Venezuela's Referendum and the Nation's Poor
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Special Training Offers Practical Strategies for Protecting Children in a Hostile Legal Climate - National experts present legal strategies and therapeutic interventions San Diego, California (at the 9th International Conference on Family Violence) - Saturday, Sept. 18, 9am-5pm Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center http://www.towncountry.com/ "The Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Interpersonal Violence is hosting an in depth workshop to aid mental health professionals, law enforcement, and officers of the court to recognize and overcome barriers to effective child protection. A psychologist, a researcher, and two attorneys from the Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Interpersonal Violence lead this workshop, which is filled with legal and clinical examples from actual cases along with practical solutions for working within a system that often impedes rather than facilitates the identification and protection of abused children." For More Information: Go to http://www.leadershipcouncil.org/Media/Conf2/conf2.html
this one fwd from L Moss Sharman - Massage parlor in Maine part of sex ring - Police say syndicate lures Korean women By Sarah Schweitzer, Globe Staff 8/14/04 Lisbon, Maine "'Law enforcement officials say the Koreans were part of a syndicate that ensnares women who are desperate for residence in the United States and willing to prostitute themselves. Authorities say the women worked in establishments advertised as massage parlors -- in the case in Lisbon, the ''Asia Accupressure Therapy Center" -- that are, in fact, fronts for elaborate prostitution rings run from New York and other large cities. The organizations, authorities say, are branching into New England to operate businesses that often go unnoticed in the setting of a strip mall. In such venues, some local police investigators say, the sex trade flourishes, populated by women who work as prostitutes to pay fees to the smugglers who secured their entry into the country." http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2004/08/14/massage_parlor_in_maine_part_of_sex_ring?mode=PF
140 years after emancipation, trafficking in humans persists By Kristina Goetz The Cincinnati Enquirer 8/16/04 "They are used in prostitution, farming and mining. Overwhelmingly, they are women and children. They are slaves, and scholars say there are as many as 27 million around the world 140 years after slavery was abolished in the United States." http://www.coshoctontribune.com/news/stories/20040816/localnews/1055350.html
For 1.2 million children - childhood sells for $1,000. An estimated 1.2 million children (UNICEF) are trafficked and sold every year as prostitutes, workers in sweat shops, servants, and soldiers. Ninety percent of trafficked children are girls. Child Trafficking - selling of young girls and boys into prostitution or slave labor - is one of the most heinous violations of the rights of children. Universally illegal, it is a real, clandestine, and tragic practice in major cities around the world. Every year, a staggering 7,000 to as many as 10,000 girls from all over Asia - children between the ages of 9 and 16 - are trafficked against their will across the open borders with India, and sold into prostitution - sexual slavery - in cities like Bombay." http://www.planusa.org/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/56/tp/VE1HUj0xLHRpZD0zODMs
Task force to target human trafficking By Juan A. Lozano AP August 14, 2004 Houston "U.S. Attorney Michael Shelby....said about 16,000 people are brought into the United States against their will each year by trafficking organizations. Many of the immigrants are from Vietnam, Southeast Asia, India, Eastern Europe and Central and South America." http://www.reporter-news.com/abil/nw_state/article/0,1874,ABIL_7974_3110740,00.html
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/081604Z.shtml
Venezuela's Referendum and the Nation's Poor
����By Medea Benjamin ����
....Walk through the poor neighborhoods in Venezuela and you'll hear the same stories over and over. The very poor now can go to a designated home in the neighborhood to pick up a hot meal every day. The elderly now have monthly pensions that allow them to live with dignity. Young people can take advantage of greatly expanded free college programs. And with 13,000 Cuban doctors spread throughout the country and reaching over half the population, the poor now have their own family doctors on call 24-hours a day-doctors who even make house calls. This heath care, including medicines, are all free.
����The programs are being paid for with the income from Venezuela's oil, which is at an all-time high. Previously, the nation's oil wealth benefited only a small, well-connected elite who kept themselves in power for 40 years through a two-party duopoly. The elite, who controlled the media as well, kept the vast majority poor, disenfranchised, and disempowered. With the election of Hugo Chavez in 1998 on a platform of sharing the nation's oil wealth with the poorest, all that has changed. The poor are now not only recipients of these programs, they are engaged in running them. They're turning abandoned buildings into neighborhood centers, running community kitchens; volunteering to teach in the literacy programs, organizing neighborhood health brigades and registering millions of new voters.
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