'Humankind's Most Savage Cruelty'
by Stewart Burns
This article appeared in the February 2012 issue of Sojourners magazine
Article Summary
What will it take to shut down "Satan's marketplace," the global slave trade? Every weapon in the arsenal of nonviolence.
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by: Alan B Cormack
Great article! Every new expose adds to the rising tide of anti-trafficking effort around the world. I give money to the Somaly Mam Foundation (working in Cambodia) and to Girls Education and Mentoring Service (working in New York), both founded by survivors of prostitution trafficking; and to a local shelter, Safe Harbor in Madison, Wisconsin. These and so many other organizations are doing fantastic work to change the world for the better.
by: susanhonan
"as the U.S. has pushed policies that have promoted chaotic capitalist growth while forcing austerity and slicing safety nets, thus generating impoverishment, mass migration, and other upheavals. Other U.S. policies hamper our ability to stop trafficking or help its victims."
I am curious to know more about the policies that do the above. Can you give some examples? Thank you
by: parkway
Please publish some "What we can do" information Maria Coleman
by: Arachne646
ICE should not incarcerate victims of domestic violence and human trafficking, mainly in for-profit prisons, as they do now. Immigration authorities should be trying to stop slavery, not scare victims into further hiding.
by: eslkevin
THANKS for sharing this article. We need to shout Kara and other victim's stories to the world.
by: storyspinning
I'm currently music director for a community theatre production in Clinton Oklahoma, of the musical "Oliver," a sort-of prettified version of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist." That novel deals with the sweatshop culture of mid-19th-century England. The artistic director is very open about seeing the comparison between that society and today's.
So....I've printed off this article, along with a copy of a photo of some shivering Pakistani children [who were sold as household help to wealthy Pakistani families], attempting to warm themselves by an outdoor fire (SOJOURNERS, Oct. 2010).
These will post in our Green Room.
by: liberalinlove
Priority number one! Before everything, the church must step up and use their wealth to do something! If not the church, God will raise up someone, somewhere and the church, in my opinion will come under judgement. How God must grieve over the abuse of children.
by: Weltha J Wood
Yes, yes - please post how someone like me can get involved in this in a real way.
by: 21stCAbolitionist
"We should lead by example, our successes persuading others to apply our methods along with their own." Slavery never left the U.S.; it has merely been reformed. From slavery came convict leasing. From convict leasing, Jim Crow arose. After Jim Crow came what is now mass incarceration. A good read would be a book by Michelle Alexander called, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."
by: LexiLetters
I feel helpless to affect change, yet awareness is the first step toward action. Certainly we can spread awareness and incite wise action. Applause for this article.