Black Talk Radio News w/ Scotty Reid

I just called Starbucks to demand they divest from prison slave labor. I got a customer service rep and I relayed to her my demands that they divest from prison slave labor and I cited the 13th Amendment. I am going to follow up with a letter to Starbucks c/o Kevin Johnson.

The United States and private companies never stop practicing slavery but reformed the practice to make it legal through the "criminal justice system".

You can send a message to CEO Kevin Johnson using a telephone and the physical mailing address. Demand Starbucks stop practicing prison slavery.

#EndSlaveryStarbucks

Telephone Number to Call Kevin Johnson

206-447-1575

Fax Number for Kevin Johnson

206-682-7570

Physical Address to Send Mail Directly to Kevin Johnson

Starbucks Coffee Company

2401 Utah Avenue South

Seattle, WA 98134-1436

Author: Black Talk Media Project founder Scotty Reid is the host of BTR News and New Abolitionists Radio which he co-hosts. He has been hosting and producing news talk radio and podcasting since 2007 and has interviewed hundreds of guests on various topics. He is also a freelance writer who focuses on social and political issues from around the world and has been published by various outlets. Currently, the live program is on hiatus but check the feed for pre-recorded podcasts.

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BTR News (Syria) - Famed Anti-Assad British war reporter travels to Syria and the site of the most recent alleged chemical attacks and finds no evidence of such and finds witnesses who confirmed there was no chemical attack.  is an English writer and journalist and has been a Middle East correspondent intermittently since 1976 for various media; and since 1989 he has been correspondent for the British paper, The Independent and has been primarily based in Beirut.

In his article about visiting Douma in eastern Ghouta, an area controlled by a Islamist terrorist group backed by the West that wants to implement Sharia in Syria and has used people in cages as human shields, he writes about discovering that there was no gas attack and that the children seen in a video were suffering from oxygen deprivation from dust in the tunnels they have been living and forced to work. Fisk who spoke to the doctor on site said that while the patients were being treated, a member of the Islamist aligned White Helmets came in and yelled gas attack and throwing water on people causing a panic. Those images where then used by western media to promote what has turned out to be fake news but don't expect any retractions from corporate media.

You can read Mr. Fisk's article "The search for truth in the rubble of Douma – and one doctor’s doubts over the chemical attack" which was published on the Independent's website on April 17th.

In the meantime, reports are surfacing that the Trump administration may contract with mercenary Erik Prince who used to run the Blackwater security company thrown out of Iraq for crimes against Iraqis and they are also considering turning over Syrian territory to Saudi Arabia which has been funding Islamist terrorist groups in the region for quite some time and a serial abuser of human rights.

Author: Black Talk Media Project founder Scotty Reid is the host of BTR News and New Abolitionists Radio which he co-hosts. He has been hosting and producing news talk radio and podcasting since 2007 and has interviewed hundreds of guests on various topics. He is also a freelance writer who focuses on social and political issues from around the world and has been published by various outlets. Currently, the live program is on hiatus but check the feed for pre-recorded podcasts.

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Welcome to BTR News w/ Scotty Reid and on this segment, I will be talking about the current outrage and calls for boycotts against Starbucks for racist treatment of Black people and the lack of outrage concerning its reported use of prison slave labor to increase its bottom line.

“Picture a multi-billion dollar industry with corporate ties ranging from Boeing, Macy’s, Nintendo, Starbucks, and Victoria’s Secret.” Prison Slavery is legal and they are profiting. #BoyCottStarbucks over the use of prison slave labor. https://t.co/HcxeZvxLhX pic.twitter.com/ENjoJGTuCF

— Black Talk Radio (@blacktalkradio) April 16, 2018

I also want to discuss the reported riot at Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, S.C. that result in 7 dead inmates and whether or not prison officials and anyone else in government are responsible for maintaining conditions that breed violence and graft and should be brought up on charges of negligent homicide in their failure to provide humane conditions for the people entirely under their control.

Everyone in prison is not a savage but everyone in prison is subject to savagery. Imagine doing a 5-year bid for failing to pay taxes and realizing you are in a place where a dozen deaths happen in a few months... https://t.co/HssYO7Zei2

— New Abolitionists (@NAREndSlavery) April 16, 2018

Joining me in a discussion about these topics is slavery abolitionist Max Parthas, a host, and producer of the award-winning New Abolitionists Radio.

Author: Black Talk Media Project founder Scotty Reid is the host of BTR News and New Abolitionists Radio which he co-hosts. He has been hosting and producing news talk radio and podcasting since 2007 and has interviewed hundreds of guests on various topics. He is also a freelance writer who focuses on social and political issues from around the world and has been published by various outlets. Currently, the live program is on hiatus but check the feed for pre-recorded podcasts.

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BTR News host Scotty Reid spoke with Kwabena Rasuli of Clear The Airwaves project about recent movements concerning sex and violence are not grasping the role media plays in creating a subculture of sexual impropriety and violence.

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BTR News (Ghana) - Thousands of Ghanaians in the West African nation of Ghana took to the streets of their capital city Accra Wednesday to protest the country’s new defense operation deal with the United States. Western powers like the United States and France want to expand their military presence in Africa using Islamic threats as justification for the expansion. However, it was the United States and France that turned the African nation of Libya into a stronghold for Islamic extremist groups which has also led to Libya becoming a major hub for slavery and human trafficking and Ghanaians are right to want no further entanglements with the West.

According to reports, the deal which was approved by Ghana’s parliament last week but boycotted by legislators opposed to the deal, the United States will invest around $20 million in training and equipment for the Ghanaian military this year which is a paltry sum to turn your country into a legitimate military target. The United States would also be given free access to Ghana’s radio spectrum.

Ghana has had a long-standing military and trade ties with the United States with Ghana being a primary destination for African-Americans and the country also grants citizenship to African-American as a way of offering reparations for the nation's key role in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. The opposition said the new agreement goes too far.

Ghanaian authorities estimate that almost 4,000 people blowing vuvuzelas and beating drums took over Accra’s business district for their demonstration, holding posters criticising a new deal with the United States that critics say threatens Ghana’s sovereignty.

“As a right-thinking citizen, I am here to fight for my country. I am against selling our peace and security for $20 million,” said Gifty Yankson, a 49-year-old trader.

One protester held a poster that read "Don't Bring Your Shit To Our Hole", a reference to President Donald Trump's comments earlier this year where he called African nations "shithole countries" as he questioned allowing immigrants to come to the United States as he prefers white immigrants from European nations. The White House has not commented on the demonstrations.

Black Talk Media Project founder Scotty Reid is the host of BTR News and New Abolitionists Radio which he co-hosts. He has been hosting and producing news talk radio and podcasting since 2007 and has interviewed hundreds of guests on various topics. He is also a freelance writer who focuses on social and political issues from around the world and has been published by various outlets.