THE END OF EVIL

This past month we've learned about the crisis in human victimization, of evil, the use and abuse of humans by others for profit by cruel procurers and cruel customers.  These people enjoy the fear and pain of others - including innocent children. 

It has been an emotionally draining experience for me to read around this subject.  It is far worse than I could imagine.

I ask all my readers to consider contributing financially to one of the non-profits I've profiled or to find your local ones worthy of your money.  Be part of the solution. End the big business of slavery by avoiding slave made products.  Have speakers to your schools and churches. Learn about how to spot a suspect and report someone who is sex trafficking or being trafficked. Mostly, speak honestly with your children and grandchildren and come up with a family plan for emergencies such as abduction. 

If you are a slave reading this, I hope that you will call one of the organizations and ask for help. I know you have few if any choices and are terrified. If you are still in school or living at home you must tell a teacher - school principal - or a police officer or an adult you can trust. It isn't easy to trust but try to save yourself.

I tend to be a pacifist and was against Capital Punishment for much of my life, but this month I not only thought we should have the Death Penalty for traffickers, but that I might be able to hit the button or fire the gun.  Really.

Let's all take a deep breath. I promise you this upcoming month at MISTRESS MANIFESTO BLOGSPOT will be more light hearted, a breath of fresh air.

THANK YOU FOR READING!

Missy

END SLAVERY NOW - BUY A SLAVE TO FREE THEM

END SLAVERY NOW ORG  A PROJECT OF THE NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILWAY can direct you to a great number of organizations and opportunities.

Learn about slave-free companies, recycling and reusing, and so many basic efforts that can make a difference. Maybe a letter you write will raise awareness and create change!

VIGIL FOR SEX TRAFFICKED SLAVES

CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT - RESCUING CHILDREN FROM PROSTITUTION, CHILD PORN, SEX SLAVERY and TRAFFICKING

CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT  Over 40 years of rescuing children from the streets, from prostitution, child pornography, sex slavery, and sex trafficking. Please go to this official site to learn of the amazing accomplishments of this organization.

EXCERPT:  CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT is the ONLY place in America where a child can call from a seedy motel or truck stop ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES, reach a skilled case worker 24/7 who knows how to rescue and relocate a child or young person from a dangerous condition without being arrested by the police and held in witness protection in solitary confinement until they testify against a pimp/trafficker. Our 24/7 nationwide toll free case management services are comprehensive and able to help anyone trapped on the streets of our nation.

800 551-1300 

UNSEEN VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING - MEN AND BOYS ARE ALSO TRAFFICKED

AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION - UNSEEN VICTIMS OF SEX TRAFFICKING - MEN AND BOYS  Homeless men were often boys who were trafficked.

EXCERPT:  Boys and men who have trafficked present with issues that are similar to many victims of complex trauma; poverty, sexual abuse, violence or living in a home where substance abuse takes place.  Behaviors can include drug use, running away, depression, anxiety, and Opposition behavior disorders.

COVENANT HOUSE : HOMELESS TEENS RUNAWAYS ESPECIALLY IN HOLLYWOOD

COVENANT HOUSE works in the United States, Canada, and CENTRAL AMERICA.

COVENANT HOUSE ORG

Their focus is on youth, often HOMELESS YOUTH, who are especially targeted.  I know from research that HOMELESS YOUTH are often YOUTH who were in FOSTER CARE. 

EXCERPT:  Why do human traffickers target kids facing homelessness? Because these young people present a low-risk business proposition and are relatively easy to lure from the streets with promises of love, protection, food, and financial security. Because of their vulnerability, children and teens with no place to call home and no one to care for them make easy prey for traffickers. ... As one of our case workers says, "Trafficking is more than selling sex.  Trafficking is young people being physically and sexually assaulted.  Trafficking is torture. It means victims being kept up for days. It means forced starvation.  Recovery for victims is long and complicated, and takes the efforts of a lot of good people."

Missy here.

I've been to Hollywood Boulevard area a few times. It's a tourist trap. Many of the runaway teens, teens who often ran because they were being abused at home, are picked up as prostitutes in that area. There's a high rate of disease including AIDS.

I saw a girl with a huge dufflebag sitting on the sidewalk, just off the bus, and a woman talking to her, asking her what kind of work she could do. Because this woman was not dressed as a professional, not wearing any badge or ID, I wondered if she was a procurer.

If you're a teen runaway reading this and someone approaches you offering help, ask for the person's business card. Do not go with them. Go to the location on the card another time. See if other young people are going in and out. Talk to them and find out what the place is about. Is it real? What does it look like from the outside? Does it have signage? Windows? Lights?  

Try to arrive with some money. A youth hostel is the least expensive option. Try to stay at such a place at least a month and apply for jobs. Fast food work is often easy to obtain. Get out of the Hollywood area if possible. This doesn't mean you'll be safe. But you will be out of an area where there's a lot of procurement, prostitution, pimps. It's not just tourists. Locals pick up kids too.

Options for being safer at night include staying up all night in a fast food restaurant or waiting room at a hospital. Unfortunately thousands are homeless on the streets in California and shelter waiting lists are long. So really I want to discourage anyone without at least $20,000 from moving here without a job and housing lined up.

POLARIS - NATIONAL HOTLINE - ASK FOR HELP or REPORT A POTENTIAL CASE OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING

POLARIS IS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND AND DISRUPT SEX TRAFFICKING NETWORKS.

POLARIS PROJECT ORG 

Here are some myths: That it's always a violent crime. (Though I tend to think what happens to the enslaved person is a violence.) That all human trafficking involves commercial sex. (It can be other forms of slave labor.) THAT TRAFFICKERS TARGET VICTIMS THEY DON'T KNOW. (In other words the trafficer does know the person intended to be enslaved.)

TO GET HELP, REPORT A TIP ABOUT A POTENTIAL CASE OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING, FIND SERVICE REFERRALS FOR VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING, OR REQUEST TRAINING OR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE link here.

THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING HOTLINE

888-373-7888

Or TEXT "BeFree" (233733) via live chat or email.  

Services are available toll free 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

BIKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING

BIKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING 

In the United States call 407-300-8971

Started by a couple in Florida, now with international reach, BIKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING began operating in 2016.   EVERY THIRTY SECONDS SOMEONE BECOMES A NEW VICTIM OF TRAFFICKING.

EXCERPT:  We help extricate those stuck in the life, we provide counseling - help- resources and are in the process of raising money to provide housing for those who have survived.  We also have a specialized part of BAT that works behind the scenes to eliminate the demand side.

Modern day slavery, or human trafficking exists whenever people are bought and sold for forced labor, organs, forced marriage, and commercial sex.

Missy here : Note that the definition of slavery is not only about sex trafficking. My understanding is that many of the people who pick our crops are enslaved. In some places, a person might be forced to have surgery to remove one or more of their organs to be sold, and forced marriage is part of some cultures...

I like that the stereotype of bikers is totally busted by these people.

Please understand that slaves are moved around and sold at big gatherings such as biker meet ups. Bikers Against Trafficking people are a presence at meets. That's terrific!

SEX TRAFFICKING : MORE PEOPLE ARE SEX TRAFFICKED TODAY THEN THERE WERE EVER AFRICAN SLAVES IN AMERICA

Remember when you were a girl? Pubescent? A teenager?  

Innocent. Having crushes. Dreams of romance. Poetry. Love Letters. Diaries. The boy across the classroom. Exchanging glances. Exchanging notes. The Valentines. First love. The hopes and wishes for True Love Forever.

This month I'm featuring a special subject, SEX TRAFFICKING, a form of slavery.  I want my readers to know about this scourge of abuse that is often perpetrated on people below the age of consent, which is 18. Even 14 year olds living with their parents can be trafficked. I'm writing this post having read, listened, and watched on this subject until I felt sick. This month's writing has been the most emotionally draining I've ever experienced as the author of MISTRESS MANIFESTO BLOGSPOT.

I want everyone to have CHOICES and to give consent that is informed with self knowledge and truth. I know sometimes as adults we make choices that are unconventional. Slavery, be it as a laborer or as a prostitute, is as far from choice as you can get.  

Although some women are involved in luring others into slavery, the evil opportunist and user of slaves is usually a man. And there would be no market for human beings to be used in horrible ways, if it were not for mostly men customers. So I have to say it, sometimes I hate men.

Thankfully, there are men's groups who are opposing trafficking.  Because of them, and because we all know good people, we know, no not all men are like this. 

Actually, we need to stop saying and thinking, "All men are alike."

The ideas that all men are beasts without self control, that men must have sex or they will rape, and the hatred behind the abuse of women, must stop.***

And yes, it starts with us being part of the solution rather than part of the problem.

I will be posting links to HELP and I encourage you to do some research as well and find the people and organizations local to you.

Did you know that CALIFORNIA, because of its ethnic diversity, its airports and transportation systems, and it's population, is a prime destination for traffickers to take a child to work, and even to be SOLD and taken to other countries?  Did you know traffickers use DISNEYLAND as a perfect place to pass around children?

I want all my readers who want this abominable criminality to stop to donate to at least one of the organizations I'm profiling this month. I want you to talk to the children you care for and about. I want you to talk to your teens. I want you teachers to get programs going in your schools - have someone come out and talk to your class.

And I want everyone to light a candle - in memory of someone who is being sex trafficked. The people who are turned into slaves won't last long.  It's estimated that most die within 7 years.

This month is my effort to speak up.

Missy

*** Added note April 25, 2021  Keep reading as I will be posting about men and boys being trafficked.

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