"Singers" in the Band | Pentagon pimps for warriors of empire

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"Singers" in the Band
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2059507294/singers-in-the-band-0

https://www.facebook.com/SingersInTheBand

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2950346/



"Singers in the Band" tracks the elaborate process of sex traffickers in the
Philippines who contract women as singers and send them to work in bars that
exclusively service U.S. Military Bases in Korea. Three governments,
Philippines, South Korea, and the United States must be complicit, allowing
"licensed" promoters to then force these women into prostitution through
debt bondage. The film goes under cover to expose the crime, the entrapment,
the shame, the military culture, and the long term effects of turning a
blind eye to this crime against humanity for over a century. The film
includes moving interviews with brave survivors, active and retired
U.S.Military, experts, and with a government sanctioned "promoter" which the
U.N. has listed as a known human trafficker. Written by David Titus

 

 

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ThisCantBeHappening!:


'Singers in the Band' exposes the Pentagon's role as pimp for the warriors
of empire

Help Put an Important Blockbuster Documentary over the Top

By Dave Lindorff

Filmmaker David Goodman, who won an Oscar in 1985 for his short documentary
titled "Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements," about a US doctor working
with the guerillas in El Salvador, has just completed the editing of a
decades-long feature-length documentary project exposing how the US military
plays the role of pimp in orchestrating the use of Filipina women as
enslaved prostitutes both in the Philippines and and in other countries
where US troops are based, such as South Korea.

The film, "Singers in the Band," documents, with the use of courageous use
of hidden cameras and other techniques, how young Filipinas are tricked into
"auditioning" for what they are told will be jobs with overseas bands in
nightclubs, only to find themselves trapped, without passports, in brothels
abroad where they are expected to "service" the servicemen on US bases.

Goodman has carried this project largely on his own steam, but needs funding
now for post-production work and preparation to get the documentary out to a
global audience, and to film festivals where it will gain more attention. He
is currently nearing the end of a $25,000 Kickstarter campaign, with about
four days and $5000 to go to reach the magic number. If he reaches it, he
gets the needed $25,000 plus a promised matching $25,000 from Abigail
Disney, executive producer of "The Invisible War," an Oscar-winning
documentary released in 2012 which exposes the rampant abuse of women in the
military.


ThisCantBeHappening! urges our readers to please go to the

Kickstarter page for "Singers in the Band"

and make a contribution to put this important
project over the top. Remember to tell your friends about it to by sending a
link to this article out as widely as you can. And while you have your
checkbook out, please think about dropping a few bucks for TCHB! too. We
think our own project deserves your support also.


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