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Last week, the Department of Justice charged 14 Gambino Crime Family Associates with multiple criminal offenses, including sex trafficking of a minor. This is among the first federal cases targeting organized crime groups with human trafficking offenses in the United States. This particular case helps highlight two significant points in regards to [...]
Black and white animal-printed lounge chairs and couches. Deep pink and purple mood lighting. DJ-spun tracks thumping through the speakers and floors. Champagne-filled glass flutes and cocktail glasses. From the appearances of the room, I could have been in any number of swanky and exclusive nightclubs in New York City. [...]
“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.“ These are the words of Steve Biko, anti-apartheid activist jailed under the so-called Terrorism Act in South Africa in 1977. For 24 days Biko was interrogated and beaten before recieving hospital treatment; he subsequently died later [...]
Grizzled cynics of Washington have a tendency to be dismissive about rhetoric and symbolic gestures. But they are thoroughly wrong, as social innovators know, as evidenced so poignantly in President Obama’s declaration yesterday about human trafficking. [...] |
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