Try as humans might, it must be human nature
to suppress others and to enslave them in one
way, or another.

In our country, an emerging picture of the
enslavement by debt and social status and
manipulation of access to education and health
etc. have created a new face to slavery. Many
companies have then outsourced work to other
countries where indenturing and enslavement are
common and the value of people's time is such
that as one slave falls to the side another is
sent to stand or bend in their place. Amazingly
even those countries have begun outsourcing to
other countries where greed is fed on even lower
costs of human servitude.

Now, this morning, we see, like the re-emergence
of torture, outside the protection of the Geneva
Convention, that slavery has been resurrected by
Halliburton, in whose name directly or indirectly
humans are trafficked and forced into labor and
kept from their own country.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Halliburton_contractor_sued_for_human_trafficki...

While we all on some level realize that slavery is
alive and well, especially evident when we put on
a garment or use an object that you can only wonder
how it can be produced, packaged, shipped and sold
for 99 cents, that deep down you know that somewhere
someone is taking a beating for your lust for low
prices.

I do not pretend to know what the answers are to all
these issues, but I am not afraid to stand up and say
that these are concerns that are growing and that if
we do not look at every detail of the picture and
work as hard to fix the problem as some have worked
to BE the problem, that the house of Human Rights
and the freedoms our forefathers worked hard to gain
will fall before our very eyes, if it is not falling
already.

I wish that globally we all could aspire to higher
human rights and an intent to lift people out of slavery.
I wonder if it is possible to override human nature??

blessings,
Zoe

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http://endexploitation.org/resources.html

~~for more info google "human trafficking"