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People filled the Ray Bradbury Room of the Waukegan Public Library on a cold Monday night to show awareness and support at a Human Trafficking Awareness Candle Vigil event. The vigil included a collective statement as part of an acknowledgment of victims and survivors of human trafficking in a gesture timed with January’s Human Trafficking…
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Nearly 25 million people are trafficked each year. With statistics like that, it’s no wonder why people from all over the world came to Savannah State University for the annual Stop The Traffick conference. “I came in 2006, and for the next six years, my life was hell,” Kwami Adoboe-Herrera told WJCL….
Squalid work camps, 24-hour shifts, heavy surveillance, and withheld wages: these were the conditions that 500 Indian workers became trapped in after they were lured to the U.S. to repair oil rigs in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. In his new book, The Great Escape, labor organizer Saket Soni tells the story of the workers…
octubre 27 2022, 7:37 am Photo: La Patilla The countries that a Venezuelan must go through to achieve the “American dream” are Colombia, Panamá, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and México, a longing that fell apart on October 12th, after the Department of Homeland Security United States announced the expansion of Title 42, applied during…
Three defendants were sentenced today for their roles in a federal racketeering conspiracy that victimized over a dozen Mexican H-2A workers who had worked in the United States harvesting fruits, vegetables and other agricultural products between 2015 and 2017. U.S. District Court Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell for the Middle District of Florida sentenced Christina Gamez,…
A Long Island catering manager was sentenced in federal court in Central Islip on Wednesday to six years in prison for his role in a forced labor scheme. Roberto Villanueva had pleaded guilty in February to forced labor and forced labor conspiracy that took place at the Thatched Cottage in Centerport. “Villanueva exploited his victims’…
Credit – Illustration by Ajubel Studio for TIME W.E.B. Du Bois is perhaps best known for introducing the term “double consciousness” into the lexicon of the Black experience. The term described the duality of being a Black American—neither fully African nor completely American, an enduring “problem” to be fought over in times of war and…
The criminal organization dared to do it: they sold 30 of their workers for 21 thousand dollars, as if they were cattle. They were bought for cash by ranchers in a field in Indianapolis, who shelled out $700 for each “slave.” An investigation by MILLENNIUM, based on the consultation of judicial documents housed in the…
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