Connections between Conflict Minerals and HoD, etc. by Grant Edwards https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCe Hum V - E Block en-us 2017-04-25 15:41:02 UTC 2017-05-01 18:58:42 UTC hello@padlet.com Exploitation of a country https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCe/wish/169009735 "To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe” (Conrad 31). ]]> 2017-04-29 13:05:21 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCe/wish/169009735 Conflict between $ and morals https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCe/wish/169009780 "We must save it, (Kurtz's ivory) at all events--but look at how precarious the position is and why? Because the method is unsound” (Conrad 61). 

Do Westerners want cheap electronics or products made in good conditions and the makers paid well?]]> 2017-04-29 13:06:08 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCe/wish/169009780 "Government as a system of organized theft goes back to King Leopold II, who made a fortune here equal to well over $1.1 billion in today’s money, chiefly in rubber and ivory… the grand tradition was continued by Mobutu Sese Seko who amassed an estimated $4 billion, buying grand villas all over Europe (one, on the Riviera, was almost within sight of one of Leopold’s)." https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCe/wish/169009797 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2009/08/13/rape-of-the-congo/]]> 2017-04-29 13:06:36 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCe/wish/169009797 Working Conditions https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCe/wish/169009919 "the merry dance of death and trade goes on in a still and earthy atmosphere as of an overheated catacomb” (Conrad 14). 

Will these conditions always last in the Congo because we just want our goods?]]> 2017-04-29 13:09:46 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCe/wish/169009919 No care for the exploited https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCe/wish/169010057 "The work was going on. The work! And this was the place where some of the helpers had withdrawn to die” (Conrad 17). 

Many children work in the mines. The mining will continue because of the materialistic tendencies of the exploiting countries. Of course people care about the exploited, but do they care enough?]]> 2017-04-29 13:12:35 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCe/wish/169010057 miners in the Congo are exploited by neo-colonialists https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCe/wish/169010071 https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/batteries/congo-cobalt-mining-for-lithium-ion-battery/

the Chinese (even though they are not allowed to do so) have set up shop in the Congo and make huge profits from the Cobalt trade whilst exploiting the workers]]> 2017-04-29 13:12:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCe/wish/169010071 There are no guest bedrooms https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCe/wish/169010254 "Instead of rivets there came an invasion, an infliction, a visitation" (Conrad 30). 

The Congolese still aren't getting what they need, just more exploiters]]> 2017-04-29 13:17:22 UTC https://padlet.com/gedwards30/ConnectionsConflictMineralsHoDDRCe/wish/169010254