PRESS RELEASE: APRIL 7TH, The Radical Feminists 2012 SAAM Day of Action against Human Trafficking
Catherine Mendonca
CONTACT: Cathy Mendonca, Radical Feminists of San Diego, 401-580-7791,
cmen...@riseup.net
The Radical Feminists 2012 SAAM Day of Action against Human Trafficking
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APRIL, 7TH 2012 TBA SAN DIEGO, CA
This April, the Radical Feminists of San Diego will mobilize a direct
action in solidarity of 2012's Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM)
campaign on a local, national and global level to demand the abolishment of
human trafficking, the modern-day form of slavery.
Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery where people profit from
the control and exploitation of others. As defined under U.S. federal law,
victims of human trafficking include children involved in the sex trade,
adults age 18 or over who are coerced or deceived into commercial sex acts,
and anyone forced into different forms of "labor or services," such as
domestic workers held in a home, or farm-workers forced to labor against
their will. The factors that each of these situations have in common are
elements of force, fraud, or coercion that are used to control people.
Then, that control is tied to inducing someone into commercial sex acts, or
labor or services. Numerous people in the field have summed up the concept
of human trafficking as "compelled service." Every year, human traffickers
generate billions of dollars in profits by victimizing millions of people
around the world, and here in the United States. Human trafficking is
considered to be one of the fastest growing criminal industries in the
world.
Human trafficking affects every country around the world, regardless of
socio-economic status, history, or political structure. Human traffickers
have created an international market for the trade in human beings based on
high profits and demand for commercial sex and cheap labor. Trafficking is
estimated to be $32 billion industry, affecting 161 countries worldwide. In
the US, sex trafficking has been found in a wide variety of venues of the
overall sex industry, including residential brothels, hostess clubs, online
escort services, brothels disguised as massage parlors, strip clubs, and
street prostitution. In San Diego, law enforcement identified the city as
an international gateway for sex trafficking and one of the 13 cities in
the nation with the highest incidence of child prostitution.
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Cathy Mendonca
Radical Feminists of San Diego
401-580-7791
cmen...@riseup.net
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