At the Freedom Network Conference this past March, I got to meet E. Benjamin Skinner who wrote A Crime So Monsterous, a book revealing some of the horrors of human trafficking. Mr. Skinner is lauded as one of the first authors to write about modern-day slavery from the perspective of 4 different continents. His keynote at the conference was humble, engaging, and heart felt. I appreciated that very much. He was one of the only keynote speakers who acknowledged that there were survivors in the room and that our voices were most important in this movement.
Anyhow, I am having a conversation with him tomorrow (!) so I read one of his articles. It's worth a read. It will make it hard to shop at certain place, just FYI. If you aren't ready to be conflicted with where you shop (yet again), don't read it. If you do want to see how we are all implicated in modern day slavery, please...read on...
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-02-23/the-fishing-industrys-cruelest-catch
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