Modern Poverty in the Richest Nation on Earth
By Antonio Graceffo When I was a financial planner in New York City, I reviewed the finances of nearly 1,000 individuals and small businesses. While there were people who made bad decisions, stupid decisions, or created debt to finance consumption, the bottom line was that most of them simply didn’t earn enough to live. If they had made good decisions and lived frugally, they would still fall...
Read MoreGlobal Tribe: In Memory of Dan Eldon
A collaboration between Sam Stavros and Antonio Graceffo Twenty-two year-old Reuters photographer, Dan Eldon and was stoned to death in Mogadishu, Somalia. In addition to covering conflicts in Africa, he personally organized aid and relief missions to help the starving people. Dan’s mother. Kahy and sister, Amy published his diaries and art work in a book, “The Journey is the...
Read MoreOrphan Boxers
Paddy’s fight Club Cambodia, Antonio Graceffo trains with the “Big Trainer” (Bu Menia) a man mountain of a man with a heart of gold who helps Paddy Carson train the young, up and coming boxers. The boys come from poor families and are missing one or both of their parents, so “Big Trainer” supports them. They live with Big Trainer’s family and he trains them for free. Paddy...
Read MoreVictims of the SPDC
In this new episode, Antonio interviews a monk, who is a veteran of the 1988 pro-democracy protest, the bloodiest protest in Burmese history. The video also features an interview with an innocent 14 year old Shan girl who describes the horrors of her torture at the hands of Burmese soldiers. Antonio is self funded and humbly seeks donations to continue his Shan State video project. “Many thanks...
Read MoreLong Neck “Karen” Hill Tribe
Antonio Graceffo explains how The Long Neck “Karen” Hill Tribe,” one of Thailand’s biggest tourist attractions is actually one of the many ethnic minorities fleeing rape, murder, genocide, and oppression in Burma. In fact, the group shouldn’t even be called “Karen.” They are the Padong people. While they should be in refugee camps, awaiting resettlement in the west, the Long Neck...
Read MoreThe Last Muay Thai Temple
In 2003, Antonio Graceffo went to Thailand to find a Buddhist monk, named Prah Kruh Ba, a former professional Muay Thai fighter, who lives in a jungle monastery on the Burmese border, where he takes in tribal kids, orphaned by the war in Burma. Antonio cut the Kruh Bah story out of a Taiwanese newspaper, flew to Thailand and walked around the border town of Maesai, showing people the photo, until...
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Following his landmark decision to quit his job on Wall Street and become a martial arts student, Warrior Odyssey captures Antonio's ongoing adventure across the Far East.
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