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TMZ & DMZ in postcolonial Asia: Pleasure Squads, Comfort Women, Sex Tourism
So Fox News's lede keeps the RW "Axis of Evil" meme afloat without discussing how the sex trade operates on both sides of the DMZ or why the cultural history of such human trafficking has its roots in...
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Senate will vote on fake compromise on anti-abortion human trafficking bill
Sen. Patty Murray, calling bullshit when she sees it. Before the Senate left for its two-week vacation, Mitch McConnell was busy trying to embarrass Democrats by making them vote over and over on his...
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Senate has deal on sex trafficking bill to get to Loretta Lynch nomination
Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch What two things don't have anything to do with each other? The attorney general nominee, Loretta Lynch, whose confirmation vote is stalled on the Senate floor and...
View ArticleThe Lost Wars: Poverty, Drugs, Slavery
Should we invite her in, Wisdom proves a most dutiful senior partner.Are you shocked at academics who’ve just discovered descendants of slave owners and the enslaved are still waging war, or that...
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Senate passes human trafficking bill, making way for Loretta Lynch...
Get ready for lots of huzzahs and back-patting from the Senate, all because they did their damned job for once. They passed a bill, the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, 99-0 after hammering out...
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Finally: Loretta Lynch to get Senate vote on nomination as attorney general
After five months of delay, a clown show of nomination hearings, a derailment into anti-abortion politics and general Republican slow-walking obnoxiousness, the Senate will hold a confirmation vote...
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This Week in the War on Women
Last Sunday was Mother's Day, a Hallmark holiday as fraught with ambivalence as any. As I read friends' tributes to their living or dead mothers on Facebook, I wondered why I never really cared much...
View ArticleThis is what 'Cheap Labor' looks like in Malaysia, and elsewhere
FORCED LABOR IN THE PRODUCTION OF ELECTRONIC GOODS IN MALAYSIAA Comprehensive Study of Scope and Characteristicsby VeritéEXECUTIVE SUMMARY [Pg 9]The conditions faced by foreign electronics workers in...
View ArticleFast Tracking the TPP -- Pay No Attention to the Fine Print ... (on Child Labor)
Dems are fighting to see the Fine Print. Dems are fighting to add some Fine Print of their own -- specifically concerning the banning of "child labor" and the banning of "forced labor." And then...
View ArticleObama and Human Trafficing
Respected voices among us have come to the conclusion that President Obama would desire tier three Malaysia, the hub of human trafficking, be included in the TPP without expecting that would make a...
View ArticleTPP Human Trafficking Bill Passes As Malaysia Discovers Migrant Workers Grave...
Mass graves highly thought to be those of migrant workers were found in Malaysia days after an amendment to the Trade Promotion Authority prohibiting human trafficking, child and slave labor, passed...
View ArticleSlavery? Really?
So the fast track plan to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership has run into a new wrinkle after an amendment passed in the Senate debate: slavery. Yes, really, slavery: the Senate voted for an amendment...
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NV-Sen: Catherine Cortez Masto (D) Pushes Congress To Put An End Human...
Received this e-mail today from former Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto's (D. NV) U.S. Senate campaign: Human trafficking is a horrific crime, one that claims an estimated 100,000 American...
View ArticlePaul Ryan's Climate Change language contains more than just climate change
Ryan {WI-1, Chair, House Ways and Means Cmte.} did this & now even more people are even more furious with this idiocy. Working to amend into the 236 page Customs & Enforcement...
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Australian Govt. Caught Paying People-Smugglers to Turn Back Boats Full of...
(image credit: Rob Jan)From The Guardian:Indonesia confirmed on Thursday that it was investigating allegations that an Australian official paid the captain and crew of an intercepted boat...
View ArticleMalaysia's Mass Graves makes Minister grapple with its 'Tier 3 Rating'
Malaysia hopes to make it into the TPP coalition. It's track record on Forced Labor and its 'mistreatment' of Migrant Workers -- might preclude them from U.S. Trade Agreement. That is if Senator...
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Open thread for night owls: Giving a free pass to Malaysia on human...
A provision in the fast-trade authority bill Congress passed in June prohibits including any countries on the Tier 3 of the State Department's human trafficking list. That's the bottom-of-the-barrel...
View ArticleBernie Sanders's "Employ Young Americans Now Act" Falls to G.O.P. as does...
We lost a just fight to increase equality of employment opportunity for our kids today by 43-55-2 in Senate vote #243 as every Republican and Sen. King [I-ME] rejected the outstanding...
View ArticleDid Obama Administration Downplay Malaysia Slavery To Grease Trade Deal?
Cheap labor is the whole point of our corporate-rigged, NAFTA-style trade agreements. But tolerating slavery? Really? Unfortunately, it looks like that's what is happening with the Trans-Pacific...
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Alabama-based oil rig company to pay $20 million to Indian workers they...
Come work in America at our fantasy slave labor camp Signal International is an oil rig and ship repair company. Back in 2006 they got a nice contract to help fix oil platforms and ships damaged by...
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