Speaker For The Living 'human Trafficking' Podcast

Lindsey Lohan and Kanye West have both been in the news recently. Lohan tried to help a family, accused them of trafficking children, and tried to take their kids. West has tried to make some points about slavery. Seth and JJ talk about what they they did, what they seemed to be trying to do, and what we can learn from it. Sources: Lindsay Lohan Punched in Face ... After Accusing Couple of Trafficking their Kids, TMZ People Are Concerned About Lindsay Lohan After She Was Punched In The Face While Attempting To Kidnap Two Kids In Russia, UPROXX Lindsay Lohan Posted An Instagram Video Of Her Harassing A Russian Homeless Family, UPROXX Lindsay Lohan Is a 'Nightmare' Who 'Hasn't Changed,' Says Source, People Lindsay Lohan Says “Do Whatever It Takes” Days After Being Punched in Instagram Video, Vanity Fair Lindsay Lohan Got Into A Fight On Instagram Live While Apparently Trying To "Save" A Child Refugee, BuzzFeed The ignorance of Kanye West, Vox The controversy over Kanye West’s 13th Amendment tw

Seth discusses his recent visit to Evergreen Plantation and Whitney Plantation. Evergreen is the most intact plantation in the South, which includes 22 slave cabins in their original positions. The nearby Whitney Plantation opened as a slavery museum in 2014 that includes memorials to the slaves of the plantation and to enslaved babies that died in the county. Whitney also integrates slave narratives from the Federal Writers' Project. Sources: Evergreen Plantation Whitney Plantation The U.S. has 35,000 museums. Why is only one about slavery?, The Washington Post How the Whitney Plantation became a different kind of Confederate monument, Nola.com Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938, Library of Congress Paula Deen reportedly wanted black people to play slaves at a wedding, Salon Disturbing wedding trend: Getting married at a plantation, Salon Photo: Seth Daire (slave cabin at Evergreen)        

Seth and JJ review A Child's Voice, a movie involving satanic ritual abuse that's supposed to be about human trafficking, but that fails to actually portray human trafficking, has an awful script, and has an affinity for bowl cuts. JJ gives some examples of missed opportunities where this movie could have portrayed human trafficking. They also talk about a few anti-trafficking movies they like, and talk briefly about some other TV shows and movies that have covered the topic. Sources: A Child's Voice, Vimeo The Action Means Purpose “A-M-P” Model, Polaris Project Photo: Libreshot

Seth and JJ look into the labor and safety concerns at the factories of Apple's primary supplier, Foxconn, in China. After giving a high-level view of Apple and Foxconn, they dive into their problems with Excessive Overtime, Suicides, Low Wages, Illegal Student Labor, Riots, Strikes, and Hazardous Environments. While recognizing that Apple puts a lot of effort into their corporate social responsibility efforts, Seth makes the case that Apple can and should do more. Sources: Ground broken on Foxconn's first US factory, rumored to supply iPhone screens for Apple, Apple Insider No, Apple supplier Foxconn isn't scaling back its US factory, CNET Foxconn, a key Apple manufacturing partner, breaks ground for American factory, Mashable The 100 largest companies in the world ranked by revenue in 2016 (in billion U.S. dollars), Statista The World's Most Valuable Brands, Forbes Global 2000: The World’s Largest Public Companies, Forbes #1 Apple, Forbes Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results, Apple Apple

JJ gives an overview of the trafficking of Native Americans today, and how marginalization and vulnerabilities factor in, with particular focus on sexual violence and sex trafficking. Sources: Human Trafficking (Including Sex Trafficking) of American Indians and Alaska Natives, US Department of Justice Trafficking in Tribal Nations: the impact of sex trafficking on Native Americans, Human Trafficking Search “The Devastating Impact of Human Trafficking of Native Women on Indian Reservations”, US Senate Disproportionate Impacts of Human Trafficking on Native Communities, Human Trafficking Center Crimes against Native American women raise questions about police response, The Guardian Photo: Seattle City Council on Flickr

In part two of our series on indigenous communities and human trafficking, JJ and Seth dive into the reality of historic slavery and current trafficking of First Nations people in Canada. We continue to discuss the eraser of First Nations victims, and the lack of data and public attention. Sources: First Nations People in Canada, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada First Nations, Wikipedia John Evans Study Committee, University of Denver Democratic Individuality, Alan Gilbert Slavery in the Maritime Provinces, Early Journal Content on JSTOR O'Neil, Peter. "A Canadian community compared to Haiti — at minus-40C | Vancouver Sun". Blogs.vancouversun.com. Retrieved February 9, 2013. "Stop the blame game | Toronto Star". Thestar.com. November 30, 2011. Retrieved January 24, 2014. Kirmayer, Laurence J. (March 1994). "Suicide Among Canadian Aboriginal Peoples". Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review. doi:10.1177/136346159403100101. Retrieved December 14, 2014. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/a-hi

What is the experience of indigenous Australians (the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples) with human trafficking? Seth and JJ give some historical context, then JJ gives an overview of the types of slavery experienced by indigenous Australians in the past and present, and discusses vulnerabilities of these populations that are sometimes invisible. Sources: Australia's History, Tourism Australia Australia - History, Encyclopedia Britannica Indigenous Australians, Wikipedia Vulnerability of Indigenous Persons to Human Trafficking, US Department of State Impact of European settlement on Indigenous people, Skwirk Online Racism in Australia, Wikipedia Australia needs to own up to its slave history, The Sydney Morning Herald Bringing them home, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Stolen Generations, Wikipedia Servant or Slave: Reshaping Australian history through a new lens, SBS Did legalised slavery exist in Australia?, SBS Blackbirding: Australia's history of luring,

Seth and JJ tackle frequently asked questions people have about human trafficking. 1. How is human trafficking different from migrant smuggling? https://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/fs/2017/272005.htm https://ctip.defense.gov/Portals/12/Documents/HSTC_Human%20Trafficking%20vs.%20Human%20Smuggling%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf?ver=2016-07-14-145555-320 http://www.globalmigrationgroup.org/theme/migrant-smuggling-and-trafficking-persons 2. Is there a difference between human trafficking and slavery? https://campaign.worldvision.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Understanding-human-trafficking-fact-sheet.pdf https://www.freetheslaves.net/about-slavery/faqs-glossary/ 3. What if a trafficked person consents? http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/faqs.html#What_if_a_trafficked_person_consents https://www.unodc.org/documents/human-trafficking/Toolkit-files/08-58296_tool_1-3.pdf http://yris.yira.org/essays/1467 4. Is it only human trafficking if victims are transported across national borders? https://www.antislavery.org/s

Seth and JJ discuss the recent situation at the US-Mexico border. After discussing how asylum works, they go into the policy changes, which include prosecuting all crossers, separating all children, making asylees apply at a port of entry, and slowing down case management at ports. They look at relevant laws, 8 U.S. Code § 1325 , 1158, 1225, as well as the Flores agreement and question the legal basis of the Trump administration's position. JJ finishes by discussing the 2018 TIP Report's concerns about institutionalizing children and by explaining how U and T visas can assist victims of human trafficking who have crossed our borders. Sources: Unaccompanied Alien Children, Office of Refugee Resettlement, Asylum & the Rights of Refugees, International Justice Resource Center Undocumented Migration from the Northern Triangle of Central America, International Crisis Group Transnational Organized Crime in Central America and the Caribbean: A Threat Assessment, UNODC Can You Request Asylum at a U.S. Bor

This week, Seth and JJ interview Wendy Barnes—a speaker, trainer, consultant, and author on human trafficking…who also happens to be a survivor of human trafficking. In this weeks interview, Seth and JJ discuss Wendy's amazing book And Life Continues: Sex Trafficking and My Journey to Freedom (available on amazon), her life, the services available to trafficking survivors, and what academics and responders can do to better serve survivors and those currently held in bondage. Sources: And Life Continues, Wendy Barnes And Life Continues: Sex Trafficking and My Journey to Freedom by Wendy Barnes, Amazon.com Trafficking Terms, Shared Hope International Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Lost Innocence, Modern Day Slavery & Transformation by Barbara Amaya, Amazon.com Cry Purple by Christine McDonald, Amazon.com  

With the rise of true crime podcasts, documentaries, and television shows (hey, murderinos!), JJ (who is also crime obsessed) can't help but wonder—why hasn't human trafficking been taken up by the true crime community? This week, Seth and JJ discuss why studying killers can be helpful to those who study trafficking, how the true crime community can help, and the legal differences between trafficking and other crimes like kidnapping. JJ also weirds out Seth with her love of murder. Sources: A Brief History Of Court TV,  Where Many A True-Crime Obsession Was Born, Gizmodo Atlanta Monster, Tenderfoot TV and HowStuffWorks Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World by Trevor Burnard, Amazon Ariel Castro Kidnappings, Wikipedia I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara, HarperCollinsPublishers Photo: Max Pixel

Seth and JJ talk about the challenges of using software to fight human trafficking, most notably on the Internet. Software tools like MEMEX and those produced by Thorn are essential in making connections across many forms of data, but algorithms can only do so much, and false positives and false negatives can occur. Sex and labor trafficking require different software approaches. Software targeting sex traffickers can analyze ads and forum postings across the web. Assessments and audits of supply chains are one way of using software to address labor trafficking. Humans will remain essential in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data. Seth explains software concepts. And JJ questions the effectiveness of demand reduction approaches on the Internet for sex trafficking (while not talking about demand reduction for labor trafficking). Sources: Ashton Kutcher Testifies to Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Speaker for the Living Memex Helps Find Human Trafficking Cases Online, Human Trafficking Center

President Trump signed FOSTA into law on April 11, the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017. Seth and JJ discuss the story of Backpage.com, and how it led to FOSTA being passed. Survivors have advocated for and against the law. While it has potential to be a useful tool against traffickers, there are concerns about how it may negative impact sex workers and free speech, due to ambiguous language and focusing on both sex trafficking and prostitution. Sources: President Donald J. Trump Signs H.R. 1865 into Law, The White House Trump Signs Controversial FOSTA Bill Targeting Online Sex Trafficking, HuffPost Justice Department Leads Effort to Seize Backpage.Com, the Internet’s Leading Forum for Prostitution Ads, and Obtains 93-Count Federal Indictment, Department of Justice Feds Praise Backpage Takedown as Sex Workers Fear for Their Lives, Gizmodo Backpage.com's Founders, Employees Indicted on Charges of Facilitating Prostitution, Rolling Stone If Backpage's Shutdown i

Guest Kyleanne Hunter​ of VetsForGunReform joins Seth and JJ to discuss how gun trafficking, drug trafficking, and human trafficking are linked via transnational criminal organizations, cartels, and gangs. They look at how guns are used as currency in illicit markets internationally, which is aided by lax guns law in the US. Lastly, they talk about the challenges of researching and discussing mitigation from a national security perspective. Sources: Kyleanne Hunter​ Kyleanne Hunter, Twitter VetsForGunReform VetsForGunReform, Twitter Why Mexico’s drug cartels love America’s gun laws, The Washington Post Inside the illegal online weapons trade, CNN Human Trafficking Outpaces Drugs, Guns As World's Fastest Growing Criminal Industry, WGBH United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols Thereto, UNODC Photo: Wikipedia    

Seth and JJ explain the UAC law within the TVPA, along with the the challenges faced by the children and the US government in trying to manage the situation. The story of unaccompanied alien children isn't just what happens when they arrive at our border and possibly enter our county. It's what happens when they are turned away. It's about the journey there, and possibly back again. It's what can happen along the way. How we treat children at our borders makes a statement. It can't be just about America and Americans. If we are a great nation, we have a responsibility for more. Sources: State of the Union 2018: Read the full transcript, CNN What Trump Doesn't Understand About MS-13, The Atlantic Trump’s assault on immigrant children must stop, The Hill Reauthorize, Don’t Gut, the TVPA, Freedom Network USA Protecting victims of human trafficking - the TVPA and where the focus should really be, International Justice Mission Statement on The Protection of Children Act of 2017, House Judiciary Commi

Seth and JJ talk about human smuggling as a business operation and explain how human smuggling is different from human trafficking. Who are the people involved in the business of human smuggling? How do people pay for smuggling and how much does it cost? How are people vulnerable in the smuggling process? Seth shares of few of his precarious experiences while transiting to Cambodia. JJ talks about snakeheads in China, including the infamous Sister Ping. Sources: Tinti, Peter and Tuesday Reitano. Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Savior. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. The Cost Of Crossing, Planet Money United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols Thereto, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Snakehead empress who made millions trafficking in misery, The Guardian A Smuggler of Immigrants Dies in Prison, but Is Praised in Chinatown, The New York Times Supporting the Snakeheads: Human Smuggling from China and the 1996 Amendment to the U.S. Statutory Definit

Leanne McCallum, Task Force Coordinator for the Greater New Orleans Human Trafficking Task Force, and Human Trafficking Center alum, joins Seth and JJ to talk about services available to survivors of human trafficking, some challenges survivors have in navigating services, and how service providers are collaborating in New Orleans, Louisiana. Sources: Greater New Orleans Human Trafficking Task Force Photo: Pixabay

Erotic service provider and adult play specialist Domina Elle on erotic service, decriminalization verses legalization, and the way the modern trafficking movement forgets or mischaracterizes consensual workers.

January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, but the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) has expired. Seth and JJ talkd about how the Trump administration and a GOP Congress failed to reauthorize the TVPA, which means funding for many programs ended in 2017. Despite early indications that the Trump administration may prioritize anti-trafficking efforts, actions prove otherwise. Further, Homeland Security has further emphasized a Prosecution approach to trafficking, primarily directing people to ICE. JJ talks about the Protection and Prevention. Sources: President Donald J. Trump Proclaims January 2018 as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, White House Thinking about Human Trafficking Awareness Day, Human Rights First Congressional Human Trafficking Legislation in August 2017, Speaker for the Living H.R.898 - Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2013, Congress Trump Signed 96 Laws In 2017. Here Is What They Do And How They Measure U

President Donald Trump reportedly questioned, “Why do we need more Haitians?” and “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” in a meeting on Thursday, January 11th. Hosts Seth Daire and JJ Janflone discuss what happened at the meeting, and how this will have a negative impact on international relations, as well as human trafficking. The Trump administration's position on immigration is problematic even if Trump didn't say everything attributed to him, and a number of people are defending Trump's words as if he said them, which is highly disturbing, and also showing a lack of understanding of international migrations flows, most notably why people migrate. "We need to be better, and looking at the rest of the world, to think more highly of people." - Seth Daire Sources: Trump derides protections for immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries, The Washington Post Trump decries immigrants from 'shithole countries' coming to US, CNN Shithole special, Vox's The Weeds Here are the