 | Am I not a Man and a Brother? | Sep 29, 2004 |
"There are more slaves alive today than all the people stolen from Africa in the time of the transatlantic slave trade."
"Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life."
"In the past, slavery entailed one person legally owning another person, but modern slavery is different. Today slavery is illegal everywhere, and there is no more legal ownership of human beings. When people buy slaves today they don't ask for a receipt or ownership papers, but they do gain control -- and they use violence to maintain this control. Slaveholders have all of the benefits of owership without the legalities."
-- quotes from Disposable People, by Kevin BalesNote from the admin: We should certainly never forget the failures nor atrocities of the past. However, if this group were to start dwelling specifically on the past, then it would be much harder to pass on information about dealing with the atrocities of today (whether the horrific slave problem on the continent of Africa today, or the severe problems in the country of the United States of America today, or anywhere else in the world where slavery is a problem). There are so many people groups in so many regions who have been enslaved at one time or another that if this group where to start getting into issues of past slavery, it would quickly overwhelm the information here regarding present day problems. I am very sad about the slavery that my own ancestors endured as well as the slavery that others ancestors have endured. It is heart wrenching. However, I am even more concerned with those who at this very moment are trapped in slavery. It is one thing to consider the past, which we can do absolutely nothing about. It is another to consider the present and try to make a change in the world today. Toward that end, let's keep the focus in this particular group on the slavery issues of today. Thanks. | "This is the largest corporate step up to the challenge that is beginning to apply direct resources to the fight against slavery. ⦠a game-changing investment." - Gary Haugen, president and CEO of International Justice Mission, which received one of a total $11.5 million in grants made by Google to organizations working to end modern-day slavery and human trafficking. (Source: CNN) |
Link: http://www.ajc.com/news/man-faces-sentencing-in-884339.html"A federal judge is set to sentence a man convicted of luring impoverished young Mexican women to the Atlanta area only to force them to work as prostitutes. Amador Cortes-Meza could face life in prison on Thursday when he's sentenced.
A federal jury convicted him in November of sex trafficking of minors, conspiracy and smuggling charges for bringing them to Georgia.
Prosecutors say Cortes-Meza and several of his relatives targeted uneducated women and then paid smugglers to bring them across the border illegally. The women said they were forced to work as prostitutes indefinitely to repay transportation costs and living expenses."  Link: http://www.hopeforthesold.com/more-than-a-beauty-queen-meet-miss-bc-tara-teng/Here's a quote from the article: How does our society’s contorted view of beauty play into sex trafficking?
Everyone has insecurities, and thats how you prey on the weak and vulnerable. If I had grown up in a different home with different parents, I could have been so different because I had my days, as a 13 year old girl, where I just wanted people to love me. And if that somebody is the wrong person, you are vulnerable. You want to be desirable and cherished and that is used against you.  Link: http://josephalmighty.multiply.com/links/item/1483 A Monstrous New Age Plan To Insure White Supremacy A New Whistle Blower From London Reveals The Real Globalist Agenda That Has Never Occured To Your Mind The Anglo-Saxon Mission - A Third World War & The Inheritance Of The New Earth - Audio & Video Recordings Historians tell us that the "Anglo-Saxon Mission" refers to the spread of Christianity in the 8th century. But over a thousand years later, there is now another, far more sinister meaning to the phrase. We recently received 11 pages of information from an insider who was physically present at a meeting of Senior Masons in the City of London in 2005. What was discussed is chilling to the bone. I (Bill) did an audio interview with our source, an Englishman whose identity we have verified with all details known and confirmed. This man, like many we have spoken with, is no longer able to live with his conscience or to keep this information secret. My original idea was to release a transcript of the interview, as we have done in the past. But the material it covers is so critical - and, for me, the missing pieces it provided were so important - that I've taken the step to present the information on video. The audio transcript with our source, who is not on the video, is available here. What our source reports is this: • There is a planned Third World War, which will be nuclear and biological. Our source believes that this is on track to be initiated within the next 18-24 months. • It is planned to begin with a strike by Israel on Iran. Either Iran or China will be provoked into a nuclear response. After a brief nuclear exchange, there will be a ceasefire. The world will be thrown into fear and chaos - all carefully engineered. • The extreme state of tension will be used to justify heavy social and military controls in all western first world nations. Plans are already in place for that. • During the nuclear ceasefire, there is planned to be a covert release of biological weapons. These will initially be targeted against the Chinese. As our source chillingly told us, "China will catch a cold". Biological warfare will spread further, to the west. Infrastructure will be critically weakened. • This is intended to be just the beginning. After this, a full nuclear exchange would be triggered: the "real" war, with widespread destruction and loss of life. Our source tells us that the planned population reduction through these combined means is 50%. He heard this figure stated in the meeting. This horrific scenario has been planned for generations. The first two world wars were part of the set-up for this final apocalypse - as is the centralization of financial resources that was precipitated with the equally well-planned financial collapse of October 2008. As if all this were not enough, our source speculates this is all set against the backdrop of a coming "geophysical event" - the same kind of event as was experienced by our ancestors approximately 11,500 years ago. If this event occurs - not necessarily expected in 2012, but sometime in the next decade - it would destroy civilization as we know it, dwarfing even the effects of a nuclear war. I asked the question to our source: If there's an expected catastrophe, then why initiate a Third World War? His answer, for the first time to me, made terrible sense. The real goal, he explained, is to set up the post-catastrophic world. To ensure that this "New World" [note the term] is the one the controllers want, totalitarian control structures need to be in place when the catastrophe occurs - with an excuse that the populace will accept and demand them. Martial law in the right, carefully chosen countries before the catastrophe occurs will enable the "right" people to survive and prosper in the post-catastrophic world, and the beginning of the next 11,500 year cycle. What may have been carefully planned on a covert global scale, for the last several generations, is nothing less than who will inherit the Earth. Who are the "right" people? The white Caucasians. This may be why the name of this project is The Anglo-Saxon Mission. Hence the justification for the planned genocide of the Chinese people - so that the New World is inherited by "us", not "them". Our source was not informed about the planned fate of the second and third world countries such as those in South America, Africa and Asia. But he presumes that these would be allowed to fend for themselves and probably not survive well - or maybe not at all. The totalitarian military governments of the western, white, people are set to be the inheritors. This is a plan so evil, so racist, so diabolical, so huge, that it almost defies belief. But it all aligns with what many commentators, researchers and whistleblowing insiders have been identifying for some years now. For me personally, it's the clearest picture yet of why the world is the way it is, and why the secrets are protected so fiercely: it may be all about racial supremacy. The Fourth Reich is alive and well. Astonishingly, our source was not pessimistic. He stressed, as do we and many other researchers and commentators, that consciousness is awakening rapidly all over the planet and that THESE PLANNED EVENTS ARE NOT INEVITABLE. If ever there was a reason to work closely together to raise awareness of the real threat to us all, this is it. Watch this video, listen carefully to the strong message of hope and encouragement, and spread it far and wide. We plan to create subtitles in many languages - including Chinese. We stand for the potential magnificence of a united humanity that knows no racial boundaries or distinctions. Whether or not the catastrophe occurs - and many, including ourselves, maintain that it will not - we must co-create our own future, claim our power, and do whatever we can to alert people to the dangers around us... so that we can be stronger together, for the sake of our descendants and for the heritage of all living beings on Planet Earth. (much more at this link) The Anglo-Saxon Mission - A Third World War & The Inheritance Of The New Earth - Audio & Video Recordings http://josephalmighty.multiply.com/links/item/1483 Christ Has Returned To the Earth In the Flesh, As The Lightning Of His WORD Flashes From East In China To The West !!! More of Sex slaves.
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Download this and other original video files with Multiply Premium.Link: http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F2071FFE3D5D0C748DDDA80894DC404482&ref=nicholasdkristofGirls For Sale
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: January 17, 2004
POIPET, Cambodia— One thinks of slavery as an evil confined to musty sepia photographs. But there are 21st-century versions of slaves as well, girls like Srey Neth.
I met Srey Neth, a lovely, giggly wisp of a teenager, here in the wild smuggling town of Poipet in northwestern Cambodia. Girls here are bought and sold, but there is an important difference compared with the 19th century: many of these modern slaves will be dead of AIDS by their 20's.
Some 700,000 people are trafficked around the world each year, many of them just girls. They form part of what I believe will be the paramount moral challenge we will face in this century: to address the brutality that is the lot of so many women in the developing world. Yet it's an issue that gets little attention and that most American women's groups have done shamefully little to address.
Poipet, 220 miles on bouncy roads from Phnom Penh, is a dusty collection of dirt alleys lined with brothels, where teenage girls clutch at any man walking by. It has a reputation as one of the wildest places in Cambodia, an anything-goes town ruled by drugs, gangs, gambling and prostitution.
The only way to have access to the girls is to appear to be a customer. So I put out the word that I wanted to meet young girls and stayed at the seedy $8-a-night Phnom Pich Guest House -- and a woman who is a pimp soon brought Srey Neth to my room.
Srey Neth claimed to be 18 but looked several years younger. She insisted at first (through my Khmer interpreter) that she was free and not controlled by the guesthouse. But soon she told her real story: a female cousin had arranged her sale and taken her to the guesthouse. Now she was sharing a room with three other prostitutes, and they were all pimped to guests.
''I can walk around in Poipet, but only with a close relative of the owner,'' she said. ''They keep me under close watch.They do not let me go out alone. They're afraid I would run away.''
Why not try to escape at night?
''They would get me back, and something bad would happen. Maybe a beating. I heard that when a group of girls tried to escape, they locked them in the rooms and beat them up.''
''What about the police?'' I asked. ''Couldn't you call out to the police for help?''
''The police wouldn't help me because they get bribes from the brothel owners,'' Srey Neth said, adding that senior police officials had come to the guesthouse for sex with her.
I asked Srey Neth how much it would cost to buy her freedom. She named an amount equivalent to $150.
''Do you really want to leave?'' I asked. ''Are you sure you wouldn't come back to this?''
She had been watching TV and listlessly answering my questions. Now she turned abruptly and snorted. ''This is a hell,'' she said sharply, speaking with passion for the first time. ''You think I want to do this?''
(click on the link at the top to continue reading this article) | Start: | Oct 14, '10 | | End: | Oct 15, '10 | | Location: | Yorba Linda, CA |
Nearly 800 Participants Over 40 organizations 30+ presenters 9 Panel discussions 3 Keynote presentations In 2 Days! Find out more here. Link: http://sithan.multiply.com/photos/album/238/PRODUCTION_OF_ALCOHOL_COMBUSTIBLE_FOMENTS_SLAVERY_IN_BRAZILThis is an article regarding slavery in Brazil, translated by a Multiply member. Here's a quote from the article: "The largest company of the section in activity in Brazil, Cosan, was inserted in the blacklist of Brazilian Department of Labor on slave work. However, the company petitioned a lawsuit to remove the name of the list, and the case will still be judged by the Brazilian Justice. Many manufacturers of alcohol combustible were caught with slave work in their plantations." Sounds like the same sort of Big Corporations problem we have here in the U.S. :-P [This is from an email sent out by "Not for Sale" on 12 February 2010.]
From NFSC Co-Founder: Kique Bazan
Dear Friends:
What happened in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, is nothing short of devastating. It is especially heart-wrenching for those who have seen the poverty and know the needs of the people firsthand. Before the earthquake, Haiti was already the greatest hotbed of modern-day slavery in the region, containing an estimated 225,000 child slaves. These "restaveks" become domestic servants when their families, desperate to survive, sell them to other households. In 2008 I went to Haiti for my doctoral research and was horrified to see street children, mostly boys and some as young as six, being sold for sex at $1.75. Since the earthquake, the news reports have revealed a reality that has turned from grim to desperate for the children of Haiti. Children are either separated from their families or orphaned, and traffickers are taking advantage of the situation. Save the Children says that one million unaccompanied children are vulnerable for trafficking in Haiti right now. During my visit to Haiti I saw different strategies of work. I met people and organizations that are passionate about rediscovering people's dignity, but I also experienced organizations that defined people by their victimhood. On one hand, it is important to see people's tragedies in order to gain awareness and prevent the conditions that threaten their wellbeing. On the other, finding those stories that narrate the fulfillment of an individual's own dreams, in the midst of tragedies, is greatly needed. At 18-years-old, Fenol is a former "restavek" who escaped enslavement and is transforming his life. He was able to finish high school, get a job, and is preparing for college. As a result, he gained the respect of his peers and is a motivator for other restaveks to pursue their dreams. Fenol helps lead an organization composed of former slaves. These young people were deprived of the most basic human necessities, were neglected and abandoned, faced brutal violence, sexual exploitation, drug addiction, and human rights' violations - yet they have found among each other the strength and support to improve their lives and the lives of the people around them. They created a system for long-term support and education to broaden their ability to actively participate in their own lives and future. In the midst of the ruins, we find people like Fenol who are changing the face of Haiti by creating systems that offer concrete, positive results. While earthquakes are the products of nature, the lack of infrastructure and the enslavement of people are not. Therefore, in order to stop the proliferation of trafficking and ongoing vulnerability of children, the Not For Sale Campaign is connecting with individuals and organizations engaged on the ground in vital relief efforts. One of the most pressing needs to address trafficking is the presence of trained volunteers who can accurately document and register vulnerable children. We are close to forging a partnership where NFSC will train volunteers in our Academy in effective mapping and documentation. Our goal is to equip at least a handful of volunteers for placements ranging from two weeks to a year in Haiti to assist with prevention efforts and to deploy their skills, resources and network to enable people's dreams of freedom.
If you are interested in receiving training to work with Not For Sale's efforts in Haiti, please contact us directly at: theacademy@notforsalecampaign.org
Thank you for your ongoing support as we address modern-day slavery amidst this disaster. We will continue to keep you informed as we work to develop innovative solutions to fight trafficking in Haiti.
Sincerely,
Kique Bazan Co-founder & International Director Not For Sale Campaign  Link: http://www.free2work.org/ Welcome! This newly-updated site helps consumers identify companies which do not have forced or child labor in their production. Featured companies are graded on the steps they take to actively prevent exploitation from occurring. Numerous industries are at risk for forced and child labor, such as apparel, electronics and toys, to name a few. We are linked to workers around the world by international supply chains, but no longer do consumers need to support companies that engage in high-risk sourcing practices.
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