listen. listen. the consumption of animal products is about mutually beneficial relationships Not domination and that’s why prioritizing animal r*ghts over animal welfare is an absolutely brain fungus take to have
urban leftists who’ve never so much as raised a chicken will be like “umm think about the politics of your diet???” because they can’t conceive of the fact that domestication is an incredibly sweet gig for most livestock where they don’t have to look for their own food or shelter or water are protected from predators and also get free healthcare and a quick clean death
100%
The actual issues with our current livestock system are because of capitalism and industrialization. Can we please focus our energy on the global paradigm being cruel and unsustainable to us, the planet, AND livestock instead of getting lost in virtue signaling
This, and the fact of the matter is that modern agriculture (in the US especially) is built on the backs of poor migrant workers who harvest crops and run slaughterhouses.
Industrial scale slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants cause many workers to develop PTSD from how horrible it is for workers and animals both. This is not fucking normal and needs a serious overhaul.
But plant agriculture ain’t off the hook either. People (overwhelmingly people of color) are paid pennies on the dollar if they’re even paid at all (agriculture is actually a growing cause of human trafficking at least in the US but I’m sure this is FAR from just an American issue.)
Our food production system is fundamentally built on the backs of exploitation and horrid conditions for the people involved too, which is something my fellow vegans who call themselves “animal rights activists” forget.
Ignoring human beings in your activism is not only fucking evil, it also makes you a massive fucking hypocrite because humans are animals too.
/steps off soapbox thank you for coming to my TED talk
Act:Recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons;
Means:Threat or use of force,coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or vulnerability, or giving payments or benefits to a person in control of the victim;
Purpose:Prostitution of others, sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, or slavery.
-From the 2000 UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, ratified by 154 countries. (x)
[Highlighted elements of sex trafficking in the porn industry connect with the examples Lubben gives in this specific gifset, other elements do occur in the porn industry as well].
A. The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act where such an act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age, or
B. The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.” - (x)
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… [P]ersons are trafficked into the international sex trade, often by force, fraud, or coercion. The sex industry has rapidly expanded over the past several decades. It involves sexual exploitation of persons, predominantly women and girls, involving activities related to prostitution, pornography, sex tourism, and other commercial sexual services. The low status of women in many parts of the world has contributed to a burgeoning of the trafficking industry. - The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Prevention Act (TVPA). TVPA combats trafficking in persons, especially into the sex trade, slavery, and involuntary servitude. It has been reauthorized three times since its initial passage: (x)
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THAT IS RAPE
We need to be talking about this and we need to be making sex work safe. No one should be made to feel like this treatment is okay.
there ought to be a law about these threats being punishable by awards to the threatened party in excess of what the contract was worth in the first place. I hear this story over and over and over again. A lot of times a woman will fly out to do the porn and if the contract is thrown out then she won’t have money to fly back home.
Planning the First @ReclaimYourVoice Event || For our first event, I decided to invite three speakers to share their stories. I planned to share my own story as well because I couldn’t ask anyone to do anything that I myself was unwilling to do. I approached three incredible women I knew who had each experienced some form of abuse. Although I strongly believed in this idea, my nerves began to kick in when it came time to ask if they’d be willing to share their stories publicly. I was worried that my proposition might come across as intrusive or insensitive, but all three of them caught me off guard by immediately agreeing to share their stories. @cher.bear8 was one of the women I invited to speak. I knew her through my photography work and had photographed her many times over the course of 10 years. Her excitement about speaking at this event surprised me completely. When I asked her why she seemed so eager to share something so deeply personal with a room full of people, she said that the only opportunity she’d ever had to share her story was within the cold and unfeeling confines of a courtroom while a defense attorney picked apart every detail of her disclosure and did everything he could to make her doubt herself. At our event she would have the opportunity to share her story―her truth―in a room full of supportive people without being interrupted, questioned or contested. I had a lack of knowledge and experience in this field, but Cher’s enthusiastic response to this opportunity strengthened my confidence in this idea, and started to give me a sense of how complex and multifaceted trauma and healing was. I recalled a quote from Mother Teresa that said, “I will never attend an anti-war rally; if you have a peace rally, invite me.” I’d been learning more and more about the importance of choosing words that focus on the outcome one hoped to achieve instead of on what one did not want, so I made the decision that this event was to be held not in the name of the war against abuse, but in the name of peace and healing for all.
As Alla, Bohuslava, who went by ‘Bo,’ and Maryna snored softly in the backseat of the van traveling west from Warsaw, Abfaro, the van’s driver first glanced back at the sleeping Ukrainian women and then to Martine, who was sitting in the passenger’s seat beside him. He said, “What did Henri say about these women?”
“He said to bring them directly to Bremerhaven. There is going to be an auction. Henri has some Yazidi women that he was keeping in Amsterdam, and some other traffickers, likely associated with terrorism, are bringing about a dozen more women that they are going to trade for arms. Most of those women are from Syria – probably other Yazidis and maybe some Shia or Christians. Those ISIS guys consider all of them subhuman.”
“What about any European women. I thought Henri had three of them, two with red hair and a German woman in her thirties.”
Martine replied, “I think Henri has other plans for them. I recall him saying something about sending the German and one of the redheads to some sort of brothel in Germany. As for the other one, I think he had still other plans for her. Bad plans. I am glad I am not her.”
"That must be the one I remember from Antwerp. He treated her quite cruelly there.”
The woman called Martine paused, lit a cigarette and then said to Abfaro, “You mentioned Antwerp. Is that where you began working for Henri?”
“Yes. I came there as a refugee. Just like those women in the back, I was fleeing a war, albeit a civil war, and trying for a better life. I stowed away on a freighter and then eventually gravitated to Belgium. There I worked as a carpenter for a man named Alain. He had a small crew, and we did re-modeling work. Alain had a contract to do something for Henri. I remember at that time he had a girlfriend, an older blonde woman – quite handsome even though she must have been in her late thirties or early forties. I think she used to be a model. Her name was Karin. Anyway, it was summer, and I was hauling lumber to the addition Alain and the German fellow named Oskar were building. Henri and Karin were watching us work. All of a sudden, Henri asks me, ‘Have you ever fucked a white woman?‘ I’m sure the woman must have heard because she sort of blushed, then stalked off. I said no, and Henri asked me if I wanted to. I was curious and said yes, and he said to gather up some other Nigerian refugees and come back to his place later that night.”
“And?” asked Martine.
“Of course I came back with two other guys I knew. I knocked on the door and Henri answered. He was in a robe. He said to come in, so we did. On the sofa was the Karin woman. She only had on a loose robe and looked groggy and glassy eyed, almost as if she had been drugged. Henri said that he wanted each of us to take her any way we wanted, and he would give us each a hundred Euro. He and Janos videotaped us taking the woman. Janis told me they would use the video for blackmailing if needed.”
“So, you basically gang raped her?” asked Martine.
“I suppose so,” said Abraro, “but I needed the money, and she didn’t protest.”
“Interesting?” replied Martine.
“That Henri can be a mean one,” said Abfaro. “There was what he did to the redhead later.”
In Stuttgart, Idetta came out of the Haupt Banhof and hailed a taxi. After giving the driver the address of the little cottage where she had lived with her late husband Hans, she settled into the back seat. The driver, trying to make conversation with the nice-looking Middle-aged woman asked,
“Are you visiting Stuttgart or is it your home?”
Idetta answered, “Oh, I am from here, but I’ve been away for a while.”
“Well, I trust you had an interesting time.”
Idetta suppressed a smile and said only, “Yes. Very.”
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In Halstenbek, Captain Ross and Paul, the CIA analyst conferred with Magnus and Anders about their next move. Magnus said, “I think we can gain no further information from here. I suggest we go to the address in Bremerhaven that Anders and I discovered when researching facilities owned by this Henri fellow.”
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Uschi and Udranka were in the back of a van as it turned off the Autobahn at an exit near Ulm. Uschi whispered to Udranka, “Where do you suppose we are being taken? And why were we separated from O?” Udranka replied, “I have no idea.”
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At NATO/SHAPE Headquarters, Colonel Grey’s computer dinged, signaling he had just received an email. He looked at the screen and saw it was from the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
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In Bremerhaven, Henri and Miroslav watched as their accomplices were unloading crates of weapons. Henri turned to Miroslav and said, “The truck with the Yazidi women should be here soon. Then we’ll trade the guns for them. Then tomorrow auction off the women.” Miroslav smiled and said, “Yes. And then we’ll be rich.”
++++ And on another Autobahn, a BMW SUV sped South with Sir Stephen at the wheel. As he drove, he thought to himself, “I hope I am not too late. Thank God, I got Henry’s plan out of Yusef before I shot the bastard.”
Today, more human beings suffer enslavement than during the three and a half centuries of the transatlantic slave trade.
The International Labor Organization, a United Nations agency focused on labor rights, recently—and some would say conservatively—raised its worldwide estimate of the number of slaves from 12 million to nearly 21 million human beings, individuals unable to escape conditions of forced labor, bonded labor, slavery, and trafficking. Africa and the Asia-Pacific region together account for the largest number, close to 15 million people, but slavery is epidemic around the world and increasing.
This is monstrous. What she is proposing is a literal crime against humanity.
No exaggeration. No hyperbole. One of the justices of the Supreme Court is proposing that the country should violate human rights en masse.
Literally what I just posted about the other day. The adoption industry is in what they call a “baby bust”, meaning less people are relinquishing their children. This is a GOOD THING, because relinquishment is a trauma for both the parents and person being relinquished. This is a sign that mutual aid resources and organizations such as Saving Our Sisters are allowing more families to be able to stay together. Because most birth/first mothers say they relinquished because they are very young or cannot afford to raise a child, not because they want to relinquish their baby… and that overlaps pretty perfectly with the demographics of who are the most harmed by abortion restrictions. This is not a coincidence.
It is also because other countries such as Russia and Ethiopia have outlawed US adoptions in response to the traumas associated with and human trafficking that occurs in international adoption. That is why they specify a need to increase “domestic suppy”… because not as many imports are coming in.
The adoption industry wants baby mills made up of people at their most vulnerable, so that wealthy Americans can buy babies on-demand. (The several year long wait to adopt an infant while there are children and teens in foster care has always boggled my mind.) Pro tip: relinquishment at birth is a type of preverbal trauma that has lifelong effects, so no, you are not getting your “clean slate” baby!
(If anyone wants sources or links to anything, or just wanna talk, I’m happy to share, I just know adding links gets my reblog shadowbanned)
This is also exactly why I get so pissed off when people shrug off the fact that I’m subfertile with “Well, just adopt. You live in Korea, right? Adopt a Korean baby!”
Listen, fuckers.
Foreign adoption of Korean babies is straight-up human trafficking. Like, Korean women’s rights groups here have been lobbying the government for years to stop adopting babies out. Any mother who’s in a crisis center, leaving an abusive husband, or just generally unwed in the last few decades has been forced to give her baby up for foreign adoption. There have been reports of women tricked into signing the papers, being told (untruthfully) that it’s only temporary while she gets her life together, or that the government has deemed her unfit and is just straight-up TAKING her baby.
I’ve spoken with Korean children who were adopted into American families, and the families are told that the children were being neglected in orphanages where they were starved, and that their mothers abandoned them for being the wrong sex (because for some reason American adopters overwhelmingly want FEMALE Korean babies), and such stories that are very tailored to make them hate their original culture and mothers. They’re told that they were rescued from poverty and squalor and sexist violence.
Dudes. Korea’s economy is better than America’s. And it has been for several decades now.
And the government in Korea gets a large part of their national income from the fees that foreign parents pay to “rescue” Korean babies.
Don’t do this shit to a child. Adoption shouldn’t be an industry. It should be a backup plan for kids who are for some reason without parents. Anything less than that is human trafficking.
One of the most likely slave-caught products that we consume is seafood from Southeast Asia. Last week, President Obama closed an 80 year loophole in the Tariff Act of 1930. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has also imposed stricter regulations to improve how seafood is tracked from catch to market.
The success is real and should be celebrated. But the Made In A Free World Community won’t stop until EVERY product we buy is protected from slavery: madeinafreeworld.com/action
There are an estimated 146,000 domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates. Sadly, research shows that a staggering percentage of them are exploited by their employers.
Slavery exists in every country in the world, in our own backyards. Stay vigilant, and if you suspect that someone may be a victim, don’t hesitate to contact the authorities.
This same willful ignorance of companies is also prevalent in consumers: unless ethical information is available at the point of purchase, it “feels better” to remain ignorant rather than seeking out the truth.
Of course, the government can’t protect us from buying slave-made goods if companies don’t know where or how to look for abuses. That’s why we’ve created FRDM®.
“If we know cocoa is being produced on plantations in West Africa using slave labor, and then being imported into the U.S., we still have to allow it in because the U.S. cannot produce enough cocoa to meet U.S. demand.” This will now change.
Create beautiful art and help make our food fair for all! Help support the movement for Fair Food by creating a poster that activists across the country can use.
The award-winning documentary film Food Chains, about farm labor in America today, is inviting artists to interpret the movie poster in order to create striking images that this movement can use to propel this issue.
Recently nominated for the 2015 International Children’s Peace Prize alongside Afghanistan’s Aziza Rahim Zada and Liberia’s Abraham Keita, 17 year-old Puerto Rican activist Jeanesha Bou has become a vocal opponent of human trafficking, hoping to prevent future victims and eradicate this form of modern-day slavery.
Bou’s efforts began around 14 years-old, when she began organizing workshops and other activities to raise awareness of human trafficking, particularly targeted toward youths and children in her community. As part of the It’s About Trafficking project of the Ricky Martin Foundation, she has worked with immigrants from the Dominican Republic in a project that combines literacy programs with education about human trafficking.
For her next big step, Bou aims to produce an educational documentary to prevent future victims, focusing on the most vulnerable population in Puerto Rico - children and youths searching for the ‘American Dream’.
Men and women are not “equally oppressed” under patriarchy.
Such statements are nonsensical as oppression predicates inequality.
Male domination treats women and girls as commodities to be abused and discarded by men.
“A new U.N. report warns ‘the number of human trafficking victims is on the rise’ as criminal gangs and terror groups prey increasingly on women and children to make money and bolster their numbers. The 90-page Global Trafficking in Persons report says that children, who account for 30 percent of all trafficking victims, include 'far more’ girls than boys.”
Watch Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump discuss this year’s annual meeting of the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (PITF). The Task Force, a cabinet-level entity created by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000, consists of some 15 agencies across the federal government responsible for coordinating U.S. government-wide efforts to combat trafficking in persons. On October 11, 2018, PITF met to discuss the Administration’s efforts to tackle human trafficking.
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