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  • Mushrooms and rice recovered from dumping sites around the island of Manhattan, New York, NY., being cooked during a Freegan dinner, on Friday, June 23, 2006. Freegans are a community of people who aims at recovering wasted food, books, clothing, office supplies and other items from the refuse of retail stores, frequently discarded in brand new condition. They recover goods not for profit, but to serve their own immediate needs and to share freely with others. According to a study by a USDA-commissioned study by Dr. Timothy Jones at the University of Arizona, half of all food in the United States is wasted at a cost of $100 billion dollars every year. Yet 4.4 million people in the United States alone are classified by the USDA as hungry. Global estimates place the annual rate of starvation deaths at well over 8 million. The massive waste generated in the process fills landfills and consumes land as new landfills are built. This waste stream also pollutes the environment, damages public health as landfills chemicals leak into the ground, and incinerators spew heavy metals back into the atmosphere. Freegans practice strategies for everyday living based on sharing resources, minimizing the detrimental impact of our consumption, and reducing and recovering waste and independence from the profit-driven economy. They are dismayed by the social and ecological costs of an economic model where only profit is valued, at the expense of the environment. In a society that worships competition and self-interest, Freegans advocate living ethical, free, and happy lives centred around community and the notion that a healthy society must function on interdependence. Freegans also believe that people have a right and responsibility to take back control of their time.
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  • Peppers filled with rice have been just cooked at a Freegan dinner made entirely with food recovered from dumping sites around the island of Manhattan, New York, NY., on Friday, June 23, 2006. Freegans are a community of people who aims at recovering wasted food, books, clothing, office supplies and other items from the refuse of retail stores, frequently discarded in brand new condition. They recover goods not for profit, but to serve their own immediate needs and to share freely with others. According to a study by a USDA-commissioned study by Dr. Timothy Jones at the University of Arizona, half of all food in the United States is wasted at a cost of $100 billion dollars every year. Yet 4.4 million people in the United States alone are classified by the USDA as hungry. Global estimates place the annual rate of starvation deaths at well over 8 million. The massive waste generated in the process fills landfills and consumes land as new landfills are built. This waste stream also pollutes the environment, damages public health as landfills chemicals leak into the ground, and incinerators spew heavy metals back into the atmosphere. Freegans practice strategies for everyday living based on sharing resources, minimizing the detrimental impact of our consumption, and reducing and recovering waste and independence from the profit-driven economy. They are dismayed by the social and ecological costs of an economic model where only profit is valued, at the expense of the environment. In a society that worships competition and self-interest, Freegans advocate living ethical, free, and happy lives centred around community and the notion that a healthy society must function on interdependence. Freegans also believe that people have a right and responsibility to take back control of their time.
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  • Tabasum Khatun, 14, is lighting up a small fire to cook some rice insider her home in Algunda village, pop. 1000, Giridih District, rural Jharkhand, India.
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  • Under the supervision of their parents, Jyoti, 13, (left) her sisters Arti, 18, (back) and Poonam, 12, (front) are making Rangolis, Hindu floor decorations, ahead of celebrations for Diwali, the festival of lights, while in front of their newly built home in Oriya Basti, one of the water-contaminated colonies in Bhopal, central India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous '1984 Gas Disaster'. A Rangoli, also known as Kolam or Muggu is folk art from India in which patterns are created on the floor, in living rooms or courtyards, using materials such as rice, dry flour, coloured powders and flower petals.
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  • Poonam's older sister Jyoti, 14, is playing with a bowl of fresh rice while lying on the floor of her family's newly built home in Oriya Basti, one of the water-contaminated colonies in Bhopal, central India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous '1984 Gas Disaster'.
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  • (name changed) Neelam Bharadwaj, 16, is preparing some rice for cooking while sitting inside her family’s home in Rajbhar village, located around 20 kilometres away from Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh, India. Neelam was raped when she was 13 years old. After walking to a local shop on the main road neighbouring her village, she was forcibly picked up by two men. While one of them was raping her in the bushes, the other watched out. After some time, she managed to free herself and run away, hiding under a bridge in cold dirty water for several hours. When she returned home in the morning, the family was too afraid to go to the police, but activist Mangla Parsad, 34, from PVCHR, convinced the family to take the right action. The police initially insulted and threatened the family for bringing the facts up, but filed the official case (FIR) nevertheless. The rape was not mentioned in the file due to an inaccurate and superficial medical record that did not, in fact, mention it. Because of social shame facing by victims of rape in India, the family agreed to wed Neelam to an older man, with help of an agent. After the marriage, her husband raped her again for a whole month before she decided to return home with her family. Neelam’s father works in the metal industry in Mumbai and manages to send around 2-3000 INR every month. He only visits the family once in a year. Neelam goes to school and she is studying in 11th Class Standard. She is interested in doing BA in Arts after completing her high school 12th final year.
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  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, (centre) is pouring some rice to be cooked for lunch before leaving to participate at the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family.
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  • Poonam, 12, (right) is learning to cook Papard (a cheaply-made, fried rice snack) with her mother Sangita, 41, while sitting in the kitchen / temple area of their newly built home in Oriya Basti, one of the water-contaminated colonies in Bhopal, central India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous '1984 Gas Disaster'.
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  • (name changed) Neelam Bharadwaj, 16, (second from right) is preparing some rice for cooking, while her older sister Sanju, 29, (right) is preparing a pot with water, inside their home in Rajbhar village, located around 20 kilometres away from Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh, India. Sanju's children, Payel, 5, (second from left) and Prince Kumar, 3, (left) are sitting nearby. Neelam was raped when she was 13 years old. After walking to a local shop on the main road neighbouring her village, she was forcibly picked up by two men. While one of them was raping her in the bushes, the other watched out. After some time, she managed to free herself and run away, hiding under a bridge in cold dirty water for several hours. When she returned home in the morning, the family was too afraid to go to the police, but activist Mangla Parsad, 34, from PVCHR, convinced the family to take the right action. The police initially insulted and threatened the family for bringing the facts up, but filed the official case (FIR) nevertheless. The rape was not mentioned in the file due to an inaccurate and superficial medical record that did not, in fact, mention it. Because of social shame facing by victims of rape in India, the family agreed to wed Neelam to an older man, with help of an agent. After the marriage, her husband raped her again for a whole month before she decided to return home with her family. Neelam’s father works in the metal industry in Mumbai and manages to send around 2-3000 INR every month. He only visits the family once in a year. Neelam goes to school and she is studying in 11th Class Standard. She is interested in doing BA in Arts after completing her high school 12th final year.
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  • Under the supervision of their parents, Jyoti, 13, (left) her sisters Arti, 18, (back) and Poonam, 12, (front) are making Rangolis, Hindu floor decorations, ahead of celebrations for Diwali, the festival of lights, while in front of their newly built home in Oriya Basti, one of the water-contaminated colonies in Bhopal, central India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous '1984 Gas Disaster'. A Rangoli, also known as Kolam or Muggu is folk art from India in which patterns are created on the floor, in living rooms or courtyards, using materials such as rice, dry flour, coloured powders and flower petals.
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  • Tabasum Khatun, 14, is separating the wheat from the chaff, while preparing rice to be cooked for breakfast inside her home in Algunda village, pop. 1000, Giridih District, rural Jharkhand, India.
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  • (name changed) Neelam Bharadwaj, 16, (right) is preparing some rice for cooking while sitting inside her family’s home in Rajbhar village, located around 20 kilometres away from Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh, India. Neelam was raped when she was 13 years old. After walking to a local shop on the main road neighbouring her village, she was forcibly picked up by two men. While one of them was raping her in the bushes, the other watched out. After some time, she managed to free herself and run away, hiding under a bridge in cold dirty water for several hours. When she returned home in the morning, the family was too afraid to go to the police, but activist Mangla Parsad, 34, from PVCHR, convinced the family to take the right action. The police initially insulted and threatened the family for bringing the facts up, but filed the official case (FIR) nevertheless. The rape was not mentioned in the file due to an inaccurate and superficial medical record that did not, in fact, mention it. Because of social shame facing by victims of rape in India, the family agreed to wed Neelam to an older man, with help of an agent. After the marriage, her husband raped her again for a whole month before she decided to return home with her family. Neelam’s father works in the metal industry in Mumbai and manages to send around 2-3000 INR every month. He only visits the family once in a year. Neelam goes to school and she is studying in 11th Class Standard. She is interested in doing BA in Arts after completing her high school 12th final year.
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  • The father of Kanchan Kumari Sharma, 12, (name changed) Raja Kumar Sharma, 45, (left) a barber, earning around 150 INR a day, (3 USD) is sitting with his brother-in-law, Santosh Kumar, Verma, 42, a small businessman dealing in rice and wheat. With them are Kanchan’s eldest brother Avesh Sharma, 24 (second from right) and her older one, Ashok Sharma, 19. (second from left) In 2012, Kanchan went with a friend to bring lunch to her father, around 2 km away from her home. On the way they met Rajesh (rapist) and Ashok, a friend of his. Both girls were picked up on the spot using an excuse. Ashok drove Kanchan's friend home, but Rajesh forced Kanchan to travel with him during six days and for hundreds of kilometres across different states. (Mirzapur / Chennai / Itarsi / Bhusawal) He raped her once behind the station in Itarsi. With great effort and some coincidence, the uncle of Kanchan managed to bring her back home. Although she was scared, she insisted on going to the police to file a case (FIR). She was kept at the police station for 12 days and threatened to prevent her from filing an official case. Ashok and Rajesh are from higher caste and wealthy families. While Rajesh spent 24 days in jail initially in summer 2012, he is now a free man while the trial is still going on. Kanchan's family is now struggling to put together 30.000 Indian Rupees (500 USD) to continue battling for justice in court.
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