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SUMMARY:Thai El Monte Garment Workers: The Return of Slavery and Trafficking in The Modern Era
DESCRIPTION:At 4 am on August 2\, 1995\, Chanchanit Martorell\, Executive Director of the Thai Community Development Center\, met with government authorities and law enforcement at a doughnut shop in El Monte\, California\, blocks from the slavery compound that they would raid\, a row of apartment duplexes on a residential street\, eerily surrounded by barbed wire. The US Department of Labor\, California Labor Commission\, California Employment Development Department\, Cal-OSHA\, federal marshals\, and the El Monte police participated in the raid.  \nThai CDC mobilized a coalition of nonprofit organizations\, attorneys\, and community members to offer shelter\, food and clothing\, medical care\, jobs\, and legal services to the workers following their liberation.\n​\nThe Thai workers had labored for 18 or more hours every day inside rat-infested buildings where they lived crammed into bedrooms with ten of their fellow slaves. Their captors controlled them by confiscating passports\, hiring armed guards\, and physically threatening them and their families back home.  \nThey made clothes for brand-name manufacturers and nationwide retailers. Garments bore the labels Anchor Blue\, Tomato\, Clio\, B.U.M.\, High Sierra\, Axle\, and others—labels owned by well-known retailers\, such as Miller’s Outpost and Montgomery Ward\, or sold on the racks of Nordstrom\, Sears\, and Target. \nEl Monte was the first recognized case of modern-day slavery in the United States\, leading to the passage of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act in the year 2000. This exhibition tells the story of the case from the perspective of the survivors\, featuring their testimonies\, images and maps of the compound\, and other artifacts.​ \n(June 10- September 5 2021)
URL:https://www.freedomunited.org/event/thai-el-monte-garment-workers/
LOCATION:Los Angeles United Methodist Museum of Social Justice\, 115 Paseo de La Plaza\, LA\, CA 90012\, United States
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SUMMARY:6th CCARHT Summer Symposium 2021: 'The Body Trafficked' - Day 3
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to your place around the virtual table at the CCARHT 2021 Summer Symposium – here in Cambridge we are getting ready for an intense three days where we shall be exploring with participants from across the world\, the challenges posed by focussing on the various vulnerabilities of ‘the Body Trafficked’. \nDuring the course of these challenging three days we shall be listening to voices of survivors\, researchers\, theoreticians\, policy makers\, psychologists\, advocates for change and NGO front line responders\, anxious to thread together the disparate themes unleashed by this explicit focus on the body within trafficking. \nDay three: Focus on the sexualised body trafficked\, the role of Demand and the explosive rise of the Internet\n·         The role of poverty\, gender inequality and lack of quality education in providing ‘accessible resource’\n·         The challenge of familial co-option of children in the perpetration of ‘online abuse’ for paedophiles\n·         The complex tangle of resolving household indebtedness and desperation ‘a fresh look at Consent’\n·         Addressing Demand as an International mandated requirement – A view from the OSCE\nMarket forces – how to deconstruct anti-social markets.\n·         The Swedish experiment: time to mainstream?\n·         Building global communities of resistance and maturing ONLINE safety    WE Protect\n·         No Safe Space – Two leading Psychologists of trauma\, explore the mental health costs and impact of trafficked recruitment\, rapes and trauma on survivors.\n·         Traffickers use of the Internet\, digital hunting fields – reviewing the UNODC 2020 report.\nIn focus Case Studies: Edo State Nigeria\, 57 states of the OSCE\, Romania\, Germany\, the USA\, the Philippines\, the UK\, Bengal India\, Sweden.
URL:https://www.freedomunited.org/event/6th-ccarht-summer-symposium-2021-day3/
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