KONY 2012
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Our friends @Invisible want to make Joseph Kony famous. We could't agree more. You'll want to watch this.
Our friends @Invisible want to make Joseph Kony famous. We could't agree more. You'll want to watch this.
The President of the United States has declared January, National Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Even more specifically, today (January 11th) is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. How about taking 10 minutes of your day to make yourself more aware of this ongoing injustice?
This morning I pointed to an Asia Foundation study highlighting the difficulty of gaining a completely accurate picture of the problem of human trafficking in Cambodia. This afternoon I was alerted to Maggie Neilson's piece at the Huffington Post where she responds to recent news coverage questioning the extent of child trafficking with the (not-so?) subtle implication that we shouldn't be that concerned about it. In this article Neilson nails it: "For those of us who work on these issues, we don't do so once a problem gets to a certain size. We do it because it's the right thing to do."
A few months ago, I experienced a series of events that caused me to pause and reflect on some of the systems of injustice in our world. It all started early in the morning when I turned the ignition to our '98 Corolla and it failed to start. The short version is that after half of a box of baking soda, 5 cups of water, $6.53 worth of hardware, and an hour and half of my time...
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