Thats Slavery...

"When a little girl is sold by her impoverished family, or girls my daughters' ages run away from home and are lured- thats slavery"  -President Obama

That was a quote from President Obama who spoke about Human Trafficking at the Clinton Global Initiative. It was actually a very good speech.  He really spoke a reality into the situation. That brings me to this story.

I got to meet with Dick Wexler today.  He is one of the co directors of Not For Sale Minnesota.  We are two very different people but after meeting I know that that does not matter. We both have a strong passion to do what we can to fight human trafficking and this morning, that is all that mattered.  Telling each other our stories and how we got to the point we are at...its truly a beautiful thing.  No matter who we were or where we can from, how old we were, different life experiences...we shared our passion for fighting human trafficking for a good 2 hours.

side note: As most of you know, I give 10% of all my sales from be Lovely to Not For Sale.  When I chose them, it was really important for me to choose an organization that was involved both locally and internationally.

While standing in line at Caribou before we sat down to talk, USA Today sat at the counter with the front page headline reading "Thats Slavery, Children's advocates are battling the nations plague in plain site"

This is something that the government sees too.   Dearest readers, this is modern day slavery.  Something that the past fought so hard to abolish.....it's still here...it may be a different kind but its more alive than it ever has been.  So onward we fight.  but before this ends here is a little reality check I will leave you with.

Readings from USA Today Thursday September 27, 2012

"Across the nation, the stories arrive with varying imprints of the callousness and depravity of the sex traffickers.  One girl was sold during a sleepover, handed over by her classmate's father. Another slept with clients during her school lunch breaks.  A third was chocked by her "boyfriend", then forced to have sex with 14 men in one night."