Marc Choyt
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Sep 18, 2020
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Ethical Jewelry Expose
When a Native American Pueblo elder who I’m close to told me about how his grandmother was enslaved at a mine run by the Spanish, I recalled a report by about Rio Tinto by the London Mining network which described a mine being run under “virtual slave labor.”
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Marc Choyt
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Sep 18, 2020
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Ethical Jewelry Expose
In other words, the Council is set up to seem like the Marine and Forest Council’s inviting a wide range of parties to the table.
But ultimately, the Council is a trade organization.
This kind of specious reasoning—to emphasize one truth to hide a larger, more important truth, is a common theme in our exploration.
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Marc Choyt
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Jan 21, 2020
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Ethical Jewelry Expose
The other individual told me of a conversation that took place on a flight while sitting next to the CEO of a major supplier, widely revered as an excellent source by ethical jewelers. The CEO extolled views of workers straight out of apartheid South Africa, circa 1948: hire miners known to have AIDS, because they are more easily disposable.
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Marc Choyt
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Jan 20, 2020
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Ethical Jewelry Expose
As we wove our way through traffic on the way to the airport, I learned of his family, who had been diamond diggers in a village of about seventy people. Soldiers walked in at first light, shouting. His mother telling him to run, run.
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Marc Choyt
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Oct 16, 2018
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Ethical Jewelry Expose
Santa Fe, NM October 17, 2018: Reflective Jewelry announces the publication of the Ethical Jewelry Exposé: Lies, Damn Lies, and Conflict Free Diamonds written by its President, Marc Choyt. This is the first Exposé ever written by a jeweller about the jewelry industry. Choyt’s series of articles unmasks specious trade and consumer narratives behind one of the jewelry trade’s hottest trends.
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