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Tin, Tungsten, Tantalum…three essential minerals used in the creation of every single gadget you own. Your phone, your camera, your computer…all of it.

They are also known as Conflict Minerals and are a key component of one other apparently essential gadget in the modern world…Terror.

Profits from Conflict Minerals have been fueling a war in the Congo that has been killing 500,000 people a year for the last 10 years. Five million people dead and it rarely makes the news. It used to be paid for by diamonds until the global recession…now, it is paid for by electronics. OUR electronics.

It doesn’t have to be like this.

Watch the video after the jump by the Enough Project and spread the word. We CAN do something about this if we pressure vendors to change the way they do business….and we are the ones who can best apply that pressure.