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The labels that we use define how we understand problems. Sandra Morgan, the Director of the Global Center for Women & Justice and Dave Stachowiak, one of the Center's board members, identify some common labels that our society uses and discuss best practices for finding better ways to describe issues in human trafficking to help end it.
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Dave: You’re listening to the Ending Human Trafficking Podcast; this is episode number 27, airing on April 26th, 2012. Welcome to the Ending Human Trafficking Podcast, my name is Dave Stachowiak.
Sandie: And my name is Sandie Morgan.
Dave: And this is the show where we empower you to study the issues, be a voice and make a difference in ending human trafficking. Sandie were going to be talking about labels today, but before talking about labels, we have had some cool media coverage that has happened as a result of the podcast here.
Sandie: You know, it was very exciting to open my inbox on Sunday morning and have an email from Holly Smith who is a survivor who has testified before congress and at that time had cited our podcast on development, mental development of kids and why they are so vulnerable, so in an article in the Washington times, she also cited our podcast.
Dave: Oh wow!
Sandie: So that was exciting, Dave, we are famous!
Dave: Well thank you Holly for helping us get the message out more and pointing this podcast out as a resource and you know, Sandie, we've been talking all along, if we could just continue to have as many people as possible be connected with some of the tools a resources were talking about on this show and even more importantly than that, building relationships with the people in this show’s community, that we really do start to form those partnerships we have been talking about so much.
Sandie: Absolutely, and it’s really important, we will eventually do an interview with Holly, we've talked about that and Holly and I are talking about a schedule so put that on your calendar.
Dave: Good, good. Excellent.
Sandie: And if you have any questions that you’d like us to ask survivors like Holly Smith, please send them in to us at GCWJ.vanguard.edu or you can call and leave a voicemail on our phone number which is…
Dave: (714) 966-6361, and you can reach us there anytime.
Sandie: And I had a great conversation going on with one of our listeners in South Africa in the last few weeks and it begins to make it very clear to me how important it is to get information out there and assessable to the everyday person, because we are all in this together and we are not going to be able to end human trafficking just from a law enforcement perspective or just from a victim’s service perspective.
Dave: And it really is a global issue, Sandie, many of the things that we are struggling with here in the states and similar things that they are struggling with in South Africa, similar challenges that the European countries are struggling with. The more we can all learn together and support each other, we really do work to end this on a global scale, because of course its not enough just to do what a lot of law enforcement did back in the 70’s and 80’s around gang enforcement, which they did a great job in one place then the gangs would just move somewhere else down the street or to the next neighborhood, so having a global conversation is really essential for this issue.
Sandie: And I think especially in the area of commercial sexual exploitation, that’s what we've talked about several times, and that’s what the article that Holly Smith wrote is about, that there are some things that the everyday person can do which will just become a part of their household vocabulary that can change how this is perceived i...