What an opportunity for someone in their early twenties to help end human trafficking, and live at Half Moon Bay, CA! The Not For Sale Fellowship |
 In 2010, a small group of individuals will be selected to participate in the very first Not For Sale Fellowship: a full-time, all-intensive program in which they will work to end modern-day slavery. Are you interested in being among them?
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Based just outside the city of San Francisco, NFS Fellows will live and work from the stunning shoreline of Half Moon Bay, CA. |
NFS Fellows will advance their education on the issue of human trafficking, gaining invaluable work experience through an intrinsic role in the modern-day abolitionist movement. They will work side-by-side national staff to enhance key programs, initiatives, and platforms central to the Not For Sale Campaign. Read more at www.notforsalecampaign.org |
Human trafficking is as much about child labor slavery, as it is about sex.
Something that you already own was probably made by a child slave. Find out what is is so you don’t support slavery any more! Made By Slaves: Do you know who makes the goods you buy? |
Sex slavery usually gets the headlines and is serious - to be sure - but most modern slavery involves labor slaves to supply many of us with what we thought were legitimate low cost goods and services at places like Wal-Mart who spends way too much in trying to appear family friendly of late since we and they have practically underwritten much of the outsourcing of what used to be jobs in the US. Rant done, its - grin - safe again. From hair salons to court, to face forced-labor charges |
The West African nation of Togo is a small and mountainous
sliver of land where villagers scratch livings from cassava
fields and phosphate mines. |
It was there, amid mud-thatched houses and dusty
marketplaces, that a successful textile merchant named
Akouavi Kpade Afolabi allegedly recruited about 20 girls
between the ages of 10 and 19 and promised them better lives
in New Jersey. |
| Once the girls arrived, she forced them to work 14-hour days
without pay in hair-braiding salons in Newark and East
Orange, binding them into submission through beatings and
threats of voodoo curses, authorities say.Read more at www.nj.com |
Another take on the varieties of modern slavery being practiced all over the world. Slavery Now More Than Ever |
| By Mark Svensson, with Tarik Abdelqader |
| The term “modern-day slavery” refers to the status or condition of a person who is under the control of another person, where that control is enforced by violence or psychological coercion. Here in the 21st century, the main forms of modern-day slavery are chattel slavery, debt bondage, and child labor. Human trafficking, another major dilemma, serves as a pipeline for many forms of slavery today. And while some of these forms of modern slavery occur in other parts of the world, our own country is deeply implicated in this abhorrent practice.
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Lately, some folks have been promoting and romanticizing about sex worker discrimination, rights and potential for unionization in the US and other countries.
There is nothing romantic or cool about trafficking kids and young women and men for sex or labor slavery. | Man charged in an interstate child-prostitution ring may be in Tulsa area |
| A man who is charged in an interstate child-prostitution ring has eluded police and is thought to be in the Tulsa area, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
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He also is suspected of teaching the girls how to avoid undercover police during their shifts at Houston massage parlors and spas where they also provided sexual services to clients.
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Court records depict Presley as a violent overlord who used guns to intimidate the girls and keep them from seeking help. While on a trip to Kansas, he is accused of forcing a girl into his vehicle at gunpoint and threatening to hurt her family if she called authorities.
Read more at www.tulsaworld.com |
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If I were 23-25, I apply to help end human trafficking!
