Freedom
What is freedom?
Freedom is respect.
Freedom is being able to choose how to live one’s life in society; not being bound by chains, and persecution.
Freedom chooses free time, jobs, housing, vacation times, hobbies, and relationships.
Loss of freedom is broken bones, torn skin, cramped courters, and distanced stares.
Loss of freedom is heartbroken, deceived and controlled communities.
When traffickers control a product, they control human beings.
When traffickers control human beings, they control an economy.
Communities flourish on another’s back.
When will we fight back?
When will we change our buying choices?
When will our deceived eyes reading $1, $5, $300 sales, break?
When will we realize that $1 costs children’s lungs and brains in chemical, makeup factories?
When will we realize that $5 costs children’s back, fingers and purity in a textile factory?
When will we realize that $300 costs a children’s education in a diamond mine?
When will we control the economy producing fair wages?
When will we buy less instead of buying more?
When will we be satisfied?
Time to #Endit! End Slavery! Produce Freedom!
Read more about the Makeup, Diamond and Textile industry here:
Makeup:
Kavy K. (2019) Child Labor: The Ugly Truth About the Beauty Industry: https://medium.com/@kavithakavy/child-labor-the-ugly-truth-about-the-beauty-industry-748974833d36
Diamond Mind:
Brilliant Earth (N/A) Labor and Community. Retrieved from https://www.brilliantearth.com/conflict-diamond-child-labor/
Daily Mail (October 2015) 'Blood diamonds' dug from African mines by children as young as 11, gold taken from 25m underwater by kids aged 9: The slave labour scandal behind the jewellery hanging around your neck. Retrieved from: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3256249/Blood-diamonds-dug-African-mines-children-young-11-gold-taken-25m-underwater-kids-aged-9-slave-labour-scandal-jewellery-hanging-neck.html
Human Rights Watch (2018) The Hidden Cost of Jewelry. Human Rights in Supply Chains and the Responsibility of Jewelry Companies. Retrieved from https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/02/08/hidden-cost-jewelry/human-rights-supply-chains-and-responsibility-jewelry
Textile Factory:
Bick, R., Halsey, E., Ekenga, C (2018) The global environmental injustice. Retrieved from https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-018-0433-7
Moulds, J. (N/A) The Guardian. Child Labour in the fashion supply chain. Where, why and what can be done. Retrieved from https://labs.theguardian.com/unicef-child-labour/