Jonathan Blundell's Blog (7)

Already seeing Christmas decorations and sales at your local stores? Wanting to make a difference this year and ensure your purchases are slave free?



Be sure and check out NightLight's and NotForSale's online stores for products made by (and supporting) former slaves.



Some info on NightLight:



NightLight is an international organization committed to addressing the complex issues surrounding trafficking and prostitution by catalyzing individual and community… Continue

They "violently dragged us back across the ice to North Korea and marched us to a nearby army base."



For those who may not be familiar with the story: Laura Ling and Euna Lee, journalists for Current TV were captured, detained, interrogated, and more by the North Korean government near the border between China and North Korea. They were sentenced to 12 years in a labor camp. However, intervention from President Bill Clinton helped secure the release of the… Continue

full disclosure - I co-host the something beautiful podcast...



http://www.somethingbeautifulpodcast.com/podcast/amanda-kloer-2-30/



recently on the something beautiful podcast we talked with abolitionist and editor of Change.org’s end human trafficking section, Amanda Kloer. she shares some of her story and fills us in about the 27 million individuals that are being being… Continue

We've got our work cut out for us!



From Change.org



Texas, and especially the border areas of the Rio Grande Valley, have been called a human trafficking hub and the "gateway" of human trafficking into the U.S. Certainly, the Texas-Mexico border is a popular entry point for traffickers smuggling in people from all over Central and South America. But… Continue

Change.org shares a great pieceful plan you can work towards in your local grocery store...



I am a bit of a foodie (and more than a bit of a nerd), so grocery shopping for me is a fun, relaxing activity. Handling the fruit, smelling the cheese counter, ogling the wine section- it can be quite a nice outing. But when you're trying to pay attention to what you buy,… Continue

Hillary Clinton wrote an op-ed piece in the Washington Post today regarding human trafficking and the Trafficking in Persons Report 2009, which was released by the US Dept of State last week ::





Twenty-year-old Oxana Rantchev left her home in Russia in 2001 for what she believed was a job as a translator in… Continue

By Eugene Cho



Is it possible that we as Christians just aren’t angry enough about injustices like human trafficking and slavery? Perhaps, we’ve grown too desensitized, domesticated, and docile. I’m not trying to say this for the sake of the ’shock factor’ but I really believe there are times when the Church needs to have a deep[er] anger about the grave injustices of the world particularly when it involves the exploitation of… Continue