{"id":548,"date":"2006-12-09T15:23:12","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T15:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=14"},"modified":"2006-12-09T15:23:12","modified_gmt":"2006-12-09T15:23:12","slug":"12906-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"12\/9\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a talk at the Cleveland Catholic Worker House last night on <em>Human Trafficking (Slavery in the 21st Century)<\/em>. \u00a0 The presenter, Sherry Watts, said a staggering 2 to 3 million people are &#8220;trafficked&#8221; every year in the world. \u00a0 They are often trafficked into hard labor or commercial sex jobs, either in their own country or they are transported to foreign countries. \u00a0 In the U.S., Ms. Watts pointed out that people are often trafficked into agricultural jobs (farm labor, processing plants, and so on.) \u00a0 People are abducted, or coerced, into these jobs &#8212; then given no way out. \u00a0 While in some Third World countries, because of extreme abject poverty, parents will actually sell some of their children to traffickers &#8212; so other children in the family don&#8217;t starve. \u00a0 Among some of the groups working to end human trafficking: \u00a0Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, The Emancipation Network&#8230; <strong>Note:<\/strong> Ms. Watts is also a consultant, organizational developer and mediator for her business: The WATTS \u00a0Connection, \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewattsconnection.com\/\">www.thewattsconnection.com<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a talk at the Cleveland Catholic Worker House last night on Human Trafficking (Slavery in the 21st Century). \u00a0 The presenter, Sherry Watts, said a staggering 2 to 3 million people are &#8220;trafficked&#8221; every year in the world. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=548\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}