Stop Trafficking ! Anti-Human Trafficking Newsletter Awareness November 2011 Vol. 9 No. 11 This issue highlights methods used to expose sex and Advocacy labor trafficking and the issues feeding it. Action Sponsored by the: Sisters of the Divine Savior

Co-Sponsors: •Adorers of the Blood of Christ Exposing •Benedictine Sisters of Chicago •Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica •Cenacle Sisters, N. Amer. Prov. Human Trafficking •Congregation of Notre Dame •Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes ‘Big Porn Inc: Exposing ‘Backpage.com’ •Congregation of St. Joseph the Harms of the Global and Child Sex Trafficking •Daughters of Charity, Prov. of St. Louise •Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, Prov. of West Pornography Industry’ By the time Mr. Barnes was picked •Daughters of the Holy Spirit •Dominican Sisters of Adrian, MI The unprecedented mainstreaming up by Massachusetts state troopers, he •Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose of the global pornography industry had made $19,000 forcing a 15-year- •Dominican Sisters of Peace is transforming the sexual politics of old girl to have sex with up to eight •Dominican Sisters of San Rafael men a day for 10 days. He advertised •Felician Sisters intimate and public life, popularizing •Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart new forms of hardcore misogyny, and her services on Backpage.com, the •Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters strongly contributing to the sexualiza- classified website owned by Village •Holy Union Sisters tion of children. Yet challenges to the Voice Media. •Marianites of Holy Cross In August a Seattle man posing as •Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary pornography industry continue to be •Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary dismissed as ‘uncool’, ‘anti-sex’ and a law enforcement officer allegedly •Salvatorian Priests and Brothers ‘moral panic’. raped two 15-year-olds, whom he •San Jose CA Police Dept. Vice Unit, HT Task Force With contributions from leading found on Backpage.com. •School Sisters of Notre Dame, Mankato Prov. Backpage.com is reported to be the •School Sisters of St. Francis, PA world experts and activists, “Big Porn •School Sisters of St. Francis of Christ the King Inc” offers a cutting edge exposé of nation’s #1 online platform for adver- •Servants of the Holy Heart of Mary, USA Province the hidden realities of a multi-billion tising sex with minors. A recent letter •Servants of Mary, Ladysmith, WI dollar global industry that promotes from 51 Attorneys General to Village •Sisters of Bon Secours USA Voice Media’s lawyers cites over 50 •Sisters of Charity of Halifax itself as a fashionable life-style choice. •Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, Houston Unmasking the lies behind the sell- cases (in 22 states) of trafficking or at- •Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, KY ing of porn as ‘just a bit of fun’ this tempted trafficking of minors for sex, •Sisters of Christian Charity, Mendham NJ & Wilmette, IL book reveals the shocking truths of an using the site. Although such use vio- •Sisters Faithful Companions of Jesus industry that trades in violence, crime lates Backpage.com’s terms of service, •Sisters of the Good Shepherd the site continually fails to identify and •Sisters of the Holy Cross ‘Big Porn’ cont. pg. 2 •Sisters of the Holy Family, Fremont, CA remove ads selling sex with children. •Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth Backpage.com cont. pg. 2 •Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary •Sisters of the Humility of Mary ‘The Impact of Pornography on My Life’ •Sisters of Mercy of the Americas •Sisters of Notre Dame, CA Province “I’m anxious about writing this. Anxious that although •Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, USA I know rationally there is no way you can know who I am, I am •Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, SD still afraid. •Sisters of Providence, Mother Joseph Prov. In one sense you will know me. I’m the woman behind you •Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul, Canada in the supermarket queue or sitting opposite you on the train. •Sisters of St. Anne, U.S., Canada & Chile Middle aged, middle class, educated, professional. Ordinary. Yet •Sisters of St. Francis of Colorado Springs there is something in my life I will hide from you, no matter how •Sisters of St. Francis of the Providence of God close we are.” •Sisters of St. Francis of Redwood City •Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, Los Angeles The anonymous author of the above excerpt, appearing in ‘Big •Sisters of St. Joseph of Chestnut Hill, PA Porn Inc’, shares how she discovered her ‘partner’ of many years •Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange, CA was viewing porn and how they struggled to come to terms with •Sisters of St. Mary of Namur, N. / S. Amer. Prov.s what that meant in their relationship. •Ursuline Sisters of the Roman Union USA Anti-Human Trafficking Newsletter 9/11 Awareness

Human Trafficking 2 Statistics The first full report from the Depart- ‘Big porn’ cont. from pg. 1 ment of Justice (DOJ) on human and degradation. This fearless book will change the way you think about pornog- trafficking cases prosecuted within raphy forever. the U.S. was released in 2005 for the Published in Australia in September 2011, the book will appear in the U.S. and years 2001-05. It showed 555 sus- Europe in 2012. The book examines five major aspects: pornography cultures, pected cases, 44% of which occurred in pornography industries, harming children, pornography and the state, and re- 2005. Following that report, Congress sisting ‘big porn inc.’ reauthorized the TVPA and added a A sampling of chapter titles includes: requirement for a biennial report from • Groomed to Consume Porn: How Sexualized Marketing Targets Children the DOJ on all human trafficking cas- • Stories of a Rape Culture: Pornography as Propaganda es. The first of those reports recorded • Sexting and Peer-to-Peer Porn more than 1,200 suspected incidents • Live Pornography: Strip Clubs in the International Political Economy of Prostitution of human trafficking for 2007-08. • Dancing Pornography The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) • Pornography is Infinite Prostitution at the DOJ released the 2011 report on • Russell’s Theory: Exposure to Child Pornography as a Cause of Child “Characteristics of Suspected Human Sexual Victimization Trafficking Incidents, 2008-2010.” • The Pornification of Intrafamilial Rape • Teaching Tools and Recipe Books: Pornography and the Sexual Assault of Children Task forces funded by the USDOJ • Stop Porn Culture! Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) • Challenging the Demand opened investigations of 2,515 inci- (http://www.amazon.com/Big-Porn-Inc-Exposing-Pornography/dp/1876756896) dents of suspected human trafficking between January 2008 and June 2010. ‘Backpage.com’ cont. from pg. 1 Of these incidents, 82% were classi- Driven by the universal moral imperative to end child sex trafficking, a new fied as sex trafficking and 11% as labor multifaith action network called ‘Groundswell’ has started a petition on Change. trafficking. Four-fifths of the victims org. The petition is aimed at shutting down the adult services on Backpage.com. in confirmed sex trafficking incidents Village Voice Media executives are fully aware that their site is used as a plat- were identified as U.S. citizens (83%), form for child sex trafficking, but have done close to nothing to stop it. Instead, while most confirmed labor trafficking after executives were confronted by the Attorneys General, the Village Voice ran victims were identified as undocu- a shocking cover story ‘expose’ that smeared hard-working advocacy groups by mented immigrants (67%) or legal presenting sensationally low (and poorly researched) statistics on child sex traf- immigrants (28%). Only one-quarter ficking. What the story didn’t mention is that Village Voice Media earns $22.7 of the confirmed victims received a T- million a year from its adult services ads on Backpage.com, which amounts to visa, designed to aid victims of human $2 million per month, largely attributable to its functioning as a virtual red light trafficking. district for pimps/traffickers and johns. Currently, Backpage is facilitating sex State and local law enforcement trafficking in at least 10 other countries. (http://abolitioninternational.org/2011/10/509/) agencies entered data on trafficking On November 16th the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) and investigations into the Human Traf- Prostitution Research & Education (PRE), along with organizations that include ficking Reporting System (HTRS). The Equality Now, Soroptimist International of the Americas, Apne Aap, Aborigi- findings represent the government’s nal Women’s Action Network, Breaking Free, the Frederick Douglass Family ‘best estimate’, since data systems are Foundation, Temple Committee Against Human Trafficking, A Call to Men and still being established and probably a growing list of co-sponsors, will hold a protest in front of the New York offices not recording all incidents. of Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC, in order to expose their lack of action. To view the report, go to: (http://restorenyc.org/upcoming-protest-against-backpage-com) http://www.bjs.gov/index. cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=2372 See pg. 7 for an action targeting Backpage.com. Anti-Human Trafficking Newsletter 9/11 Awareness

3 Child Porn Websites Hacked, Users’ Names Exposed Members of the Anonymous ‘hack- Onion Router) routing service, which dophiles to view innocent children, fu- tivist’ movement are claiming respon- offers anonymous, encrypted Web eling their issues and putting children sibility for taking down more than 40 browsing to any user. at risk of abduction, molestation, rape secret child-pornography websites and The -based ‘darknet’ has report- and death. For this, Freedom Host- leaking the names of more than 1,500 edly grown into a private, encrypted ing has been declared #OpDarknet members of one of the illegal sites. constellation of websites offering a va- Enemy Number One. By taking down The campaign began in October 2011 riety of shady and illegal services, from , we are eliminat- when members of the hacktivist group fake IDs and steroids to e-mail hacking ing 40+ child pornography websites, found a cache of child-pornography and tips on how to call in police raids among these is Lolita City, one of the websites while browsing a secret web- as pranks. There’s even a hidden site largest child pornography websites to site called the Hidden , a guide- called ‘The Last Box’ that bills itself date containing more than 100 GB of book to hundreds of underground as an ‘Assassination Market.’ Only child pornography. We will continue websites invisible to search engines computers that have installed TOR to not only crash Freedom Hosting’s and regular Internet users. The hack- browser plug-ins can access the TOR- server, but any other server we find ers singled out Lolita City, a file-shar- based darknet, including its guidebook to contain, promote, or support child ing site used by pedophiles, and leaked the ‘Hidden Wiki’. pornography.” the names of the site’s 1,589 active In another Pastebin posting, the The statement added a demand to members to Pastebin, a type of web hackers explained that their campaign Freedom Hosting and other Web serv- application that allows users to upload against the child pornography sites ers hosting child pornography. “Re- snippets of text, usually samples of took root when they found a site listed move all child pornography content source code, for public viewing. on the Hidden Wiki called ‘Hard Can- from your servers. Refuse to provide In the past year, Anonymous-affili- dy’, which “was dedicated to links to hosting services to any website deal- ated hackers have gone after many child pornography.” The group delved ing with child pornography. This other organizations with whom they deeper and discovered that nearly all statement is not just aimed at Free- disagree, such as the New York Stock of the pornography sites listed on the dom Hosting, but everyone on the Exchange, the Westboro Baptist Hidden Wiki “shared a digital finger- Internet. It does not matter who you Church, the Recording Industry As- print with the shared hosting server are, if we find you to be hosting, pro- sociation of America and government at Freedom Hosting.” moting, or supporting child pornog- sites in Malaysia, Egypt, Tunisia and The Anonymous-affiliated hackers raphy, you will become a target.” Zimbabwe. then issued a warning to Freedom (http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/ Yet, in targeting child pornography Hosting asking it to remove the child anonymous-hackers-child-porn-sites- sites, and in explaining their methods pornography links from its server. 1260/?mid=50) of attack, these Anonymous-affiliated Freedom Hosting did not comply, so Anonymous shut down Freedom hackers have revealed a deeply dis- Stop Trafficking does not Hosting’s server. Freedom Hosting turbing side of the Internet unknown endorse the methods of Anony- restored service the following day, but to most people. mous, despite its aggressive it was attacked and taken down again. The so-called ‘darknet’, from which attacks on Internet child por- In their statement, the Anonymous this ‘Operation Darknet’ hacking cam- nograply. paign takes its name, is any part of members promised repeated pressure the Internet that is hidden from view and consistent online attacks, saying, — not just hard to reach, but deliber- “The owners and operators at Free- ately concealed. The ‘darknet’ appears dom Hosting are openly supporting to have grown out of the free TOR (The child pornography and enabling pe- Anti-Human Trafficking Newsletter 9/11

that are designed to bring guest work- Awareness ers into the country legally. A representative of Mosaic Family Services in Dallas said “Any business in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, or industry where people are unscru- New York and New Jersey. pulous and feel they can make money Authorities have said the retail stores exploiting workers might be traffick- were unaware of the situation, because ing. We’ve seen it in factories, tour- they hired cleaning crews through ism, hotels, motels, and farming.” 4 contractors. “I think every business Professionally or personally this should know who’s working for them, is an issue. “If you have someone but this is a common practice in all working on your landscaping or Forced Labor large businesses, they use subcontrac- providing domestic help, you need to Conviction in U.S. tors to hire workers,” the U.S. District take responsibility and ensure they Attorney said. are not working against their will.” Two Ukrainian brothers were con- Prosecutors described the defendants (http://www.hreonline.com/HRE/story. victed in October 2011 of smuggling as the “enforcers” of the enterprise in jsp?storyId=533338035) desperate Ukrainian villagers into America, while brothers in the Ukraine served as “recruiters”, an easy task Our Involvement Pennsylvania to work long hours at Products we take for granted or little or no pay, cleaning retail stores given the lack of economic oppor- tunity. Sentencing will take place in never think about often come from and office buildings. slave labor: Nine workers testified. They de- early 2012. (http://www.foxnews.com/ us/2011/10/12/ukrainian-brothers-convicted- • palm oil in medicines and lotions, scribed being raped, beaten or threat- forced-labor-in-us/) (http://www.businessweek. from slaves working on palm planta- ened by the 52-year old defendant, com/ap/financialnews/D9QBD2E00.htm) tions in Cambodia and Sumatra; who glared at prosecutors after the • shrimp served in our restaurants, verdict and shouted at them in his from slaves working on fishing fleets native tongue as he was led out in Labor Trafficking: Exposed Abroad in Southeast Asia; handcuffs. The jury found him guilty • the mineral ‘coltan’ in our smart- A writer for The New Yorker uncov- of using sexual and physical violence phones, harvested by forced laborers ered information about trafficking to intimidate workers. He had denied in the Dem. Rep. of Congo. the accusations. He faces 20 years victims lured to Iraq under false pre- to life in prison on racketeering and tenses to work for American military Exposing Supply Chains extortion charges. contractors. Among the victims were “The California Transparency in He had been acquitted of similar women from Fiji, who thought they Supply Chains Act of 2010 requires charges at a trial in the Ukraine. were going to lucrative salon jobs in retail sellers and manufacturers in CA, His brother, 36, was convicted of the Dubai. They ended up “unwitting re- with more than $100 million in annual racketeering enterprise but acquitted cruits for the U.S. Pentagon’s invisible worldwide gross receipts, to publicly of extortion. He faces up to 20 years army — more than seventy thousand disclose their efforts to eradicate slav- in prison. Three other brothers were cooks, cleaners, construction work- ery and human trafficking throughout named in the indictment; two are ers, fast-food clerks, electricians, and their direct supply chains. It affects fighting extradition from Canada, and beauticians from the world’s poorest more than 3,000 companies doing the other has died. countries, servicing U.S. military lo- business in CA These companies rep- Defense lawyers had argued that the gistics contracts in Iraq and Afghani- resent approximately 87% of economic workers said anything to get special T- stan.” (http://www.newyorker.com/online/ activity in CA, which has the eighth visas, set aside for trafficking victims, blogs/ask/2011/05/foreign-workers-iraq-af- largest economy in the world. ghanistan-sarah-stillman.html) and avoid returning to the Ukraine. At Beginning in January 2012, com- least five of the nine victims who testi- Exposed in the U.S. panies affected by the act will have to fied may apply for these visas. The Equal Employment Opportunity post on their websites what policies The workers said they were promised Commission (EEOC) is cracking down they have in place to ensure that their $500 a month and came to pursue the on companies that mistreat workers supply chains are free of slavery and American dream. Instead, they made after bringing them to the U.S. under human trafficking. These policies can little progress as they tried to pay off false promises. A representative of include evaluating and addressing the the cost of their journey to the U.S. the Immigrant Justice Project em- risk of human trafficking, auditing and other debts owed to the brothers. phasized that trafficking is not simply suppliers, and training employees and The crews cleaned Wal-Mart, Tar- about undocumented immigrants, but management on human trafficking and get, Kmart, Safeway and other retail also about exploiting visa programs slavery.” (TIP 2011, pg. 23) stores, along with homes and offices Anti-Human Trafficking Newsletter 9/11 ‘Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children’ Advocacy In a recent book, Joel Bakan re- veals the astonishingly callous and widespread exploitation of children by profit-seeking corporations and society’s shameful failure to protect 5 them. The book shows how corpora- tions pump billions of dollars into New Publication on Child Trafficking rendering parents and governments powerless to shield children from a and Child Welfare relentless commercial assault designed Child trafficking is one of the most ry of services available to child victims solely to exploit their unique needs disturbing human rights abuses of our of trafficking; and a discussion on legal and vulnerabilities. time, involving cases of boys and girls protections and advocacy for them. Elaine Cohen, CSRwire writer, says trafficked for labor or sex. The U.S. Tools and resources included in the this book is a “true eye-opener and State Dept. estimates that thousands handbook: a ‘must read’. If there is one book on of U.S. citizen youth are trafficked • Human Traf- your reading list, make it this one.” each year. While children are estimat- ficking of The book begins Children ed to comprise a large proportion of with mind-shat- human trafficking victims in the U.S., Identification Tool and tering stories of they continue to represent the smallest Screening the child-targeting victim class identified. Between 2001 Tools video games mar- and 2009 U.S. authorities successfully • Summary ket, which ‘ramps recognized only 304 foreign minors as of Services up media violence, victims of trafficking. Available to cultivates addic- Much of the current response to Child Victims tion, cynically human trafficking in the U.S. has not • Legal Protec- exploits social net- tions and Ad- effectively addressed the special needs work friendships, of children. From a systemic approach, vocacy for Victims of Human Trafficking • Case Management Toolkit for sexualizes girls child welfare agencies are in an ideal Child Victims and promotes hyperconsumerism.’ position to identify and respond to The handbook can be downloaded at: Manipulation of children’s emotions child trafficking cases based on their www.luc.edu/chrc and carefully crafting strategies to existing mandate to work with vulner- To order a hard copy, contact: hook kids into the most vile media vio- able children and families — yet few The Center for the Human Rights lence, as well as other addictive online agencies have the capacity and re- of Children, Loyola Univ. attractions, may make big money for sources to do so. Phone: 312-915-6350 corporations but they also make big In response to this critical gap, the Email: [email protected] problems for society, by immersing (http://www.luc.edu/chrc/ International Organization for Ado- kids in a world where ‘violence is fun, Monograph.shtml) lescents (IOFA) and the Center for the especially when it is cruel and sexual- Human Rights of Children at Loyola ized... and that as human beings, we Univ. developed the “Building Child Corporate Stance Taken are naturally prone to be violent and Welfare Response to Child Trafficking Impassioned by our desire for jus- brutal.’ Project”. The purpose of the project tice, we, Sisters For Christian Com- Other issues addressed include phar- was to address systemic gaps in knowl- munity Desert and Mountain Region, maceutical companies, government edge, policies, and procedures within stand in solidarity with our sisters and regulation, parental responsibility, and local child welfare agencies in the U.S.. brothers whose dignity is violated as the widespread cases of child labor in The outcome of the Project is the victims of human trafficking. We com- the U.S. where it is still legal for chil- handbook, “Building Child Welfare mit to educate ourselves and others dren to work at the age of 12. Response to Child Trafficking.” The about the root causes of this grievous Bakan also wrote the best-sell- handbook, which uses Illinois as a case injustice. We support actions of advo- ing book, ‘The Corporation’ and its study, provides tools for identifying, cacy, empowerment, and direct service award-winning film. (http://www.csrwire. screening, and providing case manage- to eradicate this social evil. (Adopted com/blog/posts/171-a-review-of-childhood-un- ment to trafficked children; a summa- April 2011) der-siege-how-big-business-targets-children) Anti-Human Trafficking Newsletter 9/11

eign pedophiles since he was twelve. He said a wealthy German bought him a passport so that he could go to the West. The boy introduces Liviu to his street gang, some as young as eleven, being preyed on by pedophiles. Liviu follows stories of kids trafficked Action to Italy and on the streets of Milan films a fourteen year old boy being 6 ‘The Dark Side of Chocolate’ pimped by his own father. Over weeks In 2001 consumers around the world of investigation, several more cases of were outraged to discover that child la- families selling their own chil- Films bor and slavery, trafficking, and other dren for sex are documented. ‘Made in L.A.’ abuses existed on cocoa farms in the Back in Romania, Liviu hears about Made in L.A. is an Emmy award-win- Ivory Coast, a country that produces an English pedophile/trafficker called ning feature documentary that follows nearly half the world’s cocoa. Negative ‘Tom’. Co-producer/director, Andrew the remarkable story of three Latina publicity and consumer demands for Smith, infiltrates Tom’s pimping immigrants working in Los Angeles answers and solutions soon followed. network and films damning evidence garment Sen. Tom Harkin (IA) and Rep. Eliot of how underage boys are preyed upon sweat- Engel (NY) tackled the issue by adding and trafficked to wealthy pedophile shops as a rider to an agricultural bill, propos- clients in the West. they em- ing a federal system to certify and label http://documentaryheaven.com/ bark on a chocolate products as ‘slave free’. The cutting-edge-the-child-sex-trade/ three-year measure passed the House of Rep- odyssey resentatives and created a potential to win disaster for Cargill, Mars, Hershey’s, Holiday Option: basic labor Nestle, Barry Callebaut, Saf-Cacao ‘TassaTag’ protec- and other chocolate manufacturers. tions from To avoid legislation that would have The Travelers Against Sex Slav- a trendy forced chocolate companies to label ery and Trafficking ‘TassaTag’ is a clothing retailer. Made in L.A. reveals their products with “no child labor” 4x6-inch bright, hand-woven cotton the impact of the struggle on these labels, the industry fought back and luggage tag. Besides being practical, women’s lives as they are gradu- finally agreed to a voluntary protocol environmentally sensitive, and fair ally transformed by their experience. to end abusive and forced child labor trade, TassaTags serve a much larger Compelling, humorous, deeply human, on cocoa farms by 2005. purpose than helping spot luggage. Made in L.A. is a story about immigra- In 2005 the cocoa industry failed to Every TassaTag tion, the power of unity, and the cour- comply and a new deadline for 2008 supports ECPAT- age it takes to find one’s voice. was established. In 2008 the terms of USA (End Child http://www.madeinla.com/ the protocol were still not met, and yet Prostitution and ‘The Harvest’ another deadline for 2010 was set. Trafficking), which This film is the story of children, Miki Mistrati and U Roberto Romano strives to protect working as many as 12 hours a day, launched a behind-the-scenes investi- children in the six months a year in the scorching hot gation to verify if these allegations of U.S. and abroad sun, without the protection of child la- child labor in the chocolate industry from commercial bor laws. More than 400,000 migrant continue today, a decade later. sexual exploitation, a major illegal child workers in the U.S. journey from http://documentaryheaven.com/ trade around the world. their homes, going from state to state, the-dark-side-of-chocolate/ TassaTags are made by women at farm to farm, crop to crop, picking ‘Cutting Edge: the Regina Center in Nongkhai, Thai- the produce we eat. Many of these The Child Sex Trade’ land. The project enables women to stay in their villages, earn income and children are American citizens. All are Liviu Tipurita returns to his home- keep their children in school — major working to help their families survive, land, Romania, to investigate stories strategies in reducing sex trafficking. while sacrificing the birthright of of a sudden rise in the trafficking of The Regina Center is a producing childhood: play, stability and school. children into the sex trade, involving partner of HandCrafting Justice, a http://www.theharvestfilm.com/ boys and young men. He meets an old member of the Fair Trade Federation. friend, a 15-year-old street boy, who Order at: tells him he’s been selling sex to for- http://www.tassatag.org/orderN.html Anti-Human Trafficking Newsletter 9/11

Informative Web Sites: Action (Each contains information related to human trafficking) 7 Online documentaries Stop ‘Backpage.com’ on slavery and trafficking: ‘Becoming a Slavery- http://www.endslaverynow.com/ Let Village Voice Media executives ?goto=videos§ion=resources Free Business: Removing know that they can’t hide their com- Becoming a Slavery from Supply Chains’ plicity. Sign Groundswell’s petition to Slave-Free Business end child sex trafficking on This powerful documentary reveals https://www.freetheslaves.net/ Backpage.com: SSLPage.aspx?pid=64 the impact of supply-chain slavery http://www.change.org/petitions/ on people in the U.S. and around the tell-village-voice-media-to-stop-child-sex- CA Transparency in world. Viewers see what modern-day trafficking-on-backpagecom Supply Chains Act of 2010 slavery looks like and hear directly http://go.usa.gov/D8n from slaves. In eight minutes, busi- ness leaders will understand why ‘Modern Slavery: government regulators are requiring A Beginner’s Guide’ ECPAT Activist Toolkits companies to investigate, disclose, and Available eventually remove slavery from their Three leading experts combine origi- product supply chains. nal research with first-hand accounts Centered on child sex trafficking in Produced professionally by former from actual slaves to expose one of the U.S. and child sex tourism, these network journalists, the video is use- today’s worst humanitarian crises. A toolkits are helpful for fundraisers, ful for briefings, conferences, or team guide to modern panel discussions, or club meetings. meetings. It is a valuable motivational slavery in all its Each has valuable information on the tool to accom- forms, coverage issues, as well as activities, video links pany a corpo- includes modern and discussion materials for group fa- ration’s written slavery’s history, cilitators. Through the process, groups directives and economy, health will learn about common misconcep- training materi- consequences, tions regarding sexually-exploited als for compli- gender/racial/ youth, as well as gain an overall ance with state religious dynam- understanding of prostitution, human and federal ics, the pressures trafficking, and sex tourism. Teachers requirements. from armed can also access the toolkit presentation Dr. Kevin Bales, co-founder and conflict and envi- in lesson plan format. president of Free the Slaves, narrates ronmental disaster. Download the toolkits at: the video. Bales serves on the board of Kevin Bale also authored the award- http://www.ecpatusa.org/ the International Cocoa Initiative, a winning ‘Disposable People’ and ‘End- take-action/spread-the-word/ trade coalition of top chocolate com- ing Slavery’. Zoe Trodd teaches in the panies trying to remove slavery from Dept. of English and the Institute of their industry. He understands the African-American Studies at Colum- bia Univ. and Alex Kent Williamson Stop Trafficking! is dedicated exclu- challenges that business leaders face sively to fostering an exchange of informa- and developed a valuable three-point of Harvard Univ. is a pathologist and tion among religious congregations, their plan for corporate supply-chain poli- a member of Physicians for Human friends and collaborating organizations, cies. The video costs $20.00 plus tax Rights. working to eliminate all forms of trafficking The $15.00 book is available through of human beings. and postage. Use the following web address to access Free the Slaves and proceeds from sale back issues of Stop Trafficking! http:// of the book support Free the Slaves www.stopenslavement.org/archives.htm Toll-Free 24/7 Hotline projects worldwide. To contribute information, or make National Human Trafficking http://freetheslaves.madebysurvivors. requests to be on the mailing list, please Resource Center contact: [email protected] com/product-p/fts31.htm 1.888.3737.888 Editing and Layout: Jean Schafer, SDS