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Dear Friends,
1-2 PM EST (10-11 am
Pacific)
TRAFFICKED
with Dottie Laster
- Horrific true stories and happy-ending stories about people saved
from the fastest growing crime in the world.
This week Dottie hosts Grace Kahng,
of San Toki Productions. Kahng is a 24 year veteran of national
network news, Kahng has been awarded journalism's highest honors
including 4 National News Emmy
Awards, the Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award, an IRE Medal (Investigative Reporters and
Editor's highest honor), The
George Foster Peabody Award, the Sidney Hillman Award
for Social Justice, Amnesty
International Journalism Award
and numerous National Emmy
nominations. Kahng will speak about her series of documentaries
on Human Trafficking and her recent trip to Honduras while filming
Sex Slaves:Texas which appears on MSNBC. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39975032
AND
 Linda
Geffin is the chief of the Harris County Attorney's Special
Prosecution Unit, which was established in March, 2009. The unit
uses the power of injunctive relief against places that that are
hotbeds of criminal activity such as enterprises used to promote
human trafficking, prostitution, gambling, liquor code violations,
and dog and cock fighting. SPU also enforces the County's Sexually
Oriented Business regulations and the Texas Health and Safety Code
to staunch criminal enterprises such as massage parlors that are
fronts for prostitution.
Former
United States Senator and Ambassador Bob Krueger and his wife
Kathleen Krueger, Mayor Pro-tem of New Braunfels.
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| Former
United States Senator and Ambassador Bob Krueger |
Ambassador
Krueger spoke about his time in Burundi and how slavery and
genocide intersect. He and Dottie discussed how the minerals used
in electronics, airplanes and mobile phones financially support
and drive demand for slavery and genocide.
Poet
Larry Jaffe read the poem Cattle Car from his book One
Child Sold 
Mayor
Pro-tem Kathleen Tobin Krueger spoke about human trafficking in
small towns and how to engage city councils to make communities
safe havens for victims and hostile to traffickers.
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| Mayor Bruce Boyer, Dottie, Mayor Pro-tem
Kathleen Tobn Krueger |
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