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Video and Assignment Ideas for Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle

This video is a short and sweet summary of how Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle led to changes in the meat-packing industry. It’s a great way to reinforce a discussion of the Pure Food and Drug Act, and it also shows some really interesting shots of the meat-packing industry back in the day.

You can use this in conjunction with my other free resources to teach The Jungle found in this blog post .

While you’re at it, check out my QR Code Scavenger Hunt on the Progressive Era in my TPT store. It’s a fun and engaging way to get students out of their seats while reviewing important aspects of the Progressive Era! Students LOVE my QR code scavenger hunts!

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How I Taught The Jungle in One Week

Devote only one week to The Jungle ? It just felt wrong. (updated 8/2022)

With limited time to fit The Jungle , Upton Sinclair’s Progressive Era mainstay, into the first semester, I just didn’t think it would be possible to teach it in one week. I even experienced a healthy dose of teacher-guilt as I considered it, actually.

Questions swirled through my mind as I wondered how to include The Jungle in my two classes of juniors taking American Literature.

Would it be worth it?

Would students make this observation: that literature can impact the world and make it a better place.

I was that hesitant to take this approach.

But in the back of my mind, I also thought… why not? After all, many history and social studies teachers already include it to some extent in their curricula (as is the case at my school). Therefore, to avoid duplication it probably doesn’t make sense to do a full-length unit on the book. In addition, my class set copies run 402 pages in length! In the end, it just didn’t seem practical to devote a large chunk of time to The Jungle this go ’round.

But still… I wanted to include it to some degree, especially as The Jungle is part of our on-going lessons on influential American texts, which also include Uncle Tom’s Cabin , which we studied in October, and Silent Spring, which we will read second semester.

If you’re like me and don’t have a lot of time for The Jungle , think about trying this.

Here’s a link to “The Jungle in One Week” PowerPoint on Teachers Pay Teachers. This resource provides you with seventeen lecture slides to introduce the novel plus directions for the One-Chapter One-Pager assignment discussed in this post.

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Here’s how I taught The Jungle in one week:

• Yes, my approach is fairly traditional here. I have a Google Slides presentation that I’m building and posting on Google Classroom for students to use and refer to at test time. However, I still require that they take handwritten notes from these slides, as I believe handwriting helps them process and retain the information better.
• I do indicate which information will be on a test at the end of the quarter.
• I provided a general summary of the novel including how it ends and a “family tree” of the characters in the novel. They would need this information for our next task.
• I had students choose one chapter to read silently in class.
• I assigned a one-pager for their one chapter. I made a highly-detailed and very colorful mentor for them using the book’s final chapter. This example was key.
• Put the chapter number and the book title in the center rectangle.
• Your chapter’s characters
• The setting of your chapter
• The main event of your chapter
• Three important quotes with their page numbers
• In the border, draw a design or pattern that connects meaningfully to your chapter. Here’s a photo of the example I made for students:

And that was it.

Everyone’s one-pagers are now hanging in the hallway. I’ve included a few below from both boys and girls, including students who excel at art and those who don’t.

My “Jungle one-chapter one-pager” project represents some of the best one-pager work I’ve ever seen from my students.

They really took their time, filled up the template (I use Betsy Potash’s templates; find them here) , and used lots of color.

One thing: my students’ one-pagers are larger than those you’ll find on Betsy’s site. I enlarge mine to 145 percent (here’s a post) so students can work “bigger.” It seems to make a better presentation and students take the project more seriously when the project is presented to them on 11″ x 17″ paper instead of 8-1/2″ x 11″.

Enlarge the one-pager template for better results!

Another thing to know: I couldn’t cover every chapter of The Jungle. My largest class of juniors has 24 students in it; the novel has thirty-one chapters. I just dealt with it, choosing to work with chapters one through twenty-four.

Doing this also took the focus off Sinclair’s heavy-handed socialist propaganda in the book’s final chapters. If you have more students, I would go ahead and assign all the chapters, giving more context for Sinclair’s political leanings.

So even though each student read only one chapter of the novel, students learned its pivotal importance in the development of our nation’s food safety laws, worker rights, the immigrant experience in the early 20th century, and, lastly, the influence writers can have on society. Our earlier discussions revealed much about the formation of the 1906 Food and Drugs Act, a.k.a. the Wiley Act, and its later effect on the formation in 1938 of the nation’s first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration.

Understanding the entire saga of Jurgis and the extended Lithuanian immigrant family wasn’t necessary; reading one episode and viewing other students’ “one chapter one-pagers” provided the rest of the picture.

So there you have it. I freely admit it: I taught The Jungle in a week. And I don’t feel guilty at all.

What are your thoughts about tackling a novel in a short amount of time?

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Hey, this is an amazing idea, but especially since im teaching this in a media studies class. Would it be possible for you to send me your Google slides in this? Also, has anyone sent you any useful comments on this post that might help me with my planning? Thanks again! This is exactly what I needed in my packed-full semester long class.

Thanks so much for reading and commenting! I will send you a direct email to discuss this further, but I would be happy to send you my Google Slides and if I can think of anything else, I’ll throw that in, too.

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The Jungle is one of the greatest (and most controversial) works by  Upton Sinclair. . Dedicated to "the Workingmen of America," the novel detailed the unhealthy conditions of the meatpacking industry and eventually led President Theodore Roosevelt to pursue new federal legislations. 

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Assignment: the jungle.

One of the most famous books in American history was published during the Progressive Era and played a huge role in Progressive Ideology; Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. It’s famous for its graphic description and exposure of what goes on in the Chicago meat-packing industry. After reading the excerpt , answer the following:

• Sinclair once told an interviewer “I aimed at the public’s heart and by accident hit it in the stomach.” What exactly does he mean? What was he trying to accomplish with the book and how did he expect The Jungle to accomplish it?

Be sure to use specific examples and quotes from the document in support of your answer.

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The Dogs Helping the Covenant Children Find Their Way Back

To heal after a mass shooting, the Covenant School families have turned to therapy, faith, one another — and a lot of dogs.

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Two of April Manning’s children, Mac and Lilah, had just survived the mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville. They needed stability and time to grieve.

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So she did everything she could to keep the family dog, Owen, their sweet but ailing 15-year-old golden retriever, with them for as long as possible. She pushed back his final trip to the vet, keeping him comfortable as he slowly moved around the house.

Getting another dog was the furthest thing from her mind. But a few weeks after the shooting, her children sat her down for an important presentation.

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Ms. Manning and her husband considered. Maybe a second dog was possible.

First came Chip, a Cavalier King Charles spaniel. Then, after Owen succumbed to old age, came Birdie, a miniature poodle and Bernese Mountain dog mix. And in taking them in, the Mannings were far from alone.

In the year since Tennessee’s worst school shooting, in which three third-graders and three staff members were killed by a former student, more than 40 dogs have been taken in by families at Covenant, a small Christian school of about 120 families.

“I really only expected them to help in a cuddly kind of way, like just to snuggle the kids when they’re upset ,” Ms. Manning said. “But I wasn’t really expecting all the other benefits from them.”

To spend time with the Covenant families is to understand how they have relied on one another, traditional psychological treatments and mental health counseling, and their Christian faith to hold them together.

But it is also to see how often what they needed — a distraction, a protector, a friend who could listen, something untouched by darkness — came from a dog.

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Officer Faye Okert, the dog’s handler with the Metro Nashville Police, handed out a baseball card of dog facts to distract and comfort the children.

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After families reunited, counselors offered clear advice: To help your child, get a dog. Or borrow a neighbor’s.

That led several parents to connect with Comfort Connections, a nonprofit comfort dog organization. Jeanene Hupy, the group’s founder, had seen firsthand how therapy dogs had helped the Sandy Hook students and started her own organization once she moved to Nashville.

The group, which oversees a menagerie of golden retrievers, a gentle pit bull and a massive English mastiff, began its work by visiting individual homes in the days after the shooting. Then, when students returned to class weeks later, the dogs were once again there.

They were something to look forward to, in the moments when walking through the school doors felt overwhelming. And when there were painful reminders — a water bottle clattering to the floor, an unsettling history lesson on war or the absence of a friend — a child could slip away and cuddle a dog.

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A Reassuring Presence

First it was a joke, then a reality: Everyone was getting a dog.

Fueled by community donations and her own money, Ms. Hupy began connecting several parents and puppies. Even for families who could easily afford a new dog, Ms. Hupy and her trainers dramatically eased the logistical hurdles by finding and training puppies that seemed perfect fits to each family.

The Anderson girls shrieked and cried with joy when they learned they were getting a dog, and have now taught Leo how to flaunt sunglasses and do tricks. The Hobbs children constantly scoop up Lady Diana Spencer, often fashionably dressed in a string of pearls or sweaters.

The dogs are also there in the harder moments, too, like when an ambulance or police car drives by blaring its siren or when the memorial ribbons in their neighborhood remind them of what was lost.

“Sometimes it’s just nice to have a giant soft pillow that doesn’t need to talk to you and just cuddle it,” said Evangeline Anderson, now 11.

And if the dogs chew on a shoe or make a mess on a rug, Ms. Manning said, it is a lesson in how to deal with conflicting emotions.

“We still love them and we’re so glad we have them — both things can be true,” she said. “Just like we can be really nervous about going back to school and still also be excited to do it.”

And maybe, the parents realized, it was not just for the children.

Rachel and Ben Gatlin were driving back from vacation on the day of the shooting. That has meant grappling with the heaviness of survival and knowing that Mr. Gatlin, a history teacher who carried a pistol on his ankle for personal protection, could have run toward the shooter that day.

And while their new dog, Buddy, has adapted to the bossiness of their young children and has developed a penchant for sock consumption, he has also kept the adults’ thoughts focused in the moment. Tending to his needs has served as a reminder of their own.

“When you see it working, you’re in total comfort,” Ms. Gatlin said.

Even the school’s chaplain, Matthew Sullivan, found that the stories of new puppies being shared each day in chapel were “wearing me down in a good way.”

“I kind of wanted to enter into the experience of all these families firsthand,” he said.

Now Hank, a slightly anxious, floppy-eared Scooby-Doo doppelgänger, has been adopted into his home, which had been a little empty without his grown children.

The Alternatives

Not everyone got a dog.

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“It’s an incredible distraction to their reality,” Abby McLean said of her children, cupping her hands to mimic cradling a rabbit on her shoulder. “I find myself occasionally doing it as well.”

Another family added Ginny, a tortoise with a possible seven-decade life span, to the mix of animals already in their house.

“For having lost people early in life — there was something that equated to me in that, that there was a longevity to it, to a tortoise,” said Phil Shay, who picked out the tortoise with his 12-year-old daughter, Ever.

Still, the dogs far outnumber the other pets. And every day they can make a little difference.

The first night that George, Jude and Amos Bolton had tried to sleep alone without their parents after the shooting, the slightest grumble from the ice machine or the dryer had been too much. Their mother, Rachel, who had maintained that she liked dogs, just not in her house, soon agreed to take in Hudson, a miniature Goldendoodle puppy with doe-like eyes and wild curls.

“We didn’t realize the dogs could create comfort for people,” Jude, now 10, said, his hands ruffling Hudson’s ears. And when Hudson came home, he added, “he’s just been comforting us ever since.”

It is now easier to sleep through the night, safe with the knowledge that Hudson is there.

“All my friends joke, they’re like, ‘I can’t believe you’re a dog person now,’” Ms. Bolton said. But this dog, she added, “has healed this family.”

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Infinity Fincorp Solutions Secures USD 26 Mn Led by Jungle Ventures The Mumbai-based platform hopes to double its loan book to INR 1,300 crore by March 2025 with the help of its present fundraising efforts and business momentum.

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Non-Banking Financial Company Infinity Fincorp Solutions Pvt Ltd has announced an equity fundraise of USD 26 million led by Jungle Ventures with participation from Magnifico (a high-net-worth individual investor group).

According to the platform, the current fund raise will be a robust enabler for accessing loan facilities for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSME) and microentrepreneurs.

Indium IV (Mauritius) Holdings Limited (advised by True North), which has a majority stake in Infinity, will continue to have a controlling stake in the NBFC.

Shrikant Ravalkar, Founder, MD and CEO of Infinity, said, "This capital infusion will allow us to invest in our distribution and footprint, accelerating our mission of extending easy credit to MSME businesses across the country."

Launched in 2016 by Shrikant Ravalkar, Infinity specialises in tailored property loans designed specifically for the MSME segment in India.

The platform claims to have a presence across 88 branches spanning 8 states and a workforce of approximately 950 employees. It lends to micro-entrepreneurs like tea shop owners, vegetable vendors, small machine enterprises, restaurants, provision stores, textile shops, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, milkmen, laundry service providers, hairdressers, and financially underserved small-scale manufacturers.

Currently, it has 20,000 live loan accounts (approximately 50,000+ customers) with an average loan size of INR 4.00 lakhs.

The company hopes to quadruple its loan book to INR 1,300 crore by March 2025 with the help of its present fundraising efforts and business momentum.

"Micro-enterprises comprise over 95% of all businesses in India, yet they face a significant formal credit gap exceeding $500 billion. Infinity Fincorp is addressing this gap with its asset-backed financing solution, simultaneously fostering sustainable business growth. Infinity's loans not only aid entrepreneurs in meeting their working capital requirements but also facilitate business expansion and job creation in the most remote areas of India," said Arpit Beri, Partner, India Investments, Jungle Ventures.

Bengaluru-based Unitus Capital acted as the exclusive financial transaction advisor to Infinity, while Samvad Partners acted as a legal advisor to Infinity Fincorp, and Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas acted as a legal advisor to Jungle Ventures.

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HIS 211 - U.S. History: Reconstruction to the Present - Textbook

• Introduction
• Restoring the Union
• Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866
• Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872
• The Collapse of Reconstruction
• Video: Reconstruction and 1876
• Primary Source Reading: Atlanta Compromise Speech
• Primary Source Reading: Souls of Black Folk
• Primary Source Reading: Black Codes
• Assignment: Reactions to Jim Crow
• The Meaning of Black Freedom
• Senator Thaddeus Stevens addresses 39th Congress
• Testimony of Elias Hill Recounting a Nighttime Visit from the Ku Klux Klan
• Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery
• Chapter III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
• Inventors of the Age
• From Invention to Industrial Growth
• Video: The Industrial Economy
• Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor
• A New American Consumer Culture
• Primary Source Reading: The Gospel of Wealth
• Assignment: The Gospel of Wealth
• Testimony of Thomas O’Donell, Fall River Mule-Spinner
• What Does the Working Man Want?
• The Principles of Scientific Management
• Urbanization and Its Challenges
• The African American “Great Migration” and New European Immigration
• Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life
• Video: Growth, Cities, and Immigration
• Change Reflected in Thought and Writing
• Primary Source Reading: How the Other Half Lives
• Assignment: How the Other Half Lives
• Political Corruption in Postbellum America
• The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold
• Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era
• Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s
• Video: Gilded Age Politics
• Assignment: Social Darwinism
• Introduction to the Progressive Movement
• The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America
• Video: The Progressive Era
• Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
• New Voices for Women and African Americans
• Video: Women’s Suffrage
• Progressivism in the White House
• Video: Progressive Presidents
• Primary Source Reading: The Jungle

Assignment: The Jungle

• The Shame of the Cities
• Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
• The Modern City and the Municipal Franchise for Women
• Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire
• The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire
• Economic Imperialism in East Asia
• Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Foreign Policy
• Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
• Video: American Imperialism
• Assignment: The Turner Thesis
• Primary Source Reading: White Man’s Burden
• Assignment: White Man’s Burden
• THE STRENUOUS LIFE
• To the Philippine People
• Transcript of Theodore Roosevelt’s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1905)
• American Isolationism and the European Origins of War
• The United States Prepares for War
• A New Home Front
• From War to Peace
• Video: America in World War I
• Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath
• Assignment: WWI Propaganda
• Transcript of Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Germany, 1917
• Supreme Power is in the People
• Transcript of President Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points
• Prosperity and the Production of Popular Entertainment
• Transformation and Backlash
• A New Generation
• Republican Ascendancy: Politics in the 1920s
• Video: The Roaring 20s
• Assignment: The Roaring Twenties
• The Stock Market Crash of 1929
• President Hoover’s Response
• The Depths of the Great Depression
• Video: The Great Depression
• Assessing the Hoover Years on the Eve of the New Deal
• Radio Address on Lincoln’s Birthday, February 12, 1931
• The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt
• The First New Deal
• The Second New Deal
• Video: The New Deal
• Assignment: Perspectives on the Great Depression and the New Deal
• Message to Congress on Unemployment Relief, March 21, 1933
• The Origins of War: Europe, Asia, and the United States
• Primary Source Reading: Nazi Party Platform
• Assignment: Why Nazis?
• The Home Front
• Victory in the European Theater
• The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb
• Videos: World War II
• Message to Congress by President Roosevelt, December 8, 1941
• Annual Message to Congress on the State of the Union, January 6, 1941
• Rosie the Riveter
• The Challenges of Peacetime
• The Cold War
• Video: The Cold War
• Video: The Cold War in Asia
• The American Dream
• Popular Culture and Mass Media
• Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946. Eastern Europe, Soviet Union
• Truman Doctrine
• Findings and Declaration of Policy (The Marshall Plan)
• National Security Council-68
• Letter to Harry Truman, February 28, 1946
• Peace Without Conquest, April 7, 1945
• Proposed Course of Action re: Vietnam, 24 March 1965
• The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
• Video: Civil Rights and the 1950s
• Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483
• The Kennedy Promise
• Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
• The Civil Rights Movement Marches On
• Challenging the Status Quo
• Assignment: Black Panther Party Platform
• Primary Source Reading: The Black Panther Party Platform
• Identity Politics in a Fractured Society
• Video: The 1960s in America
• Coming Apart, Coming Together
• Video: The Rise of Conservatism
• Vietnam: The Downward Spiral
• Watergate: Nixon’s Domestic Nightmare
• Jimmy Carter in the Aftermath of the Storm
• Video: Ford, Carter, and the Economic Malaise
• Assignment: Midterm Paper #2
• The Reagan Revolution
• Video: The Reagan Revolution
• Assignment: American Conservatism
• Primary Source Reading: Ronald Reagan “A Time for Choosing”
• Political and Cultural Fusions
• Video: George HW Bush and the End of the Cold War
• A New World Order
• Bill Clinton and the New Economy
• Video: The Clinton Years, or the 1990s
• The War on Terror
• The Domestic Mission
• Video: Terrorism, War, and Bush
• New Century, Old Disputes
• Hope and Change
• Video: Obamanation: Crash Course US History #47

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One of the most famous books in American history was published during the Progressive Era and played a huge role in Progressive Ideology; Upton Sinclair’s  The Jungle.  It’s famous for its graphic description and exposure of what goes on in the Chicago meat-packing industry. After reading the  excerpt , answer the following:

• Sinclair once told an interviewer “I aimed at the public’s heart and by accident hit it in the stomach.” What exactly does he mean? What was he trying to accomplish with the book and how did he expect  The Jungle  to accomplish it?

Be sure to use specific examples and quotes from the document in support of your answer.

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Panama and Colombia fail to protect migrants on Darien jungle route, Human Rights Watch says

Human Rights Watch says Colombia and Panama are failing to protect the hundreds of thousands of migrants who cross the Darien jungle on their way to the United States and have become increasingly exposed to robberies and sexual violence

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Colombia and Panama are failing to protect hundreds of thousands of migrants who cross the Darien jungle on their way to the U.S. and have become increasingly vulnerable to robberies and sexual violence, Human Rights Watch said in a report published on Wednesday.

The watchdog called on both countries to appoint high-level officials to coordinate the response to the humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Darien and recommended that their governments work jointly to improve security and ensure more assistance from international groups.

“Whatever the reason for their journey, migrants and asylum-seekers crossing the Darien Gap are entitled to basic safety and respect for their human rights along the way,” Juanita Goebertus, Americas director of Human Rights Watch, said in a statement issued before the report’s publication.

Goebertus also called on Panama’s government to reconsider a recent decision to suspend the medical charity, Doctors Without Borders, also known as MSF, from operating in its territory.

“Restricting MSF’s work is exactly the opposite of what is needed to address the situation in the Darien Gap,” Goebertus said.

Human Rights Watch’s recommendations come as record numbers of migrants cross the Darien jungle on their way to the U.S.

Last year, more than 520,000 people crossed the dense and roadless rainforest that stands between South America and Central America, according to Panama’s immigration department. That was twice as many as in 2022.

About half of those making the dangerous journey were Venezuelans escaping their nation's economic and political crisis. They were joined by tens of thousands of migrants from Ecuador and Haiti, as well as about 4,000 Afghan refugees .

The trek across the rainforest can last anywhere from three to five days, with migrants paying hundreds of dollars to guides and smugglers to lead them along muddy trails and treacherous river crossings. Dozens of people have drowned.

The Colombian side of the Darien is controlled by the Gulf Clan, a drug trafficking group that is taxing local guides and earning up to $125 for every migrant that crosses into Panama, according to estimates provided to HRW by Colombian military officials, and cited in the group's previous report on the Darien Gap, published in November.

In its most recent report, HRW said that Colombia’s government should ensure that prosecutors “investigate the role of the Gulf Clan in taking migrants and asylum seekers across the Darien Gap.” It also urged Colombia to increase state presence in the area and devote more resources to agencies that investigate attacks on migrants.

“Crimes against migrants and asylum seekers in the Darien Gap, including pervasive cases of sexual violence, go largely uninvestigated and unpunished on both sides of the border” the report said. “Accountability for these abuses is rare, due to a combination of limited resources and personnel ... and poor coordination between Colombian and Panamanian authorities.”

In February, Doctors Without Borders said that cases of sexual violence in the Darien were increasing at “exponential” levels, with 113 migrants treated for symptoms of sexual violence at two camps on the northern edge of the Darien Gap in a week's span. The organization said in a news release it was “outraged with the level of impunity” with which criminal groups are operating within the region. Shortly after, MSF's operations in Panama were suspended by that nation's government.

In Wednesday's report HRW urged Panama to allow MSF and other humanitarian groups to operate in the country without “undue restrictions.” It also accused the government of Panama of enacting policies that limit the movements of migrants.

Under a policy known as “controlled flow,” Panama allows migrants who cross the Darien jungle into its territory and hosts them briefly in two camps, where they can pay to board buses that take them straight to Costa Rica, the next country on the road to the U.S.

Human Rights Watch said in its report that Panamanian officials are preventing migrants who cannot pay for bus tickets from leaving the camps. The organization called on Panama to modify its controlled flow strategy and establish a plan that ensures the right of migrants who wish to stay in Panama to seek asylum, while enabling those who want to continue their journey to move freely within the nation.

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Jungle Book review – Kipling’s man-cub tale as you’ve never seen it before

Aviva Studios, Manchester Avant garde director Robert Wilson’s adaptation of the classic tale prioritises surreal setups and atmosphere over family friendly narrative

W hat does it look like when the familiar story of man-cub Mowgli meets avant garde director Robert Wilson? For audiences familiar with Wilson’s work, the answer is exactly what you might imagine. Though the combination is a somewhat surprising one, this new adaptation of The Jungle Book has many of the distinctive features of Wilson’s theatre: a sculptural approach to bodies and light, painterly composition of the stage picture, use of repetition and fragmentation.

The emphasis is on atmosphere over storytelling. While there is a narrator of sorts in the shape of Hathi the elephant, the outlines of Rudyard Kipling’s stories are only lightly sketched. Instead of scenes, Wilson gives us a series of surreal impressions. Tiger Shere Khan reclines on a chaise longue smoking a cigar beneath a flickering exit sign. Animals gather among the piled-up carcasses of broken TVs. A monkey swings from a huge yellow tyre while Baloo the bear capers around the stage. This is all set to CocoRosie’s trippy musical backdrop, heightening the sense of strangeness.

While this is billed as a family show, I find myself wondering who it is really for. The bright colours and high-pitched shrieks and squeals of the animals have an almost Teletubbies energy, tapping into a childlike quality beyond language. But in other ways this feels like a very oblique, adult piece, with few concessions to narrative clarity. What little verbal storytelling we do get is often hard to make out over the music – perhaps a sound issue, perhaps a deliberate extension of the baffling, dreamlike mood.

There are vague environmental undercurrents and suggestions of a more sinister, human-influenced jungle than we’re used to seeing – the smashed-up TVs, the tyre, mentions of heat and drought. But any desire for a modern take on Kipling’s tale is at odds with how Wilson works. Aesthetically, his treatment of this material is striking, producing a sequence of undeniably beautiful and precise stage images. Judged as a family-friendly theatrical experience, it’s less satisfying. But this is certainly a Jungle Book unlike any other you’ll see.

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