How Colonialism in the Congo Made Your iPhone

Donation options for relief in the DRC:

Focus Congo: https://www.focuscongo.com/en/

Goma Actif Fundraiser: https://gofund.me/08de0cc6

Panzi Foundation: https://panzifoundation.org/

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Comment for the algorithm. One of the only things I appreciate about my religious upbringing was playing a small role in supporting refugees resettle in the West. I played an extremely small role in helping a Rwandan genocide survivor bring their family to the west. What stuck with me was how no one talked about how the violence from that extremely f*cked up colonial administration system still harms people today. The Rwandan genocide started over 30 years ago, and people are still dealing with the violence from it today. Every Congolese and Rwandan family should have a safe and loving home for them full stop. I can still picture my friend's face as they saw their family face to face for the first time in over a decade. Every survivor is precious, and we need to really understand what it takes for this to never happen again, for any people.

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Thank you for making this, Brigitte. You've done quite a few of these difficult topics, and imo did so well. People need to learn about this stuff, if we're ever going to change things – and I really do still believe that can and will happen. And though I can't possibly know how long it'll be nor how it'll go, at least I do know to expect some growing pains, and when I fall back into doomer mindset, to shake it off. …even if I have to sulk a little first.

Thank you for the upload, but i wish you wouldn't have used so many intrusive sound effects. Made it hard for me to watch, due to a over-sensitivity. Still – much love for shining a light on this issue <3

Shocked to see someone doing work on this! Thank you for spreading information, that so many are unaware of.❤

Great video. Thank you for doing what I'm sure was an extensive amount of research to make this.

Great video, super informative and sad. We rarely see anything about this topic

When I was in high school, we read Howard Zinn and I wrote an essay on Agent Orange for history class. It's still even weird how it was talked about. I really don't understand the resistance to more equitable economic systems and foreign relations

Would be good if you also made a video talking about Rio Tinto and what its gonna do in your neighboring country of Serbia and how EU (especially Germany), UK, US, Australia and China are involved in this colonial ecological disaster in the making.

I only knew some of this going in. Important stuff. Thanks for shedding light on this subject.

Ive no idea why but that weird siren noise is making it difficult to watch the video and makes me want to cry/throw up every time i hear it lmao

The "Behind The Bastards" series on Leopold II and the Congo is very well done, but obviously real hard to listen to..

Would you be open to make a video on the ongoing occupation and genocide of West Papua by the US/Australia backed Indonesian Security Forces? Indonesia (then United States of Indonesia), with the full backing of USA and Australia, invades Wast Papua in 1962 and annex it in 1969. Since the occupation, over 500,000 indigenous Papuans are killed by the occupying Indonesian security forces, and indigenous population fell from 98% to 48%. Following companies operates in West Papua: • BP (British multinational company) has natural gas rights in West Papua (Tangguh facility that supplies 35% of Indonesia’s gas). • Unilever (British multinational company) is one of the world’s largest buyers of palm-oil and much of it is sourced from West Papua (palm-oil is in pretty much everything we eat). • Freeport-McMoRan (US mining company) owns the Grasberg mine has the world’s largest gold reserves and the second largest copper reserves (largest supplier of copper to Australia). • Thales Group (French multinational weapons company) supplies weapons to the Indonesian security forces. • Ziyan UAS (Chinese arms manufacturer) supplies military drones the Indonesian security forces

I don't have the capacity to watch this at the moment because already from the start it's horrific. I don't plan to avoid it, I will watch later, but I figured I would leave a comment for the algorythm in the mean time.

Stuff like this makes me genuinely hope that hell exists. This kind of evil can't go unanswered. It just can't.