Join us on Thursday, July 8, 2010 to protest Craigslist at their San Francisco Headquarters!
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) in partnership with Prostitution Research and Education (PRE) and other co-sponsors will be holding a protest in front of Craigslist Headquarters in San Francisco to bring attention to Craigslist’s facilitation of and profiting from sex trafficking. “Craigslist continues to cynically profit by functioning as an online pimp,” says Norma Ramos, Executive Director of CATW. “Craigslist is the new stroll where pimps traffic, johns buy and Craigslist profits,” says Melissa Farley, Executive Director, PRE.
Craigslist is projected to realize a 22% increase in revenue -- an estimated $36 million in 2010 -- largely attributable to its functioning as a virtual red light district for pimps/traffickers and johns. Craigslist displays a reckless disregard for human rights by increasingly becoming a part of the sex industry. Craigslist could act to create a sex trafficking free internet by no longer hosting prostitution ads and thereby setting an industry standard.
We invite you to join CATW, PRE and other co-sponsors at our protest to hold Craigslist accountable for facilitating and profiting from the rank exploitation of others.
When: Thursday, July 8, 2010
Where: Craigslist Headquarters at 1381 9th Avenue (between Judah and Irving Streets), San Francisco, CA 94122
Time: 12:00 – 2:00PM
Craigslist Protest Cosponsors:
Equality Now
Breaking Free
Men Stopping Violence
Dayton Human Trafficking Accords
UNANIMA International
The Temple Committee Against Human Trafficking
The Barnaba Institute
Global Centurion
NOW-NYC
The Rebecca Project for Human Rights
Stop Porn Culture
Media Watch
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Protest Craigslist
Thursday, June 24, 2010
ASP Screening
The Anti-Slavery Project is hosting a human trafficking screening on July 29th, 6pm, at CrossPointe Church in Valdosta, GA. If you know someone in south Georgia or north Florida who would like to attend, please pass on the info to them.
Let's keep the movement going!
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
The Anti-Slavery Project
I haven't posted in a while. There are some great things happening with the Anti-Slavery Project. I'm please to say that the "blog" has now become an anti-trafficking abolishtionist group. We have several people who have joined who have a passion for eradicating slavery in our own backyards, in our state, nationally, and globally. I'm excited to see the things we can accomplish together!
Shortly, we will have a website as well as this blog. I hope you will continue to follow and that you will spread the word.
Blessings!
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Trafficking issue too close for comfort
Human trafficking has been a global issue for many years. Children in third world countries are coerced into bondage and forced to perform manual labor as well as various forms of sexual slavery for their owner’s personal monetary gains.
However, what is not as well-known is the presence of these practices not only within the borders of our nation, but also within the borders of our state.
Mark Elam, the executive director of Oklahomans Against Trafficking of Humans, gave an emotional presentation in Willard Hall on Wednesday evening.
OATH is a non-profit organization based in Oklahoma that actively takes part in fighting human bondage within the state.
The goal of this presentation was simple: to raise awareness of the issue that receives little to no public recognition in Oklahoma.
John Foubert, a professor in the department of educational studies at OSU, put the event together with the help of OSU graduate student Sasha Carter. Foubert said he plans to hold a similar presentation on the topic every semester.
“There has been a dramatic rise in victims of sexual trafficking, and it’s flying under the radar,” Foubert said. “Awareness is the key, and it is extremely important to start a first step in the right direction.”
Many of these horrific practices are taking place not too far from the place we call home. In his speech, Elam said there was a case in Edmond where 10 12-year-old boys were servicing grown men for $1,000 each.
“Human trafficking is the No. 1 crime in the United States right now,” Elam said. “It is the most profitable and is the fastest-growing crime within our borders.”
The locality of this issue was greatly stressed during the presentation, noting that OATH has run more than 100 cases in the Oklahoma City area, at least one in every county in Oklahoma as well as two in Stillwater – and that’s just the cases that have been reported.
According to the statistics given in the presentation, 200,000 children are sexually exploited every year, and a child is reported missing every 20 seconds in the U.S. Furthermore, the Department of Justice reported in 2003 the largest number of human trafficking survivors are found in California, New York, Texas and Oklahoma.
Recently on campus, the International Justice Mission put on a display titled “Loose Change to Loosen Chains.” Many students walked around populated areas of campus wearing chains around their bodies asking for donations.
“We are using these donations to help fund investigations and to help in any way that we can and every chance we get,” IJM Secretary Angela Colwell said. “This topic is in its awareness stage and that’s exactly what we are trying to promote.”
The people of OATH and IJM are asking the same thing: for people to get involved. For more information, go to www.oathcoalition.org or speak with an IJM member on campus.
Source
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Man busted for trafficking wife
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, March 18th 2010, 3:43 PM
A Minnesota man has been busted in Chicago for pimping out his wife via craigslist — and allegedly threatened to hurt their 3-year-old daughter if she didn't obey.
Clinton Danner, 32, was charged with pandering after he traveled to the Windy City in order to allegedly punish his wife for failing to keep her sexual appointments, which authorities claim he arranged.
"He told her in a phone call that he was very disappointed in the amount of money she had collected during the weekend," the Cook County sheriff's office said in a statement, "and was personally driving up to get her so he could express that disappointment."
Danner allegedly used craigslist to book clients in eight different states, including New York, Florida and Georgia, as well as Washington, D.C.
He would travel with her and their 3-year-old girl, living in a minivan, while the woman engaged in sex for money, officials said.
Danner began pimping his wife, whose name has not been released, when she became pregnant four years ago, said Assistant Cook County State's Attorney Erin Antonietti.
"He met his wife when he was 27 and she was 17 while he was her church youth counselor," Antonietti told the court during Danner's bond hearing on Wednesday.
"She became pregnant with his child and he continued to pimp her out while she was pregnant."
Authorities claim he forced her to have sex with strangers in Minnesota, but in the past six months expanded his business nationwide, flying her to different locations for rendezvous with men.
The woman had attempted to flee but feared for her child's safety.
"The victim indicated said Danner regularly threatened he would take the child away from her or harm the child if she did not comply with his demands that she prostitute herself on his behalf," said a sheriff's office statement.
"As part of his efforts, Danner never allowed the woman to be left alone with the child."
Danner's wife eventually reached out to the Polaris Project, an organization that combats human trafficking, which led her to the Department of Women's Justice Services, part of the sheriff's department.
"The victim was initially apprehensive about working with DWJS staff and spent the weekend carrying out some of her husband's orders," the sheriff's office statement said. "But during that time, she agreed to work with DWJS."
When Danner arrived in Chicago on Sunday, he was arrested. The child was with him, and both she and her mother are now together, authorities said.
Danner, who has prior convictions for lottery fraud, narcotics and burglary, is being held on $150,000 bail.
