Task Force Posts
April Task Force Meeting Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The meeting will start at 6:30 pm and will be located at Refuge Coffee Bar www.refugecoffeebar.org We need you! Carwash fundraising and more will be discussed!
First Meeting of 2012 is Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Hello everyone!
Our first Meeting of 2012 is Tuesday, February 21, 2012 from 6:30PM to 8:00PM at the Refuge Coffee Bar on the corner of Glenway and Ferguson Roads in Western Hills. We will discuss plans for 2012.
Our meetings are every third Tuesday of the month. If possible, we also want to find a central location for everyone to meet so no one has long travel times (it must be free to use). Bring your suggestions! Thanks!
The Village Voice and the selling of children for sex on the Internet
A popular 'adult' advertising website run by the Village Voice should go the way of Craigslist's 'erotic services' site.
One of the most hidden and hideous crimes in America is the sex trafficking of children. But this selling of minors quickly becomes less hidden when Internet sites for community advertising become giant magnets for the sex trade.
Read the entire article at The Christian Science Monitor
The Thin Line between Trafficking and Pornography
Trafficking survivor Jessica Richardson talks about the connection in her own life.
When a pimp approached 16-year-old Jessica Richardson at the Portland diner where she was working in 1995, Jessica was primed to accept his offer. She had been sexually abused at age 5, and then her dad was murdered when she was 10. "I desperately needed to be accepted and loved. And when I didn't have my father and was already used to being sexually exploited, it just seemed to fit that all I was good for was sex," says Richardson.
Read the entire interview at Her.meneutics
