Monday, February 20, 2017

Visiting Artist: Lisa Kristine

Bricks - Indian Slavery
Imagine Dante's inferno

  • bricks on head
  • exceeded 100 degrees weather wise
  • all ages working
  • 16-17 hour shifts
  • children unintended
Fishing - Ghana
  • slavery hidden in plain sight
  • children out on the boat (looks like a family if you don't know what you're looking for)
  • skin illnesses because of the water
  • loves children (nimble fingers)
    • don't know how to swim
Stone - Himalayas
  • Generational slavery
    • Debt ($18)
    • Interest grows and now they're stuck
  • Hold stones on their backs
    • children would hang stones on their backs and travel down thin paths on the mountain
  • Viable way for freedom
    • know about rights
  • Usually held under threat of violence
    • psychological fear
Gold 
  • 72 hr at time
  • shafts 
    • no oxygen
    • exhausted
  • tuberculosis - 1-3 years
Textiles
  • Fam - hands dyed (sons with their hands stained blue and red, father with black stained hands)
  • toxic dyes
  • trapped behind lume

Nepal - "Cavern restaurants"
  • Sex slavery - dangerous
    • age doesn't matter
USA - Sex trafficking (Wash DC)
  • Documentation in USA
    • rebuttal against commentary about countries gov
  • Slavery can happen anywhere

slaveryfootprint.org 

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