Right thing at the right time.

I was moved by a radio program last year that addressed this issue.   What I took from it as a citizen was to keep an eye on my surroundings and if something did not look right like a strange man with a young girl or something that was out of place to risk embarrassment and go check out the situation.    We need to look out for each other.  There is a boy who is endangered missing from my community right now.   

We really need to open our eyes and tend to our community.  We are in this together and we have to stand for each other.  Yes the government has its part but the citizen has a part too.   We need to address the conciousness that is also behind this atrocity.   It is time for the collective citizen to rise to the occasion and take responsibility for things.  I support addressing issues of slavery and sex-trafficking on all levels.  Such horrible things arise.  It is important to bring these matters to the surface and deal with them from our immediate community to the global community and collective humanity. 

I am glad that Integral Life is supporting and reaching out in service to this matter.  May humanity come to its senses and may we have the strength to keep working towards the end of horrific suffering!  

With love and affection,

Windancer

XOXOXOXO

Thanks John, I'm with you too, Marc, Diane, on the criticality, the urgency …

One quick impression, part question, part suggestion:

To date we have mounting statistics around the accounts of direct impacts. This is good, necessary. I look forward to the inclusion of a broadening of assessment, namely, studies of where the billions made go, or don't, when spent. Tracing those flows beyond the point of profit to their re-entries into circulation can help map for strategic probabilities, providing a database of leverage points that could give the Demands teeth, locating tractions within economies, in the constituencies of policy making entities, and at the many systemic interfacings of slaveries.

Levels of vested interest lie removed from the operations of the syndicates and constitute a set of indirect impacts, insidious because apparently innocuous, that also serve to maintain the atrocities. To discover what ingratiating arrangements support the systemic functioning of organized crime, from the use-side of ill-gain, may bring weight to the arguments against it, and reveal where that weight might most effectively be thrown, more convincingly across the range of convictions, or lacks thereof, which keep the incidence of the crimes increasing.

Without waiting for collective conscience to kick in, in order to gain footing in the territories of political will(s), we may need to locate the "offer [they] can't refuse", which will differ with each situation addressed.

My personal stories will follow as the conversation, and action, continues.