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Oil Palm workers exploited “New Black Birding Style”

Oil Palm workers exploited “New Black Birding Style”

Here in Papua New Guinea they promise that so called foreign investment will bring jobs. What they don't tell you is that BLACK PEOPLE will become slaves. What they don't tell you is that "BLACK BIRDERS" still exist. ...

Alkinemokiye – From Struggle Dawns New Hope
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Alkinemokiye – From Struggle Dawns New Hope

September 15, 2011. 8,000 of the 22,000 Freeport Indonesia workers went on strike, demanding a wage increase from US$ 3.5 to US$ 7.5 an hour. ...

Freeport is emblematic of much that is wrong in West Papua.

Freeport is emblematic of much that is wrong in West Papua.

Indigenous Papuans are waging a four-decade long nonviolent struggle for independence from Indonesia. At the heart of Papuan grievances lies Freeport, the world’s largest gold and copper mine... ...

FCX Heavyweight Smackdown of West Papua

FCX Heavyweight Smackdown of West Papua

The people who are living in desperate fear amongst the barren, desecrated rainforest and mountains of the Freeport mining facility, are struggling to retain their human identity in our modern, global culture that tr ...