this may seem a little random, but yesterday i was browsing the interwebz, looking for info on Lucy Liu, after having watched the movie Lucky Number Slevin (badass movie btw). i found out that she hosted an episode of MTV EXIT, a documentary about human trafficking in Asia and Europe. i just watched all 3 documentaries on the website, and it has definitely impacted me. it was very hard to keep myself from crying as i heard the stories from men, women and children who were sold into this modern day slavery.

i want to do something to help prevent this. seeing as i don't pay for sex, i don't have to worry about giving money to pimps or people forcing women into prostitution. but i know a lot of the products i buy are not from the U.S. so starting now i want to try to buy things made in America, so that i am not supporting factories where people are forced to work 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, for minimum food and shelter, and where people are abused. this isn't the easiest thing to do though. i will probably need to do research to be sure i'm getting products that don't support these inhumane and disgusting establishments.

so my question is this: what do you know about trafficking? i've always been aware that it is going on in the world, but until now it hasn't really been brought to my attention like this. what do you know about fair trade? do you know places to go to get legitimate American products, or products from over seas that do not come from sweatshops, factories or warehouses that thrive off of abusing their "employees"?

here is a link to the site with the documentaries. they are only 30 minutes each, and sooo worth watching. so please take a look. give me your input. like i said, this is something sort of new to me, so i would love to discuss it with anyone.

thanks for reading!

http://www.mtvexit.org/eng/docindex.html