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“The U.S. State Department has estimated that between 600,000 and 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders each year, 80% of them women and girls, mostly for sexual exploitation. As the U.S. State Department notes, its estimate doesn’t include ‘millions of victims around the world who are trafficked within their own national borders.’
In contrast, in the peak decade of the transatlantic slave trade, the 1780’s, an average of just under 80,000 slaves were shipped annually across the Atlantic from Africa to the New World. The average then dropped to a bit more than 50,000 between 1811 and 1850. In other words, far more women and girls are shipped into brothels each year in the early 21st century than African slaves were shipped into slave plantations each year in the 18th or 19th centuries-although the overall population was of course far smaller then.
As the journal Foreign Affairs observed: ‘Whatever the exact number is, it seems almost certain that the modern global slave trade is larger in absolute terms than the Atlantic slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries was.’”
-“Half the Sky” by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
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Put an End to Shark Finning Today
Global demand for shark fin soup has pushed several shark populations to the brink of collapse. Shark finning is the cruel and wasteful practice of hacking off fins from live sharks, tossing the dead or dying animal overboard.
Not only is finning inhumane, but it also complicates fishery management since differentiating shark species is difficult once fins are removed.
The Shark Conservation Act would end shark finning in U.S. waters and make us world leaders in shark conservation and fisheries management.
There are only a few months left in this Congressional session. Tell your Senators TODAY that you demand shark protections and the passage of the Shark Conservation Act
Please take action now.
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"Blasphemy? Not unless it is blasphemy to seek the truth. No, I am no blasphemer, but something worse, I am an asker of questions. The best of things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever. Reading without thinking is as nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think."
The Walking Drum by Louis L’Amour (via constantflux) (via quote-book) (via jjarichardson)
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Notes"Propaganda’s end goal is not to change your mind at any one point in time — but to create a changeable mind."Jacques Ellul (via notentirely) (via azspot) (via jjarichardson)
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"What other words, we may almost ask, are memorable and worthy to be repeated than those which love has inspired? It is wonderful that they were ever uttered. They are few and rare indeed, but, like a strain of music, they are incessantly repeated and modulated by memory. All other words crumble off with the stucco which overlies the heart. We should not dare to repeat these now aloud. We are not competent to hear them at all times."
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Some studio work from this past semester, modeling is my beautiful sister.
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Notes"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."Ferdinand Foch (via fatalistichues) (via quote-book)
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"Never accept and be content with unanalyzed assumptions, assumptions about the work, about the people, about the church or Christianity. Never be afraid to ask questions about the work we have inherited or the work we are doing. There is no question that should not be asked or that is outlawed. The day we are completely satisfied with what we have been doing; the day we have found the perfect, unchangeable system of work, the perfect answer, never in need of being corrected again, on that day we will know that we are wrong, that we have made the greatest mistake of all."
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