in this chilling view of sexual exploitation…one we have never seen before." — B. Ruby Rich, San Francisco Bay Guardian "Compelling interviews and beautiful photography create a complex portrait of economic conditions in Burma, and the impact this has on families, rural villages and the young women themselves." — San Francisco International Film Festival " Unflinching in its account of abuse and corruption, SACRIFICE derives much of its power from the testimonies of four girls, who speak directly to viewers with a painful directness beyond their young years. Bruno demonstrates an exceptional knack for conveying the complex facts and emotional upheaval of globally relevant true stories. In the sobering yet poetic Sacrifice, Bruno presents the terribly moving first-person accounts of four young girls from Burma who were virtually kidnapped from their homes and forced into a life of prostitution in Thailand. As with all her films. Bruno approaches difficult issues with the intent of uncovering hard truths and giving voice to people who are too often marginalized or misrepresented by mainstream media." — Steven Jenkins, FILM/TAPE WORLD "Sacrifice illuminates a difficult subject of major social consequence with integrity and objective attachment. Told with delicate simplicity, Sacrifice paints a picture of an unfamiliar reality that is, by turns, unbelievably ugly and startlingly beautiful. The heartbreakingly eloquent words of the girls leads viewer into a society whose more are almost completely alien to our own." — Laurence Vittes, The Hollywood Reporter sdtv xvid
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Slavery and the Making of America: The Challenge of Freedom Ep. 4/4 (2005 02) PBS

Category: Documentary
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Slavery and the Making of America: The Challenge of Freedom Ep. 4/4 (2005 02) PBS SLAVERY AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA is a four-part series documenting the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states and the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction. Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, it looks at slavery as an integral part of a developing nation, challenging the long held notion that slavery was exclusively a Southern enterprise. At the same time, by focusing on the remarkable stories of individual slaves, it offers new perspectives on the slave experience and testifies to the active role that Africans and African Americans took in surviving their bondage and shaping their own lives. Docudrama narrated by Morgan Freeman. Episode 4: The Challenge of FreedomEpisode four looks at Civil War and Reconstruction through the experiences of South Carolina slave Robert Smalls. It chronicles Smalls' daring escape to freedom, his military service, and his tenure as a congressman after the war. As the events of Smalls' life unfold, the complexities of this period in American history are revealed. The episode shows the transformation of the war from a struggle for union to a battle over slavery. It examines the black contribution to the war effort and traces the gains and losses of newly freed African Americans during Reconstruction. The 13th amendment abolished slavery in 1865, the 14th and 15th amendments guaranteed black civil rights, and the Freedmen's Bureau offered aid to former slaves throughout the 1870s. Yet simultaneously, the formation of militant groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan threatened the future of racial equality and segregation laws began to appear across the country. Slavery's eradication had not brought an end to black oppression. (No kidding!!) sSupport your local PBS Station by making a contribution or by purchasing their DVDs..Buy new: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/about/buy.htmlAvailable to buy used through Amazon at: www.sonofshun.com (http://amazon.imdb.com/title/tt0472251).shunster
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Slavery and the Making of America: Seeds of Destruction Ep. 3/4 (2005 02) PBS

Category: Documentary
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Slavery and the Making of America: Seeds of Destruction Ep. 3/4 (2005 02) PBS SLAVERY AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA is a four-part series documenting the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states and the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction. Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, it looks at slavery as an integral part of a developing nation, challenging the long held notion that slavery was exclusively a Southern enterprise. At the same time, by focusing on the remarkable stories of individual slaves, it offers new perspectives on the slave experience and testifies to the active role that Africans and African Americans took in surviving their bondage and shaping their own lives. Docudrama narrated by Morgan Freeman. Episode 3: Seeds of Destruction One by one the Northern states, led by Vermont in 1777, adopted laws to abolish and phase out slavery. Simultaneously, slavery in the Southern United States entered the period of its greatest expansion. Episode three, which starts at the beginning of the 1800s, examines slavery's increasing divisiveness in America as the nation develops westward and cotton replaces tobacco as the country's most valuable crop. The episode weaves national events through the personal histories of two African American slaves -- Harriet Jacobs and Louis Hughes -- who not only managed to escape bondage, but also exposed the horrific realities of the slave experience in autobiographical narratives. These and other stories of physical, psychological, and sexual exploitation fed the fires of a reinvigorated abolitionist movement. With a diverse membership comprised of men and women, blacks and whites, and led by figures including Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Amy Post, abolitionist sentiment gathered strength in the North, contributing to the widening fissure and imminent break-up of the nation. Support your local PBS Station by making a contribution or by purchasing their DVDs.. Buy new: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/about/buy.html Available to buy used through Amazon at: www.sonofshun.com (http://amazon.imdb.com/title/tt0472251). shunster
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Slavery and the Making of America: Liberty in the Air Ep. 2/4 2005 02) PBS

Category: Documentary
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Slavery and the Making of America: Liberty in the Air Ep. 2/4 2005 02) PBS SLAVERY AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA is a four-part series documenting the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states and the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction. Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, it looks at slavery as an integral part of a developing nation, challenging the long held notion that slavery was exclusively a Southern enterprise. At the same time, by focusing on the remarkable stories of individual slaves, it offers new perspectives on the slave experience and testifies to the active role that Africans and African Americans took in surviving their bondage and shaping their own lives. Docudrama narrated by Morgan Freeman. Episode 2: Liberty in the Air From the 1740s to the 1830s, the institution of slavery continued to support economic development. As the slave population reproduced, American planters became less dependent on the African slave trade. Ensuing generations of slaves developed a unique culture that blended elements of African and American life. Episode two follows the paths of several African Americans, including Thomas Jefferson's slave Jupiter, Colonel Tye, Elizabeth Freeman, David Walker, and Maria Stewart, They respond to the increasingly restrictive system of slavery. At the core of this episode is the Revolutionary War, an event which reveals the contradictions of a nation seeking independence while simultaneously denying freedom to its black citizens. Please seed generously. Support your local PBS Station by making a contribution or by purchasing their DVDs.. Next episode to be upped in 24 hours, sooner if you seed generously (g). Thanks Buy new: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/about/buy.html Available to buy used through Amazon at: www.sonofshun.com (http://amazon.imdb.com/title/tt0472251).
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Slavery and the Making of America: Ep. 1/4 The Downward Spiral (2005 02) PBS

Category: Documentary
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Slavery and the Making of America: Ep. 1/4 The Downward Spiral (2005 02) PBS SLAVERY AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA is a four-part series documenting the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states and the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction. Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, it looks at slavery as an integral part of a developing nation, challenging the long held notion that slavery was exclusively a Southern enterprise. At the same time, by focusing on the remarkable stories of individual slaves, it offers new perspectives on the slave experience and testifies to the active role that Africans and African Americans took in surviving their bondage and shaping their own lives. Episode 1: The Downward Spiral Episode one opens in the 1620s with the introduction of 11 men of African descent and mixed ethnicity into slavery in New Amsterdam. Working side by side with white indentured servants, these men labored to lay the foundations of the Dutch colony that would later become New York. There were no laws defining the limitations imposed on slaves at this point in time. Enslaved people, such as Anthony d'Angola, Emmanuel Driggus, and Frances Driggus could bring suits to court, earn wages, and marry. But in the span of a hundred years, everything changed. By the early 18th century, the trade of African slaves in America was expanding to accommodate an agricultural economy growing in the hands of ambitious planters. After the 1731 Stono Rebellion (a violent uprising led by a slave named Jemmy) many colonies adopted strict "black codes" transforming the social system into one of legal racial oppression. Next episode to be upped sooner if you seed generously (g). Thanks Support your local PBS Station by making a contribution or by purchasing their DVDs at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/about/buy.html Available to buy used through Amazon at www.sonofshun.com (http://amazon.imdb.com/title/tt0472251)/
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The Slavery Business - Breaking the Chains (3/3) BBC2 ~ 2005.08.17 DivX

Category: Documentary
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The Slavery Business - Breaking the Chains (3/3) BBC2 ~ 2005.08.17 DivX The third and final part of this series tells the story of how slavery came to an end. Today William Wilberforce is considered a hero, the man who ended the slave trade, but there's another story that's been hidden for 200 years. Although opposed to the slave trade, Wilberforce believed that the 800,000 slaves owned by the British should remain in chains. He regarded them as unfit for freedom. This program uncovers the real heroes of the battle against slavery. They were radical political activists, many of them women; fiery evangelical preachers who worked amongst the slaves; and thousands of slaves themselves, who rose up in rebellion to break the chains of their own bondage. Filesize.....: 500 MB Runtime......: 00:58:43 Video Codec..: DivX 5.0 http://www.open2.net/slavery/ http://www.open2.net/slavery/breaking_chains.html
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