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...full up’ with atrocities and horrors,” wrote Roger Casement in a letter to the British Foreign Office in March 1911. Casement, a diplomat and activist, had just returned to London from the Amazon jungle, where he had spent several months investigating the rumoured exploitation of Barbadian workers—at that time, British subjects—by a rubber manufacturing company. The Peruvian Amazon Company, Casement found, was abusing not only its Barbadian employees, but also enslaving and terrorizing the local Indian population. In the years following these revelations, until his death in 1916, Casement...
...time of Gates’ arrest, Wisse penned a sharply worded open letter to Gates in The Crimson, criticizing her colleague’s actions following the arrest...
...open letter to city councillors earlier this month, vanBeuzekom called on them to justify the votes they cast for mayor. The current election procedure does not require the councillors to give any explanation of their votes...
...people must demand an era of transparency and accountability in all our elected officials,” the letter said...
...final year, a young director casting her first feature - a cinema verité take on slum life in Bombay - came to the school scouting for talent. "One of the things I'm slightly proud of is kind of discovering Irrfan," says Mira Nair, who cast Khan as a letter writer in Salaam Bombay! His role was edited down to a fleeting appearance, but Nair says that even then, Khan was different. "I was very, very struck by his being in the part rather than acting," she recalls. "He wasn't striving. His striving was invisible...