{"article":{"id":195844,"heading":"Minors Prostituted in SoCal Farm Labor Camps; Event Raises Awareness and Funds","author":"Emily Sobolewski","created":"2007-03-28 19:16:32","modified":"2013-11-11 00:47:34","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:47:34","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>LOS ANGELES, CALIF. - March 20, 2007 &ndash;  <br>  <br> The International Labor Office estimates human trafficking generates $32 billion annually.  According to the US Department of Justice an estimated 17,500 people are forced into prostitution, sweat-shops, and domestic servitude in the U.S. every year.  University of San Francisco ethics professor and author of Not For Sale, Dr. David Batstone, approximates there are around 200,000 human slaves in America right now.  This &ldquo;new&rdquo; form of slavery is especially evident in Southern California and along the Mexican border, where NBC San Diego&rsquo;s Channel 4 News was able to film, and then broadcast, one Oceanside, CA human trafficking ring in action (the news clip can be viewed on &lsquo;Youtube&rsquo; now at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3nMYUx27VSk\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3nMYUx27VSk<\/a>).  The overwhelming evidence of, proximity to, and devastating effects of human trafficking prompted The Freedom Project. <br><br> Join us for an enlightening evening on Saturday, April 28, 2007 at 7pm.  Hosted by the prestigious Hotel Menage in Orange County and sponsored by Flexfit and Fuel TV, there will be a film screening, silent art auction, fair-trade tasting room, guest speaker from IJM, a special show put on by Fuel TV and live music by Jon Foreman of the band Switchfoot, Speech from Arrested Development, and Djs Trent Dean &amp; Linney. <br><br> Tickets are available online for $30 at www.thegluenetwork.com, or at the door for $35. <br><br> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"310-481-1256","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"thegluenetwork.com announces the next chapter in the fight to educate and prevent the trafficking of human beings: The Freedom Project; a benefit supporting the International Justice Mission (IJM), a human rights agency that rescues victims of violence, sexual exploitation, and slavery. ","numcomment":2,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2007\/03\/195844.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":207579,"heading":"Also Evident in the Cities","article":"There are also a lot of sex slaves in &quot;massage parlors&quot; all around town.  Nobody needs to go all the way to some canyon in San Diego to see human trafficking.  It's here in LA, keeping these brothels in business, and guys in LA think it's a funny and cool thing to discuss, over beers, what they did with some of these women.\r\n\r\nRacists.","author":"mous","parent_id":195844,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2007-09-21 05:56:07","modified":"2007-09-21 05:56:07","fileurl":""}]}