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Documentary review: Migrant Dreams Examining the world of migrant workers Set mainly in Leamington, Ont., Migrant Dreams follows the journey of Nanik as one of the many Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) migrants from Indonesia. Like many immigrants, she has temporarily left her home country to work for a company in Ontario. In the documentary, she is halfway through her two-year contract in working with one of the corporately owned greenhouses. According to the federal government website, the (TFWP) allows Canadian employers to hire foreign workers “to fill temporary jobs when qualified Canadians are not available.” Many of these workers come from abroad to fill temporary jobs that are not usually desirable for Canadian citizens to take on, such as working in minimum-wage paying greenhouse jobs. There was and still is a lot of controversy about this program. This film takes a deeper look at the program through the lens of migrant workers. ....
10 Tales Of Crazy Convicts In The US Prison System While the US is “the land of the free,” it paradoxically has the world’s largest prison population. According to the BBC, 724 people per 100,000 are locked up in the American correctional system, which is a shocking statistic. With all these convicts passing through the Big House, American’s prisons are brimming with peculiar people from all walks of life. From country bands to candymakers, the US prison system is jam-packed with fascinating figures and crazy characters, all with unique stories. 10Roy Smith Roy Smith barely remembered his father. A drug dealer and abusive husband, Roy’s dad disappeared when Roy was a kid. What he knew about his old man Roy Milton was all negative, and that’s why he swore he’d never follow in his father’s footsteps. ....
Black Panther in struggle: The continued imprisonment of Russell Maroon Shoatz By Ted Kelly posted on December 23, 2020 Since 1972 nearly half a century ago Russell Maroon Shoatz has languished in a prison cell built on stolen land, poisoned and irradiated by the fossil fuel industry. A Black Panther Party member and soldier in the Black Liberation Army, Shoatz was falsely accused of killing a cop in the Cobbs Creek area of Philadelphia in 1970. His family, pillars of their community, have tirelessly fought for his release and carried Maroon’s revolutionary message through the years, whether in solidarity with MOVE, Mumia Abu-Jamal, George Floyd, Walter Wallace Jr., or other struggles demanding justice. ....
Herman Wallace: Friend, artist and member of the Angola 3 December 16, 2020 Interview by Willow Katz Willow Katz: Sharon Willis, you corresponded for 26 years with Herman Wallace of the Angola 3. Who are the Angola 3? Sharon Willis: The Angola 3 are three Black men: Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox and Robert Hillary King. In 1972, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox were accused of killing a young prison guard in Louisiana State Prison in Angola, Louisiana. They were put in solitary confinement. Later, Robert Hillary King was brought to Angola and also put in solitary. They were all charged and convicted of the murder, becoming known as the Angola 3. ....