Word: laboration
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...piles of chairs, tables, and desks strewn about the stage evoke nothing of Revolutionary France, but instead resemble the Dorm Crew storage closet. The most successful props are a few large wooden tumbrels, which provide a versatile playground for the actors as they use the handsome carts to labor, seduce, and persecute. As a perfunctory nod to the French national motto, “liberté,” “égalité,” and “fraternité” are scrawled graffiti-like in blood-red paint on banners which loom...
Experts on Brazil's rural violence said land ownership, along with the related issues of deforestation, logging, land grabbing and the slave labor sometimes used by powerful landowners, are the key factors in making Brazil's remote hinterlands such bloody places. "Economic interests are linked to land ownership and anyone opposed to them is in danger," says Julio Jacobo Waiselfisz, the author of "Brazil Violence Map," a government-sponsored study of the country's most violent areas...
...equipped police officers and justice officials are powerless to stop them. Three of the 10 towns with the highest homicide rates are in the Arc of Deforestation that runs around the Amazon's eastern and southern fringe. "That is closely related to the presence of loggers, slave labor, land grabbers and the local political and economic powers," he says...
...provides a different division of labor,” Welch said, adding that it also has a larger budget which expands the pool of people the organization can invite...
...beyond what I was, which was a student here. I didn’t want to explain myself to people–not out of any motive except it’s hard, and I didn’t want to go through the labor of it all. So I stayed silent about it. It was too exhausting to talk about. You come out of a jungle and a nightmare and you come to Harvard and it’s everything you’ve dreamed about. I wanted to be part...