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Today is Human Trafficking Awareness Day…
It’s also the 146th anniversary of the day our 13th Amendment was introduced to Congress — which set out to abolish slavery in the United States.
Yet today — slavery still exists — in so many forms.
Sex trade, immigrant farmers working in Florida, children mining for coltan, chocolate and coffee farmers [...]
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Special screening of “Playground”
300,000 women and children exploited for sex in our country each year.
The stats are astounding.
“You may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know.” – William Willberforce
This demands attention!
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Chipotle agrees to raise farmers wages 64%
From the looks of things, Chipotle has stood by their word and have reached an agreement with Florida farmers that will pay the farmers 64% more for the tomatoes they pick for the Denver based burrito chain.
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#justicefriday – Imprisoned journalists share their story
They “violently dragged us back across the ice to North Korea and marched us to a nearby army base.”
For those who may not be familiar with the story: Laura Ling and Euna Lee, journalists for Current TV were captured, detained, interrogated, and more by the North Korean government near the border between China and North [...]
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Chipotle responds
UPDATE 9/9/09 :: Chipotle has reached an agreement with the CIW famers.
A couple weeks back we talked with Amanda Kloer on our podcast. She shared a lot about the issue of human trafficking and modern day slavery. And in the process we talked about an article she had posted earlier that day regarding Chipotle and [...]
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#justicefriday – the Vieled Community
Simply put – people should not be bought and sold.
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#justicefriday At the End of Slavery
Coming in September:
Watched much of this during a special online screening of this on Tuesday. Can’t wait till its released and you can see it too. It’s a powerful wake up call.
Find out more at attheendofslavery.com
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The Killers and MTV unite against Human Trafficking
From MTV:
The Killers have joined forces with MTV to stamp out human trafficking.
Produced in partnership with UNICEF, USAID and MTV Exit – MTV’s campaign to raise awareness and increase prevention of human trafficking and exploitation – the band have made a powerful video for their track Goodnight, Travel Well, highlighting the dangers of trafficking and [...]
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iPhones and dirty Coltan #justicefriday
Today a new iPhone 3Gs is being released to the masses. Folks were lining up around the block to get their hands on Steve Jobs’ latest gadget.
The new 3Gs just adds to the iphone buzz on Twitter about the new iPhone 3.0 OS (released earlier this week).
And I get it. I’m a huge fan of [...]
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Obama administration looks at human trafficking
Hillary Clinton wrote an op-ed piece in the Washington Post today regarding human trafficking and the Trafficking in Persons Report 2009, which was released by the US Dept of State last week ::
Twenty-year-old Oxana Rantchev left her home in Russia in 2001 for what she believed was a job as a translator in Cyprus. A [...]
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