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Brannu Fulton by Esteban1098 on Flickr. Esteban: you’ve got another hit, buddy!
Cy Kuckenbaker’s Indentured. “Indentured has done more to raise Congressional and public awareness of the unabated trafficking in humans than all of the government’s annual reports combined. Indentured not only exposes the exploitative process so pervasive in government contracting abroad, it also highlights the fact that this terrible crime being paid for by the U.S. taxpayer is not without victims,” Sam McCahon, Owner McCahon Law Film, former Federal Prosecutor, former Assistant U.S. Attorney, former Trial Attorney for U.S. Army.
Jiang @ Capital Steel by Buddha1098 on Flickr. “Shougang, Beijing Capital Steel Factory 首钢 is located on the west side of Beijing. Due to the Olympics, the government decided in 2005 to move the factory to Tangshan, Hebei Province. What remains is the shell of what used to be Beijing’s most secure workplace. Working there meant having an “iron rice bowl,” insurance, food, and benefits from cradle to death.”
If you can keep these embryos in a freezer, forever, are they legally essentially immortal people? Say we hook up a generator to the freezer and so on to save it from power cuts, etc.
If we have an embryo in a freezer, and it is an immortal person under Mississippi law, can we transfer assets to it and have it hold them in perpetuity, avoiding tax penalties, etc.?
Dr. Kim Yi Dionne, Asst. Professor of Political Science, Texas A&m University discussing her survey of rural Malawians and their development priorities (part 1 of 5). This is from Cy Kuckenbaker, whose documentary Bush League is premiering at the Vancouver International Film Festival Oct 9th. Get your tickets now!
Tosininkyste (The Barker) by Cy Kuckenbaker.
Wood, by David Fenster.
Wayward Pilgrims, by Taylor Greeson and Seth Stewart.
Merciful Men, by Ben Rodkin. The film follows a community of Mexican migrant farm workers who must face issues of marginalization and anonymity arising from the wrongful heat exposure-related death of a young female coworker. Particularly timely given United Farm Workers’ and Stephen Colbert’s new campaign Take Our Jobs. More info on the campaign via kateoplis.
Fire & Rain, by James Benning. Bumper for the 2009 Viennale.
Trailer for Big Heart City, a film by Ben Rodkin.
Trailer for the feature documentary Bush League, by Cy Kuckenbaker.
