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[BloggingStocks] Pax World fined for making socially irresponsible investments ...: Some historians argue that its roots lie in moral objections to the slave trade in the 1700s, especially among Quakers. In 1758, the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Quakers formally banned investing in the slave trade, thereby creating the first investment restriction aimed at improving society.

[Philadelphia Reflections] Philadelphia Reflections: Quakers: The Society of Friends: The entire land mass between the North River and the South River (Hudson and Delaware) only came completely and legally into the hands of Quakers in 1681. At that time Carteret's widow, Lady Elizabeth, sold the northern half (East Jersey) to twelve Quaker proprietors, while the southern half (West Jersey) was already held by thirty-two other Quaker proprietors under the effective leadership of William Penn.

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Compartmentalizing Morality: 'Christian' Slave ...: Free Frank is a rather amazing (although atypical) situation: a slave who worked nights and Sundays at surveying and saltpeter production, bought his wife out of slavery, bought himself out of slavery, eventually bought his children out of slavery, and after his death, bought his grandchildren out of slavery. At one point after Free Frank bought his wife out of slavery, her master decided that he had been defrauded, because he didn’t realize that she was pregnant.

[Philadelphia Reflections] Philadelphia Reflections: Quakers: William Penn: Early illnesses and chance led to the emergence of those children who renounced Quakerism, and showed no shame at all about wanting to have money in order to spend it recklessly. One would have supposed that a man of Penn's intellectual stature would have been able to control his family better, but his own reckless youth had been so extreme that he had few arguments available when, as seems virtually certain, rebellious children defended themselves by reminding him of his own indiscretions.

[BBC News - Justin Webb's America] BBC - Justin Webb's America: 'Obama is a Quaker': Quakerism may be helpful, the silent meetings would allow him to gather his thoughts without listening to half-baked unintelligent views on God and Jesus who is sold in the US more as a divine comet sent from above by God, rather than a man trying to do a job for the region in those days - if he existed at all - because a few books in the bible says so little, and there are other myths in the world incredibly similar, and prior to his time, to that of Jesus. The absolute hypocrisy of Jesus-ism in US politics is highly off-putting.

[Change.org's End Human Trafficking Blog] Department of Labor Releases List of Slave-Made Goods | End Human ...: Speaking of historical ignorance, I would seriously encourage those commentors who believe that "lazy" prisoners should be forced to work to read Douglas Blackmon's "Slavery by Another Name: the re-enslavement of black americans from the civil war to wwii" which provides an extremely detailed (and foot-noted) look at the use of convict labor-and the subsequent rise and fall in mostly specious convictions as demand for labor rose and fell-in the industrialization of the south during and especially following reconstruction. I'm sure some of you have heard of the controversies that surrounded chain-gang labor in the 1930s (eventually leading to a book and movie about the experiences of a white northerner gailed in GA, both called "Escape from a Georgia Chain-Gang") or the controversy surrounding hte use of convict labor in Maricopa county.

[Ghana Business News] Slavery claims leave bitter chocolate taste | Ghana Business News: And back in the 1990s, the Cadbury family took an anti-slavery stance and refused to buy cocoa from African countries where slave labour was the norm on cocoa plantations, said Oldham, though Knapp counters that merely avoiding the worst producers does not absolve companies, particularly the giants, of their ethical responsibility toward growers in the areas they have turned their backs on.

[Stuff.co.nz - Local News] Chocolate's dark secret: Slavery claims leave bitter... | Stuff.co.nz: And back in the 1990s, the Cadbury family took an anti-slavery stance and refused to buy cocoa from African countries where slave labour was the norm on cocoa plantations, said Oldham, though Knapp counters that merely avoiding the worst producers does not absolve companies, particularly the giants, of their ethical responsibility toward growers in the areas they have turned their backs on.

[Jon Taplin's Blog] Education Reform and Federalism at Jon Taplin's Blog: I don’t buy the good old days stuff other than to say that my own primary education was pretty good in the public schools of Marblehead, Massachusetts, and then I was lucky enough to spend my last three years of high school at a Quaker boarding school, Moses Brown, where it was pretty old-school conservative education, but with a very cool underpinning of social liberalism. I have a lot of respect for the Quakers…they are among the few who walk their talk.

[Progressive Democrats of America Blog] The Agitator: Voices of PDA | Progressive Democrats of America Blog: They want us to stand pat and yell no more higher taxes deliberately wanting the American people to not see the way corporate governors want to PRIVATELY TAX people with low pay aka Cheap labor aka wage theft not giving workers in many cases the worth of their work that they do and suppressing the organization of people in unions. These corporate governors also tax people privately with high prices in a cartel working with other corporate governors in fixing prices so even though you have a few companies in a sector of products you really have a polyopoly keeping PRIVATE TAXES high in a lot of product sectors.

[Change.org's Animal Rights Blog] Ready to Attack Animal Rights Activists? Consider This First ...: These include: Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, Alice Walker, George Bernard Shaw, Robert Browning, Percy Shelley, Voltaire, Thomas Hardy, Rachel Carson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Victor Hugo, John Stuart Mill, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Pythagoras, Susan B. Anthony, Albert Schweitzer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Gertrude Stein, Frederick Douglass, Francis Bacon, William Wordsworth, the Buddha, Mark Twain, and Henry David Thoreau.

[LayoffBlog.com] (Rumor) Oracle - LayoffBlog.com » (Rumor) Oracle: Major layoffs ...: Shame on Oracle and its Management ! If the Delivery Consultants are Not able to find work, it is not their fault….It is simply because of the lack of vision and planning of Oracle Mgt in not re-aligining their Revenue Targets and Greed for higher margins down to more realistic levels in the backdrop of a very tough economy and market conditions.

[Armed and Dangerous] Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » I have received a death threat: After Communism ended here in Hungary in 1989, our general experience with the West is, either political negotiations, or investors, or international trade, or tourism, or NATO or EU accession and whetever else, is that these are folks who generally believe in a fair deal, a honest quid pro quo, and you can generally can negotiate with them, bargain with them, reason with them and either cut a fair deal or when you cannot or don’t want to, then they just leave you alone and you are free to do what you want. This is strongly different to what my granddads told about the experiences in Fascism, what my parents told and my childhood experiences were with Communism, and what now the general situation is with Islam - that those folks have a “No bargain, I do what I want and can and you be damned”

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