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MTV is planning to broadcast Bermuda's first Run For Freedom — creating potentially hundreds of millions of viewers for the historic event.
A boss at the global entertainment network told The Royal Gazette it hopes to film the run — designed to raise...
DATE: Aug 28, 2007
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Social Rehabilitation Minister Dale Butler was flying the flag for the region as the International Slavery Museum opened in the UK.
The museum, in Liverpool — a port city which played a huge role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade — has been created to...
DATE: Aug 24, 2007
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A monument to slaves who died crossing the Middle Passage could be installed in Bermuda in time for the Grand Slam of Golf.
The move would give millions of people all over the world the chance to see how the Island is coming together to recognise the...
DATE: Aug 18, 2007
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A slavery historian is calling for the United Nations to be more aggressive in helping free millions of modern day slaves.
Franklin Knight said the problem was so widespread in today's society it could only be tackled by a body which represents all c...
DATE: Aug 11, 2007
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The Corporation of Hamilton has given its backing to Bermuda's first Run For Freedom. Mayor Sutherland Madeiros said he hoped the project would help highlight "reprehensible" levels of human captivity which continue to plague the world two centuries ...
DATE: Aug 09, 2007
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Like many campaigns which have caught the public's imagination, Charlotte Wilberforce's Run For Freedom started from the humblest of beginnings.
Under Ms Wilberforce's leadership, about 40 hardy souls took to the streets of London for a three-mile ru...
DATE: Aug 07, 2007
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The Royal Gazette is continuing to call for readers to register their opposition to modern day slavery by signing up to Anti-Slavery International's Fight For Freedom declaration.
More than 35,500 people have now signed the petition urging global lea...
DATE: Aug 07, 2007
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Bermuda still has unfinished business in the journey towards a place where people of all races can live together in freedom.
That is the view of United Bermuda Party leader Michael Dunkley who was speaking about Emancipation Day, which marked the fir...
DATE: Aug 06, 2007
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An international coalition of anti-slavery charities is urging as many people as possible to sign up for Bermuda's first Run For Freedom.
Stop The Traffik, the group which will benefit from Charlotte Wilberforce's project next March, says cash raised...
DATE: Aug 06, 2007
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A descendant of slave emancipator William Wilberforce today called for hundreds of people to sign up to a Run For Freedom in Bermuda to raise awareness of the fight against modern day slavery.
Charlotte Wilberforce, a great-great-great granddaughter ...
DATE: Aug 01, 2007
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