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How do you like your Poke? With slavery? This is unbelievable!!
http://www.staradvertiser.com/business/b...-on-boats/
http://www.ap.org/explore/seafood-from-slaves/
Pier 38 has been one of my favorite places for lunch in Honolulu, not anymore! These laws and loopholes need to change.
We should make a list of best places to buy local fresh fish from local Hawaii resident fishermen on Hawaii island.
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yup Suisan
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
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I'm told Suisan pays fishermen $1/lb and turns around to sell for $6+. Any places more fair/direct?
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There's always the guys selling out of coolers alongside the road...
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Originally posted by SBH
How do you like your Poke? With slavery? This is unbelievable!!
Seems a little more complicated than that. $350/month or more vs one dollar/day where they come from? Many renew their contracts? Interesting form of slavery.
I can imagine that conditions vary from boat to boat, captain to captain.
What is surprising to me is that 1] I have never heard of the situation before, and 2] the beloved Inouye and other GOBs made it happen. Sounds like some actual investigative journalism happening (underneath some sensationalization).
I wonder if word has gotten out that any foreign fishery worker can get on US soil and get visas because they were "slaves". Or maybe that's a San Fran special.
Cheers,
Kirt
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Everyone should have access to the local Public Defenders. The guys are awesome.
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Associated Press won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for this investigation AP calls "Seafood From Slaves".
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Thompson Reuters has an entire site devoted to human rights issues. I made a search for "fishing" "slavery" and here are some relevant recent news stories, about half specific to the fishing industry:
http://news.trust.org/search/?q=fishing+slavery&type=&sort=relevance
Whether in the form of forced labour on Thai fishing vessels or forced marriage in South Asia, modern slavery tends to be deeply hidden and rarely reported. Official statistics do not reflect the actual size of the problem.
“We’ve got to be as clear-headed about human beings as possible, because we are still each other’s only hope,” James Baldwin to Margaret Mead in the book A Rap On Race
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Shocking but doesn't surprise me given our mayor frequents "hostess bars", establishments repeatedly in the news for human trafficking. Maybe that's who he was "hosting" on his pcard in Honolulu not too far from the docks, the other government officials responsible for this atrocity. If the shoe fits...
