Today's Slave Trade

At this very moment, someone is being sold into slavery. Right now. Today.

This fact is not very common knowledge here in America but it is happening.

These two very powerful websites are worth visiting.

This one is an article originally posted at NRO called Freedom, Justice and Rock 'n Roll by Steve Beard. It is about a documentary by a muscian named Justin Dillian called Call + Response detailing the horrors of modern slavery. (The link is to an IMDB site with a trailer.)

From the article: "In researching his book Not For Sale, professor David Batstone — featured in Call + Response — traveled to Cambodia, Thailand, Peru, India, Uganda, South Africa, and Eastern Europe to investigate modern-day slavery. His findings are breathtaking. “Girls and boys, women and men of all ages are forced to toil in the rug looms of Nepal, sell their bodies in the brothels of Rome, break rocks in the quarries of Pakistan, and fight wars in the jungles of Africa,” he writes. “Go behind the façade in any major town or city in the world today and you are likely to find a thriving commerce in human beings.”

Indeed, the most difficult imagery in the film is footage of children being exploited in brothels and brick kilns, and on battlefields. The blank stares and soulless facial responses betray an inability to smile — even on the part of some of the rescued children."

The second website link it to the American Anti-Slavery Group. Just in case after seeing Call + Response or even just reading the article above, you'd want to help out.