End Slavery

Sex Trafficking Survivor, Tina Frundt, Works to Help Other Victims

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From CNN’s Freedom Project: This is part of CNN’s year-long effort to shed a light on, and perhaps help stop, human trafficking. In the video below, 2007 CNN Hero, Tina Frundt works to save victims of child sex trafficking. She herself was a victim at the age of 14. Tina Frundt, 2010 Fredrick Douglass Award [...]

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CNN: The Freedom Project

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From The CNN Freedom Project:  Many Forms of Slavery Exist: Slavery still exists. Of that there isn’t much dispute, if any. But how widespread is what many experts call modern-day slavery? Estimates range from about 10 million to 30 million, according to policymakers, activists, journalists and scholars. This year CNN will join the fight to [...]

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THE PICKERS

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The picker shouted out to his companion… “Hey Chico, vigilascia fuero para los espinas en estos de la arboles de limon. Hombre, podra paralizar de le vida si no ves. Damn, son realemente greusas en mi arbole. Como es tuyo?” Loosely translated he yelled, “Hey Chico, Watch out for the thorns in these lemon trees. [...]

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I want to be free. Am I mentally ill?

Thumbnail image for I want to be free. Am I mentally ill? by Brooke Leigh Sheldon

We live in a world where people tend to quickly define the behavior of others. They often swiftly label the behavior of those who think, act or participate in the world differently from them as wrong, aberrant or inappropriate. Of still more concern to me, is when my field, psychology, is misused for this purpose. [...]

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Top 10 Facts About the S Word

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From Free The Slaves You have questions? Here are the answers: It takes a movement to free a slave, and you can help to build the movement right now with one simple step. Share this link for our animated video “Top Ten Facts about the ‘S’ Word” (shown below) with your friends, family, coworkers or [...]

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So you thought slavery ended in 1865… think again.

Thumbnail image for So you thought slavery ended in 1865… think again. by Thomas Norman DeWolf

              Two years ago a powerful book was published about modern-day slavery: A Crime So Monstrous. It’s a harrowing, eye-opening book. A couple of related stories caught my attention recently. One is about a black family in Mississippi that was enslaved until the 1960′s. That is not a typo; [...]

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You Know That I’ll Be Reaching For Higher Ground

Thumbnail image for You Know That I’ll Be Reaching For Higher Ground by Brooke Leigh Sheldon

“Given the possibility of living up to the dream in me, you know that I’ll be reaching for higher ground.” John Denver (Higher Ground) Throughout my life and my career I have recognized when the conversations within me asked me, moved me, pushed me to take paths of new, powerful and unique challenge. Such was [...]

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Immunity for those fighting slavery

Thumbnail image for Immunity for those fighting slavery by Sunitha Krishnan

Today my doctor told me I need to have a surgery on my ear. As I sit back and mull about this…I realize this is one of the many irreversible prices I have to pay for being a activist fighting sex trafficking. Years back goons beat me up damaging an ear…many years later I continue [...]

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Who the heck is John Parker?

Thumbnail image for Who the heck is John Parker? by Thomas Norman DeWolf

John Parker. Margaret Garner. Robert Smalls. John Rankin. They are not among the most well-known of historic figures yet their impact was profound for those whose lives they touched. I spoke recently at The College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio. Larisa Wright leads the Office of Multicultural Affairs there, which, like similar offices [...]

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My journey in healing

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There was a time in my life when I used to think if I meet God on the road, I may just kill him/her with my bare hands. Witnessing the lives of hundreds of children who for no fault of theirs die untimely deaths or struggle to fight a valiant battle against both internal and [...]

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