HanaAug 10, 2025
Just finished reading #CobaltRed by Siddharth Kara. These power hungry rich beyond any moral measure men acting civilized and dignified have made the level of my contempt and disgust reach levels I thought I was not capable of. May God judge them for what they allow to keep enfolding in Congo. It feels immoral even to own the phone I write this on. Abolishing slavery, end to colonialism and genocide - when?
MusiqueNow   ✡️ 🇵🇸 Sep 12, 2024

https://www.penguinbookshop.com/book/9781250284303

#PenguinBooks #book

#CobaltRed: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
by #SiddarthKara

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Hardcover) | Penguin Bookshop

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award.An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Demo

Anne OminousNov 30, 2023

i am reading

#CobaltRed right now... an incredible true account of what is happening in the Congo, to supply the world with rechargeable batteries.

truly feels like essential reading for ANYONE who owns a smartphone.

and a rare, nonfiction book with incredible writing and a gripping tale. highly recommended reading.

#Bookstodon #Books #Reading

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250284297/cobaltred

Cobalt Red

The revelatory Pulitzer Prize finalist for General Nonfiction, New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Bus...

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Jim | EntwiningJul 28, 2023
I just finished Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara. It tells the story of the horrible conditions in which cobalt miners work in the Congo. Cobalt is used in the batteries of all the rechargeable devices that power our economy. People at every level are complicit in the exploitation of these and so many other workers. When we purchase rechargeable devices, we are complicit, too. So what do we do? I believe we must do something. #ModernSlavery #Cobalt #CobaltRed #Technology #Books
MusiqueNow   ✡️ 🇵🇸 Jul 14, 2023
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7I3K7fhLmcE
#DemocracyNow #CobaltRed
#phones #electriccars #Congo
Show threadParia sans portefeuilleJul 13, 2023

"Spend a short time the watching the filth-caked children of the Katanga region scrounge at the earth for #cobalt, and you would be unable to determine whether they were working for the benefit of [King] Leopold or a #tech company."

#CobaltRed: How the Blood of the #Congo Powers Our Lives

Interview with author #SiddharthKara

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/7/13/cobalt_red_kara

#DRC #extractivism #BigTech #mining #CobaltMining #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo #ModernSlavery #books #ChildLabour #ecocide

“Cobalt Red”: Smartphones & Electric Cars Rely on Toxic Mineral Mined in Congo by Children

The Democratic Republic of the Congo produces nearly three-quarters of the world’s cobalt, an essential component in rechargeable batteries powering laptops, smartphones and electric vehicles. But those who dig up the valuable mineral often work in horrific and dangerous conditions, says Siddharth Kara, an international expert on modern-day slavery and author of Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives. In an in-depth interview, he says the major technology companies that rely on this cobalt from DRC to make their products are turning a blind eye to the human toll and falsely claiming their supply chains are free from abuse, including widespread child labor. “The public health catastrophe on top of the human rights violence on top of the environmental destruction is unlike anything we’ve ever seen in the modern context,” says Kara. “The fact that it is linked to companies worth trillions and that our lives depend on this enormous violence has to be dealt with.”

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estheria 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌌May 16, 2023

I finished reading Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara last week: tragedy in cobalt mines in the Congo, adults and children dying, terrible working conditions, exposure to toxins. Ethical sourcing of cobalt doesn't really exist as so much of the system is failing the workers.

The author's main argument is for better protections for workers as the rechargeable battery is here to stay, but it's a perfect reminder of how our consumption is so privileged and dangerous. #CobaltRed #WorkersRights

MusiqueNow   ✡️ 🇵🇸 Feb 3, 2023

https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=GbbWXes0CbU

#SiddarthKara author of #CobaltRed #book

#ThereIsNoSuchThingAsCleanCobalt
#techdevices #cobaltmining
#modernslavery #Congo

From King Leopold II To Big Tech: The Pillage of The Congo & The Invention of Modern Day Slavery

Guest: Siddharth Kara, Associate Professor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at Nottingham University, and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is the author of Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives.

Letters and Politics | Invidious
MusiqueNow   ✡️ 🇵🇸 Feb 3, 2023

https://www.harvard.com/book/cobalt_red/

#CobaltRed #book #Congo #artisanalmining #techdevices #modernslavery

Tunnel collapse burying #workers alive including children

Earning a £ a day

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives - Harvard Book Store

Paria sans portefeuilleFeb 1, 2023

"What you find in the Congo is a complete hellscape of utter human degradation, utter environmental destruction in this scramble to get #cobalt out of the ground and up the chain as quickly as possible."

#SiddharthKara, author of #CobaltRed: How the Blood of the #Congo Powers Our Lives

From King Leopold II to #BigTech: The Pillage of The Congo & The Invention of Modern Day #Slavery

#DRC #extractivism #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo #ModernSlavery #books

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbbWXes0CbU

From King Leopold II To Big Tech: The Pillage of The Congo & The Invention of Modern Day Slavery

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