zalisan says: From the film maker: “I chose the title, ‘Call + Response,’ because when an issue comes your way, you’re going to respond. Even if it’s inaction, it’s still a response. I think one of our greatest downfalls, as a people, is that we make excuses, particularly that we’re ‘too busy.' Well, I wanted to respond immediately; this issue just hit me." “A New York Times article first brought human slavery to my attention in 2003, just before I went on tour in Russia. When I was over there, I met several girls who were acting as translators. They told me how were getting the same kinds of offers that I’d read about. It was like 'Wow, now I’m seeing it, how do I find a way to connect immediately?'" “I realized that two things were needed: re-learning the meaning of slavery was one. We’ve relegated it to history, as though it no longer exists but when people are sold against their will it’s the same thing and alive now more than ever. The second thing is... ...clarification: roughly half are involved in the sex trade and the other half in domestic service and manufacturing...“So in America it’s everywhere. I’ll give you a personal example of how I experienced it before the documentary. In my hometown, Berkley, my friends and I used to go to an Indian restaurant. We noticed that many of the servers were young boys and girls. Well, it turned out that they were brought here illegally, forced to work in the restaurant during the day and into prostitution by night, and the owner was behind it. He’d personally subjected more than 500 people to this. So my chicken tikka had inadvertently financed this. You have no way of knowing the cleaner you’re hir... @zalisan much goes on in the world that needs to be exposed you may not make friends from doing so but it is our caring nature for our fellow man/woman that sets us apart from animals because some people are worse than animals and there behaviour needs to be checked red flagged what ever.Expose more Oops not meant to be funny especially in light of the young people you described. |
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